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在NGC 2808中发现脉动热次矮星

The Discovery of Pulsating Hot Subdwarfs in NGC 2808

Thomas M. Brown, Wayne B. Landsman, Suzanna K. Randall, Allen V. Sweigart, Thierry Lanz

摘要:

我们提出的结果,哈勃太空望远镜计划,以寻找脉动热次矮星的核心NGC 2808。这些观测的动机是最近在omega Cen郊区发现了这样的恒星。NGC 2808和欧米茄Cen都是大质量球状星团,表现出复杂的恒星星族和大量的极端水平分支恒星。我们的远紫外光度监测超过100热演化的恒星,揭示了6脉动次矮星的周期范围从85至149秒和紫外振幅的2.0至6.8%。在NGC 2808的紫外色星等图中,这六颗恒星都位于正则水平分支的正下方,这是一个由亚发光的“蓝钩”恒星组成的区域。对于这六个辐射源中的三个,我们也有低分辨率的远紫外光谱,足以广泛地限制它们的大气丰度和有效温度。奇怪的是,与欧米茄Cen闪烁器相反,NGC 2808闪烁器并没有表现出人们可能期望从一个明确定义的不稳定带中获得的光谱或光度均匀性,尽管它们都落在远紫外发光度的窄带(0.2等)内。

英文摘要:

We present the results of a Hubble Space Telescope program to search for pulsating hot subdwarfs in the core of NGC 2808. These observations were motivated by the recent discovery of such stars in the outskirts of omega Cen. Both NGC 2808 and omega Cen are massive globular clusters exhibiting complex stellar populations and large numbers of extreme horizontal branch stars. Our far-UV photometric monitoring of over 100 hot evolved stars has revealed six pulsating subdwarfs with periods ranging from 85 to 149 s and UV amplitudes of 2.0 to 6.8%. In the UV color-magnitude diagram of NGC 2808, all six of these stars lie immediately below the canonical horizontal branch, a region populated by the subluminous "blue-hook" stars. For three of these six pulsators, we also have low-resolution far-UV spectroscopy that is sufficient to broadly constrain their atmospheric abundances and effective temperatures. Curiously, and in contrast to the omega Cen pulsators, the NGC 2808 pulsators do not exhibit the spectroscopic or photometric uniformity one might expect from a well-defined instability strip, although they all fall within a narrow band (0.2 mag) of far-UV luminosity.

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