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独特的化学奇特恒星室女座CU的磁场拓扑

Magnetic field topology of the unique chemically peculiar star CU Virginis

O. Kochukhov, T. Lueftinger, C. Neiner, E. Alecian

摘要:

晚B型磁化学特殊星CU Vir是中等质量恒星中自转速度最快的星之一,具有较强的古磁场。它显示了一个突出的旋转调制的光谱能量分布和吸收线的轮廓,由于化学斑点,并表现出独特的强波束可变的无线电发射。关于CU Vir的磁场拓扑结构知之甚少。在这项研究中,我们的目标是推导出,第一次,详细的地图的磁场分布在这颗恒星的表面。我们使用覆盖整个旋转周期的高分辨率光谱偏振观测。这些数据解释使用多线技术的最小二乘反卷积(LSD)和一个新的塞曼多普勒成像代码的基础上详细的偏振辐射转移建模的斯托克斯我和V LSD配置文件。这种新的磁反演方法依赖于观测覆盖的整个波长范围内的光谱合成计算,并且不假设LSD剖面表现为具有平均参数的单个谱线。我们目前的磁性和化学丰度图来自Si和Fe线。这两个元素的平均极化曲线揭示了一个显着的偏离的磁场拓扑结构的CU Vir从通常假设的轴对称偶极配置。CU Vir的场是类似偶极的,但明显是非轴对称的,显示出相反极性区域之间的场强差异很大。Si图和Fe图上的主要相对丰度亏损特征与磁性图上的弱场区一致。我们的研究提供的CU Vir的扭曲偶极磁场拓扑结构的详细信息是必不可少的化学斑点的形成,无线电发射,和旋转周期变化的这颗星。

英文摘要:

The late-B magnetic chemically peculiar star CU Vir is one of the fastest rotators among the intermediate-mass stars with strong fossil magnetic fields. It shows a prominent rotational modulation of the spectral energy distribution and absorption line profiles due to chemical spots and exhibits a unique strongly beamed variable radio emission. Little is known about the magnetic field topology of CU Vir. In this study we aim to derive, for the first time, detailed maps of the magnetic field distribution over the surface of this star. We use high-resolution spectropolarimetric observations covering the entire rotational period. These data are interpreted using a multi-line technique of least-squares deconvolution (LSD) and a new Zeeman Doppler imaging code based on detailed polarised radiative transfer modelling of the Stokes I and V LSD profiles. This new magnetic inversion approach relies on the spectrum synthesis calculations over the full wavelength range covered by observations and does not assume that the LSD profiles behave as a single spectral line with mean parameters. We present magnetic and chemical abundance maps derived from the Si and Fe lines. Mean polarisation profiles of both elements reveal a significant departure of the magnetic field topology of CU Vir from the commonly assumed axisymmetric dipolar configuration. The field of CU Vir is dipolar-like, but clearly non-axisymmetric, showing a large difference of the field strength between the regions of opposite polarity. The main relative abundance depletion features in both Si and Fe maps coincide with the weak-field region in the magnetic map. Detailed information on the distorted dipolar magnetic field topology of CU Vir provided by our study is essential for understanding chemical spot formation, radio emission, and rotational period variation of this star.

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