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热次矮星-小恒星标志着恒星演化中的重要事件

Hot subdwarfs - Small stars marking important events in stellar evolution

S. Geier

摘要:

热的次矮星被认为是红巨星的致密氦核,它几乎失去了整个氢包层。是什么导致了如此巨大的质量损失,目前还不清楚。二进制的相互作用调用和一个显着的比例,热亚矮星人口确实是发现在密切的双星。在一个大的项目中,我们搜索的密切的二进制sdBs的最大和最小的质量的同伴。显着提高近距离二进制sdBs的已知样本,我们进行了第一次全面的研究,这个群体。在这个项目的过程中,我们发现了两个有近距离棕矮星伴星的sdB双星,由此我们能够证明恒星与亚恒星伴星的相互作用是形成sdB恒星的一个重要渠道。最后,我们发现了一个独特而非常紧凑的双星系统,由一个sdB和一个大质量的白矮星组成,它有资格成为Ia型超新星的候选祖先。除此之外,我们可以将这些爆炸与超高速热亚矮星联系起来,我们认为它们是这些事件的幸存者。作为红巨星的剥离核心,热的次矮星被证明是恒星演化中特殊事件的重要标志,从恒星与行星的相互作用到用来测量宇宙膨胀的恒星爆炸的前身。

英文摘要:

Hot subdwarfs are considered to be the compact helium cores of red giants, which lost almost their entire hydrogen envelope. What causes this enormous mass loss is still unclear. Binary interactions are invoked and a significant fraction of the hot subdwarf population is indeed found in close binaries. In a large project we search for the close binary sdBs with the most and the least massive companions. Significantly enhancing the known sample of close binary sdBs we performed the first comprehensive study of this population. Triggered by the discovery of two sdB binaries with close brown dwarf companions in the course of this project, we were able to show that the interaction of stars with substellar companions is an important channel to form sdB stars. Finally, we discovered a unique and very compact binary system consisting of an sdB and a massive white dwarf, which qualifies as progenitor candidate for a supernova type Ia. In addition to that, we could connect those explosions to the class of hypervelocity hot subdwarf stars, which we consider as the surviving companions of such events. Being the stripped cores of red giants, hot subdwarfs turned out to be important markers of peculiar events in stellar evolution ranging all the way from star-planet interactions to the progenitors of stellar explosions used to measure the expansion of our Universe.

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