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球状星团中蓝钩星的一个可能形成通道

A possible formation channel for blue hook stars in globular cluster

Zhenxin Lei, Xuemei Chen, Fenghui Zhang, Zhanwen Han

摘要:

球状星团(GCs)中蓝钩星(BHk)的形成机制至今仍不清楚。根据其中一种可能的情况,即后期热闪情况,我们提出了双星演化中潮汐增强的恒星风可能在红巨星分支(RGB)上提供巨大的质量损失并产生BHk星。利用详细的恒星演化程序--恒星天体物理实验模块(MESA),我们研究了潮汐增强的恒星风作为GCs中BHk星形成通道的贡献.利用MESA(version 6208)中的双星模块对不同初始轨道周期的主星进行了从零龄主序星(ZAMS)到后水平支星(HB)阶段的演化,得到了它们的演化参数,并与观测结果进行了比较。这一结果与NGC 2808的色星等图(CMD)和logg-Teff平面上的观测结果一致,NGC 2808是一个典型的GC托管BHk星。然而,我们的模型的表面中的氦丰度高于在BHk恒星中获得的。我们的模型和观测之间的这种差异可能是由于这样一个事实,即引力沉降和辐射悬浮,这是常见的过程中热HB星没有考虑在模型中,以及事实上,闪光混合效率可能高估的计算。我们的研究结果表明,双星演化中潮汐增强的星风能够自然地提供热闪晚期场景所需的RGB上的巨大质量损失,这是GCs中BHk星形成的一个可能和合理的通道。

英文摘要:

The formation mechanism for blue hook (BHk) stars in globular clusters (GCs) is still unclear. Following one of the possible scenario, named late hot flash scenario, we proposed that tidally enhanced stellar wind in binary evolution may provide the huge mass loss on the red giant branch (RGB) and produce BHk stars. Employing the detailed stellar evolution code, Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics (MESA), we investigated the contributions of tidally enhanced stellar wind as a possible formation channel for BHk stars in GCs. We evolved the primary stars with different initial orbital periods using the binary module in MESA (version 6208) from zero age main-sequence (ZAMS) to post horizontal branch (HB) stage, and obtained their evolution parameters which are compared with the observation. The results are consistent with observation in the color-magnitude diagram (CMD) and the logg-Teff plane for NGC 2808, which is an example GC hosting BHk stars. However, the helium abundance in the surface for our models is higher than the one obtained in BHk stars. This discrepancy between our models and observation is possibly due to the fact that gravitational settling and radiative levitation which are common processes in hot HB stars are not considered in the models as well as the fact that the flash mixing efficiency may be overestimated in the calculations. Our results suggested that tidally enhanced stellar wind in binary evolution is able to naturally provide the huge mass loss on the RGB needed for late hot flash scenario and it is a possible and reasonable formation channel for BHk stars in GCs.

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