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大质量恒星中对流驱动波的观测特征

Observational signatures of convectively driven waves in massive stars

C. Aerts, T. M. Rogers

摘要:

我们证明了对流驱动的内部重力波(IGW)在年轻的大质量O型星的发生与高精度的CoRoT空间测光观测的观测证据。这一证据来自于基于差分旋转大质量恒星IGW的二维流体动力学模拟的速度谱与观测到的速度谱的比较,我们还表明IGW引起的速度谱可能导致可检测的线轮廓变化,并解释了OB星观测到的线轮廓中宏观湍流的发生。我们的研究结果提供了预测,可以通过在K2任务的科学方案中包括一个明亮的缓慢和快速旋转的OB型恒星的样本,伴随着高精度光谱学及其与IGW的多维流体动力学模拟的对抗来进行测试。

英文摘要:

We demonstrate observational evidence for the occurrence of convectively driven internal gravity waves (IGW) in young massive O-type stars observed with high-precision CoRoT space photometry. This evidence results from a comparison between velocity spectra based on 2D hydrodynamical simulations of IGW in a differentially-rotating massive star and the observed spectra.We also show that the velocity spectra caused by IGW may lead to detectable line-profile variability and explain the occurrence of macroturbulence in the observed line profiles of OB stars. Our findings provide predictions that can readily be tested by including a sample of bright slowly and rapidly rotating OB-type stars in the scientific programme of the K2 mission accompanied by high-precision spectroscopy and their confrontation with multi-dimensional hydrodynamic simulations of IGW for various masses and ages.

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