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使用Swift了解Classical Novae

Getting to know Classical Novae with Swift

Julian P. Osborne

摘要:

新星被报道为瞬变已有两千多年的历史。它们明亮的光学爆发是双星伴星吸积到白矮星上的气体爆炸性核燃烧的结果。包含一颗接近克拉塞卡质量极限的白矮星并以高速率吸积的新星可能是用于测量宇宙加速度的Ia型超新星的未知祖先。快速的X射线观测通过在整个爆发过程中提供密集的监测,从根本上改变了我们对新星的看法,揭示了来自仍然燃烧的白矮星的超软X射线的新现象,例如早期的极端变化和半分钟到一分钟的时间尺度准周期振荡。由于喷出物冲击,这种发射从较硬的X射线发射的独特演变已经被清楚地描绘出来。软X射线观测允许估计白矮星的质量,燃烧的质量和喷射的质量。结合其他波长的观测,包括大型X射线观测站的高光谱分辨率观测、高分辨率光学和无线电成像、无线电监测、光学光谱学以及对最近新星的GeV伽马射线发射的探测,对爆炸模型进行了测试和开发。我回顾九新星斯威夫特作出了重大影响,这些都显示了签名的组件在相互作用的双星系统中,除了白矮星:重新形成的吸积盘,伴星和它的恒星风。

英文摘要:

Novae have been reported as transients for more than two thousand years. Their bright optical outbursts are the result of explosive nuclear burning of gas accreted from a binary companion onto a white dwarf. Novae containing a white dwarf close to the Chandrasekhar mass limit and accreting at a high rate are potentially the unknown progenitors of the type Ia supernovae used to measure the acceleration of the Universe. Swift X-ray observations have radically transformed our view of novae by providing dense monitoring throughout the outburst, revealing new phenomena in the super-soft X-rays from the still-burning white dwarf such as early extreme variability and half- to one-minute timescale quasi-periodic oscillations. The distinct evolution of this emission from the harder X-ray emission due to ejecta shocks has been clearly delineated. Soft X-ray observations allow the mass of the white dwarf, the mass burned and the mass ejected to be estimated. In combination with observations at other wavelengths, including the high spectral resolution observations of the large X-ray observatories, high resolution optical and radio imaging, radio monitoring, optical spectroscopy, and the detection of GeV gamma-ray emission from recent novae, models of the explosion have been tested and developed. I review nine novae for which Swift has made a significant impact; these have shown the signature of the components in the interacting binary system in addition to the white dwarf: the re-formed accretion disk, the companion star and its stellar wind.

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