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行星状星云的后共包络沃尔夫-拉叶中心星

Post-common-envelope Wolf-Rayet central stars of planetary nebulae

Brent Miszalski, Rajeev Manick, Vanessa McBride

摘要:

目前已知有近50颗行星状星云的后共包层近距离双星。大多数包含主序星或白矮星(WD)伴星,它们绕WD主序星公转约0.1-1.0天。只有PN~G222.8-04.2和NGC~5189有CE后的CSPNe,有一颗沃尔夫-拉叶主星(记为[WR]),是大质量沃尔夫-拉叶星的低质量类似物。目前尚不清楚缺氢[WR] CSPNe是如何形成的,尽管它们相对常见,出现在100多个PNe中。后CE [WR] CSPNe的发现和表征对于确定提出的双星形成方案是否可行来解释这类神秘的恒星至关重要。仅后CE [WR]双星的存在就表明双星合并不一定是形成[WR]恒星的途径。在这里,我们概述了[WR] CSPNe的径向速度监测计划寻找新双星的初步结果。我们讨论了调查的动机和相关的强选择效应。对PN~ G 222.8 -04.2和NGC~5189确定的质量函数,以及其他[WR] CSPNe的文献光度变化数据,表明在尚未发现的CE后[WR] CSPNe中,大多数将在比典型的CE后CSPNe更宽的轨道上拥有WD或亚矮星O/B型伴星(几天或几个月c.f.不到一天)。

英文摘要:

Nearly 50 post-common-envelope (post-CE) close binary central stars of planetary nebulae (CSPNe) are now known. Most contain either main sequence or white dwarf (WD) companions that orbit the WD primary in around 0.1-1.0 days. Only PN~G222.8-04.2 and NGC~5189 have post-CE CSPNe with a Wolf-Rayet star primary (denoted [WR]), the low-mass analogues of massive Wolf-Rayet stars. It is not well understood how H-deficient [WR] CSPNe form, even though they are relatively common, appearing in over 100 PNe. The discovery and characterisation of post-CE [WR] CSPNe is essential to determine whether proposed binary formation scenarios are feasible to explain this enigmatic class of stars. The existence of post-CE [WR] binaries alone suggests binary mergers are not necessarily a pathway to form [WR] stars. Here we give an overview of the initial results of a radial velocity monitoring programme of [WR] CSPNe to search for new binaries. We discuss the motivation for the survey and the associated strong selection effects. The mass functions determined for PN~G222.8-04.2 and NGC~5189, together with literature photometric variability data of other [WR] CSPNe, suggest that of the post-CE [WR] CSPNe yet to be found, most will have WD or subdwarf O/B-type companions in wider orbits than typical post-CE CSPNe (several days or months c.f. less than a day).

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