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开普勒观测到的密近双星白光耀斑

White-Light Flares on Close Binaries Observed with Kepler

Qing Gao, Yu Xin, Ji-Feng Liu, Xiao-Bin Zhang, Shuang Gao

摘要:

本文根据开普勒望远镜的观测资料,对1049颗密近双星的白光耀斑进行了研究。我们确定了234个耀斑双星,其中6818耀斑检测。我们比较了不同的二进制形态(“分离”)的耀斑的二进制部分。结果表明,在过接触双星和椭球双星系统中,相对于分离双星和半分离双星系统,它们的相对质量分数大约低10- 20%。本文计算了所有耀斑双星的耀斑活动水平(AL),并讨论了它沿轨道周期(P_orb)和自转周期(P_rot,仅对分离双星计算)的变化。我们发现,AL随P_orb或P_rot的减小而增大,在P_orb接近3天或P_rot接近1.5天时达到临界值,此后,无论恒星自转多快,AL都开始减小。本文研究了两个观测到大量耀斑的食双星的耀斑速率与轨道相位的关系。这两个双星的耀斑速率与轨道相位之间似乎没有相关性。相反,当我们在20个无食椭球双星上研究203个耀斑时,振幅加权耀斑数的双峰分布出现在轨道相位0.25和0.75处。这种变化可能大于横截面修改所预期的变化。

英文摘要:

Based on Kepler data, we present the results of a search for white-light flares on 1049 close binaries. We identify 234 flare binaries, on which 6818 flares are detected. We compare the flare-binary fraction in different binary morphologies ("detachedness"). The result shows that the fractions in over-contact and ellipsoidal binaries are approximately 10-20 percent lower than those in detached and semi-detached systems. We calculate the binary flares activity level (AL) of all the flare binaries, and discuss its variations along the orbital period (P_orb) and rotation period (P_rot, calculated for only detached binaries). We find that AL increases with decreasing P_orb or P_rot up to the critical values at P_orb near 3 days or P_rot near 1.5 days, thereafter, the AL starts decreasing no matter how fast the stars rotate. We examine the flaring rate as a function of orbital phase in 2 eclipsing binaries on which a large number of flares are detected. It appears that there is no correlation between flaring rate and orbital phase in these 2 binaries. In contrast, when we examine the function with 203 flares on 20 non-eclipse ellipsoidal binaries, bimodal distribution of amplitude weighted flare numbers shows up at orbital phase 0.25 and 0.75. Such variation could be larger than what is expected from the cross-section modification.

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