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对Wolf-Rayet星和Ib/Ic型超新星祖先演化的更好理解

Towards a better understanding of the evolution of Wolf-Rayet stars and Type Ib/Ic supernova progenitors

Sung-Chul Yoon

摘要:

缺氢Wolf-Rayet(WR)星是Ib/Ic型超新星(SN Ib/Ic)的潜在候选者,它们的演化受质量损失的控制。Nugis和Lamers给出的WR质量损失率公式是最流行的恒星演化模型,但它在解释WC和WO型WR星的光度分布和SN Ic祖星性质方面存在困难。在这里,我们提出了一些改进WR质量损失率处方,并讨论其对WR星和SN Ib/Ic祖星演化的影响。最近对银河系WR星的研究清楚地表明,对于给定的光度,WC星的质量损失率系统地高于WNE星。WNE质量损失率的光度和初始金属丰度依赖性也显着不同于WC星。这些因素在以前的恒星演化模型中没有被充分地考虑到。我们还发现,整体增加WR质量损失率约60%的经验值相比,获得了10的聚集因子需要解释最微弱的WC/WO星。我们新的WR质量损失率公式导致SN Ib/Ic祖细胞模型比Nugis和Lamers公式更符合观测结果。特别是,我们的新模型预测,SN Ib和SN Ic祖细胞的性质是明显不同的,而不是它们形成一个连续的序列。

英文摘要:

Hydrogen-deficient Wolf-Rayet (WR) stars are potential candidates of Type Ib/Ic supernova (SN Ib/Ic) progenitors and their evolution is governed by mass loss. Stellar evolution models with the most popular prescription for WR mass-loss rates given by Nugis & Lamers have difficulties in explaining the luminosity distribution of WR stars of WC and WO types and the SN Ic progenitor properties. Here we suggest some improvements in the WR mass-loss rate prescription and discuss its implications for the evolution of WR stars and SN Ib/Ic progenitors. Recent studies on Galactic WR stars clearly indicate that the mass-loss rates of WC stars are systematically higher than those of WNE stars for a given luminosity. The luminosity and initial metallicity dependencies of WNE mass-loss rates are also significantly different from those of WC stars. These factors have not been adequately considered together in previous stellar evolution models. We also find that an overall increase of WR mass loss rates by about 60 per cent compared to the empirical values obtained with a clumping factor of 10 is needed to explain the most faint WC/WO stars. This moderate increase with our new WR mas-loss rate prescription results in SN Ib/Ic progenitor models more consistent with observations than those given by the Nugis & Lamers prescription. In particular, our new models predict that the properties of SN Ib and SN Ic progenitors are distinctively different, rather than they form a continuous sequence.

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