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磁场能抑制冷白矮星大气中的对流吗?关于WD2105-820的案例研究

Can magnetic fields suppress convection in the atmosphere of cool white dwarfs? A case study on WD2105-820

Nicola Pietro Gentile Fusillo, Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay, Stefan Jordan, Boris T. Gänsicke, Jason S. Kalirai, Jeffrey Cummings

摘要:

大约10%的白矮星表现出全球磁场结构,磁场范围从1 kG到数百MG。最近,白矮星大气的第一次辐射磁流体动力学模拟表明,对流应被抑制在其光球的磁场强度B $\gtrsim$ 50 kG。这些预测与我们对恒星物理学的了解(例如太阳光球层强磁场区域的能量转移)是一致的,但还没有从白矮星的观测中得到直接证实。我们获得了弱磁性、氢大气、白矮星WD 2105 -820和另外三个非磁性、对流残留物(都在$T_{\mathrm{eff}}$范围9000- 11000 K)的COS远紫外光谱。我们拟合的COS和已经可用的光学光谱与对流和辐射大气模型。正如预期的那样,我们发现,对于两个非磁性比较星,只有对流模型拟合预测一致的$T_{\mathrm{eff}}$值从光学和FUV光谱。相比之下,对于WD 2105 -820,只有最佳拟合的辐射模型产生一致的结果。

英文摘要:

Around 10% of white dwarfs exhibit global magnetic structures with fields ranging from 1 kG to hundreds of MG. Recently, the first radiation magnetohydrodynamics simulations of the atmosphere of white dwarfs showed that convection should be suppressed in their photospheres for magnetic fields with strengths B $\gtrsim$ 50 kG. These predictions are in agreement with our knowledge of stellar physics (e.g. energy transfer in strong magnetic field regions of the solar photosphere), but have yet to be directly confirmed from white dwarf observations. We obtained COS far-UV spectroscopy of the weakly magnetic, hydrogen-atmosphere, white dwarf WD2105-820 and of three additional non-magnetic, convective remnants (all in the $T_{\mathrm{eff}}$ range 9000-11,000 K). We fitted both the COS and the already available optical spectra with convective and radiative atmospheric models. As expected, we find that for two of the non-magnetic comparison stars only convective model fits predict consistent $T_{\mathrm{eff}}$ values from both the optical and the FUV spectra. In contrast, for WD2105-820 only the best fitting radiative model produced consistent results.

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