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双白矮星合并中的疏浚作用

The role of dredge-up in double white dwarf mergers

Jan E. Staff, Brandon Wiggins, Dominic Marcello, Patrick M. Motl, Wesley Even, Christopher L. Fryer, Cody Raskin, Geoffrey C. Clayton, Juhan Frank

摘要:

通过对三种典型质量比的双星合并进行流体动力学模拟,研究了两颗不同化学组成的白矮星合并过程中的疏浚和混合现象.在所有的模拟中,两颗白矮星的总质量是$\lesssim1.0~{\rm M_\odot}$。合并涉及一个CO和他白矮星已被建议作为一个可能的形成通道R北冕型恒星,我们有兴趣在测试,如果这种合并导致的条件和结果与观察一致。即使在合并和随后的核合成过程中的条件有利于产生$^{18}{\mathrm O}$,合并必须避免挖掘大量的$^{16}{\mathrm O}$,否则将难以产生足够的$^{18}{\mathrm O}$来解释所观察到的氧比为一级。我们进行了总共9模拟使用两种不同的基于网格的流体动力学代码,使用固定和自适应网格,和一个光滑粒子流体动力学(SPH)代码。我们发现,在大多数的模拟,$^{16}{\mathrm O}$的$>10^{-2}~{\rm M_\odot}$确实是疏浚在合并过程中。然而,在SPH模拟的吸积体是一个混合的He/CO白矮星与$\sim 0.1~{\rm M_\odot}$层的氦在顶部,我们发现没有$^{16}{\mathrm O}$被疏浚,而在$q=0.8$模拟$<10^{-4}~{\rm M_\odot}$的$^{16}{\mathrm O}$已提出,使WD二进制组成的混合CO/He WD和同伴He WD一个很好的候选人的祖先RCB星。

英文摘要:

We present the results of an investigation of the dredge-up and mixing during the merger of two white dwarfs with different chemical compositions by conducting hydrodynamic simulations of binary mergers for three representative mass ratios. In all the simulations, the total mass of the two white dwarfs is $\lesssim1.0~{\rm M_\odot}$. Mergers involving a CO and a He white dwarf have been suggested as a possible formation channel for R Coronae Borealis type stars, and we are interested in testing if such mergers lead to conditions and outcomes in agreement with observations. Even if the conditions during the merger and subsequent nucleosynthesis favor the production of $^{18}{\mathrm O}$, the merger must avoid dredging up large amounts of $^{16}{\mathrm O}$, or else it will be difficult to produce sufficient $^{18}{\mathrm O}$ to explain the oxygen ratio observed to be of order unity. We performed a total of 9 simulations using two different grid-based hydrodynamics codes using fixed and adaptive meshes, and one smooth particle hydrodynamics (SPH) code. We find that in most of the simulations, $>10^{-2}~{\rm M_\odot}$ of $^{16}{\mathrm O}$ is indeed dredged up during the merger. However, in SPH simulations where the accretor is a hybrid He/CO white dwarf with a $\sim 0.1~{\rm M_\odot}$ layer of helium on top, we find that no $^{16}{\mathrm O}$ is being dredged up, while in the $q=0.8$ simulation $<10^{-4}~{\rm M_\odot}$ of $^{16}{\mathrm O}$ has been brought up, making a WD binary consisting of a hybrid CO/He WD and a companion He WD an excellent candidate for the progenitor of RCB stars.

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