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RR天琴座和红水平支星的轴旋转和可变宏观湍流

The Axial Rotation and Variable Macroturbulence of RR Lyrae and Red Horizontal Branch Stars

George W. Preston, Christopher Sneden, Merieme Chadid, Ian B. Thompson, Stephen A. Shectman

摘要:

本文导出了RR~天琴座星光谱中金属吸收线的半峰全宽与等效宽度之间的关系,以估算RR~天琴座星和贫金属红水平支星(RHB)轴向赤道自转速度的新上限。本文还导出了RR~ Lyrant宏观湍流速度在脉动周期中的变化规律。在RRab周期中,线宽主要由轴向旋转和宏观湍流的相位相关卷积决定,我们将其指定为V_macrot。在RRab星中V_macrot的行为是非常一致的,但在RRc星中V_macrot的行为在不同的恒星之间有很大的差异。RRab星的V_macrot上限为5 +/- 1 km/s,与T_eff的反相关证据较弱。RRc最小值范围为2至12 km/s。在不稳定带的蓝色边界处,随着T_eff的减小,大旋转的突然下降以及RRab和RHB星之间明显平滑的连续变化表明,HB星在与HB寿命相比短的时间尺度上获得/失去表面角动量。我们贫金属RHB星的V_macrot值与Carney等人(2008)通过对独立但不太贫金属的样本进行傅立叶分析得出的结果非常一致;它们在定性上符合Tanner等人(2013)的预期。我们的调查的一般结论是,表面角动量测量V_rot*sini是不是一个可靠的指标,沿HB的任何地方的恒星角动量。

英文摘要:

We have derived relations between full-width-half-maxima and equivalent widths of metallic absorption lines in the spectra of RR~Lyrae stars to estimate new upper limits on the axial equatorial rotational velocities of RR~Lyrae and metal-poor red horizontal branch stars (RHB). We also have derived the variations of RR~Lyrae macroturbulent velocities during the pulsation cycles. In RRab cycles the line widths are dominated by phase-dependent convolutions of axial rotation and macroturbulence, which we designate as V_macrot. The behavior of V_macrot is remarkably uniform among the RRab stars, but the behavior of V_macrot among RRc stars varies strongly from star to star. The RRab stars exhibit an upper limit on V_macrot of 5 +/- 1 km/s with weak evidence of an anti-correlation with T_eff. The RRc minima range from 2 to 12 km/s. The abrupt decline in large rotations with decreasing T_eff at the blue boundary of the instability strip and the apparently smooth continuous variation among the RRab and RHB stars suggests that HB stars gain/lose surface angular momentum on time scales short compared to HB lifetimes. V_macrot values for our metal-poor RHB stars agree well with those derived by Fourier analysis of an independent but less metal-poor sample of Carney et al. (2008); they conform qualitatively to the expectations of Tanner et al. (2013). A general conclusion of our investigation is that surface angular momentum as measured by V_rot*sini is not a reliable indicator of total stellar angular momentum anywhere along the HB.

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