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一个年轻星团中的大质量磁氦大气白矮星双星

A Massive Magnetic Helium Atmosphere White Dwarf Binary in a Young Star Cluster

Harvey B. Richer, Ronan M. Kerr, Jeremy Heyl, Ilaria Caiazzo, Jeffrey Cummings, Pierre Bergeron, Patrick Dufour

摘要:

我们已经在盖亚DR 2目录中搜索了年轻疏散星团方向上以前未知的热白矮星。这个实验的目的是尝试将初始-最终质量关系(IFMR)扩展到更高的质量,可能提供一个与目前认为大约1.38 M $_{\odot}$的拉塞卡极限的张力。我们在年轻的$\sim$星系团Messier 47(NGC 2422)的方向上发现了一颗特别有趣的白矮星。所有的盖亚指标(自行、视差、在盖亚颜色星等图中的位置)都表明它是星团的成员。它的光谱,从双子座南部获得,产生了一些异常:它是一个DB(富氦大气)白矮星,它有很大的磁场(2.5 MG),质量高($\sim$ 1.06 M $_\odot$),它的颜色非常特殊-特别是红色的($r$,$i$,$z$和$y$),这表明它有一个晚型伴星。这是唯一的磁化,分离的双星白矮星与任何已知的光谱类型的星团内或星团外的非简并伴星。如果白矮星是星团的一员,正如所有指标所显示的那样,它的前身质量略高于6 M $_\odot$。然而,它可能讲述了一个比IFMR更有趣的故事,一个关于恒星磁场,I型超新星和来自低质量恒星系统的引力波的起源。

英文摘要:

We have searched the Gaia DR2 catalogue for previously unknown hot white dwarfs in the direction of young open star clusters. The aim of this experiment was to try and extend the initial-final mass relation (IFMR) to somewhat higher masses, potentially providing a tension with the Chandrasekhar limit currently thought to be around 1.38 M$_{\odot}$. We discovered a particularly interesting white dwarf in the direction of the young $\sim$150 Myr old cluster Messier 47 (NGC 2422). All Gaia indicators (proper motion, parallax, location in the Gaia colour-magnitude diagram) suggest that it is a cluster member. Its spectrum, obtained from Gemini South, yields a number of anomalies: it is a DB (helium-rich atmosphere) white dwarf, it has a large magnetic field (2.5 MG), is of high mass ($\sim$1.06 M$_\odot$) and its colours are very peculiar --- particularly the redder ones ($r$, $i$, $z$ and $y$), which suggest that it has a late-type companion. This is the only magnetized, detached binary white dwarf with a non-degenerate companion of any spectral type known in or out of a star cluster. If the white dwarf is a cluster member, as all indicators suggest, its progenitor had a mass just over 6 M$_\odot$. It may, however, be telling an even more interesting story than the one related to the IFMR, one about the origin of stellar magnetic fields, Type I supernovae and gravitational waves from low mass stellar systems.

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