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arXiv 2002.11689astro-ph.SR
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强磁快速振荡Ap星HD 166473的10.5年自转周期

The 10.5 year rotation period of the strongly magnetic rapidly oscillating Ap star HD 166473

Gautier Mathys, Viktor Khalack, John D. Landstreet

摘要:

磁场如何影响Ap星自转速率的差异以及影响其中一些星的非径向脉动的发生是重要的未决问题。通过研究这些过程中一些最极端的例子,可以对这些问题获得有价值的见解。超慢旋转的快速振荡Ap(roAp)星HD 166473就是这样一个例子。我们首次准确确定了它的旋转周期,(3836 +/- 30)d,通过分析<B>基于1992年至2019年在各个天文台和各种仪器配置获得的高分辨率光谱的平均磁场模量的56个测量值。我们补充了这一分析与考虑一个不均匀的21个测定的平均纵向磁场<B_z>跨越相同的时间间隔。这使得HD 166473成为仅有的四颗周期超过10年的Ap星之一,其中磁场测量已经超过了一个完整的周期。和的变化曲线<B><B_z>用余弦波很好地近似。HD 166473的磁场似乎仅略微偏离轴对称,但它肯定涉及相当大的非偶极分量。在自转周期超过1000 d的恒星中,HD 166473的磁场最强。它的磁场也是已知的roAp星中最强的。总体而言,HD 166473的磁性似乎与旋转更快的Ap星没有根本区别。然而,将八颗精确测定的周期超过1000 d的Ap星作为一个整体来考虑,它们的磁场变化在一个完整的周期内被表征,这表明它们的磁轴和自转轴之间的角度往往是系统性的大。

英文摘要:

How magnetic fields contribute to the differentiation of the rotation rates of the Ap stars and affect the occurrence of non-radial pulsation in some of them are important open questions. Valuable insight can be gained into these questions by studying some of the most extreme examples of the processes at play. The super-slowly rotating rapidly oscillating Ap (roAp) star HD 166473 is such an example. We performed the first accurate determination of its rotation period, (3836 +/- 30)d, from the analysis of 56 measurements of the mean magnetic field modulus <B> based on high-resolution spectra acquired between 1992 and 2019 at various observatories and with various instrumental configurations. We complemented this analysis with the consideration of an inhomogeneous set of 21 determinations of the mean longitudinal magnetic field <B_z> spanning the same time interval. This makes HD 166473 one of only four Ap stars with a period longer than 10 years for which magnetic field measurements have been obtained over more than a full cycle. The variation curves of <B> and of <B_z> are well approximated by cosine waves. The magnetic field of HD 166473 only seems to deviate slightly from axisymmetry, but it definitely involves a considerable non-dipolar component. Among the stars with rotation periods longer than 1000 d for which magnetic field measurements with full phase coverage are available, HD 166473 has the strongest field. Its magnetic field is also one of the strongest known among roAp stars. Overall, the magnetic properties of HD 166473 do not seem fundamentally distinct from those of the faster-rotating Ap stars. However, considering as a group the eight Ap stars that have accuractely determined periods longer than 1000 d and whose magnetic variations have been characterised over a full cycle suggests that the angles between their magnetic and rotation axes tend to be systematically large.

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