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arXiv 2004.13594astro-ph.SR
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磁性O型星的光度和偏振变率

The photometric and polarimetric variability of magnetic O-type stars

Melissa Munoz, Gregg Wade, Daniel Faes, Alex Carciofi

摘要:

大质量星风是星际介质的能量、动量和化学富集的重要贡献者。在一小部分大质量O-型恒星中,已经发现了强的、有组织的、占主导地位的偶极磁场。磁性大质量恒星被认为表现出许多可观测量的相位锁定变化,这被假设是由于存在通过其强烈外流风的磁约束形成的倾斜旋转磁层而产生的。因此,分析观测到的磁性O型恒星的调制是更好地理解其磁层内发生的物理过程的关键一步。磁层形成的动力学过程,导致正式解决利用复杂的MHD模拟。最近,一个解析动态磁层(ADM)模型已经发展起来,可以快速地用于计算动态磁层内的时间平均密度,温度和速度梯度。在这里,我们利用ADM模型来计算光度和偏振观测的磁性?p星,以测试从磁力学推断的几何模型。我们展示的原型的重要成果?p型恒星HD 191612,这导致更好地描述大质量恒星风和磁性。

英文摘要:

Massive star winds are important contributors to the energy, momentum and chemical enrichment of the interstellar medium. Strong, organized and predominantly dipolar magnetic fields have been firmly detected in a small subset of massive O-type stars. Magnetic massive stars are known to exhibit phase-locked variability of numerous observable quantities that is hypothesized to arise due to the presence of an obliquely rotating magnetosphere formed via the magnetic confinement of their strong outflowing winds. Analyzing the observed modulations of magnetic O-type stars is thus a key step towards the better understanding of the physical processes that occur within their magnetospheres. The dynamical processes that lead to the formation of a magnetosphere are formally solved utilizing complex MHD simulations. Recently, an Analytic Dynamical Magnetosphere (ADM) model has been developed that can quickly be employed to compute the time-averaged density, temperature and velocity gradients within a dynamical magnetosphere. Here, we exploit the ADM model to compute photometric and polarimetric observables of magnetic Of?p stars, to test geometric models inferred from magnetometry. We showcase important results on the prototypical Of?p-type star HD 191612, that lead to a better characterization of massive star wind and magnetic properties.

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