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arXiv 2009.03374astro-ph.SR
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中等质量恒星变成磁性白矮星

Intermediate-Mass Stars Become Magnetic White Dwarfs

Ilaria Caiazzo, Jeremy Heyl, Harvey Richer, Jeffrey Cummings, Leesa Fleury, James Hegarty, Jason Kalirai, Ronan Kerr, Sarah Thiele, Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay, Michael Villanueva

摘要:

当一颗恒星耗尽其核燃料时,它要么作为超新星爆炸,要么更安静地成为一颗白矮星,一颗质量约为太阳一半、半径约为地球半径的天体。大约五分之一的白矮星都有磁场存在,其起源长期以来一直被争论,要么是以前进化阶段的产物,要么是双星相互作用的产物。我们在这里报告发现的两个巨大的和磁性的白矮星成员的年轻星团在盖亚DR2数据库,而第三个巨大的和磁性的集群白矮星已经在以前的论文中报道。这些恒星很可能是单星演化的产物,因此挑战了合并的假设,因为合并是产生磁性白矮星的唯一途径。这些恒星的前身质量都在5个太阳质量以上,只有另外两个星团白矮星的距离已经用盖亚明确测量过,它们的前身质量落在这个范围内。磁性白矮星的高发生率表明,中等质量的祖先更有可能产生磁性残留物,并且一部分磁性白矮星是由中等质量的恒星形成的。

英文摘要:

When a star exhausts its nuclear fuel, it either explodes as a supernova or more quiescently becomes a white dwarf, an object about half the mass of our Sun with a radius of about that of the Earth. About one fifth of white dwarfs exhibit the presence of magnetic fields, whose origin has long been debated as either the product of previous stages of evolution or of binary interactions. We here report the discovery of two massive and magnetic white dwarf members of young star clusters in the Gaia DR2 database, while a third massive and magnetic cluster white dwarf was already reported in a previous paper. These stars are most likely the product of single-star evolution and therefore challenge the merger scenario as the only way to produce magnetic white dwarfs. The progenitor masses of these stars are all above 5 solar masses, and there are only two other cluster white dwarfs whose distances have been unambiguously measured with Gaia and whose progenitors' masses fall in this range. This high incidence of magnetic white dwarfs indicates that intermediate-mass progenitors are more likely to produce magnetic remnants and that a fraction of magnetic white dwarfs forms from intermediate-mass stars.

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