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一颗像月球一样小的高度磁化和快速旋转的白矮星

A highly magnetised and rapidly rotating white dwarf as small as the Moon

Ilaria Caiazzo, Kevin B. Burdge, James Fuller, Jeremy Heyl, S. R. Kulkarni, Thomas A. Prince, Harvey B. Richer, Josiah Schwab, Igor Andreoni, Eric C. Bellm, And… 展开作者

Ilaria Caiazzo, Kevin B. Burdge, James Fuller, Jeremy Heyl, S. R. Kulkarni, Thomas A. Prince, Harvey B. Richer, Josiah Schwab, Igor Andreoni, Eric C. Bellm, Andrew Drake, Dmitry A. Duev, Matthew J. Graham, George Helou, Ashish A. Mahabal, Frank J. Masci, Roger Smith, Maayane T. Soumagnac

摘要:

白矮星是质量小于太阳八倍的恒星演化的最后阶段,和其他恒星一样,经常在双星中发现。如果双星的轨道周期足够短,引力波辐射的能量损失会使轨道收缩,直到两颗白矮星接触并合并。根据组成部分的质量,合并可能导致Ia型超新星或导致大质量白矮星。在后一种情况下,白矮星的残骸预计会被高度磁化,因为在合并过程中会产生强磁发电机,并且由于轨道角动量守恒而快速旋转。在这里,我们报告了对一颗白矮星ZTF J190132.9+145808.7的观测结果,它表现出这些特性,但达到了一个极端:自转周期为6.94分钟,表面磁场范围在600兆高斯到900兆高斯之间,恒星半径约为2,100公里,略大于月球的半径。如此小的半径意味着这颗恒星的质量接近最大白矮星质量,或称rasekhar质量。ZTF J190132.9+145808.7很可能通过Urca过程(钠上电子捕获的中微子发射)冷却,因为它的核心达到了高密度。

英文摘要:

White dwarfs represent the last stage of evolution of stars with mass less than about eight times that of the Sun and, like other stars, are often found in binaries. If the orbital period of the binary is short enough, energy losses from gravitational-wave radiation can shrink the orbit until the two white dwarfs come into contact and merge. Depending on the component masses, the merger can lead to a supernova of type Ia or result in a massive white dwarf. In the latter case, the white dwarf remnant is expected to be highly magnetised because of the strong magnetic dynamo that should arise during the merger, and be rapidly spinning from the conservation of the orbital angular momentum. Here we report observations of a white dwarf, ZTF J190132.9+145808.7, that exhibits these properties, but to an extreme: a rotation period of 6.94 minutes, a magnetic field ranging between 600 megagauss and 900 megagauss over its surface, and a stellar radius of about 2,100 km, slightly larger than the radius of the Moon. Such a small radius implies that the star's mass is close to the maximum white-dwarf mass, or Chandrasekhar mass. ZTF J190132.9+145808.7 is likely to be cooling through the Urca processes (neutrino emission from electron capture on sodium) because of the high densities reached in its core.

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