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由碳氧和氦白矮星对合并形成超大质量碳氧白矮星

Formation of ultra-massive carbon-oxygen white dwarfs from the merger of carbon-oxygen and helium white dwarf pairs

Chengyuan Wu, Heran Xiong, Xiaofeng Wang

摘要:

质量大于1.05 Msun的超大质量白矮星(UMWD)基本上被认为拥有氧-氖(ONe)核。最近,盖亚数据揭示了增强UMWDs的赫兹-罗素图(HRD),这表明额外的冷却延迟机制,如结晶和元素沉淀可能存在于UMWDs。进一步的研究表明,一部分UMWDs应该经历了相当长的冷却延迟,这意味着它们是碳氧(CO)WD。然而,这些UMCOWD的形成机制仍在争论中。在这项工作中,我们研究了大量的CO WD与氦WD(He WD)的合并是否可以演变为UMCOWD。利用恒星演化程序MESA,我们构造了双WD合并残留物来研究它们的最终命运。我们发现,合并后的残留物的演化类似于R CrB星。He壳层的氦燃烧导致CO核的质量以2.0*10^-6 ~ 5.0*10^-6 Msun/yr的速率增长。最终的CO WD质量的影响,风质量损失率在合并后的演变,并不能超过约1.2Msun。核心质量大于1.2Msun的残留物将经历表面碳点火,这可能最终结束它们的生命。目前的结果表明,至少有一部分的UMWDs经历超长的冷却延迟可能源于合并的CO WD和He WD。

英文摘要:

Ultra-massive white dwarfs (UMWDs) with masses larger than 1.05Msun are basically believed to harbour oxygen-neon (ONe) cores. Recently, Gaia data reveals an enhancement of UMWDs on Hertzsprung-Russell diagram (HRD), which indicates that extra cooling delay mechanism such as crystallization and elemental sedimentation may exist in the UMWDs. Further studies suggested that a portion of UMWDs should have experienced pretty long cooling delays, implying that they are carbon-oxygen (CO) WDs. However, the formation mechanism of these UMCOWDs is still under debate. In this work, we investigated whether the merges of massive CO WDs with helium WDs (He WDs) can evolve to UMCOWDs. By employing stellar evolution code MESA, we construct double WD merger remnants to investigate their final fates. We found that the post-merger evolution of the remnants are similar to R CrB stars. The helium burning of the He shell leads to the mass growing of the CO core at a rate from 2.0*10^-6 to 5.0*10^-6 Msun/yr . The final CO WD mass is influenced by the wind-mass-loss rate during the post-merger evolution, and cannot exceed about 1.2Msun. The remnants with core mass larger than 1.2Msun will experience surface carbon ignition, which may finally end their lives as ONe WDs. Current results implies that at least a portion of UMWDs which experience extra long cooling delay may stem from merging of CO WDs and He WDs.

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