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最大质量白矮星脉动变星的 ZZ Ceti 不稳定带

The ZZ Ceti Instability Strip for The Most Massive White Dwarf Pulsators

Gracyn Jewett, Mukremin Kilic, Adam Moss, Alejandro H. Córsico, Matthew J. Green, Murat Uzundag, Pierre Bergeron, Warren R. Brown, Francisco C. De Gerónimo, Alb… 展开作者

Gracyn Jewett, Mukremin Kilic, Adam Moss, Alejandro H. Córsico, Matthew J. Green, Murat Uzundag, Pierre Bergeron, Warren R. Brown, Francisco C. De Gerónimo, Alberto Rebassa-Mansergas, Alex J. Brown, Vikram S. Dhillon, Stuart Littlefair

AI总结:

本研究观测了31颗大质量DA白矮星,确认16颗为脉动变星,并发现已知质量最大的脉动白矮星J0959-1828,揭示了其周期与温度、质量的规律及高质量端不稳定带不纯的原因。

摘要:

我们展示了来自 Montreal White Dwarf Database 100 pc 样本中,位于 ZZ Ceti 不稳定带内 31 颗质量为 $M\gtrsim 0.9~M_\odot$ 的大质量 DA 型白矮星的时序测光观测结果。大多数目标此前没有时序测光数据,尽管文献中曾将几颗归类为非变星或潜在脉动变星。在这 31 颗候选星中,我们确认 16 颗存在脉动。我们在三个天文台的观测使我们发现了目前已知质量最大的脉动白矮星 J0959$-$1828(对于 CO 核与 ONe 核,其质量分别为 $1.32$ 或 $1.27~M_\odot$),它比之前的记录保持者 J0049$-$2525 略重。我们研究了大质量 ZZ Ceti 白矮星的样本性质,并发现了其与加权平均周期相关的几个趋势。正如理论预测,我们观测到加权平均周期随有效温度降低而增加,且在不稳定带红边缘脉动振幅减小。此外,加权平均周期随恒星质量增加而减小。我们的观测表明,ZZ Ceti 不稳定带在高质量端可能并不纯粹。这可能是因为位于不稳定带中部的非变星白矮星可能具有弱磁场,这在现有的低分辨率光谱数据中可能无法被探测到,但可能足以抑制脉动。对我们样本中最大质量白矮星的广泛后续观测,有望探测这些具有显著结晶核心的白矮星的内部结构和核心成分。

英文摘要:

We present time-series photometry of 31 massive DA white dwarfs with $M\gtrsim 0.9~M_\odot$ within the ZZ Ceti instability strip from the Montreal White Dwarf Database 100 pc sample. The majority of the targets had no previous time-series photometry available, though several were classified as non-variable or potential pulsators in the literature. Out of the 31 candidates, we confirm 16 as pulsating. Our observations at three observatories have led us to discover the most massive pulsating white dwarf currently known, J0959$-$1828 ($M=1.32$ or $1.27~M_\odot$ for a CO versus ONe core), which is slightly more massive than the previous record holder J0049$-$2525. We study the sample properties of massive ZZ Ceti white dwarfs, and find several trends with their weighted mean periods. As predicted by theory, we see an increase in the weighted mean periods with decreasing effective temperature, and a decrease in pulsation amplitudes at the red edge of the instability strip. Furthermore, the weighted mean periods decrease with increasing stellar mass. Our observations show that the ZZ Ceti instability strip may not be pure at high masses. This is likely because the non-variable white dwarfs in the middle of the strip may be weakly magnetic, which could escape detection in the available low-resolution spectroscopy data, but may be sufficient to suppress pulsations. Extensive follow-up observations of the most massive white dwarfs in our sample have the potential to probe the interior structures and core-compositions of these white dwarfs with significantly crystallized cores.

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