期刊
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
卷 410, 期 2, 页码 984-993出版社
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2010.17497.x
关键词
binaries: close; subdwarfs; white dwarfs
资金
- PPARC [PPA/G/S/2003/00056]
- China National Postdoc Fund [20090450005]
- National Science Foundation of China [10950110322, 10903001, 10821061]
- Chinese Academy of Sciences [KJCX2-YW-T24]
- National Science Foundation [NSF PHY05-51164]
- Science and Technology Facilities Council [ST/H002456/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- STFC [ST/H002456/1] Funding Source: UKRI
We propose a formation channel for the previously unexplained helium-rich subdwarf O (He-rich sdO) stars in which post-subdwarf B (sdB) stars (i.e. hybrid CO-He white dwarfs) reignite helium burning in a shell after gaining matter from their helium white dwarf (WD) companions. Such short-period binaries containing post-sdB WDs and helium WDs are predicted by one of the major binary formation channels for sdB stars. In the majority of cases, mass transfer is expected to lead to a dynamically unstable merger event, leaving a single-star remnant. Calculations of the evolution of these stars show that their properties are consistent with the observed He-rich sdO stars. The luminosity of these stars is about an order of magnitude higher than that of canonical sdB stars. We also suggest that binary systems such as PG 1544+488 and HE 0301-3039, which each contain two hot subdwarfs, could be the outcome of a double-core common-envelope phase. Since this favours intermediate-mass progenitors, this may also explain why the subdwarfs in these systems are He-rich.
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