期刊
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
卷 718, 期 1, 页码 441-445出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/718/1/441
关键词
stars: oscillations; white dwarfs
资金
- National Science Foundation [PHY 05-51164, AST 07-07633]
- University of Virginia
Helium core white dwarfs (WDs) with massM less than or similar to 0.20 M(circle dot) undergo several Gyr of stable hydrogen burning as they evolve. We show that in a certain range of WD and hydrogen envelope masses, these WDs may exhibit g-mode pulsations similar to their passively cooling, more massive carbon/oxygen core counterparts, the ZZ Cetis. Our models with stably burning hydrogen envelopes on helium cores yield g-mode periods and period spacings longer than the canonical ZZ Cetis by nearly a factor of 2. We show that core composition and structure can be probed using seismology since the g-mode eigenfunctions predominantly reside in the helium core. Though we have not carried out a fully nonadiabatic stability analysis, the scaling of the thermal time in the convective zone with surface gravity highlights several low-mass helium WDs that should be observed in search of pulsations: NLTT 11748, SDSS J0822+2753, and the companion to PSR J1012+5307. Seismological studies of these He core WDs may prove especially fruitful, as their luminosity is related (via stable hydrogen burning) to the hydrogen envelope mass, which eliminates one model parameter.
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