The evolution of iron-core white dwarfs

Autores
Panei, Jorge Alejandro; Althaus, Leandro Gabriel; Benvenuto, Omar Gustavo
Año de publicación
2000
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inglés
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artículo
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versión publicada
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Recent measurements by Hipparcos present observational evidence supporting the existence of some white dwarf (WD) stars with iron-rich core composition. In connection with this, the present paper is aimed at exploring the structure and evolution of iron-core WDs by means of a detailed and updated evolutionary code. In particular, we examined the evolution of the central conditions, neutrino luminosity, surface gravity, crystallization, internal luminosity profile and ages. We find that the evolution of iron-rich WDs is markedly different from that of their carbon-oxygen counterparts. In particular, cooling is strongly accelerated (up to a factor of 5 for models with pure iron composition) as compared with the standard case. Thus, if iron WDs were very numerous, some of them would have had time enough to evolve at lower luminosities than that corresponding to the fall-off in the observed WD luminosity function.
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Ciencias Astronómicas
Stars: evolution
Stars: interiors
White dwarfs
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv The evolution of iron-core white dwarfs
title The evolution of iron-core white dwarfs
spellingShingle The evolution of iron-core white dwarfs
Panei, Jorge Alejandro
Ciencias Astronómicas
Stars: evolution
Stars: interiors
White dwarfs
title_short The evolution of iron-core white dwarfs
title_full The evolution of iron-core white dwarfs
title_fullStr The evolution of iron-core white dwarfs
title_full_unstemmed The evolution of iron-core white dwarfs
title_sort The evolution of iron-core white dwarfs
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Panei, Jorge Alejandro
Althaus, Leandro Gabriel
Benvenuto, Omar Gustavo
author Panei, Jorge Alejandro
author_facet Panei, Jorge Alejandro
Althaus, Leandro Gabriel
Benvenuto, Omar Gustavo
author_role author
author2 Althaus, Leandro Gabriel
Benvenuto, Omar Gustavo
author2_role author
author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Ciencias Astronómicas
Stars: evolution
Stars: interiors
White dwarfs
topic Ciencias Astronómicas
Stars: evolution
Stars: interiors
White dwarfs
dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv Recent measurements by Hipparcos present observational evidence supporting the existence of some white dwarf (WD) stars with iron-rich core composition. In connection with this, the present paper is aimed at exploring the structure and evolution of iron-core WDs by means of a detailed and updated evolutionary code. In particular, we examined the evolution of the central conditions, neutrino luminosity, surface gravity, crystallization, internal luminosity profile and ages. We find that the evolution of iron-rich WDs is markedly different from that of their carbon-oxygen counterparts. In particular, cooling is strongly accelerated (up to a factor of 5 for models with pure iron composition) as compared with the standard case. Thus, if iron WDs were very numerous, some of them would have had time enough to evolve at lower luminosities than that corresponding to the fall-off in the observed WD luminosity function.
Facultad de Ciencias Astronómicas y Geofísicas
description Recent measurements by Hipparcos present observational evidence supporting the existence of some white dwarf (WD) stars with iron-rich core composition. In connection with this, the present paper is aimed at exploring the structure and evolution of iron-core WDs by means of a detailed and updated evolutionary code. In particular, we examined the evolution of the central conditions, neutrino luminosity, surface gravity, crystallization, internal luminosity profile and ages. We find that the evolution of iron-rich WDs is markedly different from that of their carbon-oxygen counterparts. In particular, cooling is strongly accelerated (up to a factor of 5 for models with pure iron composition) as compared with the standard case. Thus, if iron WDs were very numerous, some of them would have had time enough to evolve at lower luminosities than that corresponding to the fall-off in the observed WD luminosity function.
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