Fingering convection in accreting hydrogen white dwarfs

Autores
Wachlin, Felipe Carlos; Vauclair, Sylvie; Vauclair, G.; Althaus, Leandro Gabriel
Año de publicación
2019
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español castellano
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The accretion of heavy material from debris disk on the surface of hydrogen-rich white dwarfs induces a double diffusivity instability known as the fingering convection. It leads to an efficient extra mixing which brings the accreted material deeper in the star than by considering only mixing in the surface dynamical convection zone, in a time scale much shorter than that of gravitational settling. We performed numerical simulations of a continuous accretion of heavy material having a bulk Earth composition on the two well studied DAZ and ZZ Ceti pulsators GD 133 and G 29-38. We find that the existence of fingering convection implies much larger accretion rates to explain the observed abundances than previous estimates based on the standard mixing length theory and gravitational settling only.
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Ciencias Astronómicas
Física
White dwarfs
Standard mixing length theory
Thermohaline convection
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Fingering convection in accreting hydrogen white dwarfs
title Fingering convection in accreting hydrogen white dwarfs
spellingShingle Fingering convection in accreting hydrogen white dwarfs
Wachlin, Felipe Carlos
Ciencias Astronómicas
Física
White dwarfs
Standard mixing length theory
Thermohaline convection
title_short Fingering convection in accreting hydrogen white dwarfs
title_full Fingering convection in accreting hydrogen white dwarfs
title_fullStr Fingering convection in accreting hydrogen white dwarfs
title_full_unstemmed Fingering convection in accreting hydrogen white dwarfs
title_sort Fingering convection in accreting hydrogen white dwarfs
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Wachlin, Felipe Carlos
Vauclair, Sylvie
Vauclair, G.
Althaus, Leandro Gabriel
author Wachlin, Felipe Carlos
author_facet Wachlin, Felipe Carlos
Vauclair, Sylvie
Vauclair, G.
Althaus, Leandro Gabriel
author_role author
author2 Vauclair, Sylvie
Vauclair, G.
Althaus, Leandro Gabriel
author2_role author
author
author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Ciencias Astronómicas
Física
White dwarfs
Standard mixing length theory
Thermohaline convection
topic Ciencias Astronómicas
Física
White dwarfs
Standard mixing length theory
Thermohaline convection
dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv The accretion of heavy material from debris disk on the surface of hydrogen-rich white dwarfs induces a double diffusivity instability known as the fingering convection. It leads to an efficient extra mixing which brings the accreted material deeper in the star than by considering only mixing in the surface dynamical convection zone, in a time scale much shorter than that of gravitational settling. We performed numerical simulations of a continuous accretion of heavy material having a bulk Earth composition on the two well studied DAZ and ZZ Ceti pulsators GD 133 and G 29-38. We find that the existence of fingering convection implies much larger accretion rates to explain the observed abundances than previous estimates based on the standard mixing length theory and gravitational settling only.
Instituto de Astrofísica de La Plata
description The accretion of heavy material from debris disk on the surface of hydrogen-rich white dwarfs induces a double diffusivity instability known as the fingering convection. It leads to an efficient extra mixing which brings the accreted material deeper in the star than by considering only mixing in the surface dynamical convection zone, in a time scale much shorter than that of gravitational settling. We performed numerical simulations of a continuous accretion of heavy material having a bulk Earth composition on the two well studied DAZ and ZZ Ceti pulsators GD 133 and G 29-38. We find that the existence of fingering convection implies much larger accretion rates to explain the observed abundances than previous estimates based on the standard mixing length theory and gravitational settling only.
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