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8.9 hr Rotation in the Partly Burnt Runaway Stellar Remnant LP 40-365 (GD 492)
The Astrophysical Journal Letters ( IF 8.8 ) Pub Date : 2021-06-07 , DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/ac00a8
J. J. Hermes 1 , Odelia Putterman 1 , Mark A. Hollands 2 , David J. Wilson 3 , Andrew Swan 4 , Roberto Raddi 5 , Ken J. Shen 6 , Boris T. Gnsicke 2
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We report the detection of 8.914 hr variability in both optical and ultraviolet light curves of LP 40−365 (also known as GD 492), the prototype for a class of partly burnt runaway stars that have been ejected from a binary due to a thermonuclear supernova event. We first detected this 1.0% amplitude variation in optical photometry collected by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). Reanalysis of observations from the Hubble Space Telescope at the TESS period and ephemeris reveal a 5.8% variation in the ultraviolet of this 9800 K stellar remnant. We propose that this 8.914 hr photometric variation reveals the current surface rotation rate of LP 40−365, and is caused by some kind of surface inhomogeneity rotating in and out of view, though a lack of observed Zeeman splitting puts an upper limit on the magnetic field of <20 kG. We explore ways in which the present rotation period can constrain progenitor scenarios if angular momentum was mostly conserved, which suggests that the survivor LP 40−365 was not the donor star but was most likely the bound remnant of a mostly disrupted white dwarf that underwent advanced burning from an underluminous (Type Iax) supernova.



中文翻译:

在部分燃烧的失控恒星残骸 LP 40-365 (GD 492) 中旋转 8.9 小时

我们报告了在 LP 40−365(也称为 GD 492)的光学和紫外光曲线中检测到 8.914 小时的变化,这是一类部分燃烧的失控恒星的原型,由于热核超新星而从双星中弹出事件。我们首先在凌日系外行星勘测卫星 (TESS) 收集的光学测光中检测到这种 1.0% 的幅度变化。对哈勃太空望远镜在 TESS 周期和星历的观测结果进行再分析,揭示了这颗 9800 K 恒星残骸的紫外线有 5.8% 的变化。我们建议,这个 8.914 小时的光度变化揭示了 LP 40-365 的当前表面旋转速率,并且是由某种表面不均匀性旋转进出视野引起的,尽管缺乏观察到的塞曼分裂对磁场施加了上限场<20 kG。

更新日期:2021-06-07
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