Pulsations of massive ZZ Ceti stars with carbon/oxygen and oxygen/neon cores

We explore the adiabatic pulsational properties of massive white dwarf stars with hydrogen-rich envelopes and oxygen/neon and carbon/oxygen cores. To this end, we compute the cooling of massive white dwarf models for both core compositions taking into account the evolutionary history of the progenit...

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Autores principales: Córsico, Alejandro Hugo, García Berro, E., Althaus, Leandro Gabriel, Isern, J.
Formato: Articulo
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2004
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Acceso en línea:http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/84435
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topic Ciencias Astronómicas
Evolution - Stars
Oscillations
Stars
White dwarfs - Stars
spellingShingle Ciencias Astronómicas
Evolution - Stars
Oscillations
Stars
White dwarfs - Stars
Córsico, Alejandro Hugo
García Berro, E.
Althaus, Leandro Gabriel
Isern, J.
Pulsations of massive ZZ Ceti stars with carbon/oxygen and oxygen/neon cores
topic_facet Ciencias Astronómicas
Evolution - Stars
Oscillations
Stars
White dwarfs - Stars
description We explore the adiabatic pulsational properties of massive white dwarf stars with hydrogen-rich envelopes and oxygen/neon and carbon/oxygen cores. To this end, we compute the cooling of massive white dwarf models for both core compositions taking into account the evolutionary history of the progenitor stars and the chemical evolution caused by time-dependent element diffusion. In particular, for the oxygen/neon models we adopt the chemical profile resulting from repeated carbon-burning shell flashes expected in very massive white dwarf progenitors. For carbon/oxygen white dwarfs we consider the chemical profiles resulting from phase separation upon crystallization. For both compositions we also take into account the effects of crystallization on the oscillation eigenmodes. We find that the pulsational properties of oxygen/neon white dwarfs are noticeably different from those made of carbon/oxygen, thus making asteroseismological techniques a promising way to distinguish between the two types of stars and, hence, to obtain valuable information about their progenitors.
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author Córsico, Alejandro Hugo
García Berro, E.
Althaus, Leandro Gabriel
Isern, J.
author_facet Córsico, Alejandro Hugo
García Berro, E.
Althaus, Leandro Gabriel
Isern, J.
author_sort Córsico, Alejandro Hugo
title Pulsations of massive ZZ Ceti stars with carbon/oxygen and oxygen/neon cores
title_short Pulsations of massive ZZ Ceti stars with carbon/oxygen and oxygen/neon cores
title_full Pulsations of massive ZZ Ceti stars with carbon/oxygen and oxygen/neon cores
title_fullStr Pulsations of massive ZZ Ceti stars with carbon/oxygen and oxygen/neon cores
title_full_unstemmed Pulsations of massive ZZ Ceti stars with carbon/oxygen and oxygen/neon cores
title_sort pulsations of massive zz ceti stars with carbon/oxygen and oxygen/neon cores
publishDate 2004
url http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/84435
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