Probing the rotational velocity of Galactic WO stars with spectropolarimetry

Probing the rotational velocity of Galactic WO stars with spectropolarimetry
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用分光偏振法探测银河 WO 恒星的旋转速度

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10.1093/mnras/sty1827
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2018
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4.8
通讯作者:
Stevance H
Stevance H
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物理与天体物理2区
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氧序列Wolf-Rayet恒星(WO)被认为是一些大质量恒星的最后演化阶段,因此它们可能是Ic型超新星的祖先,也可能是宽线Ic和长伽马射线暴的潜在祖先。我们提出了用甚大望远镜上的FORS1获得的银河系WO恒星WR93b和WR102的第一个偏振光谱观测结果。我们没有发现线效应的迹象,如果这些恒星是快速旋转的,这是可以预料到的。我们还对潜在未检测到的线效应的幅度进行了限制。这使我们能够推导出可能的本禀连续极化的上限,并发现WR93b和WR102的pcont分别< 0.077%和0.057%。此外,通过考虑风压缩效应的结果,我们得出了WO星旋转的上限。我们估计WR93b在对边情况下的旋转速度小于324 km s - 1,而WR102vrot小于234 km s - 1。这些值分别对应于vrot/vcrit< 19%和< 10%,以及log(j) < 18.0 cm2s−1 (WR93b)和<17.6 cm2s−1 (WR102)的值。因此,在我们的WO恒星中发现的onvrot/vcrit和log(j)的上限与对银河系沃尔夫-拉叶星(WR)计算的估计相似,但确实显示出线效应。因此,尽管在单个WR星中存在线效应表明快速旋转,但没有线效应并不排除显著的旋转,即使在考虑侧面情况时也是如此。
Oxygen sequence Wolf-Rayet stars (WO) are thought to be the final evolution phase of some high-mass stars, as such they may be the progenitors of Type Ic SNe as well as potential progenitors of broad-lined Ic and long gamma-ray bursts. We present the first spectropolarimetric observations of the Galactic WO stars WR93b and WR102 obtained with FORS1 on the Very Large Telescope. We find no sign of a line effect, which could be expected if these stars were rapid rotators. We also place constraints on the amplitude of a potentially undetected line effect. This allows us to derive upper limits on the possible intrinsic continuum polarization and findPcont< 0.077 per cent andPcont< 0.057 per cent for WR93b and WR102, respectively. Furthermore, we derive upper limits on the rotation of our WO stars by considering our results in the context of the wind compression effect. We estimate that for an edge-on case the rotational velocity of WR93b isvrot< 324 km s−1while for WR102vrot< 234 km s−1. These correspond to values ofvrot/vcrit< 19 per cent and <10 per cent, respectively, and values of log(j) < 18.0 cm2s−1for WR93b and <17.6 cm2s−1for WR102. The upper limits found onvrot/vcritand log(j) for our WO stars are therefore similar to the estimates calculated for Galactic Wolf-Rayet (WR) stars that do show a line effect. Therefore, although the presence of a line effect in a single WR star is indicative of fast rotation, the absence of a line effect does not rule out significant rotation, even when considering the edge-on scenario.
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