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Rotation in the ZAMS: Be and Bn stars J. Zorec, Y. Frémat, C. Martayan, L. Cidale, A. Torres To cite this version: J. Zorec, Y. Frémat, C. Martayan, L. Cidale, A. Torres. Rotation in the ZAMS: Be and Bn stars. 3 pages ; to appear in the proceedings of the Sapporo meeting on active OB stars ; ASP Conference.. 2006. <hal-00016423> HAL Id: hal-00016423 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00016423 Submitted on 4 Jan 2006 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access archive for the deposit and dissemination of scientific research documents, whether they are published or not. The documents may come from teaching and research institutions in France or abroad, or from public or private research centers. L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires publics ou privés. **FULL TITLE** ASP Conference Series, Vol. **VOLUME**, **YEAR OF PUBLICATION** **NAMES OF EDITORS** Rotation in the ZAMS: Be and Bn stars J. Zorec1 , Y. Frémat2 , C. Martayan3 , L. Cidale4 , A. Torres4 1 Institut 2 Royal d’Astrophysique de Paris, UMR7095 CNRS, Univ. P&M Curie Observatory of Belgium 3 Observatoire 4 de Paris-Meudon, France Facultad de Ciencias Astronómicas y Geofı́sicas, UNLP, Argentina Abstract. We show that Be stars belong to a high velocity tail of a single B-type star rotational velocity distribution in the MS. This implies that: 1) the number fraction N(Be)/N(Be+B) is independent of the mass; 2) Bn stars having ZAMS rotational velocities higher than a given limit might become Be stars. ccsd-00016423, version 1 - 4 Jan 2006 1. ZAMS rotational velocities of Be stars The observed V sin i of 127 galactic Be stars were corrected for uncertainties due to the gravitational darkening effect with the fastrot models (Frémat et al. 2005). Using the same models we calculated the today true rotational velocity V of each star by determining its inclination angle i. With evolutionary tracks for rotating stars we determined the mass and age of the studied stars (Zorec et al. 2005). From each V we estimated the corresponding VZAMS by taking into account four first order effects affecting the evolution of equatorial velocities: 1) variation induced by the time-dependent stellar radius; 2) angular momentum (AM) loss due to mass-loss phenomena in stars with mass M > ∼ 15M⊙ and conservation of AM for M < 15M ; 3) changes of the inertial momentum due ⊙ ∼ to evolutionary effects and to the rotation using 2D barotropic models of stellar structure (Zorec et al. 1988); 4) internal redistribution of the AM in terms of the meridional circulation time scale parameterized from Meynet & Maeder’s (2000) models. The obtained VZAMS against the stellar mass are shown in Fig. 2a, where there is a neat mass-dependent limiting cut Vmin (M ) that confines all studied Be stars in a high velocity sector. This indicates that stars need to have VZAMS > ∼ Vmin to become Be in the MS phase. For each mass-interval we divided the VZAMS by Vmin and obtained the global histogram shown in Fig. 2b. The fit that better describes the distribution of VZAMS (M )/Vmin (M ) obtained is a Gaussian tail. The histogram concerns only 17% roughly of stars out of the whole B star MS population. Since more than 80% of MS B-type stars must then be in the VZAMS /Vmin < ∼ 1 interval, it implies that Be stars do not form a separate distribution, but possibly a tail of a general distribution that encompasses the whole B-star MS population. 2. Mass-independent frequency of Be stars The number of detected Be stars is given by: dN (Be, i) ∝ PBe EHα (Teff , τ, i)φ(τ ) ×N (Teff ) sin idτ di, where PBe is the mass-independent probability of becoming 1 2 Zorec et al. 60 Gaussian Number of Be stars 50 400 -1 VZAMS (km s ) 500 300 no Be star 200 40 30 no Be star 20 10 100 (a) 4 6 8 10 M/M 12 14 (b) 0 0.0 16 0.5 1.0 1.5 2.0 [V/Vmin(M)]ZAMS 2.5 3.0 Figure 1. a) Distribution of the equatorial velocities in the ZAMS of the studied Be stars against the mass . b) Frequency distribution of VZAMS /Vmin and fit with a Gaussian function. No Be star has VAMS /Vmin < 1 6 5 o 4 N(Be) <E(Teff, )> = 1.0 o = 1.5 o = 2.3 (a) 3 2 1 Teff K 0 3.0 30000 25000 20000 15000 10000 70 (b) 60 2.6 log10N(M) = 1.0 = 1.5 o = 2.3 (c) o o Teff K 30000 25000 20000 15000 10000 Observed number of Be stars Predicted number of Be stars (d) Number of Be stars 2.8 1.0 0.9 0.8 0.7 0.6 0.5 0.4 0.3 0.2 0.1 0.0 50 2.4 40 2.2 30 2.0 20 1.8 10 1.6 Spectral type log10M/M 1.4 0.2 0 0.4 0.6 0.8 1.0 1.2 1.4 1.6 O B0 B1 B2 B3 B4 B5 B6 B7 B8 B9 A Figure 2. a) Hα emission intensity function as a function of Teff and τo . b) Number of stars around the Sun in an apparent V=7 magnitude limited volume. c) Normalized predicted number of Be stars near the Sun. d) Comparison of predicted with observed number of Be stars near the Sun Be star (see Sect. 1.); EHα is the probability of detecting a Be star measured in terms of the intensity of the Hα emission produced by a disc with opacity τ shown in Fig. 1a; N (Teff) is the total number of stars with a given Teff given by the IMF function; sin i is the probability of seeing the disc at inclination i. We can integrate the indicated relation for an apparent V=7 magnitude limited volume to represent the fraction of Be stars near the Sun. The reduced apparent magnitude IMF function is shown in Fig. 1b. It comes then that the product of EHα with the ‘local’ IMF produces the curves shown in Fig. 1c, which represent 3 Rotation in the ZAMS 70 0 dwarfs Bn (V) Vsin i>200 km/s ‘‘subgiants Bn’’ (IV-V+IV) ‘‘giants Bn’’ (II-III+III+III-IV) (a) 60 Counts of Bn stars ln N(Be)/N(B) -1 -2 -3 -4 -5 (b) 50 40 30 20 10 Spectral type -6 O B0 B1 B2 B3 B5 B7 B9 A0-2 0 B0 B1 B2 B3 B4 B5 B6 B7 B8 B9 A0 A1 A2 Figure 3. a) Apparent magnitude limited counts (V=7mag) of dwarf Be stars relative to dwarf B stars. b) Apparent magnitude limited counts (V=7mag) of Bn stars. Most Bn stars are dwarfs, which may indicate that they are fast rotators in the first MS evolutionary phases the normalized predicted number N (Be) of Be stars. The comparison of the predicted (τo = 1) with the actually observed number of Be stars around the Sun is shown in Fig. 1d. This shows that the apparently bi-modal distribution of Be stars around the Sun against the spectral type is entirely explained by the interplay of the probability of detecting Be stars (EHα ), the shape of the IMF and PBe (M ) = constant. 3. Some Bn stars might be progenitors of Be stars Figure 3a shows the apparent V=7 magnitude limited counts of dwarf Be stars relative to dwarf B stars. There is an apparent lack of dwarf Be stars cooler than spectral type B7. This could be due to genuine Be stars whose discs are minute and/or too cool for the Hα emission be detectable and/or, to fast rotating B stars that still had not attained the required properties to become fully-fledged Be stars. According to findings in Sect. 1., which are supported by those in Sect. 2., the relation shown in Fig. 3a should be straightened, so that ln N (Be)/ ln N (B) = constant. It has been shown in Zorec et al. (2005) that there is a lack of Be stars with masses M < ∼ 7M⊙ in the first half of the MS phase. However, Fig. 3b shows that apparent V=7 magnitude limited counts of Bn stars increase strongly at spectral types cooler than B7. Since most of them are dwarfs, they probably had not enough time to attain the angular velocity ratio Ω/Ωc ≃ 0.9 that characterizes Be stars (Frémat et al. 2005). The determination of the VZAMS of 100 Bn stars is underway. This will enable us to see which of them has the required condition VZAMS > ∼ Vlim to become Be. Other related subjects can be found in http://www2.iap.fr/users/zorec/. References Frémat, Y., Zorec, J., Hubert, A.M, & Floquet, M. 2005, A&A, 440, 305 Meynet, G., & Maeder, A. 2000, A&A, 362, 101 Zorec, J., Frémat, Y., & Cidale, L. 2005, A&A, 441, 235 Zorec, J., Mochkovitch, R., & Divan, L. 1988, C.R. Acad. Sci. Paris, 306, 1265