2024MNRAS.527.3122V -
Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 527, 3122-3138 (2024/January-2)
A cool, magnetic white dwarf accreting planetary debris.
VENNES S., KAWKA A., KLEIN B.L., ZUCKERMAN B., WEINBERGER A.J. and MELIS C.
Abstract (from CDS):
We present an analysis of spectroscopic data of the cool, highly magnetic, and polluted white dwarf 2MASS J0916-4215. The atmosphere of the white dwarf is dominated by hydrogen, but numerous spectral lines of magnesium, calcium, titanium, chromium, iron, and strontium, along with Li I, Na I, Al I, and K I lines, are found in the incomplete Paschen-Back regime, most visibly, in the case of Ca II lines. Extensive new calculations of the Paschen-Back effect in several spectral lines are presented and results of the calculations are tabulated for the Ca II H&K doublet. The abundance pattern shows a large lithium and strontium excess, which may be viewed as a signature of planetary debris akin to Earth's continental crust accreted on to the star, although the scarcity of silicon indicates possible dilution in bulk Earth material. Accurate abundance measurements proved sensitive to the value of the broadening parameter due to collisions with neutral hydrogen ($\Gamma$_H i_), particularly in saturated lines such as the resonance lines of Ca I and Ca II. We found that $\Gamma$_H i_ if formulated with values from the literature could be overestimated by a factor of 10 in most resonance lines.
Abstract Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2023. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Royal Astronomical Society.
Journal keyword(s):
stars: abundances - stars: individual: 2MASS J0916-4215 - stars: magnetic field - white dwarfs
Simbad objects:
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