The evolution of white dwarfs resulting from helium-enhanced, low-metallicity progenitor stars

Context. Some globular clusters host multiple stellar populations with different chemical abundance patterns. This is particularly true for ω Centauri, which shows clear evidence of a helium-enriched subpopulation characterized by a helium abundance as high as Y = 0.4. Aims. We present a whole and...

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Autores principales: Althaus, Leandro Gabriel, De Gerónimo, Francisco César, Córsico, Alejandro Hugo, Torres, Santiago, García Berro, Enrique
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topic Ciencias Astronómicas
Stars: Evolution
Stars: Interiors
White dwarfs
spellingShingle Ciencias Astronómicas
Stars: Evolution
Stars: Interiors
White dwarfs
Althaus, Leandro Gabriel
De Gerónimo, Francisco César
Córsico, Alejandro Hugo
Torres, Santiago
García Berro, Enrique
The evolution of white dwarfs resulting from helium-enhanced, low-metallicity progenitor stars
topic_facet Ciencias Astronómicas
Stars: Evolution
Stars: Interiors
White dwarfs
description Context. Some globular clusters host multiple stellar populations with different chemical abundance patterns. This is particularly true for ω Centauri, which shows clear evidence of a helium-enriched subpopulation characterized by a helium abundance as high as Y = 0.4. Aims. We present a whole and consistent set of evolutionary tracks from the ZAMS to the white dwarf stage that is appropriate for the study of the formation and evolution of white dwarfs resulting from the evolution of helium-rich progenitors. Methods. We derived white dwarf sequences from progenitors with stellar mass ranging from 0.60 to 2.0 M⊙ and for an initial helium abundance of Y = 0.4. We adopted two values of metallicity: Z = 0.001 and Z = 0.0005. Results. We explored different issues of white dwarf evolution and their helium-rich progenitors. In particular, the final mass of the remnants, the role of overshooting during the thermally pulsing phase, and the cooling of the resulting white dwarfs differ markedly from the evolutionary predictions of progenitor stars with the standard initial helium abundance. Finally, the pulsational properties of the resulting white dwarfs are also explored. Conclusions. We find that, for the range of initial masses explored in this paper, the final mass of the helium-rich progenitors is markedly higher than the final mass expected from progenitors with the usual helium abundance. We also find that progenitors with initial mass lower than M ≃ 0.65 M⊙ evolve directly into helium-core white dwarfs in less than 14 Gyr, and that, for larger progenitor masses, the evolution of the resulting low-mass carbon-oxygen white dwarfs is dominated by residual nuclear burning. For heliumcore white dwarfs, we find that they evolve markedly faster than their counterparts coming from standard progenitors. Also, in contrast with what occurs for white dwarfs resulting from progenitors with the standard helium abundance, the impact of residual burning on the cooling time of white dwarfs is not affected by the occurrence of overshooting during the thermally pulsing phase of progenitor stars.
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author Althaus, Leandro Gabriel
De Gerónimo, Francisco César
Córsico, Alejandro Hugo
Torres, Santiago
García Berro, Enrique
author_facet Althaus, Leandro Gabriel
De Gerónimo, Francisco César
Córsico, Alejandro Hugo
Torres, Santiago
García Berro, Enrique
author_sort Althaus, Leandro Gabriel
title The evolution of white dwarfs resulting from helium-enhanced, low-metallicity progenitor stars
title_short The evolution of white dwarfs resulting from helium-enhanced, low-metallicity progenitor stars
title_full The evolution of white dwarfs resulting from helium-enhanced, low-metallicity progenitor stars
title_fullStr The evolution of white dwarfs resulting from helium-enhanced, low-metallicity progenitor stars
title_full_unstemmed The evolution of white dwarfs resulting from helium-enhanced, low-metallicity progenitor stars
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