The Impact of White Dwarf Luminosity Profiles on Oscillation Frequencies
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- Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ (United States); Joint Inst. for Nuclear Astrophysics (JINA), East Lansing, MI (United States). Center for the Evolution of the Elements (JINA-CEE)
- Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States)
- Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, CA (United States)
- Univ. of Liege, (Belgium)
- Joint Inst. for Nuclear Astrophysics (JINA), East Lansing, MI (United States). Center for the Evolution of the Elements (JINA-CEE); Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI (United States); Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ (United States)
KIC 08626021 is a pulsating DB white dwarf (WD) of considerable recent interest, and the first of its class to be extensively monitored by Kepler for its pulsation properties. Fitting the observed oscillation frequencies of KIC 08626021 to a model can yield insights into its otherwise-hidden internal structure. Template-based WD models choose a luminosity profile where the luminosity is proportional to the enclosed mass, $${L}_{r}\,\propto \,{M}_{r}$$, independent of the effective temperature Teff. Evolutionary models of young WDs with Teff ≳ 25,000 K suggest that neutrino emission gives rise to luminosity profiles with L r $${/}\!\!\!\!\!\!{\propto }$$ M r . We explore this contrast by comparing the oscillation frequencies between two nearly identical WD models: one with an enforced $${L}_{r}\propto {M}_{r}$$ luminosity profile, and the other with a luminosity profile determined by the star's previous evolution history. We find that the low-order g-mode frequencies differ by up to ≃70 μHz over the range of Kepler observations for KIC 08626021. This suggests that by neglecting the proper thermal structure of the star (e.g., accounting for the effect of plasmon neutrino losses), the model frequencies calculated by using an $${L}_{r}\propto {M}_{r}$$ profile may have uncorrected, effectively random errors at the level of tens of μHz. A mean frequency difference of 30 μHz, based on linearly extrapolating published results, suggests a template model uncertainty in the fit precision of ≃12% in WD mass, ≃9% in the radius, and ≃3% in the central oxygen mass fraction.
- Research Organization:
- Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA); National Science Foundation (NSF)
- Grant/Contract Number:
- 89233218CNA000001
- OSTI ID:
- 1561074
- Report Number(s):
- LA-UR--18-29196
- Journal Information:
- The Astrophysical Journal. Letters (Online), Journal Name: The Astrophysical Journal. Letters (Online) Journal Issue: 2 Vol. 867; ISSN 2041-8213
- Publisher:
- Institute of Physics (IOP)Copyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
Improved seismic model of the pulsating DB white dwarf KIC 08626021 corrected from the effects of neutrino cooling
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