The formation of DA white dwarfs with thin hydrogen envelopes.

We study the formation and evolution of DA white dwarfs, the progenitors of which have experienced a late thermal pulse (LTP) shortly after the departure from the thermally pulsing AGB. To this end, we compute the complete evolution of an initially 2.7 M star all the way from the zero-age main seque...

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Autores: Althaus, Leandro Gabriel, Miller Bertolami, Marcelo Miguel, Corsico, Alejandro Hugo, García Berro, Enrique, Gil Pons, P.
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2005
País:Argentina
Recursos:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
Repositorio:CONICET Digital (CONICET)
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/38393
Acesso em linha:http://hdl.handle.net/11336/38393
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Evolution of stars
Abundances
AGB stars
Interior stars
White dwarfs
Oscillations
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Resumo:We study the formation and evolution of DA white dwarfs, the progenitors of which have experienced a late thermal pulse (LTP) shortly after the departure from the thermally pulsing AGB. To this end, we compute the complete evolution of an initially 2.7 M star all the way from the zero-age main sequence to the white dwarf stage. We find that most of the original H-rich material of the post-AGB remnant is burnt during the post-LTP evolution, with the result that, at entering its white dwarf cooling track, the remaining H envelope becomes 10−6 M in agreement with asteroseismological inferences for some ZZ Ceti stars.