On The Effect Of Pulsar Evaporation On The Cooling Of White Dwarfs
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY(2021)
摘要
Evolution of a large part of low-mass X-ray binaries (I,MXBs) leads to the formation of rapidly rotating pulsars with a helium white dwarf (He WD) companion. Observations indicate that some He WDs in binary pulsar systems are ultracool (with the effective temperatures T-eff less than or similar to 4000 K). It is hard to cool down a He WD to such low temperatures within the Hubble time because a thick hydrogen envelope was left behind around the He core after the mass transfer process. A possible mechanism that can accelerate the WD cooling is the evaporative wind mass-loss from the He WD driven by the high-energy radiation from the recycled pulsar. In this paper, we evolve a large number of LMXBs and investigate the influence of the pulsar's high-energy radiation on the WD cooling with different input parameters, including the neutron star's spin-down luminosity, the evaporation efficiency, and the metallicity of the companion star. By comparing our results with observations we note that, for relatively hot He WDs (with T-eff > 7000 K), standard WD cooling without evaporation considered is able to reproduce their temperatures, while evaporation is probably required for the He WDs with relatively low temperatures (T-eff < 5000 K).
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stars: evolution, stars: neutron, white dwarfs, binaries: close
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