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Accurate mass-radius ratios for Hyades white dwarfs

We use the ESPRESSO spectrograph at the Very Large Telescope to measure velocity shifts and gravitational redshifts of eight bona fide Hyades white dwarfs, with an accuracy better than 1.5 per cent. By comparing the gravitational redshift measurements of the mass-to-radius ratio with the same ratios...

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Main Authors: Pasquini, Luca (Author) , Pala, A F (Author) , Salaris, M (Author) , Ludwig, Hans-Günter (Author) , Leão, I (Author) , Weiss, A (Author) , de Medeiros, J R (Author)
Format: Article (Journal)
Language:English
Published: July 2023
In: Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Year: 2023, Volume: 522, Issue: 3, Pages: 3710-3718
ISSN:1365-2966
DOI:10.1093/mnras/stad1252
Online Access:Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad1252
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Author Notes:L. Pasquini, A.F. Pala, M. Salaris, H.-G. Ludwig, I. Leão, A. Weiss and J.R. de Medeiros
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Summary:We use the ESPRESSO spectrograph at the Very Large Telescope to measure velocity shifts and gravitational redshifts of eight bona fide Hyades white dwarfs, with an accuracy better than 1.5 per cent. By comparing the gravitational redshift measurements of the mass-to-radius ratio with the same ratios derived by fitting the Gaia photometry with theoretical models, we find an agreement to better than one per cent. It is possible to reproduce the observed white dwarf cooling sequence and the trend of the mass-to-radius ratios as a function of colour using isochrones with ages between 725 and 800 Myr, tuned for the Hyades. One star, EGGR 29, consistently stands out in all diagrams, indicating that it is possibly the remnant of a blue straggler. We also computed mass-to-radius ratios from published gravities and masses, determined from spectroscopy. The comparison between photometric and spectroscopic stellar parameters reveals that spectroscopic effective temperature and gravity are systematically larger than the photometric values. Spectroscopic mass-to-radius ratios disagree with those measured from gravitational redshift, indicating the presence of systematics affecting the white dwarf parameters derived from the spectroscopic analysis.
Item Description:Veröffentlicht: 26. April 2023
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Physical Description:Online Resource
ISSN:1365-2966
DOI:10.1093/mnras/stad1252

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