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Population synthesis of DA white dwarfs: constraints on soft X-ray spectra evolution

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2015-05-20 v1 Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

Abstract

Extending the population synthesis method to isolated young cooling white dwarfs we are able to confront our model assumptions with observations made in ROSAT All-Sky Survey (Fleming et al., 1996). This allows us to check model parameters such as evolution of spectra and separation of heavy elements in DA WD envelopes. It seems like X-ray spectrum temperature of these objects is given by the formula T_{X-ray} = min(T_eff, T_max). We have obtained DA WD's birth rate and upper limit of the X-ray spectrum temperature: DA birth rate =0.61×1012= 0.61\times 10^{-12} in cubic parsec per year and T_max = 41000 K. These values are in good correspondence with values obtained by other authors (Liebert et al., 2004; Wolff et al., 1996). From this fact we also conclude that our population synthesis method is applicable to the population of close-by isolated cooling white dwarfs as well as to the population of the isolated cooling neutron stars.

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@article{arxiv.1009.6102,
  title  = {Population synthesis of DA white dwarfs: constraints on soft X-ray spectra evolution},
  author = {P. A. Boldin and V. F. Suleimanov and S. I. Blinnikov and S. B. Popov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1009.6102},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

4 pages, 3 figures, conference "European White Dwarf Workshop, 2010", Tubingen, Germany