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The optically thick rotating magnetic wind from a massive white dwarf merger product -- II. axisymmetric magnetohydrodynamic simulations

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2023-11-01 v1

Abstract

We numerically construct a series of axisymmetric rotating magnetic wind solutions, aiming at exploring the observation properties of massive white dwarf (WD) merger remnants with a strong magnetic field, a fast spin, and an intense mass loss, as inferred for WD J005311. We investigate the magnetospheric structure and the resultant spin-down torque exerted to the merger remnant with respect to the surface magnetic flux Φ\Phi_*, spin angular frequency Ω\Omega_* and the mass loss rate M˙\dot M. We confirm that the wind properties for σΦ2Ω2/M˙vesc31\sigma \equiv \Phi^2_* \Omega_*^2/\dot M v_\mathrm{esc}^3 \gtrsim 1 significantly deviate from those of the spherical Parker wind, where vescv_\mathrm{esc} is the escape velocity at stellar surface. For such a rotating magnetic wind sequence, we find: (i) quasi-periodic mass eruption triggered by magnetic reconnection along with the equatorial plane (ii) a scaling relation for the spin-down torque T(1/2)×M˙ΩR2σ1/4T \approx (1/2) \times \dot{M} \Omega_* R^2_* \sigma^{1/4}. We apply our results to discuss the spin-down evolution and wind anisotropy of massive WD merger remnants, the latter of which could be probed by a successive observation of WD J005311 using Chandra.

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@article{arxiv.2310.20126,
  title  = {The optically thick rotating magnetic wind from a massive white dwarf merger product -- II. axisymmetric magnetohydrodynamic simulations},
  author = {Yici Zhong and Kazumi Kashiyama and Shinsuke Takasao and Toshikazu Shigeyama and Kotaro Fujisawa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.20126},
  year   = {2023}
}

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15 pages, 6 figures, comments are welcome