Low-mass, helium-enriched PG1159 stars: a possible evolutionary origin and the implications for their pulsational stability properties

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2007-03-13

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0703339v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

7 pages, 5 figures. To be published in Astronomy and Astrophysics (2007)

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361:20066887

We examine a recently-proposed evolutionary scenario that could explain the existence of the low-mass, helium-enriched PG1159 stars. We assess the overstability of pulsation g-modes of stellar models as evolution proceeds along the PG1159 domain. Stellar models are extracted from the full evolution of a 1 Mo model star that experiences its first thermal pulse as a late thermal pulse (LTP) after leaving the AGB. The evolutionary stages corresponding to the born-again episode and the subsequent helium sub-flashes are taken into account in detail. Under reasonable mass-loss rate assumptions, the evolutionary scenario reproduces the high helium abundances observed in some PG1159 stars. We find that, despite the high helium abundance in the driving layers, there exists a narrow region in the log g-log Teff diagram for which the helium-enriched PG1159 sequence exhibits unstable pulsation modes with periods in the range 500 to 1600 s. In particular, the nonpulsating helium-enriched PG1159 star, MCT 0130-1937, is located outside the theoretical instability domain. Our results suggest that MCT 0130-1937 is a real non-pulsating star and that the lack of pulsations should not be attributed to unfavorable geometry. Our study hints at a consistent picture between the evolutionary scenario that could explain the existence of helium-enriched PG1159 stars and the nonvariable nature of MCT 0130-1937. We also present theoretical support for the unusually high helium abundance observed in the nonpulsating PG1159 star HS 1517+7403. We suggest that HS 1517+7403 could be a transition object linking the low-mass helium-rich O(He) stars with the helium-enriched PG1159 stars via the evolutionary connection K1-27-->HS 1517+7403-->MCT 0130-1937.

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