Issue |
A&A
Volume 642, October 2020
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Article Number | A71 | |
Number of page(s) | 10 | |
Section | Stellar structure and evolution | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202038049 | |
Published online | 06 October 2020 |
Rapid evolution of [WC] stars in the Magellanic Clouds⋆
Space Radio-Diagnostics Research Centre, University of Warmia and Mazury, ul.Oczapowskiego 2, 10-719 Olsztyn, Poland
e-mail: marcin.hajduk@uwm.edu.pl
Received:
30
March
2020
Accepted:
30
June
2020
We obtained new spectra of fourteen Magellanic Cloud planetary nebulae with the South African Large Telescope to determine heating rates of their central stars and to verify evolutionary models of post-asymptotic giant branch stars. We compared new spectra with observations made in previous years. Five planetary nebulae showed an increase in excitation over time. Four of their central stars exhibit [WC] features in their spectra, including three new detections. This raises the total number of [WC] central stars of PNe in the Magellanic Clouds to ten. We compared determined heating rates of the four [WC] central stars with the He-burning post-asymptotic giant branch evolutionary tracks and the remaining star with the H-burning tracks. Determined heating rates are consistent with the evolutionary models for both H and He-burning post-asymptotic giant branch stars. The central stars of the PNe that show the fastest increase of excitation are also the most luminous in the sample. This indicates that [WC] central stars in the Magellanic Clouds evolve faster than H-burning central stars, and they originate from more massive progenitors.
Key words: stars: AGB and post-AGB / planetary nebulae: general / stars: evolution / Magellanic Clouds
The reduced spectra are only available at the CDS via anonymous ftp to cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr (130.79.128.5) or via http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/A+A/642/A71
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