The Evolution of Helium Star Plus Carbon-Oxygen White Dwarf Binary Systems and Implications for Diverse Stellar Transients and Hypervelocity Stars

Abstract

Helium accretion induced explosions in CO white dwarfs (WDs) are considered promising candidates for a number of observed types of stellar transients, including supernovae (SNe) of Type Ia and Type Iax. However, a clear favorite outcome has not yet emerged. We explore the conditions of helium ignition in the white dwarf and the final fates of helium star-WD binaries as function of their initial orbital periods and component masses. We compute 274 model binary systems with the Binary Evolution Code (BEC), where both components are fully resolved. Stellar and orbital evolution is computed simultaneously, including mass and angular momentum transfer, tides, and gravitational wave emission, as well as differential rotation and internal hydrodynamic and magnetic angular momentum transport. We find that helium detonations are expected only in systems with the shortest initial orbital periods, and for initially massive white dwarfs (MWD > 1.0 MSun ) and lower mass donors (Mdonor < 0.8 MSun), with accumulated helium layers mostly exceeding 0.1 MSun. Upon detonation, these systems would release the donor as a hypervelocity pre-WD runaway star, for which we predict the expected range of kinematic and stellar properties. Systems with more massive donors or initial periods exceeding 1.5 h will likely undergo helium deflagrations after accumulating 0.1 - 0.001 MSun of helium. Helium ignition in the white dwarf is avoided in systems with helium donor stars below - 0.6 MSun, and lead to three distinctly different groups of double white dwarf systems. The size of the parameter space open to helium detonation corresponds to only about 3 % of the galactic SN Ia rate, and to 10 % of the SN Iax rate, while the predicted large amounts of helium (>0.1 MSun) in progenitors cannot easily be reconciled with observations of archetypical SN Ia. ...

arXiv commentAccepted for publication in A&A, 28 pages, 16 figures, 6 tables

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