Discovery of a luminous white dwarf in a young star cluster in the Large Magellanic Cloud

Cambridge; England); Gerard F. Gilmore (Institute of Astronomy; Jarrod Hurley; Melvyn B. Davies; Rebecca A. W. Elson; Steinn Sigurdsson

arxiv: astro-ph/9802117 · v2 · submitted 1998-02-10 · 🌌 astro-ph

Discovery of a luminous white dwarf in a young star cluster in the Large Magellanic Cloud

Rebecca A. W. Elson , Steinn Sigurdsson , Jarrod Hurley , Melvyn B. Davies , Gerard F. Gilmore (Institute of Astronomy , Cambridge , England) This is my paper

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We have identified a candidate 1-2 x 10^5 year old luminous white dwarf in NGC 1818, a young star cluster in the Large Magellanic Cloud. This discovery strongly constrains the boundary mass M_c at which stars stop forming neutron stars and start forming white dwarfs, to M_c > 7.6 Msun.

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Discovery of a luminous white dwarf in a young star cluster in the Large Magellanic Cloud

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