Praesepe and the seven white dwarfs

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2004-10-22

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0410529v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.355:L39-L43,2004

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Accepted for publication in MNRAS

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2004.08522.x

We report the discovery, from our preliminary survey of the Praesepe open cluster, of two new spectroscopically confirmed white dwarf candidate members. We derive the effective temperatures and surface gravities of WD0837+218 and WD0837+185 (LB5959) to be 17845 +555 -565K and log g = 8.48 +0.07 -0.08 and 14170 +1380 -1590K and log g =8.46 +0.15 -0.16 respectively. Using theoretical evolutionary tracks we estimate the masses and cooling ages of these white dwarfs to be 0.92+/-0.05Msun and 280 +40 -30Myrs and 0.90+/-0.10Msun and 500 +170 -100Myrs respectively. Adopting reasonable values for the cluster age we infer the progenitors of WD0837+218 and WD0837+185 had masses of 2.6 < M < Mcrit Msun and 2.4 < M < 3.5Msun respectively, where Mcrit is the maximum mass of a white dwarf progenitor. We briefly discuss these findings in the context of the observed deficit of white dwarfs in open clusters and the initial mass-final-mass relationship.

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