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

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

1998-02-10

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9802117v2

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

4 pages, 2 figures, greyscale image available by ftp from elson@ast.cam.ac.uk. ApJLetters, accepted 17 March 1998

Scientific paper

10.1086/311349

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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