On the Nature of the Peculiar Hot Star in the Young LMC Cluster NGC1818

Details On the Nature of the Peculiar Hot Star in the Young LMC Cluster NGC1818 On the Nature of the Peculiar Hot Star in the Young LMC Cluster NGC1818

1999-01-21

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9901312v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

5 pages, no figures, Ap J Letters in press

Scientific paper

10.1086/311938

The blue star reported in the field of the young LMC cluster NGC1818 by Elson et al. (1998) has the wrong luminosity and radius to be a "luminous white dwarf" member of the cluster. In addition, unless the effective temperature quoted by the authors is a drastic underestimate, the luminosity is much too low for it to be a cluster member in the post-AGB phase. Other possibilities, including that of binary evolution, are briefly discussed. However, the implication that the massive main sequence turnoff stars in this cluster can produce white dwarfs (instead of neutron stars) from single-star evolution needs to be reconsidered.

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