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Title

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

Author(s)

Elson, Rebecca A. W.;  Sigurdsson, Steinn;  Hurley, Jarrod R.;  Davies, Melvyn B.;  Gilmore, Gerard F.

Abstract

We have identified a candidate similar to 1-2 x 10(5) Yr 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 greater than or similar to 7.6 M..

Publication type

Journal article

Source

Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 499, no. 1 (May 1998), p. L53-L56

Publication year

1998

Keyword(s)

Globular clusters;  NGC 1818;  White dwarfs

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

ISSN

0004-637X

Publisher URL

http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/311349

Copyright

Copyright © 1998. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved. Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher.

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