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

doi:10.1086/311349

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

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We have identified a candidate ∼1-2 × 10⁵ 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 ≳ 7.6 M_⊙.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	L53-L56
Journal	Astrophysical Journal
Volume	499
Issue number	1 PART II
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1086/311349
State	Published - 1998

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Discovery of A luminous white dwarf in A young star cluster in the large magellanic cloud

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