Discovery of A luminous white dwarf in A young star cluster in the large magellanic cloud
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posted on 2024-07-11, 14:52 authored by Rebecca A.W. Elson, Steinn Sigurdsson, Jarrod HurleyJarrod Hurley, Melvyn B. Davies, Gerard F. GilmoreWe 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..
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Astrophysical JournalVolume
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