The dearth of massive, helium-rich white dwarfs in young open star clusters

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 618, Issue 2 II, 2005, Pages

  Kalirai, Jasonjot Singh ^a   Richer, Harvey B ^a   Hansen, Brad M S ^b   Reitzel, David ^b   Rich, R Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Open clusters and associations: Individual (NGC 2099); White dwarfs

Indexed keywords

EID: 14544308720     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/427551     Document Type: Article

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