The open-cluster initial-final mass relationship and the high-mass tail of the white dwarf distribution

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 361, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1131-1135

  Ferrario, Lilia ^a   Wickramasinghe, Dayal ^a   Liebert, James ^b   Williams, Kurtis A ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Open clusters and associations: general; Stars: evolution; Stars: white dwarfs

Indexed keywords

BINARY STAR; MAIN SEQUENCE STARS; MASS DISTRIBUTION; MASS RELATIONSHIPS; OPEN CLUSTERS; OPEN CLUSTERS AND ASSOCIATIONS: GENERAL; POPULATION SYNTHESIS; STAR: EVOLUTION; STARS: WHITE DWARF;

WHITE DWARFS;

EID: 23944494106     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2005.09244.x     Document Type: Review

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