Spitzer space telescope evidence in ngc 6791: no super mass loss at supersolar metallicity to explain helium white dwarfs?

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 680, Issue 1 PART 2, 2008, Pages

  Van Loon, Jacco T H ^a   Boyer, Martha L ^b   Mcdonald, Iain ^a  

^a KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

Infrared: Stars; Open clusters and associations: Individual (ngc 6791); Stars: Evolution; Stars: Luminosity function, mass function; Stars: Mass loss; Stars: Population II

Indexed keywords

EID: 59049089113     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/589711     Document Type: Article

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