Discovery of a luminous white dwarf in a young star cluster in the Large
  Magellanic Cloud

Boyle B. J.; Colless M.; Gerard F. Gilmore; Jarrod Hurley; Jeffries R. D.; Koester D.; Melvyn B. Davies; Rebecca A. W. Elson; Santiago B.; Schaller G.; Steinn Sigurdsson; van den Bergh S.; Will

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Discovery of a luminous white dwarf in a young star cluster in the Large Magellanic Cloud

Authors: Boyle B. J.
Colless M.
Gerard F. Gilmore
Jarrod Hurley
Jeffries R. D.
Koester D.
Melvyn B. Davies
Rebecca A. W. Elson
Santiago B.
Schaller G.
Steinn Sigurdsson
van den Bergh S.
Will
Publication date: 19 March 1998
Publisher: 'University of Chicago Press'
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We have identified a candidate 1-2 x 10^5 year 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 Msun.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures, greyscale image available by ftp from [email protected]. ApJLetters, accepted 17 March 199

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