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The ultramassive white dwarfs of the Alpha Persei cluster

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Miller, David R., Caiazzo, Ilaria, Heyl, Jeremy, Richer, Harvey B. and Tremblay, Pier-Emmanuel (2022) The ultramassive white dwarfs of the Alpha Persei cluster. The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 926 (2). L24. doi:10.3847/2041-8213/ac50a5

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Abstract

We searched through the entire Gaia EDR3 candidate white dwarf catalog for stars with proper motions and positions that are consistent with them having escaped from the Alpha Persei cluster within the past 81 Myr, the age of the cluster. In this search we found five candidate white dwarf escapees from Alpha Persei and obtained spectra for all of them. We confirm that three are massive white dwarfs sufficiently young to have originated in the cluster. All these are more massive than any white dwarf previously associated with a cluster using Gaia astrometry, and possess some of the most massive progenitors. In particular, the white dwarf Gaia EDR3 4395978097863572, which lies within 25 pc of the cluster center, has a mass of about 1.20 solar masses and evolved from an 8.5 solar-mass star, pushing the upper limit for white dwarf formation from a single massive star, while still leaving a substantial gap between the resulting white dwarf mass and the Chandrasekhar mass.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: Q Science > QB Astronomy
Divisions: Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Physics
SWORD Depositor: Library Publications Router
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): White dwarf stars, Stars -- Evolution, Stars -- Clusters
Journal or Publication Title: The Astrophysical Journal Letters
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing, Inc.
ISSN: 2041-8205
Official Date: 21 February 2022
Dates:
DateEvent
21 February 2022Published
28 January 2022Accepted
Volume: 926
Number: 2
Article Number: L24
DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/ac50a5
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Open Access
RIOXX Funder/Project Grant:
Project/Grant IDRIOXX Funder NameFunder ID
UNSPECIFIED[NSERC] Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canadahttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000038
UNSPECIFIEDWalter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physicshttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100014551

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