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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
卷 807, 期 1, 页码 -出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/807/1/90
关键词
open clusters and associations: individual (NGC 2099, M37, The Hyades, Praesepe); stars: evolution; stars: mass-loss; white dwarfs
资金
- National Science Foundation (NSF) [AST-1211719]
- Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
- NASA through Hubble Fellowship grant - Space Telescope Science Institute [HF-51329.01]
- NASA [NAS5-26555]
We have expanded the sample of observed white dwarfs in the rich open cluster NGC 2099 (M37) with the Keck Low Resolution Imaging Spectrometer. Of 20 white dwarf candidates, the spectroscopy shows 19 to be true white dwarfs, with 14 of these having high signal-to-noise ratio. We find 11 of these 14 to be consistent with singly evolved cluster members. They span a mass range of similar to 0.7-0.95 M-circle dot, excluding a low-mass outlier, corresponding to progenitor masses of similar to 3-4 M-circle dot. This region of the initial-final mass relation (IFMR) has large scatter and a slope that remains to be precisely determined. With this large sample of white dwarfs that belong to a single age and metallicity population, we find an IFMR of (0.171 +/- 0.057) M-initial + 0.219 +/- 0.187M(circle dot), significantly steeper than the linear relation adopted over the full observed white dwarf mass range in many previous studies. Comparison of this new relation from the solar-metallicity NGC 2099 to 18 white dwarfs in the metal-rich Hyades and Praesepe shows that their IFMR also has a consistently steep slope. This strong consistency also suggests that there is no significant metallicity dependence of the IFMR at this mass and metallicity range. As a result, the IFMR can be more reliably determined with this broad sample of 29 total white dwarfs, giving M-final = (0.163 +/- 0.022) M-initial + 0.238 +/- 0.071 M-circle dot from Minitial of 3-4 M-circle dot. A steep IFMR in this mass range indicates that the full IFMR is nonlinear.
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