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An Extremely Massive White Dwarf Escaped from the Hyades Star Cluster

  • Authors: David R. Miller, Ilaria Caiazzo, Jeremy Heyl, Harvey B. Richer, Kareem El-Badry, Antonio C. Rodriguez, Zachary P. Vanderbosch, Jan van Roestel

David R. Miller et al 2023 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 956 .

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Caption: Figure 1.

Hyades Gaia EDR3 color–magnitude diagram. Left: Current cluster members together with Parsec (Bressan et al. 2012) isochrones in purple (600–800 Myr, left to right) for a slightly metal-rich cluster (z = 0.024) with no reddening. Open circles are known variable or double stars (Perryman et al. 1998); these were not considered in deciding the age of the cluster, which we estimate at 675 ± 72 Myr. Carbon–oxygen WD cooling sequences (Bédard et al. 2020) shown in red are for 0.6–0.8 and 1.3 M (right to left). Right: The same but for stars kinematically consistent with having escaped the Hyades cluster. The candidate ultramassive WD1 is plotted in green, and WD2 and WD3 are in blue.

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