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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 .

  • Provider: AAS Journals

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Candidate white dwarf escapees. Constant mass contours are shown from 0.2 to 1.3 M (top right to bottom left), while age contours run horizontally for 50–800 Myr (top to bottom). Candidates selected for follow-up are labeled WD1–WD3 (green and blue). Orange points have total ages consistent with potential past cluster membership, but because their expected masses are below 1.0 M , they were not followed up. Black points are WDs that have kinematics consistent with having escaped the Hyades but appear to be too old for potential past cluster membership.

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