Image Details

Choose export citation format:

Large resolution
Export to PDF

Discovery of a Luminous White Dwarf in a Young Star Cluster in the Large Magellanic Cloud

  • Authors: Rebecca A. W. Elson, Steinn Sigurdsson, Jarrod Hurley, Melvyn B. Davies, and Gerard F. Gilmore

Discovery of Luminous White Dwarf 1998 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 499 L53.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Fig. 1.

Color‐magnitude diagrams for stars in NGC 1818 in the three WFC chips. Magnitudes are in the HST passbands and have been dereddened assuming ﹩E( B-V) =0.05﹩. Stars above ﹩V_{555}\sim 17.5﹩ are saturated. The boxes indicate the range of colors and magnitudes in which we might expect to find white dwarfs. All points in these boxes are spurious detections except the filled circle, which is a candidate young white dwarf. Poisson errors in the ﹩( U_{336}-V_{555}) ﹩ colors are shown. Much of the scatter redward from the main sequence at ﹩V_{555}< 21﹩ is caused by the presence of binary stars.

Other Images in This Article
Copyright and Terms & Conditions