The open-cluster initial-final mass relationship and the high-mass tail of the white dwarf distribution

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Ferrario, Lilia
Wickramasinghe, Dayal
Liebert, James
Williams, Kurtis

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Blackwell Publishing Ltd

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Recent studies of white dwarfs in open clusters have provided new constraints on the initial-final mass relationship (IFMR) for main-sequence stars with masses in the range 2.5-6.5 M⊙. We re-evaluate the ensemble of data that determines the IFMR and arg

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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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2037-12-31