Investigating the Observational Progenitor Mass Gap in the White Dwarf Initial-Final Mass Relation. I. Cluster Census and Characterization of the First White Dwarfs in the Gap

arXiv:2607.24941 · astro-ph.SR, astro-ph.GA · Submitted 2026-07-27 · Read on arXiv

David R. Miller, Jeremy Heyl, Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay

astro-ph.SR, astro-ph.GA

Submitted: 2026-07-27

Comments: 11 pages, 9 figures, 3 tables

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Metallicity — 6× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Core — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Consistency — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Abundance — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Calibration — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• European Space Agency — 1× in this paper
• Homogeneity — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Population Synthesis — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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