Free Access

Fig. 2.

image

Initial-final mass relations (IFMRs) for single WDs. The solid white line indicates the IFMR for stars that evolve as isolated single stars. The colours represent the IFMR for single WDs that form as a result of a merger event in a binary at some point during the evolution of the progenitor system. More precisely, the colours logarithmically indicate the 2D probability density function (PDF) obtained from our data through the kernel density estimation method. We plot the initial mass of the initially more massive star against the mass of the single WD formed after the merger event. In this figure, we assume all stars are formed simultaneously 10 Gyr ago, and do not include observational selection effects. The dashed white line is a linear fit (MWD = 0.128 Minit + 0.435) to the binary merger IFMR, obtained through linear regression of all (MWD, Minit) points in our data.

Current usage metrics show cumulative count of Article Views (full-text article views including HTML views, PDF and ePub downloads, according to the available data) and Abstracts Views on Vision4Press platform.

Data correspond to usage on the plateform after 2015. The current usage metrics is available 48-96 hours after online publication and is updated daily on week days.

Initial download of the metrics may take a while.