From Stars to Compact Objects: The Initial-Final Mass Relation
Abstract
We lack a predictive model for how a star of a given mass explodes and what kind of remnant it leaves behind (i.e. the initial-final mass relation, IFMR). Astrometric gravitational lensing offers a new way to find and weigh compact objects and place the first constraints on the IFMR, compact object multiplicity, and kick velocities.
- Publication:
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Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society
- Pub Date:
- May 2019
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1904.01773
- Bibcode:
- 2019BAAS...51c.365L
- Keywords:
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- Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics;
- Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies;
- Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- Astro2020 Science White Paper