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Title: | On the consequences of a new initial-final mass relation for low and intermediate mass stars and the birthrate of planetary nebulae |
Authors: | Mallik, D. C. V |
Keywords: | Planetary Nebulae Stellar Evolution Stellar Mass Main Sequence Stars Mass Ratios |
Issue Date: | 1985 |
Publisher: | Gordon and Breach Science Publishers |
Citation: | Astrophysical Letters, Vol. 24, No. 4, pp. 173 - 182 |
Abstract: | Recent work on the initial-final mass relation for low-and intermediate-mass stars and the mass distribution of the nuclei of planetary nebulae sets a lower limit on the initial mass of progenitors of PN which is substantially higher than 1 M_sun;. With such a lower limit the theoretical estimates of the deathrate of main-sequence stars would be consistent with the observed PN birthrate only if the distance scale due to Cudworth (1974) were used. A raised lower limit on the progenitor mass also helps explain the low mean distances of planetary nebulae from the galactic plane and the paucity of PN in Population II systems. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2248/4866 |
ISSN: | 0004-6388 |
Appears in Collections: | IIAP Publications |
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