58 9 v 1 1 8 N ov 2 00 6 Which Stars Form Black Holes and Neutron Stars ?

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Author	Muno, Michael P.
Copyright Year	2006
Abstract	I describe the current state of our knowledge of the mapping b etween the initial masses of stars and the compact objects — particularly neutron star s and black holes — that they produce. Most of that knowledge is theoretical in nature, and relies o n uncertain assumptions about mass loss through winds, binary mass transfer, and the amount of m ass ejected during a supernovae. Observational constraints on the initial masses of stars th t produce neutron stars and black holes is scarce. They fall into three general categories: (1) models of the stars that produced the supernova remnants associated with known compact objects, (2) scenar ios through with high mass X-ray binaries were produced, and (3) associations between compa ct objects and coeval clusters of stars for which the minimum masses of stars that have undergone sup ernovae are known. I focus on the last category as the most promising in the near term. I descri be three highly-magnetized neutron stars that have been associated with progenitors that had in itial masses of >30M⊙, and evaluate the prospects of finding further associations between star clus ters and compact objects.
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