9Msun ultramassive WD stars progenitor

We study the full evolution of a 1.313M_{sun} white dwarf star that descended from a 9M{sun} main-sequence progenitor with an initial metallicity of Z=0.02. Using MESA r24.08.01, we calculate its entire evolution from pre-ZAMS to the WD cooling curve, including both the evolution through 139 thermal pulses and the post-AGB phase. The resulting remnant is an ultramassive H-deficient WD, for which the composition, in mass fraction, is 47.7% ^16^O, 39.7% ^20^Ne, 4.2% ^24^Mg, 3.3% ^23^Na and 0.386% ^12^C -- corresponding to a total mass of 5x10^-3^M{sun} of C --, surrounded by a 1.5x10^-5^M{sun}_ He layer. We also investigate the effects of fully suppressing the TP-SAGB stage by adopting a high mass-loss rate only after the second dredge-up, and find only minor differences in the final mass and composition. In addition, we calculate models with and without phase separation during the WD stage, estimating a cooling delay of only 16Myr. This is the first ultramassive white dwarf sequence for which both the TP-SAGB and post-AGB stages are calculated and, to our knowledge, the most massive WD model from complete evolution for which cooling times and detailed abundance profiles are published.

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Source https://dc.g-vo.org/rr/q/lp/custom/CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/548/G469
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Provenance
Creator Antonini A.S.R.; Romero A.D.; Kepler S.O.
Publisher CDS
Publication Year 2026
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Resource Type Dataset; AstroObjects
Discipline Astrophysics and Astronomy; Galactic and extragalactic Astronomy; Natural Sciences; Observational Astronomy; Physics; Stellar Astronomy