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We establish new constraints on the intermediate-mass range of the initial-final mass relation by studying white dwarfs in four young star clusters, and apply the results to study the evolution of stars on the thermally pulsing asymptotic giant branch (TP-AGB). We show that the stellar core mass on the AGB grows rapidly from 10% to 30% for stars with $M_{\rm initial}$ = 1.6 to 2.0 $M_\odot$. At larger masses, the core-mass growth decreases steadily to $\sim$10% at $M_{\rm initial}$ = 3.4 $M_\odot$. These observations are in excellent agreement with predictions from the latest TP-AGB evolutionary models in Marigo et al. (2013). We also compare to models with varying efficiencies of the third dredge-up and mass loss, and demonstrate that the process governing the growth of the core is largely the stellar wind, while the third dredge-up plays a secondary, but non-negligible role. Based on the new white dwarf measurements, we perform an exploratory calibration of the most popular mass-loss prescriptions in the literature. Finally, we estimate the lifetime and the integrated luminosity of stars on the TP-AGB to peak at $t$ $\sim$ 3 Myr and $E$ = 1.2 $\times$ 10$^{10}$ $L_\odot$ yr for $

Author

Kalirai, Jason S.; Marigo, Paola; Tremblay, Pier-Emmanuel

Published

2013

Language

EN