to appear in ApJL
The White Dwarf Deficit in Open Clusters: Dynamical Processes
arXiv:astro-ph/0308261v1 14 Aug 2003
M. Fellhauer, D.N.C. Lin, M. Bolte UCO/Lick-Observatory, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064 mike, lin, bolte @ucolick.org S.J. Aarseth Institute of Astronomy, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0HA, UK
[email protected] K.A. Williams Steward Observatory, 933 N. Cherry Av., Tucson, AZ 85721
[email protected] ABSTRACT In Galactic open clusters, there is an apparent paucity of white dwarfs compared to the number expected assuming a reasonable initial mass function and that main-sequence stars with initial mass