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Query: Stellar Evolution in NGC 6791: Mass Loss on the Red Giant Branch and the
  Formation of Low Mass White Dwarfs   We present the first detailed study of the properties (temperatures,
gravities, and masses) of the NGC 6791 white dwarf population. This unique
stellar system is both one of the oldest (8 Gyr) and most metal-rich ([Fe/H] ~
0.4) open clusters in our Galaxy, and has a color-magnitude diagram (CMD) that
exhibits both a red giant clump and a much hotter extreme horizontal branch.
Fitting the Balmer lines of the white dwarfs in the cluster, using Keck/LRIS
spectra, suggests that most of these stars are undermassive, <M> = 0.43 +/-
0.06 Msun, and therefore could not have formed from canonical stellar evolution
involving the helium flash at the tip of the red giant branch. We show that at
least 40% of NGC 6791's evolved stars must have lost enough mass on the red
giant branch to avoid the flash, and therefore did not convert helium into
carbon-oxygen in their core. Such increased mass loss in the evolution of the
progenitors of these stars is consistent with the presence of the extreme
horizontal branch in the CMD. This unique stellar evolutionary channel also
naturally explains the recent finding of a very young age (2.4 Gyr) for NGC
6791 from white dwarf cooling theory; helium core white dwarfs in this cluster
will cool ~3 times slower than carbon-oxygen core stars and therefore the
corrected white dwarf cooling age is in fact ~7 Gyr, consistent with the well
measured main-sequence turnoff age. These results provide direct empirical
evidence that mass loss is much more efficient in high metallicity environments
and therefore may be critical in interpreting the ultraviolet upturn in
elliptical galaxies.

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