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The final conclusion regarding the ultimate fate of stars less massive than about 9 M\(_{\odot }\) is summarized in Figure 14.1. It would be interesting to know what fraction of stars end up as white dwarfs.
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Srinivasan, G. (2014). Diamonds in the Sky. In: Life and Death of the Stars. Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-45384-7_14
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