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The Luminosity Function and Evolution of Cool White Dwarfs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

James Liebert
James Liebert*
Affiliation:
Steward Observatory, University of Arizona

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In the review, I attempt to focus on what we have recently learned from the observations about three general topics of great theoretical interest:

  1. 1. evidence for evolution of white dwarf surface abundances,

  2. 2. the special problems of determining atmospheric parameters and abundances at the cool end of the sequence, and

  3. 3. evidence for a peaking of the white dwarf luminosity function at Mbol = + 15 ± 1, with possible implications for cooling theory and the history of galactic star formation.

Type
Colloquium Session III
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 53: White Dwarfs and Variable Degenerate Stars , August 1979 , pp. 146 - 164
Copyright
Copyright © The University of Rochester 1979

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