The White Dwarf Luminosity Function: The Shape of Things to Come

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dc.creatorvon Hippel, T.
dc.creatorKilic, M.
dc.creatorMunn, J.
dc.creatorHarris, H.
dc.creatorWilliams, K.
dc.creatorLiebert, J.
dc.creatorWinget, D. E.
dc.creatorMetcalfe, T. S.
dc.creatorShipman, H.
dc.creatorWood, M. A.
dc.creatorOswalt, T.
dc.creatorKleinman, S.
dc.creatorKleinman, A. Nitta
dc.date2004-10-30
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T02:15:36Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T02:15:36Z
dc.descriptionWe describe a new survey for cool white dwarfs that supplements Sloan Digital Sky Survey photometry with USNO proper motions and follow-up spectroscopy. To date we have discovered and spectroscopically confirmed 80 new moderate temperature and cool white dwarfs. We have also found a handful of high-velocity white dwarfs and we expect a sizable fraction of these to be thick disk or possibly halo objects. Our survey is designed to find ~10,000 new white dwarfs, although only ~60 will be among the faintest white dwarfs (M(V) >= 16), where most of the age-sensitivity resides. We discuss an extension of our survey to V ~ 22.
dc.description5 pages, 3 figures, 14th European Workshop on White Dwarfs, to be published by ASP
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0411008
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0411008
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/8468
dc.subjectAstrophysics
dc.titleThe White Dwarf Luminosity Function: The Shape of Things to Come
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