A spectroscopic determination of the mass distribution of DA white dwarfs

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 394, Issue 1, 1992, Pages 228-247

  Bergeron, P ^a,b   Saffer, Rex A ^a,c   Liebert, James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c STScI   (United States)

Author keywords

Stars: fundamental parameters; Stars: luminosity function, mass function; White dwarfs

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000750698     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/171575     Document Type: Article

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