Catalogue and luminosity function of white dwarfs detected in the ROSAT all-sky survey

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volumn 316, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 147-154

  Fleming, T A ^a,b   Snowden, S L ^a,c   Pfeffermann, E ^a   Briel, U ^a   Greiner, J ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR EXTRATERRESTRISCHE PHYSIK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Stars: statistics; Stars: white dwarfs; Surveys; X rays: stars

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001296891     PISSN: 00046361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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