The empirical white dwarf mass-radius relation and its possible improvement by HIPPARCOS

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volumn 311, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 852-857

  Schmidt, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Stars: distances; Stars: fundamental parameters; Stars: white dwarfs

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002035882     PISSN: 00046361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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