A determination of the local density of white dwarf stars

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 571, Issue 1 I, 2002, Pages 512-518

  Holberg, J B ^a   Oswalt, Terry D ^b,c   Sion, E M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b Florida Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION   (United States)

^d VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Solar neighborhood; Stars: statistics; White dwarfs

Indexed keywords

EID: 0011835501     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/339842     Document Type: Article

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