The white dwarf luminosity function from sloan digital sky survey imaging data

Astronomical Journal

Volumn 131, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 571-581

  Harris, Hugh C ^a   Munn, Jeffrey A ^a   Kilic, Mukremin ^b   Liebert, James ^c   Williams, Kurtis A ^c   Von Hippel, Ted ^b   Levine, Stephen E ^a   Monet, David G ^a   Eisenstein, Daniel J ^c   Kleinman, S J ^d   Metcalfe, T S ^e   Nitta, Atsuko ^d   Winget, D E ^b   Brinkmann, J ^d   Fukugita, Masataka ^f   Knapp, G R ^g   Lupton, Robert H ^g   Smith, J Allyn ^h,i   Schneider, Donald P ^j  

^a FLAGSTAFF STATION   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^d APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^e HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^g PRINCETON UNIVERSITY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^h LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^j PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Author keywords

Astrometry; Solar neighborhood; Stars: kinematics; Stars: luminosity function, mass function; White dwarfs

Indexed keywords

EID: 31544442208     PISSN: 00046256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/497966     Document Type: Article

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