Trigonometric parallaxes of high velocity halo white dwarf candidates

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volumn 470, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 387-394

  Ducourant, C ^a   Teixeira, R ^a,b   Hambly, N C ^c   Oppenheimer, B R ^d   Hawkins, M R S ^c   Rapaport, M ^a   Modolo, J ^a   Lecampion, J F ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE D ASTROPHYSIQUE DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Galaxy: halo; Galaxy: stellar content; Solar neighbourhood; Stars: distances; White dwarfs

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; DISTANCE MEASUREMENT; ERROR ANALYSIS; KINEMATICS; PHOTOMETRY; TELESCOPES;

DISK OBJECTS; HALO OBJECT; HIGH VELOCITY HALO WHITE DWARF CANDIDATES; KINEMATICALLY SEGREGATE; OPPENHEIMER; PARALLAX MEASUREMENTS; SPACE DENSITY; SPACE VELOCITIES; TRIGONOMETRIC PARALLAXES;

ASTROPHYSICS;

EID: 34547159236     PISSN: 00046361     EISSN: 14320746     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20066876     Document Type: Article

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