White dwarf cosmochronometry. I. Monte Carlo simulations of proper-motionand magnitude-limited samples using schmidts 1/Vmax estimator

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 497, Issue 2 PART I, 1998, Pages 870-882

  Wood, Matt A ^a   Oswalt, Terry D ^a  

^a Florida Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Methods: Statistical; Stars: Luminosity function, mass function; Stars: Statistics white dwarfs

Indexed keywords

EID: 4244083439     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/305474     Document Type: Article

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