no code implementations • 2 Mar 2021 • Paul A. Canton, Kurtis A. Williams, Mukremin Kilic, Michael Bolte
The mean mass of M67 white dwarfs is also consistent with the sharp narrow peak in the local field white dwarf mass distribution, indicating that a majority of recently-formed field white dwarfs come from stars with progenitor masses of $\approx 1. 5 M_{\odot}$.
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics Astrophysics of Galaxies
1 code implementation • 29 Oct 2005 • Hugh C. Harris, Jeffrey A. Munn, Mukremin Kilic, James Liebert, Kurtis A. Williams, Ted von Hippel, Stephen E. Levine, David G. Monet, Daniel J. Eisenstein, S. J. Kleinman, T. S. Metcalfe, Atsuko Nitta, D. E. Winget, J. Brinkmann, Masataka Fukugita, G. R. Knapp, Robert H. Lupton, J. Allyn Smith, Donald P. Schneider
A sample of white dwarfs is selected from SDSS DR3 imaging data using their reduced proper motions, based on improved proper motions from SDSS plus USNO-B combined data.