The White Dwarf Luminosity Function: The Shape of Things to Come

Author(s)/Creator(s)

T. von Hippel
M. Kilic
J. A. Munn
H. C. Harris

Publication Title

14th European Workshop on White Dwarfs, ASP Conference Series

Document Type

Article

Abstract/Description

We describe a new survey for cool white dwarfs that supplements Sloan Digital Sky Survey photometry with USNO proper motions and follow-up spectroscopy. To date we have discovered and spectroscopically confirmed 80 new moderate temperature and cool white dwarfs. We have also found a handful of high-velocity white dwarfs and we expect a sizable fraction of these to be thick disk or possibly halo objects. Our survey is designed to find ≈10⁴ new white dwarfs, although only ≈60 will be among the faintest white dwarfs (M_V ≥ 16), where most of the age-sensitivity resides. We discuss an extension of our survey to V ≈ 22.

Department

Physics and Astronomy

Volume

334

Issue

3

Date

7-1-2005

Citation Information

von Hippel, T.; Kilic, M.; Munn, J. A.; and Harris, H. C., "The White Dwarf Luminosity Function: The Shape of Things to Come" (2005). Faculty Publications. 169.
https://digitalcommons.tamuc.edu/cose-faculty-publications/169