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Observations of Cold Degenerate Stars

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Maria Teresa Ruiz
Affiliation:
Departamento de Astronomia, Universidad de Chile
Claudio Anguita
Affiliation:
Departamento de Astronomia, Universidad de Chile
Jose Maza
Affiliation:
Departamento de Astronomia, Universidad de Chile

Abstract

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Spectrophotometry, BVRI CCD photometry and CCD trigonometric parallaxes of the southern DC stars vB3, ER8 and ESO 439-26 are presented. These stars should be considered among the lowest luminosity degenerates known, with absolute visual magnitudes of 15.4, 16.2 and 17.2 respectively.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Springer-Verlag 1989

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