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Origin and Distributions of White Dwarfs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

W. Weidemann
W. Weidemann*
Affiliation:
Institut f. Theor. Physik und Sternwarte, Universität Kiel, Germany (W)

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Today there is no doubt that white dwarfs represent the most common final stage of stellar evolution. Considerable progress has been made during the last decade in our understanding of their origin and distributions. This is reflected by the fact that it is now possible to predict – from basic theory of stellar evolution and stellar atmospheres – the existence of cooling degenerate stars with nearly the observed properties, i.e. a sequence of white dwarfs which fill in their majority a narrow strip in both two-color and color-magnitude diagrams. With other words: the empirically determined surface gravity and radius distributions – which correspond via the mass-radius relation to mass distributions – can now be basically understood within the currently adopted general scheme of stellar evolution with mass loss.

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Colloquium Session IV
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 53: White Dwarfs and Variable Degenerate Stars , August 1979 , pp. 206 - 222
Copyright
Copyright © The University of Rochester 1979

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