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Stellar Archaeology with Gaia: The Galactic White Dwarf Population
conference contribution
posted on 2017-06-07, 14:32 authored by B. Gaensicke, P.-E. Tremblay, M. Barstow, G. Bono, Matthew Roger Burleigh, S. Casewell, V. Dhillon, J. Farihi, E. Garcia-Berro, S. Geier, N. Gentile-Fusillo, J. J. Hermes, M. Hollands, A. Istrate, S. Jordan, C. Knigge, C. Manser, T. Marsh, G. Nelemans, A. Pala, R. Raddi, T. Tauris, O. Toloza, D. Veras, K. Werner, D. WilsonGaia will identify several 1e5 white dwarfs, most of which will be in the solar neighborhood at distances of a few hundred parsecs. Ground-based optical follow-up spectroscopy of this sample of stellar remnants is essential to unlock the enormous scientific potential it holds for our understanding of stellar evolution, and the Galactic formation history of both stars and planets.
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Citation
Multi-Object Spectroscopy in the Next Decade: Big Questions, Large Surveys, and Wide Fields, 2016, 507, pp. 159-164Author affiliation
/Organisation/COLLEGE OF SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING/Department of Physics and AstronomySource
'Multi-Object Spectroscopy in the Next Decade' conference in La Palma, March 2015Version
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