Submitting Campus
Daytona Beach
Department
Physical Sciences
Document Type
Article
Publication/Presentation Date
Fall 10-30-2004
Abstract/Description
We describe a new survey for cool white dwarfs that supplements Sloan Digital Sky Survey photometry with USNO proper motions and followup 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 (MV 16), where most of the age-sensitivity resides. We discuss an extension of our survey to V 22.
Publication Title
ASP Conference Series, Vol. 999, 2005
Sponsorship/Conference/Institution
14th European Workshop on White Dwarfs
Location
Kiel, Germany
Number of Pages
5
Scholarly Commons Citation
von Hippel, T., Kilie, M., Munn, J., Williams, K., Libert, J., Winget, D. E., Metcalfe, T. S., & Et al. (2004). The White Dwarf Luminosity Function: The Shape of Things to Come. ASP Conference Series, Vol. 999, 2005, (). Retrieved from https://commons.erau.edu/publication/1172
Additional Information
Dr. von Hippel was not affiliated with Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University at the time this paper was published.