The galactic population of white dwarfs

@inproceedings{Napiwotzki2009TheGP,
  title={The galactic population of white dwarfs},
  author={Ralf Napiwotzki},
  year={2009}
}
Original paper can be found at: http://www.iop.org/EJ/conf DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/172/1/012004 [16th European White Dwarfs Workshop] 
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