• DOI:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2006.11388.x
Corpus ID: 10892288

White dwarf mass distribution in the SDSS

@article{Kepler2006WhiteDM,
  title={White dwarf mass distribution in the SDSS},
  author={S. O. Kepler and S. Kleinman and A. Nitta and D. Koester and B. G. Castanheira and O. Giovannini and A. Costa and L. Althaus},
  journal={Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society},
  year={2006},
  volume={375},
  pages={1315-1324}
}

S. O. Kepler, S. Kleinman, +5 authors L. Althaus

Published 2006

Physics

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

We determined masses for the 7167 DA and 507 DB white dwarf stars classified as single and non-magnetic in Data Release 4 of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). We obtained revised T eff and log g determinations for the most massive stars by fitting the SDSS optical spectra with a synthetic spectra grid derived from model atmospheres extending to log g = 10.0. We also calculate radii from evolutionary models and create volume-corrected mass distributions for our DA and DB samples. The mean… CONTINUE READING

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