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| Paper: |
Untangling the White Dwarf Luminosity Functions |
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509, 20th European Workshop on White Dwarfs (EuroWD16) |
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25 |
| Authors: |
Lam, M. C. |
| Abstract: |
The inversion of the white dwarf luminosity function provides an independent way to prove the past star formation history of the Milky Way independent of any cosmological models. In Rowell & Hambly (2011), the effective volume method uses the average properties of all the objects in a given bin, so a significant amount of information is lost in the early stage of the analysis. In this work, I explore the possibility of assigning objects individually in a probabilistic way using the generalised Schmidt density estimator (1/Vmax). |
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