Gaia - A White Dwarf Discovery Machine

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2006-10-30

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0610879v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

6 pages, proceedings of the 15 European Workshop on White Dwarfs, Leicester, UK, August 7-11, 2006

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The Gaia data will help to improve the construction of a luminosity function for the disk and the halo and will provide a more accurate determination of the age of our solar neighborhood. Moreover, reliable stellar dynamical investigations of the disk and halo components will be possible. For the first time it will be possible to test the mass-radius relation of white dwarfs in great detail. Moreover, more accurate masses of magnetic and cool white dwarfs can be expected. Gaia is also expected to discover many new pulsating white dwarfs. The Gaia measurements can also complement the measurements of gravitational waves from close white dwarf binaries with Lisa.

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