Disk or Halo white dwarfs? Kinematic analysis of high proper motion surveys

Details Disk or Halo white dwarfs? Kinematic analysis of high proper motion surveys Disk or Halo white dwarfs? Kinematic analysis of high proper motion surveys

2004-07-27

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0407557v1

Astron.Astrophys. 428 (2004) 451-458

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

9 pages, 4 figures, accepted in Astronomy & Astrophysics

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361:20041080

We present an alternative method for the kinematic analysis of high proper motion surveys and discuss its application to the survey of Oppenheimer et al. (2001) for the selection of reliable halo white dwarfs (WDs). The local WD space density we estimate is (1-2) 10^{-5}MSun/pc^{3}, which is about an order of magnitude smaller than the value derived in Oppenheimer et al. (2001), and is consistent with the values obtained from recent reanalyses of the same data (e.g. Reid et al. 2001, Reyle et al. 2001, Torres et al. 2002, Salim et al. 2004). Our result, which corresponds to a fraction of 0.1%-0.2% of the local dark matter, does not support the scenario suggested by the microlensing experiments that ancient cool WDs could contribute significantly to the dark halo of the Milky Way.

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