The Luminosity Function for White Dwarfs in the SuperCOSMOS Sky Survey

Details The Luminosity Function for White Dwarfs in the SuperCOSMOS Sky Survey The Luminosity Function for White Dwarfs in the SuperCOSMOS Sky Survey

2009-03-24

arxiv.org/abs/0903.4065v1

J.Phys.Conf.Ser.172:012001,2009

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

8 pages, 7 figures. To appear in Proceedings of the 16th European Workshop on White Dwarfs, held in Barcelona, June 30th-July

Scientific paper

10.1088/1742-6596/172/1/012001

We present the techniques and early results of our program to measure the luminosity function for White Dwarfs in the SuperCOSMOS Sky Survey. Our survey covers over three quarters of the sky to a mean depth of I~19.2, and finds ~9,500 Galactic disk WD candidates on applying a conservative lower tangential velocity cut of 30kms^-1. Novel techniques introduced in this survey include allowing the lower proper motion limit to vary according to apparent magnitude, fully exploiting the accuracy of proper motion measurements to increase the sample size. Our luminosity function shows good agreement with that measured in similar works. We find a pronounced drop in the local number density of WDs at a M_bol~15.75, and an inflexion in the luminosity function at M_bol~12.

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