The Puzzling White Dwarf Cooling Sequence in NGC6791: A Simple Solution

Details The Puzzling White Dwarf Cooling Sequence in NGC6791: A Simple Solution The Puzzling White Dwarf Cooling Sequence in NGC6791: A Simple Solution

2008-04-10

arxiv.org/abs/0804.1792v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

12 pages, 3 figures. Accepted (April 9th 2008) on ApJ Letter

Scientific paper

10.1086/589151

In this paper we demonstrate that the puzzling bright peak in the luminosity
function of the white dwarf (WD) cooling sequence of NGC6791 can be naturally
accounted for if ~34% of the observed WDs are WD+WD binary systems.

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