White Dwarfs and the Ages of Open Clusters

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Jan 2009

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009aas...21333308j&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #213, #333.08; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 41, p.394

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Open clusters provide the ideal environment for the calibration of the ages determined from main sequence evolution theory (via cluster isochrones) and those determined from white dwarf cooling theory. Additionally, it provides the unique opportunity to directly compare and refine our understanding of both theories. Because the coolest cluster white dwarfs are faint, they require observations made with large telescopes or the Hubble Space Telescope. We present new deep observations of several clusters. For our analysis, we employ a new technique Bayesian statistical analysis.

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