How Degenerate Stars Came to be Known as White Dwarfs

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Dec 2005

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2005aas...20720501h&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society Meeting 207, #205.01; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 37, p.1503

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Sirius B is widely regarded as the first white dwarf to have been ``discovered", in 1862. Arguably, this honor belongs to 40 Eridani B, whose subluminous nature was recognized in 1910. Sirius B joined 40 Eridani B in the lower left hand corner of the H-R diagram in 1915; only after Walter Adams obtained the first spectra of the famous companion of Sirius. The term ``white dwarf" was coined in 1922 by Willem Luyten and subsequently popularized by Arthur Eddington in 1924.

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