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White Dwarf Stars

S. O. Kepler, Alejandra Daniela Romero, Ingrid Pelisoli, Gustavo Ourique

Published 2017-02-03Version 1

White dwarf stars are the final stage of most stars, born single or in multiple systems. We discuss the identification, magnetic fields, and mass distribution for white dwarfs detected from spectra obtained by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey up to Data Release 13 in 2016, which lead to the increase in the number of spectroscopically identified white dwarf stars from 5000 to 39000. This number includes only white dwarf stars with log g >= 6.5 stars, i.e., excluding the Extremely Low Mass white dwarfs, which are necessarily the byproduct of stellar interaction.

Comments: 23 pages, 12 figures, submitted to International Journal of Modern Physics:Conference Series
Categories: astro-ph.SR
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