Creating and measuring white dwarf photospheres in a terrestrial laboratory
As the ultimate fate of nearly all stars, including our Sun, white dwarfs (WDs) hold rich and informative histories in their observable light. To determine a fundamental parameter of WDs, mass, we perform the first measurement of the average gravitational redshift of an ensemble of WDs. We find a...
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Language: | en |
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2014
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2152/25906 |