Hot white dwarfs in detached binaries from the Rosat WFC All Sky Survey
White dwarfs in unresolved pairs with normal stars (spectral type K or earlier) are invisible at optical wavelengths, due to the close proximity of the much more luminous main sequence companion. ROSAT has provided evidence for the existence of a growing sample of these hidden white dwarfs through t...
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University of Leicester
1997
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Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.696347 |