Studying a fire from its ashes: white dwarfs as probes of Milky Way evolution
As the remnants of stars with initial masses < 8 M⊙, white dwarfs contain valuable information regarding the formation histories of stellar populations. This dissertation focuses on using white dwarfs as tracers of Galactic evolution by first creating a self-consistent model of the Milky Way’s wh...
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| Language: | English en |
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2020
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1828/12424 |