Comparison of White Dwarf Mass Determinations

Boudreault, S.; Bergeron, P.
Bibliographical reference

14th European Workshop on White Dwarfs, ASP Conference Series, Vol. 334 Proceedings of a meeting held at Kiel, July 19-23, 2004. Edited by D. Koester and S. Moehler. San Francisco: Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2005, p.249

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2005
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6
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Description
White dwarf masses can be determined in several ways. Here we compare masses obtained from Balmer line spectroscopy with those derived from trigonometric parallax measurements for an ensemble of cool hydrogen-atmosphere white dwarfs.