Stellar archaeology with Gaia: the Galactic white dwarf population
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
2015-06-10 v1 Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
Astrophysics of Galaxies
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Abstract
Gaia will identify several 1e5 white dwarfs, most of which will be in the solar neighborhood at distances of a few hundred parsecs. Ground-based optical follow-up spectroscopy of this sample of stellar remnants is essential to unlock the enormous scientific potential it holds for our understanding of stellar evolution, and the Galactic formation history of both stars and planets.
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@article{arxiv.1506.02653,
title = {Stellar archaeology with Gaia: the Galactic white dwarf population},
author = {Boris Gaensicke and Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay and Martin Barstow and Giuseppe Bono and Matt Burleigh and Sarah Casewell and Vik Dhillon and Jay Farihi and Enrique Garcia-Berro and Stephan Geier and Nicola Gentile-Fusillo and JJ Hermes and Mark Hollands and Alina Istrate and Stefan Jordan and Christian Knigge and Christopher Manser and Tom Marsh and Gijs Nelemans and Anna Pala and Roberto Raddi and Thomas Tauris and Odette Toloza and Dimitri Veras and Klaus Werner and David Wilson},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1506.02653},
year = {2015}
}
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Summary of a talk at the 'Multi-Object Spectroscopy in the Next Decade' conference in La Palma, March 2015, to be published in ASP Conference Series (editors Ian Skillen & Scott Trager)