We discuss some of our current knowledge of the mass distribution of DA and non-DA stars using various methods for measuring white dwarf masses including spectroscopic, trigonometric parallax, and gravitational redshift measurements, with a particular emphasis on the problems encountered at the low end of the cooling sequence where energy transport by convection becomes important.
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0611904,
title = {The Mass Distribution of White Dwarfs: An Unwavering Obsession},
author = {P. Bergeron and A. Gianninas and S. Boudreault},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0611904},
year = {2007}
}
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6 pages, 4 figures, to appear in the ASP Conference Series for the 15th European White Dwarf Workshop