Untangling the White Dwarf Luminosity Functions
Abstract
The inversion of the white dwarf luminosity function provides an independent way to prove the past star formation history of the Milky Way independent of any cosmological models. In Rowell & Hambly (2011), the effective volume method uses the average properties of all the objects in a given bin, so a significant amount of information is lost in the early stage of the analysis, in this work, I explore the possibility of assigning objects individually in a probabilistic way using the generalised Schmidt density estimator (1/Vmax).
Cite
@article{arxiv.1702.02187,
title = {Untangling the White Dwarf Luminosity Functions},
author = {Marco C. Lam},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1702.02187},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
4 pages, 1 figure, published in the ASP Conference Series, Vol. 509. San Francisco: Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2017, p.25 20th European White Dwarf Workshop, Proceedings of a conference held at University of Warwick, Coventry, West Midlands, United Kingdom, 25-29 July 2016. Edited by Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay, Boris G\"ansicke, and Tom Marsh