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.
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0503111,
title = {Comparison of White Dwarf Mass Determinations},
author = {S. Boudreault and P. Bergeron},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0503111},
year = {2007}
}
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4 pages, 5 figures, 14th European Workshop on White Dwarfs, ASP Conference Series, In press