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1. The White Dwarfs: Discovery and Observation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

W. J. Luyten
W. J. Luyten*
Affiliation:
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn., U.S.A.

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White dwarfs have been known for slightly more than fifty years; with their planetlike diameters, and stellar-like masses their densities are enormously much higher than those of ‘normal’ stars. They thus appear to represent a state of matter totally unknown and possibly unattainable on earth.

Type
Research Article
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 42: White Dwarfs , 1971 , pp. 1 - 7
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1971 

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