The Initial--Final Mass Relationship of White Dwarfs in Common Proper Motion Pairs

Catalán, S.; Ribas, I.; Isern, J.; García-Berro, E.; Allende Prieto, C.
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15th European Workshop on White Dwarfs ASP Conference Series, Vol. 372, proceedings of the conference held 7-11 August, 2006 in Leicester, United Kingdom. Edited by Ralf Napiwotzki and Matthew R. Burleigh. San Francisco: Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2007., p.69

Fecha de publicación:
9
2007
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5
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0
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Descripción
A promising approach to decrease the uncertainties in the initial--final mass relationship, which is still poorly constrained, is to study white dwarfs for which external constraints are available, for instance, white dwarfs in common proper motion pairs (CPMPs). Important information of the white dwarf can be inferred from the study of the companion, since they were born at the same time and with the same initial chemical composition. In this contribution, we report new results obtained from spectroscopic observations of both members of several CPMPs composed of a F, G or K type star and a DA white dwarf.