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The HR Diagram of White Dwarfs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

Volker Weidemann
Volker Weidemann*
Affiliation:
Institut f. Theoretische Physik und Sternwarte Universität

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The lone dot in the lower left of Russell's original diagram (1914) was disregarded, since it did not fit into his suggestive scheme of giant-to-dwarf evolution. Bottlinger (1923) - in his nearly forgotten study of photoelectric color indices - seems to be the first who, with the evidence of the then three classical white dwarfs, invoked a new equation of state and clearly rejected all other possibilities of explanation. Kuiper (1941) summarized the knowledge obtained during the thirties, mainly by his spectroscopic work. A decade later Luyten (1952) presented impressive HR diagrams based on admittedly crude color indices and, for many more objects, on reduced proper motions.

Type
Part III: HR Diagrams, Subluminous Stars
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 80: The HR Diagram , 1978 , pp. 121 - 124
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1978 

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