The Puzzling White Dwarf Cooling Sequence in NGC6791: A Simple Solution
published by Luigi Bedin Rolly
in 2008
in Physics
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In this paper we demonstrate that the puzzling bright peak in the luminosity function of the white dwarf (WD) cooling sequence of NGC6791 can be naturally accounted for if ~34% of the observed WDs are WD+WD binary systems.