• High-proper-motion white dwarfs and halo dark matter 

      Torres Gil, Santiago; García-Berro Montilla, Enrique; Burkert, Andreas; Isern Vilaboy, Jordi (Blackwell, 2002-11)
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      The interpretation of the old, cool white dwarfs recently found by Oppenheimer et al. is still controversial. Whereas these authors claim that they have finally found the elusive ancienthalo white dwarf population that ...
    • The formation of ultra-massive carbon-oxygen core white dwarfs and their evolutionary and pulsational properties 

      Althaus, Leandro G.; Gil Pons, Pilar; Córsico, Alejandro H.; Camisassa, María Eugenia; Miller Bertolami, Marcelo M; de Geronimo, Francisco; Torres Gil, Santiago; Gutiérrez Cabello, Jordi; Rebassa Mansergas, Alberto (EDP Sciences, 2021-02)
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      The existence of ultra-massive white dwarf stars, MWD & 1.05M , has been reported in several studies. These white dwarfs are relevant for the role they play in type Ia Supernova explosions, the occurrence of physical ...
    • The kinematics of white dwarfs from the SDSS DR12 

      García-Berro Montilla, Enrique; Skorobogatov, G.; Torres Gil, Santiago; Anguiano, B.; Rebassa Mansergas, Alberto (2018)
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      We use the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 12, which is the largest availablewhite dwarf catalogue to date, to study the evolution of the kinematical properties of the pop-ulation of white dwarfs of the Galactic disk. ...