• Axions and the luminosity function of white dwarfs : the thin and thick discs, and the halo 

      Isern Vilaboy, Jordi; García-Berro Montilla, Enrique; Torres Gil, Santiago; Cojocaru, Elena Ruxandra; Catalán, S (Oxford University Press, 2018-08-01)
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      The evolution of white dwarfs is a simple gravothermal process of cooling. Since the shape of their luminosity function is sensitive to the characteristic cooling time, it is possible to use its slope to test the existence ...
    • DA white dwarfs from the LSS-GAC survey DR1: the preliminary luminosity and mass functions and formation rate 

      Rebassa Mansergas, Alberto; Cojocaru, Elena Ruxandra; Torres, S.; García-Berro Montilla, Enrique; Liu, X.; Yuan, H-B.; Xiang, M.-X.; Huang, Y.; Koester, D.; Hou, Y.; Li, G.; Zhang, Y. (2015-06-11)
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      Modern large-scale surveys have allowed the identification of large numbers of white dwarfs. However, these surveys are subject to complicated target selection algorithms, which make it almost impossible to quantify to ...
    • Population synthesis studies of the white dwarfs of the galactic disk and halo 

      Cojocaru, Elena Ruxandra (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2016-11-24)
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      As the evolutionary end-point of most main-sequence stars, white dwarfs can be used to infer important properties concerning the formation and evolution of the different Galactic stellar populations. Population synthesis ...
    • Revisiting the luminosity function of single halo white dwarfs 

      Cojocaru, Elena Ruxandra; Torres Gil, Santiago; Althaus, Leandro G.; Isern Vilaboy, Jordi; García-Berro Montilla, Enrique (EDP Sciences, 2015-09-01)
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      Context. White dwarfs are the fossils left by the evolution of low- and intermediate-mass stars, and have very long evolutionary timescales. This allows us to use them to explore the properties of old populations, like the ...
    • The age-metallicity relation in the solar neighbourhood from a pilot sample of white dwarf-main sequence binaries 

      Rebassa Mansergas, Alberto; Anguiano, B.; García-Berro Montilla, Enrique; Freeman, K. C.; Cojocaru, Elena Ruxandra; Manser, C. J.; Pala, A. F.; Gänsicke, Boris T.; Liu, X. (2016-12-01)
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      The age–metallicity relation (AMR) is a fundamental observational constraint for understanding how the Galactic disc formed and evolved chemically in time. However, there is not yet an agreement on the observational ...
    • The effects of metallicity on the Galactic disk population of white dwarfs 

      Cojocaru, Elena Ruxandra; Torres Gil, Santiago; Isern Vilaboy, Jordi; García-Berro Montilla, Enrique (2014-06)
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      Context. It has been known for a long time that stellar metallicity plays a significant role in the determination of the ages of the different Galactic stellar populations, when main sequence evolutionary tracks are employed. ...
    • The population of single and binary white dwarfs of the Galactic bulge 

      Torres Gil, Santiago; García-Berro Montilla, Enrique; Cojocaru, Elena Ruxandra; Calamida, Annalisa (Oxford University Press, 2018-05-01)
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      Recent Hubble Space Telescope observations have unveiled the white dwarf cooling sequence of the Galactic bulge. Although the degenerate sequence can be well fitted employing the most up-to-date theoretical cooling sequences, ...
    • The population of white dwarf-main sequence binaries in the SDSS DR 12 

      Cojocaru, Elena Ruxandra; Rebassa Mansergas, Alberto; Torres Gil, Santiago; García-Berro Montilla, Enrique (2017-09-11)
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      We present a Monte Carlo population synthesis study of white dwarf-main sequence (WD+MS) binaries in the Galactic disc aimed at reproducing the ensemble properties of the entire population observed by the Sloan Digital Sky ...