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Cool White Dwarfs Selection with Pan-STARRS Proper Motions

Lam, MC and Hambly, NC (2015) Cool White Dwarfs Selection with Pan-STARRS Proper Motions. In: 19TH Euopean Workshop on White Dwarfs , 493. pp. 347-350. (19th European Workshop on White Dwarfs, 11 August 2014 - 15 August 2014, Univ Montreal, Montreal, CANADA).

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Abstract

The use of Reduced Proper Motion in identifying isolated white dwarfs has long been used as a proxy for the absolute magnitude in a population with known kinematics. This, however, introduces a proper motion detection limit on top of the existing photometric limit. How the survey volume is hampered by this extra parameter is discussed in Hambly et al. (2012). In this work, we discuss some robust outlier rejection methods in order to minimise the proper motion limit and hence maximise the survey volume. The generalised volume, corrected for the distance of the Sun from the Galactic Plane, is integrated explicitly.

Item Type: Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Uncontrolled Keywords: Science & Technology; Physical Sciences; Astronomy & Astrophysics; DIGITAL-SKY-SURVEY; LUMINOSITY FUNCTION; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS
Subjects: Q Science > QB Astronomy
Q Science > QC Physics
Divisions: Astrophysics Research Institute
Publisher: Astronomical Society of the Pacific
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Date Deposited: 22 Oct 2018 07:39
Last Modified: 13 Apr 2022 15:16
Editors: Dufour, P, Bergeron, P and Fontaine, G
URI: https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/9502
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