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The star formation history in the solar neighborhood as told by massive white dwarfs
Jordi Isern
White dwarfs are the remnants of low and intermediate mass stars. Because of electron degeneracy, their evolution is just a simple gravothermal process of cooling. Recently, thanks…
Gamma-rays from SNIa
J. Isern, E. Bravo, P. Jean
Type Ia supernovae are thought to be the outcome of the thermonuclear explosion of a carbon/oxygen white dwarf in a close binary system. Their optical light curve is powered by the…
Revisiting the luminosity function of single halo white dwarfs
R. Cojocaru, S. Torres, L. G. Althaus +2
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 propert…
The effects of metallicity on the Galactic disk population of white dwarfs
Ruxandra Cojocaru, Santiago Torres, Jordi Isern +1
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 sequen…
White dwarf cooling sequences and cosmochronology
J. Isern, A. Artigas, E. Garcia-Berro
The evolution of white dwarfs is a simple gravothermal process. This means that their luminosity function, i.e. the number of white dwarfs per unit bolometric magnitude and unit vo…
White dwarfs with hydrogen-deficient atmospheres and the dark matter content of the Galaxy
S. Torres, J. Camacho, J. Isern +1
The nature of the several microlensing events observed by the MACHO team towards the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is still a subject of debate. Low-mass substellar objects and star…