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astro-ph2006
A Progress Report on the Empirical Determination of the ZZ Ceti Instability Strip
A. Gianninas, P. Bergeron, G. Fontaine
Although the Sloan Digital Sky Survey has permitted the discovery of an increasing number of new ZZ Ceti stars, recent published analyses have shown that there are still many relat…
astro-ph2006
The Mass Distribution of White Dwarfs: An Unwavering Obsession
P. Bergeron, A. Gianninas, S. Boudreault
We discuss some of our current knowledge of the mass distribution of DA and non-DA stars using various methods for measuring white dwarf masses including spectroscopic, trigonometr…
astro-ph2005
Analysis of DA White Dwarfs from the McCook & Sion Catalog
A. Gianninas, P. Bergeron, P. Dufour
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey has already doubled the number of spectroscopically identified white dwarfs. However, there remains a wealth of white dwarfs in the McCook & Sion catal…