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astro-ph2004
The White Dwarf Luminosity Function: The Shape of Things to Come
T. von Hippel, M. Kilic, J. Munn +10
We describe a new survey for cool white dwarfs that supplements Sloan Digital Sky Survey photometry with USNO proper motions and follow-up spectroscopy. To date we have discovered…
astro-ph1998
The large-scale diffuse X-ray emission surrounding quasars: an investigation using the scaling-index method
K. A. Williams, W. Brinkmann, G. Wiedenmann
The large-scale (~ 20') diffuse x-ray background surrounding a sample of quasars observed during ROSAT PSPC pointed observations is studied using a new source-detection algorithm,…