A survey for cool white dwarfs and the age of the galactic disc
This thesis describes a survey specifically undertaken to obtain a sample of cool white dwarfs directly from original Schmidt plate material. Concerns regarding of the subjectivity of 'eye-blinked' proper motion measures are avoided by using digitised data obtained using the COSMOS and Sup...
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University of Edinburgh
1999
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.653511 |