Prospects for cool white dwarf science from Pan-STARRS

2013/03/08 by Hambly, Nigel, Rowell, Nick, Tonry, John +2
#Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA) #FOS: Physical sciences #Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1303.1975

Abstract

We discuss the prospects for new deep, wide-angle surveys of the Galactic cool white dwarf populations using data from Pan-STARRS: the Panoramic Survey Telescope & Rapid Response System.

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