2002/12/16 by D. Carollo, A. Spagna, Carollo, D. +9
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Astronomical Observations and Instrumentation #Astrophysics (astro-ph) #FOS: Physical sciences #Geophysics and Gravity Measurements #Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies #astro-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0212349
6 pages, 2 figures. Proceedings of the Monte Rosa Conference "GAIA spectroscopy, science and technology" Gressoney Saint Jean (Valle d'Aosta, Italy), Sept 9-12, 2002, ed. U. Munari, ASP Conf. Ser., in press
arxiv created 2002/12/16 · openalex publication_date 2002/12/16 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The one billion objects in the GSC-II make up a formidable data set for the hunt of peculiar and rare targets such as late type stars, white dwarfs, carbon dwarfs, asteroids, variable stars, etc. Here we present a survey to search for ancient cool white dwarfs, which led to the discovery of several stars with peculiar spectral distributions and extreme physical properties. Finally, we discuss the impact of the GAIA mission with respect to these peculiar and faint white dwarfs.