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Identification of Cool White Dwarfs in the NOAO Deep Wide-Field Survey

M. Kilic, D. E. Winget, T. von Hippel, C. F. Claver

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/0209289

Abstract

We report our search for the cool white dwarfs belonging to the Galactic disk by extending the NOAO Deep Wide-Field Survey. Narrow-band DDO51 photometry of the Deep Wide-Field Survey's northern field was obtained using the 4m-Mayall Telescope and the MOSAIC imager to separate cool white dwarfs from other stellar types of similar Teff. Follow-up spectroscopy of four white dwarf candidates from our photometric search resulted in the discovery of two new cool white dwarfs as companions to M dwarfs.

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