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| Paper: |
A Population Synthesis Study of the White Dwarf Cooling Sequence of the Galactic Bulge |
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509, 20th European Workshop on White Dwarfs (EuroWD16) |
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29 |
| Authors: |
Torres, S.; García-Berro, E. G.; Cojocaru, R. E.; Calamida, A. |
| Abstract: |
Recent Hubble Space Telescope observations have allowed to determine, for the first time, the white dwarf cooling sequence of the Galactic bulge. However, observations show systematically redder objects than those predicted by the theoretical cooling tracks of carbon-oxygen white dwarfs. Here we present a population synthesis study of the white dwarf cooling sequence of the galactic bulge including both single white dwarfs and binary systems. These calculations incorporate the most up-to-date cooling sequences for white dwarfs with hydrogen-rich and hydrogen-deficient atmospheres, for both white dwarfs with carbon-oxygen and helium cores, and also take into account detailed prescriptions of the evolution of binary systems and of the observational biases. This allows us to model with a high degree of realism the white dwarf population of the Galactic bulge. Among other interesting results we estimate the fraction of binaries and double degenerate systems of the Galactic bulge. |
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