Paper:	The Field White Dwarf Mass Distribution
Volume:	509, 20th European Workshop on White Dwarfs (EuroWD16)
Page:	415
Authors:	Tremblay, P.-E.; Cummings, J.; Kalirai, J. S.
Abstract:	We study the white dwarf mass distributions for the volume-complete survey within 20 pc and the SDSS magnitude-limited sample. The observed mass distributions are modelled with Monte Carlo simulations. We find that under fixed standard assumptions for Galactic and stellar evolution, the predicted masses are in good qualitative agreement with the observed values. Nevertheless, the number of massive white dwarfs is overpredicted and we find that it is difficult to constrain independently the initial mass function (IMF), the initial-to-final-mass relation (IFMR), the stellar formation history (SFH), the variation of the Galactic disk vertical scale height as a function of stellar age, and binary evolution.

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