Paper:	Massive DA White Dwarfs
Volume:	372, 15th European Workshop on White Dwarfs
Page:	45
Authors:	Giovannini, O.; da Costa, A.F.M.; Kepler, S.O.
Abstract:	We report a statistical study of the mean mass and the high mass component of DA white dwarf mass distributions published over the past 20 years. We use a hypothesis-testing procedure to infer on the difference in the means of two samples. Our results show that most mean masses are different at the 95% confidence level. The high mass component, M > 0.8M⊙, in each sample is smaller than that predicted by Ferrario et al. (2005) and Liebert, Bergeron, & Holberg (2005).

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