White Dwarf Cosmochronometry. I. Monte Carlo Simulations of Proper‐Motion– and Magnitude‐limited Samples using Schmidt's 1/VmaxEstimator
- 20 April 1998
- journal article
- Published by American Astronomical Society in The Astrophysical Journal
- Vol. 497 (2) , 870-882
- https://doi.org/10.1086/305474
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