A lower limit of 9.5 Gyr on the age of the Galactic disk from the oldest white dwarf stars
- 1 August 1996
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Nature
- Vol. 382 (6593) , 692-694
- https://doi.org/10.1038/382692a0
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