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A population synthesis study of the local white dwarf population

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 August 2018

Santiago Torres ,
Florian Nutten ,
Georgy Skorobogatov  and
Enrique García-Berro
Santiago Torres
Affiliation:
Departamento de Física, Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña, c/Esteve Terrades, 5, 08860 Castelldefels, Spain email: santiago.torres@upc.edu Instituto de Estudios Espaciales de Cataluña, c/Gran Capitán 2–4, Edificio Nexus 201, 08034 Barcelona, Spain
Florian Nutten
Affiliation:
Information and Communication Technologies Department, École d’Ingénieurs (EPF), France
Georgy Skorobogatov
Affiliation:
Departamento de Física, Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña, c/Esteve Terrades, 5, 08860 Castelldefels, Spain email: santiago.torres@upc.edu Instituto de Estudios Espaciales de Cataluña, c/Gran Capitán 2–4, Edificio Nexus 201, 08034 Barcelona, Spain
Enrique García-Berro
Affiliation:
Departamento de Física, Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña, c/Esteve Terrades, 5, 08860 Castelldefels, Spain email: santiago.torres@upc.edu Instituto de Estudios Espaciales de Cataluña, c/Gran Capitán 2–4, Edificio Nexus 201, 08034 Barcelona, Spain
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Abstract

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White dwarfs are natural cosmochronometers, and this allows us to use them to study relevant properties of the Galaxy, such as its age or its star formation rate history. Here we present a population synthesis study of the white dwarf population within 40 pc from the Sun, and compare the results of this study with the properties of the observed sample. We use a state-of-the-art population synthesis code based on Monte Carlo techniques that incorporates the most recent and reliable white dwarf cooling sequences, an accurate description of the Galactic neighborhood, and a realistic treatment of all the known observational biases.

Keywords

Galaxy: disk(Galaxy:) solar neighborhood(stars:) white dwarfs
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 13 , Symposium S334: Rediscovering our Galaxy , July 2017 , pp. 374 - 375
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2018 

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