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White dwarfs have been proposed as chronometers of galactic evolution because of their large evolutionary time scales and the relative simplicity of their structure. The tool for doing that is their luminosity function.
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Garcia-Berro, E., Torres, S., Isern, J. (2003). The Star Formation Rate from White Dwarfs. In: de Martino, D., Silvotti, R., Solheim, JE., Kalytis, R. (eds) White Dwarfs. NATO Science Series, vol 105. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0215-8_6
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