Abstract
White dwarf cooling theory is reviewed with particular emphasis on the role of different phase diagrams for the C+O plasma at high densities. Theoretical luminosity functions for both disk and halo white dwarfs, based on those diagrams, are then described. We conclude that faint, still undetected white dwarfs are unlikely to be major contributors to baryonic dark matter, neither in the disk nor in the halo of the Galaxy.
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Canal, R. (1990). Cooling Rates and Numbers of Faint White Dwarfs. In: Lynden-Bell, D., Gilmore, G. (eds) Baryonic Dark Matter. NATO ASI Series, vol 306. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0565-8_6
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