Abstract
While the results described in this article are preliminary due to the small numbers of stars available, the use of gravitational redshifts as a probe of the properties of white dwarfs seems most promising. Recent advances in digital detectors has made this possible and detailed data on mass distributions can be expected as measurements for more systems become available. White dwarfs can also probe the gravitational force and do not seem to support large deviations from the Newtonian law.
This work was partially supported by the National Science Foundation through Grant AST85-15219.
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Wegner, G. (1989). Gravitational redshifts and the mass-radius relation. In: Wegner, G. (eds) White Dwarfs. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 328. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-51031-1_357
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