Analysis of a Very Massive DA White Dwarf via the Trigonometric Parallax and Spectroscopic Methods
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By two different methods, we show that LHS 4033 is an extremely massive white dwarf near its likely upper mass limit for destruction by unstable electron
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تاریخ انتشار 2003