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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS
Volume 679, Issue 1, Pages L29-L32Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1086/589151
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open clusters and associations : individual (NGC 6791); white dwarfs
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- Science and Technology Facilities Council [PP/E001149/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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In this Letter we demonstrate that the puzzling bright peak in the luminosity function of the white dwarf (WD) cooling sequence of NGC 6791 can be naturally accounted for if similar to 34% of the observed WDs are WD+WD binary systems.
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