Ask a Question

Prefer a chat interface with context about you and your work?

THE PHYSICS OF CRYSTALLIZATION FROM GLOBULAR CLUSTER WHITE DWARF STARS IN NGC 6397

THE PHYSICS OF CRYSTALLIZATION FROM GLOBULAR CLUSTER WHITE DWARF STARS IN NGC 6397

We explore the physics of crystallization in the deep interiors of white dwarf (WD) stars using the color–magnitude diagram and luminosity function constructed from proper-motion cleaned Hubble Space Telescope photometry of the globular cluster NGC 6397. We demonstrate that the data are consistent with the theory of crystallization of the …