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Koester, D. (2002). White Dwarfs for Physicists. In: Schmelcher, P., Schweizer, W. (eds) Atoms and Molecules in Strong External Fields. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-47074-8_1

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