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The history of our galaxy and the detailed history of star formation in the early universe is written in the white dwarf stars. Recently we have learned how to reach beneath their exposed surfaces by observing white dwarfs that are intrinsic variables. We use the stellar equivalent of seismology to probe their interiors, and thus to unravel the history they hold inside. We have designed and placed into operation an observational technique that uses the whole earth as a telescope platform, defeating the effects of daylight which, until now, had seriously limited the length of a single light curve, and therefore the amount of information we could hope to extract from it. This paper describes our new telescope and presents preliminary results from our first observing run in March, 1988.
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Wood, M.A., Winget, D.E., Nather, R.E., Hessman, F.V., Liebert, James, Kurtz, D.W., Wesemael, F. and Wegner, G. 1987, Ap. J., 313, 757.
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Edward Nather, R. (1989). The whole earth telescope. In: Wegner, G. (eds) White Dwarfs. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 328. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-51031-1_298
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