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A review of past milestones is followed by a more personal account of white dwarf research during the past three decades. Especially covered are cool He-rich white dwarfs with metal lines (spectral type DZ), the evaluation of color-color and color-magnitude diagrams, the determination of masses and the mass distribution for H-rich stars (spectral type DA), and the derivation of initial-to-final mass relations for stellar and galactic evolution.
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Weidemann, V. (1995). Thirty years of white dwarf research in retrospect. In: Koester, D., Werner, K. (eds) White Dwarfs. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 443. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-59157-5_165
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