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The rapid progress in stellar atmosphere theory sketched in the previous chapter, coupled with the growth in both the quantity and quality of observational data, finally made possible the efficient decoding of white dwarf spectra. This enabled astronomers to extract increasingly accurate values for the physical properties of white dwarfs. Let us now see what previously hidden “secrets” these tools have revealed.
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Van Horn, H.M. (2015). The Secrets in the Spectra. In: Unlocking the Secrets of White Dwarf Stars. Astronomers' Universe. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09369-7_15
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