http://arxiv.org/abs/2205.15321
From data collection to generating a white dwarf luminosity function, it requires numerous Astrophysical, Mathematical and Computational domain knowledge. The steep learning curve makes it difficult to enter the field and often individuals have to reinvent the wheel to perform identical data reduction and analysis tasks. We have gathered all the publicly available white dwarf cooling models and synthetic photometry to provide a toolkit that allows visualisation of various models, photometric fitting of a white dwarf with or without distance and reddening, and the computing of white dwarf luminosity functions with a choice of initial mass function, main sequence evolution model, star formation history, initial-final mass relation, and white dwarf cooling model. We have recomputed and compared it against the Gaia EDR3 white dwarf catalogue from Gentile Fusillo et al. (2021), we show excellent agreements between the two works.
M. Lam, K. Yuen, W. Li, et. al.
Wed, 1 Jun 22
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Comments: 16 pages, 11 figures, 2 tables. To be submitted to RAS Techniques and Instruments
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