A Proper-motion Survey for White Dwarfs with the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2

Nelson, C A; Cook, Kem H; Axelrod, Tim; Mould, Jeremy; Alcock, Charles

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A Proper-motion Survey for White Dwarfs with the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2

Date

2002

Authors

Nelson, C A

Cook, Kem H

Axelrod, Tim

Mould, Jeremy

Alcock, Charles

Publisher

IOP Publishing

Abstract

We have performed a search for halo white dwarfs as high proper motion objects in a second-epoch Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 image of the Groth-Westphal strip. The survey covers 74.8 arcmin2 and is complete to V ∼ 26.5. We identify 24 high proper moti