The Faintest White Dwarfs: All Low- Mass Stars End Their

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Essay

The Faintest White Dwarfs: All low- mass stars end their lives by forming white dwarfs which evolve by cooling at a constant radius, growing less and less luminous with time. You are about to begin an observing program to look for the faintest white dwarfs in the Milky Way Galaxy. In the course of your observations, will you continue to find white dwarfs that are less and less luminous, or will you ultimately find a population of white dwarfs that are the least luminous ones in the Milky Way? If you answer the latter, what is your interpretation of this result?

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