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2011
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Please use a persistent id in citations: doi:10.3204/DESY-PROC-2011-04/isern_jordi
Report No.: arXiv:1204.3565
Abstract: White dwarfs are almost completely degenerate objects that cannot obtain energy from thermonuclear sources, so their evolution is just a gravothermal cooling process. Recent improvements in the accuracy and precision of the luminosity function and in pulsational data of variable white dwarfs suggest that they are cooling faster than expected from conventional theory. In this contribution we show that the inclusion of an additional cooling term due to axions able to interact with electrons with a coupling constant g_ae ~(2-7)x10^{-13} allows to fit better the observations.
Keyword(s): white dwarf ; axion ; WISP ; WIMP ; thermodynamics
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