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[–] CDN@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

These findings are limited, and further investigation before we can say for sure.

Motivated by the possibility that a cooling delay caused by crystallization can be directly detected for this white dwarf we employ a variety of methods to constrain the age of the system; however, our empirical age anomaly of +3.1±1.9 Gyr is ultimately too imprecise to reach statistical significance, preventing us from making strong constraints to models of white dwarf crystallization.

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