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Radial Oscillation Periods for Hamada–Salpeter Models of White Dwarfs

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Calculations of the oscillation periods for white dwarf models show that, until instability is reached, the period depends very little on the composition or the equation of state

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SKILLING, J. Radial Oscillation Periods for Hamada–Salpeter Models of White Dwarfs. Nature 218, 531–532 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1038/218531b0

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