Selection Functions in Astronomical Data Modeling, with the Space Density of White Dwarfs as a Worked Example
Authors: Hans-Walter Rix, David W. Hogg, Douglas Boubert, Anthony G. A. Brown, Andrew Casey, Ronald Drimmel, Andrew Everall, Morgan Fouesneau, and Adrian M. Price-Whelan
2021 The Astronomical Journal162142.
Provider: AAS Journals
Caption: Figure 5.
Face-value distribution of the WD sample members in the ﹩{N}_{{ \mathcal C }}({M}_{G},(B-R))﹩ plane, after all the selection function cuts summarized in Equation (8) have been applied. The units of this distribution are the number of objects/mag2.