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the freezing of a cooling white dwarf's carbon-oxygen core, which releases latent heat and slows cooling, seen as a pile-up in the white dwarf cooling sequence.

In astrophysics, white dwarf crystallization refers to the freezing of a cooling white dwarf's carbon-oxygen core, which releases latent heat and slows cooling, seen as a pile-up in the white dwarf cooling sequence. This meaning comes from Tremblay (2019) in Nature.[1]

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Tremblay, P., Fontaine, G., Fusillo, N. P. G., Dunlap, B. H., Gänsicke, B. T., Hollands, M. A., Hermes, J. J., Marsh, T. R., Cukanovaite, E., & Cunningham, T. (2019). Core crystallization and pile-up in the cooling sequence of evolving white dwarfs. Nature, 565(7738), 202-205. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0791-x

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