Katé bodas

Katé bodas, ogé disebut katé dégenerasi, mangrupa béntang leutik nu teu frui nyinar, kawangun ti materi kadégenerasi. Katé bodas diduga minangka fase évolusi pangahirna béntang nu massana alit jeung nengah.

Kateubiasaan katé bodas nu kahijina kanyahoan dina taun 1910 ku Henry Norris Russell, Edward Charles Pickering, jeung Williamina Fleming; ngaran katai putih (basa Inggris: white dwarf) digunakeun ku Willem Luyten taun 1922.

Tempo ogé 
 Wates Chandrasekhar

Réferénsi 

 White Dwarf Stars, Steven D. Kawaler, in Stellar remnants, S. D. Kawaler, I. Novikov, and G. Srinivasan, edited by Géorges Meynet and Daniel Schaerer, Berlin: Springer, 1997. Lecture notes for Saas-Fee advanced course number 25. ISBN 3-540-61520-2.
 Black holes, white dwarfs, and neutron stars: the physics of compact objects, Stuart L. Shapiro and Saul A. Teukolsky, New York: Wiley, 1983. ISBN 0-471-87317-9.

Katé bodas