White Dwarfs

White Dwarfs

 

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Springer Nature B.V.
Año de edición:
1997
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Astrofísica
ISBN:
9780792345855

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I. Structure and Evolution.- The empirical white dwarf mass-radius relation.- What we have learned about white dwarfs from studies of novae.- The redistribution of carbon and oxygen in crystallizing white dwarfs.- The cooling of white dwarfs and their internal composition.- Theoretical models of white dwarfs with helium-rich interiors.- The electrostatic screening of thermonuclear reactions in astrophysical plasmas.- The possible white dwarf-neutron star connection.- The impact of evolutionary envelope masses on the evolution of white dwarfs.- The progenitors of high-mass white dwarfs.- The multiperiodic, short-period variations of WZ Sge.- Limits on gravities of evolved stars, from infrared photometry and binary companions.- Rotation: CO white dwarfs near the Chandrasekhar limiting mass.- The Accretion-Induced Collapse of white dwarfs revisited in 3D.- II. Luminosity Functions and Populations.- Towards a luminosity function of hot DA white dwarfs.- White dwarfs in M67.- Monte Carlo simulations of the kinematics and luminosity function of white dwarfs.- Monte Carlo simulations of the white dwarf population and luminosity function.- Halo white dwarfs: a conservative point of view.- Halo white dwarfs: a non conventional scenario.- HST observations of white dwarfs in the globular cluster NGC 6397.- The distance and age of the globular cluster NGC 6752 measured by HST observations of cluster and field white dwarfs.- DA white dwarfs in the Montréal-Cambridge-Tololo survey.- Cool white dwarf survey using stacked digitised Schmidt plates.- III. Atmospheres.- Chemical evolution of cool white dwarf’s atmospheres.- The chemical evolution of white dwarf stars: what the observations tell us.- A critical look at the question of thick vs thin hydrogen and helium envelopes in white dwarfs.- Polyatomic carbon molecules in very cool helium-rich white dwarfs.- Analysis of optical, UV and EUV observations of G 191-B2B.- New results on PG 1159 stars and ultrahigh-excitation DO white dwarfs.- Non-LTE analyses of DO white dwarfs.- New spectral analyses of pre-white dwarfs.- The sphericity effects in the NLTE model atmospheres of white dwarfs.- Heavy elements in white dwarf envelopes.- Lyman spectra of hot DA white dwarfs.- Diffusion of silicon in the envelopes of hot DA white dwarfs.- Time-dependent diffusion calculations for hot pre-white dwarfs.- Evolutionary calculations of carbon dredge-up in helium envelope white dwarfs.- Analysis of optical and ultraviolet spectroscopy of the DAZ white dwarf G 74-7.- Modeling extreme ultraviolet spectra of white dwarfs with high-metallicity LTE models.- Extreme ultraviolet spectroscopy of EUVE J0720-317 and EUVE J0723-277.- A new dithered EUVE spectrum of PG 1234+482.- Line of sight H and He ionization fractions in the local interstellar medium.- An instrument for observations of EUV opacity sources in G 191-B2B.- Metals in the variable DA G 29-38.- IV. White Dwarfs in Binaries.- In search of the double degenerate progenitors of Type Ia Supernovae.- The double degenerate population.- White dwarf+M dwarf systems: a new infrared search.- The EC 14026 stars: a new class of pulsating star.- Hot white dwarfs in non-interacting binaries from the ROSAT EUV survey.- HST observations of AM Canum Venaticorum.- Effects of irradiation on the secondary star in a tight binary system, exemplified by AM Canum Venaticorum.- White dwarfs in AM Herculis systems.- HST synthetic spectral analysis of U Gem in early and late quiescence: a heated white dwarf and accretion belt.- WFPC2 observations of Procyon B.- Extreme ultraviolet light curve and phase-resolved spectroscopy of the hot white dwarf in V 471 Tauri.- Unique white dwarfs accompanying recycled pulsars.- Merging of different mass ratio white dwarfs: first moments of the 0.4-1.2 M? case.- V. Magnetic White Dwarfs.- New results of magnetic white dwarf spectroscopy.- 1-D and 2-D calculations of dynamo-generated magnetic fields in white dwarfs.- Magnetic field survey of DC w

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