White Dwarfs [electronic resource] : Proceedings of IAU Colloquium No. 114, Held at Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA, August 15–19, 1988 / edited by Gary Wegner.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

IAU Colloquium, Corporate Author.

Contributor:

Wegner, Gary., Editor.

Conference Name:

IAU Colloquium

Series:

Lecture Notes in Physics, 0075-8450 ; 328

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Astronomy--Observations.

Astronomy.

Astronomy—Observations.

Astrophysics.

Geophysics.

Astronomy, Observations and Techniques.

Astrophysics and Astroparticles.

Geophysics/Geodesy.

Local Subjects:

Astronomy, Observations and Techniques.

Astrophysics and Astroparticles.

Geophysics/Geodesy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XIV, 526 p. 166 illus.)

Edition:

1st ed. 1989.

Place of Publication:

Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 1989.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book contains the contributed papers and reviews from IAU Colloquium Number 114 on White Dwarfs held at Dartmouth College in August 1988. All the current fields of research in this area are covered including the evolution of white dwarfs, links to progenitors, luminosity functions of white dwarfs, evolution of white dwarfs in binaries, spectroscopy and atmospheric abundances, diffusion, accretion and convective mixing, the mass-radius relation, gravitational redshifts, masses of white dwarfs, and magnetic white dwarfs. Special emphasis has been placed on the intrinsic properties of single white dwarfs. All the articles are by internationally known authorities and contain the most up-to-date information available at the time of writing.

Contents:

Mass distribution and luminosity function of white dwarfs

The luminosity function of white dwarfs in the local disk and halo

Two new late-type degenerates: Implications for the white dwarf luminosity function

Pre-white dwarf evolution: Up to planetary nebulae

Evolution of white dwarfs: Starting from planetary nebulae

On the structure of pre-white dwarfs

Transport processes and neutrino emission processes in the interior of white dwarfs

The effect of Coulomb interactions on the helium flash

Equations of state of hydrogen-helium and carbon-oxygen mixtures

Gravitational collapse of mass-accreting white dwarfs

The temperatures of white dwarfs in accreting binaries

White dwarf evolution in real time: What pulsating white dwarfs teach us about stellar evolution

The whole earth telescope

The effects of time dependant convection on white dwarf radial pulsations

PG 1707+427: The DOV star with the simplest fourier transform

Observations of cold degenerate stars

Two new faint common proper motion pairs

Cluster analysis of the hot subdwarfs in the PG survey

An unsuccessful search for white dwarf companions to nearby main sequence stars

The Bologna/ESO search for double degenerates

Far ultraviolet observations of hot DA white dwarfs

Far-ultraviolet spectrophotometry of two do white dwarfs from Voyager

A spectrophotometric atlas of white dwarfs compiled from the me archives

Scaleheights of low mass stars from the luminosity function of the local white dwarfs

ROSAT — an all-sky X-ray and EUV survey of white dwarfs

Results of a spectrophotometric survey of white dwarf suspects in the solar neighbourhood

Three double degenerate candidates

The ccd/transit instrument (CTI) blue objectsurvey

Low mass hydrogen envelopes and the DB gap

Diffusion and metal abundances in hot white dwarfs

Helium abundance in the photospheres of hot DA white dwarfs

Non-LTE spectral analysis of PG 1159-035

X-ray emission from hot DA white dwarfs; EXOSAT results, and implications for atmospheric models

The effect of CNO metal abundances on the soft X-ray emission from HE rich white dwarfs

Chemical stratification in white dwarf atmospheres and envelopes

Origin of the DA and non-DA white dwarf stars

Model atmospheres for very cool hydrogen-rich white dwarfs

An ultraviolet look at the blue edge of the ZZ ceti instability strip

Spectroscopic studies and atmospheric parameters OF ZZ Ceti stars

Finite element analysis of diffusion processes in white dwarfs

Heavy element abundances predicted by radiative support theory in the atmospheres of hot white dwarfs

Second-order effects due to rotation in pulsating DR white dwarfs

Are pulsatiohs a useful probe of the structure of the outer layers of white dwarfs ?

Cooling of white dwarfs with account of non-equilibrium beta-processes

Thermonuclear explosion in binaries: White dwarf helium star

The phase diagram of high density binary mixtures and the luminosity function of single white dwarfs

A variational approach to understanding white dwarf evolution

The effect of varying helium and hydrogen layer masses on the pulsation properties of white dwarf models

Discovery of the sixth dbv star: CBS 114

Optical frequencies in V471 Tau

The time dependence of the phases of the harmonics relative to the 1490 sec fundamental in PG1346+082

A new hydrogen equation of state for low mass stars

Magnetic fields in white dwarfs

The magnetic white dwarfs in AM Her variables

Evidence of complex field structure in the magnetic white dwarf in EXO 033319-2554.2

Phase correlated spectra of magnetic white dwarfs

Synthetic spectra of magnetic white dwarfs

Masses and magnetic fields of white dwarfs in cataclysmic variables

G117-1115A: how is it evolving?

Pressure shifts of metal lines in cool white dwarfs

A new temperature determination for sirius B from IUE: Implications for the observed soft X-ray fluxes

The detection of ionized helium and carbon in the pulsating DB degenerate GD358

Time-dependent studies of the settling of heavy elements in the envelopes of cool white dwarfs

The atmospheric composition of the hot pre-degenerate star H1504+65 revisited

Stratified model atmospheres for not DA white dwarfs

An explanation for the euv spectrum of feige 24

Gravitational redshifts for hyades white dwarfs

The high resolution spectrum of the pulsating, pre-white dwarf star PG 1159-035 (GW VIR)

Polarized radiation from inhomogeneous accretion columns in am herculis binaries

Thomson scattering in magnetic fields

H-alpha emission in hot degenerates and OB subdwarfs

Gravitational redshifts and the mass-radius relation

The search for close binary evolved stars

The nearby binary, Stein 2051 (G175-34AB)

White dwarfs in globular clusters

Toward a determination of the helium abundance in cool DA white dwarfs

Constraints on the atmospheric parameters of the binary DA white dwarf L870-2 (EG11)

The white dwarf mass and orbital period distribution in zero-age cataclysmic binaries

The optical spectra of V803 Cen

The period problem of the interacting binary white dwarf system AM CVn

Critical mass for merging in double white dwarfs

On the separations of common proper motion binaries containing white dwarfs

Time resolved spectroscopy of AM CVn

High frequency oscillations in SS CYGNI

The mass spectrum of the white dwarfs in cataclysmic binaries

Evolution of low-mass helium dwarfs in interacting binaries: Application to 4UI820-30

Binary, pulsating, and irregular variables among planetary nuclei

On the formation of close binary white dwarfs

A limit on the space density of short-period binary white dwarfs

On the masses of the white dwarfs in classical nova systems

Growth rate of white dwarf mass in binaries

Dynamic mass exchange in doubly degenerate binaries. II. The importance of nuclear energy release

The coalescence of white dwarfs and type I supernovae

White dwarf — accretion disk boundary layers

High resolution optical spectra of 120 white dwarfs.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

3-540-46136-1