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1 - White Dwarf Luminosity Function and Population.- Hyades white dwarfs: basic data and mass-radius relations.- The luminosity function of cool degenerates.- The luminosity function of massive white dwarfs.- The luminosity function of white dwarfs: a study of the selected area 94.- Influence of crystallisation on the luminosity function of white dwarfs.- White dwarfs from the Edinburgh-Cape survey.- White dwarfs from the Hamburg Schmidt survey.- A few new faint white dwarfs.- 2 - Pre-White Dwarf Evolution.- Transition from central stars to white dwarfs.- PG 1159 stars and related objects.- Progenitors of sdB stars: single stars?.- Peculiar binaries and born-again red giants among the nuclei of planetary nebulae.- Subdwarf B-stars and binarity.- White dwarf central stars of old planetary nebulae.- 3 - Theory of White Dwarf Structure and Evolution.- The merging of white dwarfs.- Importance of the crystallisation of minor elements on the cooling history of white dwarfs.- Equation of state revisited.- Coulomb interactions in the equation of state.- Axion cooling of white dwarfs.- 4 - EUV And X-Ray Observations of White Dwarfs.- Photospheric composition and structure in DA white dwarfs.- The X-ray luminosity function of DA white dwarfs.- Observations of hot white dwarfs with the Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope.- Direct observations of EUV opacity sources in the hot, DA white dwarf G191-B2B.- A first analysis of ROSAT pointed observations of two DA white dwarfs.- White dwarfs as probes of neutral winds in A stars.- Early white dwarf results from EUVE.- 5 - Atmospheres and Envelopes I (Theory).- Metal line blanketing in non-LTE model atmospheres.- New results for cool magnetic white dwarfs.- Stratified helium-carbon layers with radiation pressure in hot high-gravity stars.- Macroscopic flux of spinning photons in hot layers of high gravity stars.- Lyman alpha in IUE spectra of DA white dwarfs.- On the atmospheric composition of cool white dwarfs.- Are there any hydrogen-rich, cool white dwarfs?.- Diffusion of heavy elements in white dwarfs with radiative forces and mass loss.- Stark broadening in white dwarf atmospheres.- Compton heating in the atmospheres of hot white dwarfs.- Atmospheres with inhomogeneous surface abundances and their relevance to the DAB white dwarf GD 323.- 6 - Atmospheres and Envelopes II (Observations).- NLTE analysis of extremely helium rich subdwarf O stars.- Hubble Space Telescope observations of white dwarf stars.- UV spectroscopy of PG1159-035 with HST, and a prospective view of future EUVE observations.- Hubble Space Telescope FOS observations of G191-B2B and KPD0005+5106.- The death of the EUV opacity problem.- Temperatures, gravities and masses for a sample of bright white dwarfs.- Analysis of three magnetic DA white dwarfs.- The H-alpha forest of the magnetic white dwarf PG1015+015.- Feige 55: a newly-identified DAO white dwarf with a metal-rich UV spectrum and a clue to the properties of DAO stars.- The hot DAB degenerates in the MCT survey.- 7 - White Dwarfs in Binaries.- White dwarfs in cataclysmic binaries.- Cataclysmic variable white dwarfs: a progress report.- Accretion on to magnetic white dwarfs: a new approach.- The accreting magnetic white dwarf in MR Ser.- AM CVn - A helium cataclysmic?.- Spectra of interacting white dwarf binary systems.- A population model for cataclysmic binaries.- Determination of white dwarf masses in polars.- Spectrophotometry of common proper motion binaries containing white dwarf components.- Photometry of white dwarfs in wide binaries.- EUV/X-ray selection of white dwarfs in binaries.- A search for double degenerates.- 8 - Pulsating White Dwarfs.- The physics of white dwarf pulsations.- Some seismological results for PG1159-035.- The convective outer layers of a pulsating white dwarf.- First numerical simulations of convection at the surface of a ZZ Ceti white dwarf.- GD165: another case for a pulsating DA white dwarf with a thick hydrogen layer?.- A new tool for ...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780792323327
  • Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
  • Publisher Imprint: Kluwer Academic Publishers
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 596
  • Series Title: NATO Asi Series. Series C, Mathematical and Physical Science
  • Sub Title: Advances in Observation and Theory
  • Width: 156 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0792323327
  • Publisher Date: 30 Jun 1993
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 33 mm
  • Weight: 1006 gr


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