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Stark Broadening and White Dwarfs [PDF]
Open Astronomy, 2011 White dwarf and pre-white dwarfs are the best types of stars for the application of Stark broadening research results in astrophysics, since in the atmospheres of these stars physical conditions are very favorable for this line broadening mechanism - in ...
Dimitrijević Milan S. +3 more
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, 2010 White dwarfs are almost completely degenerate objects that cannot obtain energy from the thermonuclear sources and their evolution is just a gravothermal process of cooling.
Catalan, S. +4 more
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UBVR Photometry of white dwarfs and white dwarfs suspects [PDF]
Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 1972 Photoelectric UBVr photometry is presented for 33 white-dwarf suspects from the Lowell Observatory lists. On the basis of (B- V) and (U- B) color indices, eight probable white dwarfs are identffied.
Richard D. Schwartz
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Space Science Reviews, 2015 In this paper we review the current status of research on the observational and theoretical characteristics of isolated and binary magnetic white dwarfs (MWDs). Magnetic fields of isolated MWDs are observed to lie in the range 10^3-10^9G. While the upper limit cutoff appears to be real, the lower limit is more difficult to investigate. The incidence of
Lilia Ferrario +2 more
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Proceedings of Supernovae: lights in the darkness — PoS(SUPERNOVA), 2008 Thermonuclear (type Ia) supernovae are explosions in accreting white dwarfs, but the exact scenario leading to these explosions is still unclear. An important step to clarify this point is to understand the behaviour of accreting white dwarfs in close binary systems.
Margarita Hernanz, Jordi José
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White Dwarf and Pre-White Dwarf Pulsations [PDF]
AIP Conference Proceedings, 2009 In this review I describe the basic properties of white dwarfs and their pulsations. I then discuss some of the areas in which the pulsations can provide meaningful results, such as internal chemical profiles, possible emission of “exotic” particles, planet detection, crystallization, convection, accretion, and cosmochronology.
M. H. Montgomery +2 more
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Brown Dwarf Companions to White Dwarfs [PDF]
AIP Conference Proceedings, 2011 Brown dwarf companions to white dwarfs are rare, but recent infra-red surveys are slowly reveal- ing examples. We present new observations of the post-common envelope binary WD0137-349, which reveals the effects of irradiation on the ~ 0.05M* secondary, and new observations of GD 1400 which show that it too is a close, post-comon envelope system.
Matt R. Burleigh +13 more
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Explosion of White Dwarfs [PDF]
International Astronomical Union Colloquium, 1987 AbstractWe present models for Type I supernova light curves based on the explosion of partially solid white dwarfs in close binary systems. Studies of such explosions show that they leave bound remnants of different size. Our results reproduce quite well the maximun luminosities, the expansion velocities and the shape of the light curve.
Jordi Isern +3 more
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White-dwarf–white-dwarf galactic background in the LISA data [PDF]
Physical Review D, 2005 36 pages, 15 ...
Edlund, J. +3 more
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International Astronomical Union Colloquium, 1994 It is the intention of this review to explain what white dwarfs are and why it is interesting to study them, and why the H+2 molecule is of special interest. The evolution, from start to finish, of a star of mass less than about 2 solar masses (M⊙), can roughly be summarized as follows: – A cloud of gas contracts from the interstellar ...
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