White Dwarfs

Front Matter....Pages i-xxi
New Pre-White Dwarf Evolutionary Tracks....Pages 1-3
Influence of the Phase Diagram in the Cooling of White Dwarfs....Pages 5-16
PG1159 Stars and the PNN-White Dwarf Connection....Pages 17-27
Analysis of the Soft X-ray Data from the Central Star of NGC 7293....Pages 29-38
Planetary Nebulae Nuclei with White Dwarf Spectra....Pages 39-51
Atmospheric Parameters of Subluminous B Stars....Pages 53-66
White Dwarf Space Densities and Birth Rates Reconsidered....Pages 67-73
A Spectroscopic Determination of the Mass Distribution of DA White Dwarfs....Pages 75-87
The Age and Formation of the Galaxy: Clues from the White Dwarf Luminosity Function....Pages 89-97
Early Results from the Rosat Wide Field Camera....Pages 99-108
The Stellar Component of the Hamburg Schmidt Survey....Pages 109-119
White Dwarfs in the Hamburg Schmidt Survey....Pages 121-127
Asteroseismology of White Dwarf Stars with the Whole Earth Telescope....Pages 129-141
A Measurement of the Evolutionary Timescale of the Cool White Dwarf G117-B15A with Wet....Pages 143-151
On the Interpretation of the dP/dt Measurement in G117-B15A....Pages 153-158
The Boundaries of the ZZ Ceti Instability Strip....Pages 159-165
Long Term Variations In ZZ Cetis: G191-16 and HL Tau-76....Pages 167-174
Predicting White Dwarf Light Curves....Pages 175-183
A Wavelet Analysis of the ZZ Ceti Star G191 16....Pages 185-192
An Adiabatic Survey for ZZ Ceti Stars Based on a Finite Element Code....Pages 193-203
A Study of Period Change Rates in Post-AGB Stars I. PG 1159-035....Pages 205-210
Nonadiabatic Nonradial Pulsations for Dav White Dwarf Stars....Pages 211-218
NLTE Analysis of Four PG1159 Stars....Pages 219-227
A Search for Trace Amounts of Hydrogen in DB Stars....Pages 229-234
Abundances of Trace Heavy Elements in Hot DA White Dwarfs....Pages 235-247
New Results on Radiative Forces on Iron in Hot White Dwarfs....Pages 249-255
The Effective Temperature of the DBV’s, and the Sensitivity of DB Model Atmospheres to Input Physics....Pages 257-265
The Modified Hydrostatic Equilibrium Equations for Stratified High Gravity Stellar Atmospheres....Pages 267-274
The DBAQ G35–26....Pages 275-283
LP 790–29: Preliminary Model Atmospheres for This Strongly Polarized Carbon White Dwarf....Pages 285-293
Some Effects of the UV Radiation From White Dwarfs on the Accretion of Interstellar Hydrogen....Pages 295-304
Convection in White Dwarfs: Application of CM Theory to Helium Envelope WDs....Pages 305-316
Abundances in Cool DZA and DAZ White Dwarfs: New Results Using Laboratory Damping Constants....Pages 317-331
Evidence for Fractionated Accretion of Metals on Cool White Dwarfs....Pages 333-341
A New Look at Old Friends: 40 Eri B and GD323....Pages 343-351
The Lyman Alpha Line Wing in Hydrogen-Rich White Dwarf Atmospheres....Pages 353-360
Atmospheric Parameters for DA White Dwarfs in the Vicinity of the ZZ Ceti Instability Strip....Pages 361-367
Space Telescope Observations of White Dwarf Stars....Pages 369-378
A Deep Spectroscopic Survey of White Dwarfs in Common Proper Motion Binaries....Pages 379-393
Double Degenerate Common Proper Motion Binaries....Pages 395-408
Close Binary White Dwarfs....Pages 409-416
New Results on Cataclysmic Variable White Dwarfs....Pages 417-430
Whole Earth Telescope Observations of the Interacting White Dwarf Binary System AM CVn: First Results....Pages 431-439
IUE Observations of V803 Cen in High and Low States....Pages 441-448
Whole Earth Telescope Observations of PG1346+082....Pages 449-456
On the Origin of LMXRBS: The ONEMG Case....Pages 457-464
Back Matter....Pages 465-466