White dwarfs : proceedings of IAU Colloquium no. 114, held at Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA, August 15-19, 1988

Mass distribution and luminosity function of white dwarfs....Pages 1-14
The luminosity function of white dwarfs in the local disk and halo....Pages 15-23
Two new late-type degenerates: Implications for the white dwarf luminosity function....Pages 24-28
Pre-white dwarf evolution: Up to planetary nebulae....Pages 29-43
Evolution of white dwarfs: Starting from planetary nebulae....Pages 44-61
On the structure of pre-white dwarfs....Pages 62-65
Transport processes and neutrino emission processes in the interior of white dwarfs....Pages 66-80
The effect of Coulomb interactions on the helium flash....Pages 81-84
Equations of state of hydrogen-helium and carbon-oxygen mixtures....Pages 85-87
Gravitational collapse of mass-accreting white dwarfs....Pages 88-91
The temperatures of white dwarfs in accreting binaries....Pages 92-96
White dwarf evolution in real time: What pulsating white dwarfs teach us about stellar evolution....Pages 97-108
The whole earth telescope....Pages 109-114
The effects of time dependant convection on white dwarf radial pulsations....Pages 115-118
PG 1707+427: The DOV star with the simplest fourier transform....Pages 119-121
Observations of cold degenerate stars....Pages 122-125
Two new faint common proper motion pairs....Pages 126-129
Cluster analysis of the hot subdwarfs in the PG survey....Pages 130-133
An unsuccessful search for white dwarf companions to nearby main sequence stars....Pages 134-137
The Bologna/ESO search for double degenerates....Pages 138-138
Far ultraviolet observations of hot DA white dwarfs....Pages 139-143
Far-ultraviolet spectrophotometry of two do white dwarfs from Voyager ....Pages 144-148
A spectrophotometric atlas of white dwarfs compiled from the me archives....Pages 149-151
Scaleheights of low mass stars from the luminosity function of the local white dwarfs....Pages 152-155
ROSAT — an all-sky X-ray and EUV survey of white dwarfs....Pages 156-159
Results of a spectrophotometric survey of white dwarf suspects in the solar neighbourhood....Pages 160-162
Three double degenerate candidates....Pages 163-166
The ccd/transit instrument (CTI) blue objectsurvey....Pages 167-171
Low mass hydrogen envelopes and the DB gap....Pages 172-175
Diffusion and metal abundances in hot white dwarfs....Pages 176-187
Helium abundance in the photospheres of hot DA white dwarfs....Pages 188-193
Non-LTE spectral analysis of PG 1159-035....Pages 194-197
X-ray emission from hot DA white dwarfs; EXOSAT results, and implications for atmospheric models....Pages 198-201
The effect of CNO metal abundances on the soft X-ray emission from HE rich white dwarfs....Pages 202-205
Chemical stratification in white dwarf atmospheres and envelopes....Pages 206-219
Origin of the DA and non-DA white dwarf stars....Pages 220-235
Model atmospheres for very cool hydrogen-rich white dwarfs....Pages 236-239
An ultraviolet look at the blue edge of the ZZ ceti instability strip....Pages 240-243
Spectroscopic studies and atmospheric parameters OF ZZ Ceti stars....Pages 244-248
Finite element analysis of diffusion processes in white dwarfs....Pages 249-252
Heavy element abundances predicted by radiative support theory in the atmospheres of hot white dwarfs....Pages 253-257
Second-order effects due to rotation in pulsating DR white dwarfs....Pages 258-262
Are pulsatiohs a useful probe of the structure of the outer layers of white dwarfs ?....Pages 263-268
Cooling of white dwarfs with account of non-equilibrium beta-processes....Pages 269-272
Thermonuclear explosion in binaries: White dwarf helium star....Pages 273-277
The phase diagram of high density binary mixtures and the luminosity function of single white dwarfs....Pages 278-281
A variational approach to understanding white dwarf evolution....Pages 282-285
The effect of varying helium and hydrogen layer masses on the pulsation properties of white dwarf models....Pages 286-289
Discovery of the sixth dbv star: CBS 114....Pages 290-292
Optical frequencies in V471 Tau ....Pages 293-295
The time dependence of the phases of the harmonics relative to the 1490 sec fundamental in PG1346+082....Pages 296-299
A new hydrogen equation of state for low mass stars....Pages 300-304
Magnetic fields in white dwarfs....Pages 305-313
The magnetic white dwarfs in AM Her variables....Pages 314-323
Evidence of complex field structure in the magnetic white dwarf in EXO 033319-2554.2....Pages 324-328
Phase correlated spectra of magnetic white dwarfs....Pages 329-332
Synthetic spectra of magnetic white dwarfs....Pages 333-336
Masses and magnetic fields of white dwarfs in cataclysmic variables....Pages 337-340
G117-1115A: how is it evolving?....Pages 341-345
Pressure shifts of metal lines in cool white dwarfs....Pages 346-349
A new temperature determination for sirius B from IUE: Implications for the observed soft X-ray fluxes....Pages 350-353
The detection of ionized helium and carbon in the pulsating DB degenerate GD358....Pages 354-358
Time-dependent studies of the settling of heavy elements in the envelopes of cool white dwarfs....Pages 359-362
The atmospheric composition of the hot pre-degenerate star H1504+65 revisited....Pages 363-367
Stratified model atmospheres for not DA white dwarfs....Pages 368-372
An explanation for the euv spectrum of feige 24....Pages 373-377
Gravitational redshifts for hyades white dwarfs....Pages 378-383
The high resolution spectrum of the pulsating, pre-white dwarf star PG 1159-035 (GW VIR)....Pages 384-387
Polarized radiation from inhomogeneous accretion columns in am herculis binaries....Pages 388-391
Thomson scattering in magnetic fields....Pages 392-395
H-alpha emission in hot degenerates and OB subdwarfs....Pages 396-400
Gravitational redshifts and the mass-radius relation....Pages 401-407
The search for close binary evolved stars....Pages 408-412
The nearby binary, Stein 2051 (G175-34AB)....Pages 413-415
White dwarfs in globular clusters....Pages 416-429
Toward a determination of the helium abundance in cool DA white dwarfs....Pages 430-434
Constraints on the atmospheric parameters of the binary DA white dwarf L870-2 (EG11)....Pages 435-439
The white dwarf mass and orbital period distribution in zero-age cataclysmic binaries....Pages 440-442
The optical spectra of V803 Cen....Pages 443-445
The period problem of the interacting binary white dwarf system AM CVn....Pages 446-449
Critical mass for merging in double white dwarfs....Pages 450-453
On the separations of common proper motion binaries containing white dwarfs....Pages 454-457
Time resolved spectroscopy of AM CVn....Pages 458-461
High frequency oscillations in SS CYGNI....Pages 462-464
The mass spectrum of the white dwarfs in cataclysmic binaries....Pages 465-468
Evolution of low-mass helium dwarfs in interacting binaries: Application to 4UI820-30....Pages 469-472
Binary, pulsating, and irregular variables among planetary nuclei....Pages 473-476
On the formation of close binary white dwarfs....Pages 477-491
A limit on the space density of short-period binary white dwarfs....Pages 492-497
On the masses of the white dwarfs in classical nova systems....Pages 498-506
Growth rate of white dwarf mass in binaries....Pages 507-510
Dynamic mass exchange in doubly degenerate binaries. II. The importance of nuclear energy release....Pages 511-514
The coalescence of white dwarfs and type I supernovae....Pages 515-518
White dwarf — accretion disk boundary layers....Pages 519-523
High resolution optical spectra of 120 white dwarfs....Pages 524-524