White Dwarfs [procs, 9th Eur. Wkshp]

Thirty years of white dwarf research in retrospect....Pages 1-10
The mass distribution and luminosity function of hot DA white dwarfs....Pages 11-18
The stellar formation rate and the white dwarf luminosity function....Pages 19-23
On the luminosity function of white dwarfs in wide binaries....Pages 24-30
A new determination of the luminosity function of hot white dwarfs....Pages 31-35
The luminosity function of dim white dwarfs....Pages 36-40
Theoretical white dwarf luminosity functions: DA models....Pages 41-45
Cool White Dwarfs in a southern proper motions survey....Pages 46-46
The born again AGB phenomenon....Pages 47-57
What is wrong with stellar modeling....Pages 58-67
Transformation of AGB stars into white dwarfs....Pages 68-72
The role of G in the cooling of white dwarfs....Pages 73-77
Calibrating white dwarf cosmochronology....Pages 78-82
Thermodynamic quantities for evolutionary and pulsational calculations....Pages 83-87
Numerical simulations of convection and overshoot in the envelope of DA white dwarfs....Pages 88-92
The formation of massive white dwarfs and the progenitor mass of Sirius B....Pages 93-94
HST observations of white dwarf cooling sequences in open clusters....Pages 95-95
Effects of updated neutrino rates in evolutionary white dwarf models....Pages 96-96
Non-LTE line blanketed model atmospheres of hot, metal-rich white dwarfs....Pages 97-107
New He I line profiles for synthetic spectra of DB white dwarfs....Pages 108-112
Line broadening in hot stellar atmospheres....Pages 113-117
Diffusion in PG 1159 stars....Pages 118-122
Pure hydrogen in the spectrum of GD229....Pages 123-127
Spectroscopic effects of T-inhomogeneities in the atmospheres of DA white dwarfs....Pages 128-128
The π line polarization in magnetic white dwarfs....Pages 129-129
Compton scattering in stellar atmospheres at T eff below 100 000 K....Pages 130-130
Hydrogen absorption in high field magnetic white dwarfs....Pages 131-131
LTE for the analysis of white dwarfs?....Pages 132-132
Spherically symmetric and plane parallel NLTE model atmospheres for hot high gravity stars....Pages 133-133
The influence of the bound-free opacity on the radiation from magnetic DA white dwarfs....Pages 134-134
Models of 3 magnetic white dwarf stars in flux and polarization....Pages 135-135
Cyclotron absorption coefficients in the Stokes formalism....Pages 136-136
IUE Echelle observations of the photospheres and circumstellar environments of hot white dwarfs....Pages 137-149
The mass distribution of DA white dwarfs....Pages 150-159
PG 1159 stars and their evolutionary link to DO white dwarfs....Pages 160-170
Detection of ultra-hot pre-white dwarfs....Pages 171-175
White dwarfs in old planetary nebulae....Pages 176-185
New analyses of helium-rich pre-white dwarfs....Pages 186-190
The high mass white dwarf in HR 8210....Pages 191-195
The blue edge of the ZZ Ceti instability strip....Pages 196-196
L745-46A: Lyman alpha broadening and metal abundances....Pages 197-197
A model for the WC-type central star WR 72....Pages 198-198
White dwarf observations with the ultraviolet imaging telescope....Pages 199-199
LB 8827: A DB star with peculiar line profiles....Pages 200-200
Magnetic or pressure shifts of carbon bands in very cool helium-rich white dwarfs?....Pages 201-201
IUE and optical observations of DAO white dwarfs....Pages 202-202
CD-38° 10980 revisited....Pages 203-203
Analysis of the DO white dwarf PG 1034+001: Solution of the He II 4686Å line problem....Pages 204-204
Upper limits for mass-loss rates of PG 1159 stars....Pages 205-205
Exposed white dwarfs in dwarf novae....Pages 207-220
The spatial and kinematic distributions of field hot subdwarfs....Pages 221-231
Fundamental properties of magnetic white dwarfs in CVs....Pages 232-237
Searching for binary white dwarfs: A progress report....Pages 238-242
Iron- and nickel abundances of sdO stars....Pages 243-247
The HST white dwarf project: V 471 Tauri and Procyon B....Pages 248-253
The interacting binary white dwarfs....Pages 254-258
GD1401 and GD984: X-ray binaries with degenerate components....Pages 259-262
The white dwarf in AM Her....Pages 263-263
The final results of: A NLTE analysis of the helium-rich sdO stars in the Palomar Green survey of high galactic latitude blue objects....Pages 264-265
 3 He- and metal anomalies in subluminous B stars....Pages 266-266
HST observations of the white dwarf in V471 Tauri....Pages 267-267
Hot stars in globular clusters....Pages 268-268
From interacting binary systems to DB white dwarfs....Pages 269-269
White dwarfs in AM CVn systems....Pages 270-270
Hot subdwarf stars in binary systems....Pages 271-271
CCD imaging, optical spectroscopy and UBVRIJHK photometry of cool companions to hot subdwarfs....Pages 272-272
The multi-periodic pulsating PG1159 white dwarf PG0122+200....Pages 273-283
Asteroseismology of DA white dwarf stars....Pages 284-293
The hydrogen layer mass of the ZZ Ceti stars....Pages 294-294
Grasping at the hot end of ZZ Ceti variability....Pages 295-295
WET experiences in Central Asian observatories....Pages 296-296
The vista for seismological thermometry of the DBV white dwarfs....Pages 297-297
Ionized helium and carbon in the DBV GD358....Pages 298-298
Stabilized restoration of pulsating white dwarf spectra....Pages 299-299
Extreme ultraviolet spectroscopy of white dwarfs....Pages 301-312
White dwarfs in close binaries in the extreme ultraviolet explorer all-sky survey....Pages 313-317
Constraints on DAO white dwarf composition from the ROSAT EUV survey....Pages 318-322
Spectroscopy of the lyman continuum of hot DAs using the extreme ultraviolet explorer....Pages 323-327
An EUV selected sample of DA white dwarfs....Pages 328-331
The EUVE spectrum of the hot DA white dwarf PG 1234+482....Pages 332-336
ORFEUS and EUVE observations of the cool DO HD 149499 B....Pages 337-337
ROSAT studies of DA white dwarfs and the calibration of the PSPC detector....Pages 338-338