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White Dwarfs: Advances in Observation and Theory

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Hyades White Dwarfs: Basic Data and Mass-Radius Relations
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    Chapter 2 The Luminosity Function of Cool Degenerates
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    Chapter 3 The Luminosity Function of Massive White Dwarfs
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    Chapter 4 The Luminosity Function of White Dwarfs: A Study of the Selected Area 94
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    Chapter 5 Influence of Crystallization on the Luminosity Function of White Dwarfs
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    Chapter 6 White Dwarfs from the Edinburgh-Cape Survey
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    Chapter 7 White Dwarfs from the Hamburg Schmidt Survey
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    Chapter 8 A Few New Faint White Dwarfs
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    Chapter 9 Transition from Central Stars to White Dwarfs
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    Chapter 10 PG 1159 Stars and Related Objects
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    Chapter 11 Progenitors of sdB stars: Single stars?
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    Chapter 12 Peculiar Binaries and Born-Again Red Giants Among the Nuclei of Planetary Nebulae
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    Chapter 13 Subdwarf B–Stars and Binarity
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    Chapter 14 White dwarf central stars of old planetary nebulae
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    Chapter 15 The Merging of White Dwarfs
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    Chapter 16 Importance of the Crystallization of Minor Elements on the Cooling History of White Dwarfs
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    Chapter 17 Equation of State Revisited
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    Chapter 18 Coulomb Interactions in the Equation of State
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    Chapter 19 Axion cooling of white dwarfs
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    Chapter 20 Photospheric Composition and Structure in DA White Dwarfs
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    Chapter 21 The X-ray Luminosity Function of DA White Dwarfs
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    Chapter 22 Observations of Hot White Dwarfs with the Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope
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    Chapter 23 Direct Observation of EUV Opacity Sources in the Hot, DA White Dwarf G191-B2B
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    Chapter 24 A First Analysis of Rosat Pointed Observations of two DA White Dwarfs
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    Chapter 25 White dwarfs as probes of neutral winds in A stars
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    Chapter 26 Early White Dwarf Results from EUVE
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    Chapter 27 Metal Line Blanketing in Non-LTE Model Atmospheres
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    Chapter 28 New Results for Cool Magnetic White Dwarfs
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    Chapter 29 Stratified Helium-Carbon Layers with Radiation Pressure in Hot High-Gravity Stars
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    Chapter 30 Macroscopic Flux of Spinning Photons in Hot Layers of High Gravity Stars
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    Chapter 31 Lyman Alpha in IUE Spectra of DA White Dwarfs
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    Chapter 32 On the Atmospheric Composition of Cool White Dwarfs
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    Chapter 33 Are There Any Hydrogen-Rich, Cool White Dwarfs?
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    Chapter 34 Diffusion of Heavy Elements in White Dwarfs with Radiative Forces and Mass Loss
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    Chapter 35 Stark Broadening in White Dwarf Atmospheres
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    Chapter 36 Compton Heating in Atmospheres of Hot White Dwarfs
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    Chapter 37 Atmospheres with Inhomogeneous Surface Abundances and Their Relevance to the Dab White Dwarf GD 323
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    Chapter 38 NLTE Analysis of Extremely Helium Rich Subdwarf O-Stars
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    Chapter 39 Hubble Space Telescope Observations of White Dwarf Stars
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    Chapter 40 UV spectroscopy of PG1159-035 with HST, and a prospective view of future EUVE observations
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    Chapter 41 Hubble Space Telescope FOS Observations of G191-B2B and KPD0005+5106
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    Chapter 42 The Death of the EUV Opacity Problem
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    Chapter 43 Temperatures, Gravities, and Masses for a Sample of Bright White Dwarfs*
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    Chapter 44 Analysis of Three Magnetic DA White Dwarfs
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    Chapter 45 The H-Alpha Forest of the Magnetic White Dwarf Pg1015+015
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    Chapter 46 Feige 55: A Newly—Identified Dao White Dwarf with a Metal—Rich UV Spectrum and a Clue to the Properties of Dao Stars
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    Chapter 47 The Hot DAB Degenerates in the MCT Survey
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    Chapter 48 White Dwarfs in Cataclysmic Binaries
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    Chapter 49 Cataclysmic Variable White Dwarfs: A Progress Report
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    Chapter 50 Accretion on to Magnetic White Dwarfs: a New Approach
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    Chapter 51 The Accreting Magnetic White Dwarf in MR Ser
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    Chapter 52 AM CVn — A Helium Cataclysmic ?
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    Chapter 53 Spectra of Interacting White Dwarf Binary Systems
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    Chapter 54 A Population Model for Cataclysmic Binaries
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    Chapter 55 Determination of White Dwarf Masses in Polars
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    Chapter 56 Spectrophotometry of Common Proper Motion Binaries Containing White Dwarf Components
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    Chapter 57 Photometry of White Dwarfs in Wide Binaries
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    Chapter 58 EUV/X-Ray Selection of White Dwarfs in Binaries
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    Chapter 59 A Search for Double Degenerates
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    Chapter 60 The Physics of White Dwarf Pulsations
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    Chapter 61 Some Seismological Results for PG1159-035
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    Chapter 62 The Convective Outer Layers of a Pulsating White Dwarf
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    Chapter 63 First Numerical Simulations of Convection at the Surface of a ZZ Ceti White Dwarf
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    Chapter 64 GD 165: Another Case for a Pulsating DA White Dwarf with a Thick Hydrogen Layer?
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    Chapter 65 A New Tool for White Dwarf Seismology and an Application to the ZZ Ceti Star G117-B15A
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    Chapter 66 Asteroseismology of Planetary Nuclei
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    Chapter 67 The Whole Earth Telescope as an Instrument
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    Chapter 68 W.E.T. Observations of the DAV GD154
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    Chapter 69 Whole Earth Telescope Observations of the DBV White Dwarf PG1115+158: Preliminary Results
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    Chapter 70 Bi-Site Observations of the ZZ Ceti PG2303+243
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    Chapter 71 1H0857-242 During Outburst
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    Chapter 72 Further Photometric Observations of the Cataclysmic Variable PG 1012-029
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    Chapter 73 Photoelectric Observations of White Dwarfs at the Bologna Observatory
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    Chapter 74 The Pancake Photometer — for Wet Campaigns at Mt. Maidanak, Uzbekistan
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    Chapter 75 Workshop Summary
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Chapter title
The Whole Earth Telescope as an Instrument
Chapter number 67
Book title
White Dwarfs: Advances in Observation and Theory
Published by
Springer, Dordrecht, January 1993
DOI 10.1007/978-94-011-2020-3_67
Book ISBNs
978-9-40-104893-4, 978-9-40-112020-3
Authors

R. Edward Nather, Nather, R. Edward