White Dwarfs

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxiii

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2. Structure and Evolution

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. The Empirical White Dwarf Mass – Radius Relation

      • Holger Schmidt

      Pages 3-9

   3. What We Have Learned about White Dwarfs from Studies of Novae

      • Sumner Starrfield

      Pages 11-17

   4. The Redistribution of Carbon and Oxygen in Crystallizing White Dwarfs

      • R. Mochkovitch, J. Isern, M. Hernanz, E. Garcia-Berro

      Pages 19-25

   5. The Cooling of White Dwarfs and Their Internal Composition

      • Maurizio Salaris, Margarida Hernanz, Jordi Isern, Inmaculada Dominguez, Enrique Garcia-Berro, Robert Mochkovitch

      Pages 27-33

   6. Theoretical Models of White Dwarfs with Helium-Rich Interiors

      • Josep M. Aparicio, Gilles Fontaine

      Pages 35-41

   7. The Electrostatic Screening of Thermonuclear Reactions in Astrophysical Plasmas

      • Nir J. Shaviv, Giora Shaviv

      Pages 43-48

   8. The Possible White Dwarf-Neutron Star Connection

      • R. Canal, J. Gutierrez

      Pages 49-55

   9. The Impact of Evolutionary Envelope Masses on the Evolution of White Dwarfs

      • T. Blöcker, F. Herwig, T. Driebe, H. Bramkamp, D. Schönberner

      Pages 57-62

   10. The Progenitors of High-Mass White Dwarfs

       • Falk Herwig

       Pages 63-66

   11. The Multiperiodic, Short-Period Variations of WZ Sge

       • J. L. Provencal, R. E. Nather

       Pages 67-70

   12. Limits on Gravities of Evolved Stars, from Infrared Photometry and Binary Companions

       • P. Thejll, A. Ulla

       Pages 71-74

   13. Rotation: CO White Dwarfs Near the Chandrasekhar Limiting Mass

       • Inma Dominguez, Oscar Straniero, Amedeo Tornambé, Jordi Isern

       Pages 75-78

   14. The Accretion-Induced Collapse of White Dwarfs Revisited in 3D

       • Domingo García-Senz, Eduardo Bravo

       Pages 79-82

3. Luminosity Functions and Populations

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 83-83

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   2. Towards a Luminosity Function of Hot DA White Dwarfs

      • J. Liebert, T. A. Fleming, J. B. Holberg, P. Bergeron, R. A. Saffer

      Pages 85-89

   3. White Dwarfs in M67

      • T. A. Fleming, J. Liebert, P. Bergeron, A. Beauchamp

      Pages 91-96

   4. Monte Carlo Simulations of the Kinematics and Luminosity Function of White Dwarfs

      • Enrique Garcia-Berro, Santiago Torres

      Pages 97-104

   5. Monte Carlo Simulations of the White Dwarf Population and Luminosity Function

      • Matt A. Wood

      Pages 105-111

The study of white dwarfs has been steadily growing during the last years and now is a mature field extending its influence over many others. Since white dwarfs are long lived objects, they can be used to obtain information about the history of the Galaxy. The simplicity of their structures enables them to act as precise particle physics laboratories and the extreme con­ ditions reached at their surfaces allow us to test the equation of state and to study the behavior of matter under conditions impossible to be reached in terrestrial laboratories. Nevertheless, white dwarfs are still challenging astrophysicists. Many questions, ranging from the determination of funda­ mental parameters to the evolution of their outer layers, are still waiting for a satisfactory answer. The European Workshop series on White Dwarfs started in 1974 as a con­ sequence of the effort and enthusiasm of Professor Volker Weidemann. The existing proceedings of these meetings, together with those corresponding to the lAU Colloquia held in Rochester (1979) and in Hanover (1988), provide a unique opportunity to follow the development of this field. We hope that the present volume will provide a representative snapshot of the state of the art in 1996. In this sense we are very indebted to all the participants that have sent their contributions according to the instructions (this clearly excludes everybody beyond three sigmas from the standards).

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• Institut d’Estudis Espacials de Catalunya, CSIC, Barcelona, Spain

  J. Isern, M. Hernanz

• IEEC, Edifici Nexus - 104, Barcelona, Spain

  J. Isern, M. Hernanz

• Dept. de Fìsica Aplicada, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

  E. García-Berro

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