White Dwarfs

by Martino, Domitilla De; Silvotti, Roberto; Solheim, Jan-Erik; Kalytis, Romualdas

• ISBN13: 9781402013645
• ISBN10: 1402013647
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-09-01
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

Summary

The Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on White Dwarfs is a major reference source, not only on the specific field of the physics of white dwarfs, but also for astronomy in general. A wide variety of astrophysical problems are discussed in the book, ranging from stellar evolution, physics and chemistry of white dwarf atmospheres, stellar pulsation, physics of degenerate matter, binary systems and accretion processes, structure of our galaxy, extragalactic astrophysics and cosmology. The book presents the most up to date status of the field of white dwarf research, and is the latest work to present the findings of International White Dwarf meetings. Moreover, it provides guidelines for future research in this field and is an excellent textbook for Master and PhD level students and young researchers approaching the field for the first time.

Table of Contents

Preface	xvii
The WD people	x
1. White Dwarf Structure and Evolution
On Oxygen -Neon white dwarfs	3	(4)
V. Weidemann
Progenitor evolution and chemical stratification in CO white dwarfs	7	(4)
O. Straniero, G. Imbriani, L. Piersanti, I. Dominguez and P.G. Prada Moroni
Convective coupling: a largely overlooked effect in cooling white dwarfs	11	(4)
G. Fontaine and P. Brassard
Sinking of 22Ne in liquid WD interiors	15	(4)
C.J. Deloge and L. Bildsten
From red giants to white dwarfs: a radiation-hydrodynamics simulation of the planetary nebula stage	19	(4)
D. Schönberner and M. Steffen
The star formation rate from white dwarfs	23	(2)
E. Garcia-Berro, S. Torres and J. Isern
New determination of 12 C (α γ)160 reaction rate and impact on WD models	25	(2)
G. Imbriani, I. Dominguez, L. Gialanella, O. Straniero and F. Terrasi for ERNA collaboration
The origin of white dwarf rotation velocities	27	(4)
S.D. Kawaler, S. Hostler and J. Burkett
2. SNIa Progenitors
Type Ia supernovae: constraints for the progenitor scenario	31	(4)
E. Cappellaro
A new evolutionary path for the progenitors of type Ia supernovae	35	(4)
L. Piersanti, S. Gagliardi, A. Tornambé and I. Iben Jr.
Search for double degenerate progenitors of supernovae type Ia with SPY	39	(4)
R. Napiwotzki, H. Drechsel, U. Heber et al.
Double degenerates from the Supernova Ia Progenitor Survey SPY)	43	(6)
C. Karl, R. Napiwotzki, U. Heber et al.
3. Subdwarf B stars
Subluminous B stars and progenitors of helium core white dwarfs	49	(4)
U. Heber
The progeny of binary white dwarf mergers	53	(4)
C.S. Jeffery and H. Saio
New subdwarf B star periods	57	(4)
L. Morales-Rueda, T.R. Marsh, R.C. North and P.F.L. Maxted
SdB stars and the structure of the milky way	61	(4)
M. Altmann, K.S. de Boer and H. Edelmann
High signal-to-noise ratio observations of EC 14026 pulsators	65	(4)
M. Billeres and G. Fontaine
Fundamental parameters of sdB pulsators from asteroseismology	69	(4)
S. Charpinet, G. Fontaine and P. Brassard
Towards asteroseismology of the non-radial pulsating sdB star PG 1605+072	73	(4)
S. Falter, U. Heber, S. Dreizier, S.L. Schuh and O. Cordes
Pulsation period stability in the sdBV star HS 2201+2610	77	(4)
R. Silvotti and R. Kalytis
Feige 48: a model match for the coolest pulsating subdwarf B star	81	(4)
M.D. Reed, S.D. Kawaler, S. Zola, X.J. Jiang and the WET Xcov 17, 19 & 21 teams
MMT blue spectrograph observations of sdB stars: heavy elements abundances	85	(2)
P. Chayer, E.M. Green, G. Fontaine and R.A. Saffer
Radial velocity variations and metal abundances of three bright sdB stars	87	(2)
H. Edelmann, U. Heber and C. Karl
Preliminary results from CCD monitoring:light curves of subdwarf B stars	89	(2)
E.M. Green, I.R. Seitenzahl, K. Callerame et al.
Physical parameters for subdwarf B stars with composite spectra	91	(2)
R. Aznar Cuadrado and C.S. Jeffery
Are helium-rich subdwarf B stars the products of white dwarf mergers?	93	(2)
A. Ahmad, C.S. Jeffery and V.M. Woolf
Spectroscopic studies of the pulsating sdB binary PG 1336-018	95	(2)
V.M. Woolf, C.S. Jeffery and D. Pohacco
Companions to subdwarf B stars - degenerate or non-degenerate?	97	(2)
P.F.L. Maxted, T.R. Marsh and L. Morales-Rueda
Hot subdwarfs: further photometric observations of pulsating and non pulsating objects	99	(2)
J.M. González Pérez, R. Oreiro, A. Ulla et al.
The temperature of the cool stars in three eclipsing binary systems with the sdB components: HW Vir, PG 1336-018 and HS 0705+670	101	(2)
S. Zola, P. Niarchos and R. Østensen
Analysis of FUSE and TUE spectra of the sdOB star EC 11481-2303	103	(2)
N.J. Hammer, J.L. Deetjen, S. Dreizler, K. Werner and J.W. Kruk
Photometric and spectroscopic monitoring of the sdBV star PG 1605+072: the Multi-Site Spectroscopic Telescope (MSST) project	105	(4)
U. Heber, S. Dreizler, S.L. Schuh et al.
Stellar wind signatures in sdB stars ?	109	(4)
U. Heber, P.F.L. Maxted, T.R. Marsh, C. Knigge and J.E. Drew
4. Atmospheres and Chemical Composition
A new determination of the spectroscopic mass and radius for Sirius B	113	(4)
J.B. Holberg, J.W. Kruk, D. Koester et al.
Metal abundances in PG 1159 stars from CHANDRA and FUSE spectroscopy	117	(4)
K. Werner, J.L. Deetjen, S. Dreizier et al.
High resolution EUV & FUV spectroscopy of DA white dwarfs	121	(6)
M.A. Barstow, S.A. Good, N.P. Bannister et al.
Detection of photospheric 0 VI in the FUSE spectra of low metallicity white dwarfs	127	(4)
P. Chayer, C. Oliveira, J. Dupuis, H.W. Moos and B. Welsh
FUSE observations of the DAO white dwarf Feige 55	131	(4)
J. Kruk, P. Chayer and J. Dupuis
FUSE spectra of DO white dwarfs	135	(4)
S. Dreizier, K. Werner and J.W. Kruk
Trace metals in cool DA white dwarfs	139	(4)
D. Koester, M. Hünsch, B. Wolff, B. Zuckerman and I.N. Reid
Spectroscopic determination of mass for a sample of DAO white dwarfs	143	(4)
S.A. Good, M.A. Barstow, M.R. Burleigh et al.
Improved results for equilibrium abundances from diffusion calculations	147	(4)
S.L. Schuh, S. Dreizier and J.L. Deetjen
Discovery of oxygen in the DQ white dwarf star G 227-5 (PG 1727+560): a progress report	151	(4)
H.L. Shipman, J.L. Provental and J. MacDonald
Spectral analysis of supra horizontal branch stars in globular clusters	155	(2)
M. Ramspeck, U. Heber, S. Moehler and I.N. Reid
Abundance patterns in hot DA atmospheres from FUSE	157	(2)
J. Dupuis, P. Chayer, J.W. Kruk and S. Vennes
FUSE observations of the peculiar hot sdO star MCT 0019-2441	159	(2)
R. Lamontagne, P. Chayer, F. Wesemael et al.
Lyman gamma satellites due to HH+ collisions: application to FUSE observations of hot white dwarfs	161	(2)
N.F. Allard, S. Bourdreux, J.F. Kielkopf et al.
Quasi-molecular lines in Lyman wings of cool DA white dwarfs; application to FUSE observations of G 231-40	163	(2)
N.F. Allard, G. Hébrard, R. Ferlet et al.
Defining the red edge of the DB gap with PG 0112+104	165	(2)
P. Dufour, F. Wesemael, P. Bergeron et al.
The FUSE spectrum of the DB white dwarf GD 190	167	(2)
N. Petitclerc, F. Wesemael, J.W. Kruk and P. Chayer
Search for oxygen in cool DQ white dwarf atmospheres	169	(2)
M. Kilic, D.E. Winget, T. von Hippel, D.F. Lester and D. Saumon
FUSE spectroscopy of the two prototype white dwarfs with signatures of a super-hot wind	171	(4)
K. Werner, S. Dreizier, J.W. Kruk and M.L. Sitko
5. Magnetic White Dwarfs
Progress in modeling magnetic white dwarfs	175	(4)
S. Jordan
Spectropolarimetric survey of southern hydrogen-rich white dwarfs	179	(4)
A. Kawka, S. Vennes, D.T. Wickramasinghe, G.D. Schmidt and R. Koch
Magnetic field evolution in accreting white dwarfs	183	(4)
A. Cumming
Radiation-driven diskons	187	(4)
V.V. Zheleznyakov and A.V. Serber
Constraints on the parameters of a magnetic white dwarf corona imposed by its cyclotron emission	191	(4)
V.V. Zheleznyakov, S.A. Koryagin and A.V. Serber
Zeeman tomography of magnetic white dwarfs: general method and application to EF Eridani	195	(4)
F. Euchner, K. Beuermann, K. Reinsch et al.
Magnetic white dwarfs in the SDSS	199	(2)
B.T. Gänsicke, F. Euchner and S. Jordan
WD 1953-011 - a white dwarf with a star spot?	201	(2)
C.S. Brinkworth, T.R. Marsh, P.F.L. Maxted et al.
Do magnetic fields prevent hydrogen from accreting on to cool metal-line white dwarfs?	203	(2)
S. Friedrich, S. Jordan and D. Koester
Electromagnetic radiation from accretion-induced collapse of a white dwarf	205	(4)
V. Kryvdyk
Magnetic reconnection in the accretion-disk corona of compact stars	209	(2)
A.V. Oreshina, I.V. Oreshina and B.V. Somov
Cyclotron emission features in polars with low accretion rates	211	(2)
E.D. Gospodchikov and A.V. Serber
Transfer of cyclotron radiation in plasmas on magnetic white dwarfs	213	(2)
V.V. Zheleznyakov and A.V. Serber
Modelling magnetic DB white dwarfs	215	(4)
D.T. Wickramasinghe, G.D. Schmidt, L. Ferrario and S. Vennes
6. Variable White Dwarfs
The ZZ Ceti instability strip: facts and fallacies	219	(4)
P. Bergeron and R. Lamontagne
Heat waves and WD cooling theory in ZZ Ceti stars	223	(4)
N. Falcon
Searching for the most stable pulsating stars	227	(4)
A. Mukadam, F. Mullally, D.E. Winget et al.
The DBV white dwarf EC 20058-5234	231	(4)
D.J. Sullivan
Progress report on the hot DB PG 0112+104	235	(4)
J.L. Provencal, H.L. Shipman, R.L. Riddle and M. Vuckovic
Period stability on pulsating white dwarfs	239	(4)
S.O. Kepley, J.E.S. Costa, D.E. Winget et al.
Diffusion in variable DA white dwarfs	243	(4)
O. Benvenuto, A. Corsico, L. Althaus and A. Serenelli
Disentangling the core from the envelope in pulsating white dwarf stars	247	(4)
M.H. Montgomery
White dwarf seismology and the 12C(α γ)16O rate	251	(4)
T.S. Metcalfe
Group behaviour of the pulsating DB white dwarf stars	255	(4)
G. Handler
Asteroseismology of the DB star GD 358: improved evolutionary neodels	259	(2)
P. Brassard and G. Fontaine
On mode trapping properties of full DA white dwarf evolutionary neodels	261	(2)
A. Corsico, L. Althaus, A. Serenelli and O. Benvenuto
Preliminary results of the WET Xcov22 campaign at Calar Alto observatory	263	(2)
S.L. Schuh, T. Nagel, J.L. Deetjen et al.
Search for magnetic fields among non-pulsators in the DAV instability strip	265	(2)
A. Kanaan, D.E. Winget and S.O. Kepley
3He in variable DB white dwarfs?	267	(2)
D. Koester, B. Wolff, M.H. Montgomery and D.E. Winget
Wavelength dependence of pulsation amplitudes in DBV white dwarfs	269	(2)
D. Koester, C. Weidner, J. Ising and R. Kotak
Towards understanding another cool DA white dwarf pulsator: G 255-2	271	(4)
G. Vauclair, J.-N. Fu, N. Dolez, S.-Y. Jiang and M. Chevreton
7. White Dwarfs in Binaries
Direct impact accretors: evolutionary links between detached and semi-detached white dwarfs	275	(4)
T.R. Marsh, G. Nelemans and D. Steeghs
Helium white dwarfs remnants of binary evolution in globular clusters: hints from the case of the optical companion of PSR J 1740-5340 in NGC 6397	279	(4)
F. D'Antona, L. Burden, G. Andreuzzi et al.
Eclipsing binary ms pulsar PSR J 1740-5340: pre-He white dwarf +ms pulsar system?	283	(4)
M.J. Sarna and E. Ergma
They're hot, hot, hot	287	(4)
K. Exter, D.L. Pollacco, P.F.L. Maxted, R. Napiwotzki and S.A. Bell
HST observations of white dwarfs in close and wide binaries	291	(4)
H.E. Bond
Gravitational waves from the merging of white dwarfs	295	(4)
J. Isern, E. Garcia-Berro, J. Guerrero, J.A. Lobo and J.M. Ibáñez
The AM CVn systems - and their white dwarfs	299	(4)
J.-E. Solheim
The properties of non-magnetic white dwarfs in cataclysmic variables	303	(6)
E.M. Sion
White dwarfs in cataclysmic variables: HST results on GW Lib and gleanings from SDSS provide insight on the effects of accretion	309	(4)
P. Szkody, B.T. Gänsicke, E.M. Sion et al.
Internal conditions of accreting white dwarfs	313	(4)
L. Bildsten and D.M. Townsley
White dwarfs in magnetic cataclysmic variables	317	(4)
K. Beuermann and B.T. Gänsicke
The white dwarfs in the Intermediate Polars	321	(4)
D. de Martino
Principal components of variability of the accretion structures near white dwarfs	325	(4)
I.L. Andronov, N.M. Shakhovskoj and S.V. Kolesnikov
Imaging planets around white dwarfs	329	(4)
M. Burleigh, F. Clarke and S. Hodgkin
Rapid photometric changes in the temporal spectra of the PNN NGC 246	333	(4)
J.M. González Pérez and J.-E. Solheim
The search for planets around pulsating white dwarf stars	337	(2)
F. Mullally, A. Mukadam, D.E. Winget, R.E. Nather and S.O. Kepley
Variations of the outburst characteristics of the dwarf nova RU Peg	339	(2)
L.L. Chinarova and I.L. Andronov
Far-UV observations of Sirius-like binaries	341	(2)
M. Burleigh, M. Barstow, S. Good, H.E. Bond and J. Holberg
An improved visual and photographic orbit for Sirius	343	(2)
J.B. Holberg
Modeling the irradiated atmospheres of unevolved companions in precataclysmic binaries (PCB)	345	(2)
V.-V. Pustynski and I. Pustylnik
Seven years photopolarimetry of the AM Herculis system V834 Centauri	347	(2)
F. Scaltriti, S.J. Katajainen and V. Piirola
HS 1136+6646: a hot DA0.5+K6V young post-CE pre-CV binary	349	(2)
D.K. Sing, J.B. Holberg, M.A. Barstow et al.
White dwarf colors in low accretion rate binaries	351	(2)
D.M. Townsley and L. Bildsten
Mass of white dwarf in T CrB and variability of accretion disk	353	(2)
R. Zamanou, P. Marziani, V. Stanishev and N. Tomoe
Similarity of emission lines of accreting white dwarfs and quasars	355	(2)
R. Zamanov and P. Marziani
Calculating spectra of accretion disks in AM CVn systems	357	(2)
T. Nagel, S. Dreizier and K. Werner
Constraints on AM CVn formation channels from modelling the composition of their discs	359	(4)
G. Nelemans and C.A. Tout
8. Cool White Dwarfs, WD Populations, Astrometry and Surveys
The population of halo white dwarfs	363	(4)
E. Garcia-Berro, S. Torres, J. Isern and A. Burkert
A distant white dwarf population in the 2QZ and Sloan surveys	367	(4)
S. Vennes
White dwarfs from the Hamburg Quasar Survey	371	(4)
D. Homeier
The Calán-ESO Survey: white dwarfs	375	(4)
M.T. Ruiz and P. Bergeron
3D kinematics of white dwarfs from the SPY project	379	(4)
E.-M. Pauli
Search for ancient cool white dwarfs using GSC2 material	383	(2)
D. Carollo, B. Bucciarelli, M.G. Lattanzi et al.
Hidden sd/wd stars among the FAUST UV sources toward Ophiuchus	385	(2)
L. Formiggini
Unusual white dwarfs found in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey	387	(2)
H.C. Harris, J. Liebert, S.F. Anderson et al.
Identification of cool white dwarfs in the NORD Deep Wide-Field Survey	389	(2)
M. Kilic, D.E. Winget, T. von Hippel and C.F. Claver
White dwarf stars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: photometry	391	(2)
S.J. Kleinman, T. Takato, A. Nitta and J. Krzesinski
White dwarfs in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: spectroscopy	393	(2)
A. Nitta, S.J. Kleinman, J. Krzesinski et al.
The nature of high velocity white dwarfs	395	(2)
N.M. Silvestri, T.D. Oswalt and S.L. Hawley
Search for white dwarfs in the Capodimonte Deep Field	397	(2)
R. Silvotti, J.M. Alcalá, D. de Martino et al.
A lower limit to the age of the galaxy from the white dwarf luminosity function	399	(2)
J.A. Smith, T.D. Oswalt and M.A. Wood
The white dwarf population accessible to GAIA	401	(4)
S. Torres, E. Garcia-Berro, J. Isern and F. Figueras
9. Current and Future Space and Ground-Based Observing Facilities
The APEX high resolution EUV spectroscopic explorer	405	(2)
M.A. Barstow, N.P. Bannister, R.G. Cruddace and M.P. Kowalski
The World Space Observatory	407	(2)
M.A. Barstow & the WSO team
The VLT Survey Telescope: an efficient facility for the study of the WD luminosity function	409	(2)
R. Silvotti and J.M. Alcalá
New wine, new vintages, and limoncello: Conference summary	411	(6)
H.L. Shipman
Author index	417	(4)
Object index	421	(5)
Subject index	426