White Dwarfs [Paperback]

Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop, held in Naples, Italy, 24-28 June 20021. White Dwarf Structure and Evolution.- On Oxygen-Neon white dwarfs.- Progenitor evolution and chemical stratification in CO white dwarfs.- Convective coupling: a largely overlooked effect in cooling white dwarfs.- Sinking of 22Ne in liquid WD interiors.- From red giants to white dwarfs: a radiation-hydrodynamics simulation of the planetary nebula stage.- The star formation rate from white dwarfs.- New determination of 12C(?, ?)16O reaction rate and impact on WD models.- The origin of white dwarf rotation velocities.- 2. SNIa Progenitors.- Type Ia Supernovae: constraints for the progenitor scenario.- A new evolutionary path for the progenitors of type Ia supernovae.- Search for double degenerate progenitors of Supernovae type Ia with SPY.- Double degenerates from the Supernova Ia Progenitor Survey (SPY).- 3. Subdwarf B stars.- Subluminous B stars and progenitors of helium core white dwarfs.- The progeny of binary white dwarf mergers.- New subdwarf B star periods.- SdB stars and the structure of the milky way.- High signal-to-noise ratio observations of EC 14026 pulsators.- Fundamental parameters of sdB pulsators from asteroseismology.- Towards asteroseismology of the non-radial pulsating sdB star PG 1605+072.- Pulsation period stability in the sdBV star HS 2201+2610.- Feige 48: a model match for the coolest pulsating subdwarf B star.- MMT blue spectrograph observations of sdB stars: heavy elements abundances.- Radial velocity variations and metal abundances of three bright sdB stars.- Preliminary results from CCD monitoring:light curves of subdwarf B stars.- Physical parameters for subdwarf B stars with composite spectra.- Are helium-rich subdwarf B stars the products of white dwarf mergers ?.- Spectroscopic studies of the pulsating sdB binary PG 1336-018.- Companions to subdwarf B stars  degenerate or non-degenerate ?.- Hot subdwarfs: further photometric observations of pullı