White Dwarfs: Proceedings of IAU Colloquium No. 114, Held at Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA, August 1519, 1988 [Paperback]

This book contains the contributed papers and reviews from IAU Colloquium Number 114 on White Dwarfs held at Dartmouth College in August 1988. All the current fields of research in this area are covered including the evolution of white dwarfs, links to progenitors, luminosity functions of white dwarfs, evolution of white dwarfs in binaries, spectroscopy and atmospheric abundances, diffusion, accretion and convective mixing, the mass-radius relation, gravitational redshifts, masses of white dwarfs, and magnetic white dwarfs. Special emphasis has been placed on the intrinsic properties of single white dwarfs. All the articles are by internationally known authorities and contain the most up-to-date information available at the time of writing.Mass distribution and luminosity function of white dwarfs.- The luminosity function of white dwarfs in the local disk and halo.- Two new late-type degenerates: Implications for the white dwarf luminosity function.- Pre-white dwarf evolution: Up to planetary nebulae.- Evolution of white dwarfs: Starting from planetary nebulae.- On the structure of pre-white dwarfs.- Transport processes and neutrino emission processes in the interior of white dwarfs.- The effect of Coulomb interactions on the helium flash.- Equations of state of hydrogen-helium and carbon-oxygen mixtures.- Gravitational collapse of mass-accreting white dwarfs.- The temperatures of white dwarfs in accreting binaries.- White dwarf evolution in real time: What pulsating white dwarfs teach us about stellar evolution.- The whole earth telescope.- The effects of time dependant convection on white dwarf radial pulsations.- PG 1707+427: The DOV star with the simplest fourier transform.- Observations of cold degenerate stars.- Two new faint common proper motion pairs.- Cluster analysis of the hot subdwarfs in the PG survey.- An unsuccessful search for white dwarf companions to nearby main sequence stars.- The Bologna/ESO search for double degenerates.- Far ultraviolet observlã#