Lecture Notes in Physics

Thirty years of white dwarf research in retrospect.- The mass distribution and luminosity function of hot DA white dwarfs.- The stellar formation rate and the white dwarf luminosity function.- On the luminosity function of white dwarfs in wide binaries.- A new determination of the luminosity function of hot white dwarfs.- The luminosity function of dim white dwarfs.- Theoretical white dwarf luminosity functions: DA models.- Cool White Dwarfs in a southern proper motions survey.- The born again AGB phenomenon.- What is wrong with stellar modeling.- Transformation of AGB stars into white dwarfs.- The role of G in the cooling of white dwarfs.- Calibrating white dwarf cosmochronology.- Thermodynamic quantities for evolutionary and pulsational calculations.- Numerical simulations of convection and overshoot in the envelope of DA white dwarfs.- The formation of massive white dwarfs and the progenitor mass of Sirius B.- HST observations of white dwarf cooling sequences in open clusters.- Effects of updated neutrino rates in evolutionary white dwarf models.- Non-LTE line blanketed model atmospheres of hot, metal-rich white dwarfs.- New He I line profiles for synthetic spectra of DB white dwarfs.- Line broadening in hot stellar atmospheres.- Diffusion in PG 1159 stars.- Pure hydrogen in the spectrum of GD229.- Spectroscopic effects of T-inhomogeneities in the atmospheres of DA white dwarfs.- The ? line polarization in magnetic white dwarfs.- Compton scattering in stellar atmospheres at T eff below 100 000 K.- Hydrogen absorption in high field magnetic white dwarfs.- LTE for the analysis of white dwarfs?.- Spherically symmetric and plane parallel NLTE model atmospheres for hot high gravity stars.- The influence of the bound-free opacity on the radiation from magnetic DA white dwarfs.- Models of 3 magnetic white dwarf stars in flux and polarization.- Cyclotron absorption coefficients in the Stokes formalism.- IUE Echelle observations of the photospheres and circumstellar environments of hot white dwarfs.- The mass distribution of DA white dwarfs.- PG 1159 stars and their evolutionary link to DO white dwarfs.- Detection of ultra-hot pre-white dwarfs.- White dwarfs in old planetary nebulae.- New analyses of helium-rich pre-white dwarfs.- The high mass white dwarf in HR 8210.- The blue edge of the ZZ Ceti instability strip.- L745-46A: Lyman alpha broadening and metal abundances.- A model for the WC-type central star WR 72.- White dwarf observations with the ultraviolet imaging telescope.- LB 8827: A DB star with peculiar line profiles.- Magnetic or pressure shifts of carbon bands in very cool helium-rich white dwarfs?.- IUE and optical observations of DAO white dwarfs.- CD-38 10980 revisited.- Analysis of the DO white dwarf PG 1034+001: Solution of the He II 4686A line problem.- Upper limits for mass-loss rates of PG 1159 stars.- Exposed white dwarfs in dwarf novae.- The spatial and kinematic distributions of field hot subdwarfs.- Fundamental properties of magnetic white dwarfs in CVs.- Searching for binary white dwarfs: A progress report.- Iron- and nickel abundances of sdO stars.- The HST white dwarf project: V 471 Tauri and Procyon B.- The interacting binary white dwarfs.- GD1401 and GD984: X-ray binaries with degenerate components.- The white dwarf in AM Her.- The final results of: A NLTE analysis of the helium-rich sdO stars in the Palomar Green survey of high galactic latitude blue objects.- 3He- and metal anomalies in subluminous B stars.- HST observations of the white dwarf in V471 Tauri.- Hot stars in globular clusters.- From interacting binary systems to DB white dwarfs.- White dwarfs in AM CVn systems.- Hot subdwarf stars in binary systems.- CCD imaging, optical spectroscopy and UBVRIJHK photometry of cool companions to hot subdwarfs.- The multi-periodic pulsating PG1159 white dwarf PG0122+200.- Asteroseismology of DA white dwarf stars.- The hydrogen layer mass of the ZZ Ceti stars.- Grasping at the hot end of ZZ Ceti variability.- WET experiences in Central Asian observatories.- The vista for seismological thermometry of the DBV white dwarfs.- Ionized helium and carbon in the DBV GD358.- Stabilized restoration of pulsating white dwarf spectra.- Extreme ultraviolet spectroscopy of white dwarfs.- White dwarfs in close binaries in the extreme ultraviolet explorer all-sky survey.- Constraints on DAO white dwarf composition from the ROSAT EUV survey.- Spectroscopy of the lyman continuum of hot DAs using the extreme ultraviolet explorer.- An EUV selected sample of DA white dwarfs.- The EUVE spectrum of the hot DA white dwarf PG 1234+482.- ORFEUS and EUVE observations of the cool DO HD 149499 B.- ROSAT studies of DA white dwarfs and the calibration of the PSPC detector.