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Frequency Stability of the Cooler Pulsating White Dwarfs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

D. J. Sullivan
D. J. Sullivan*
Affiliation:
School of Chemical & Physical Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, P.O. Box 600, Wellington, New Zealand

Abstract

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Although the frequencies of the pulsating white dwarfs are extremely stable, the evolutionary cooling of these geometrically constrained objects should lead to an observable period change over a sufficiently long time base. Direct measurement of a period change rate for the cooler white dwarfs should provide fundamental data on the core composition of these stellar remnants, and hence their cooling time scales. Progress on attempts to measure the period change rates of two white dwarfs is reported.

Type
Part 7. Pulsating White Dwarfs and Subdwarfs
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 176: The Impact of Large-Scale Surveys on Pulsating Star Research , 2000 , pp. 523 - 524
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2000

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