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White Dwarf Pulsations: A Review

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

John T. McGraw
John T. McGraw*
Affiliation:
Steward Observatory, University of Arizona

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The DA white dwarfs are those which show only the Stark-broadened lines of hydrogen in their spectra. They comprise about 80% of the total white dwarf population. A subset of the DA dwarfs, the ZZ Ceti stars, form a highly homogeneous class of nonradially pulsating variable stars. In this paper we shall review the observations from which both the physical properties of the stars and the characteristics of the pulsations have been derived. Data obtained since the last review of these variables (Robinson 1979) is stressed, as these data are forcing a somewhat revised understanding of the ZZ Ceti stars and their relationship to investigations of white dwarfs and to pulsating variable stars, in general.

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X. White Dwarf Pulsations
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 58: Stellar Hydrodynamics , August 1980 , pp. 601 - 611
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1980

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