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Variable white dwarfs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 October 2020

H. L. Shipman*
Affiliation:
University of Delaware, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Newark, DE 19716 email: [email protected]
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Abstract

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Asteroseismology of white dwarf stars has led to a number of interesting results pertaining to the long term evolution and present state of white dwarf interiors. I will review recent results and will give a not necessarily comprehensive view of the prospects for further progress in this area. Two – but only two white dwarf stars - have shown the expected cooling as they age. Careful observations of a few white dwarfs with rich pulsational properties reveal interior compositions as well as the thickness of their surface layers. A few very well observed stars have revealed changes in their pulsational spectra which we don’t understand yet.

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Contributed Papers
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© International Astronomical Union 2020

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