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White Dwarfs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

S. C. Vila
S. C. Vila*
Affiliation:
Dept. of Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa., U.S.A.

Abstract

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The effects of core crystallization and of convection in the envelope on the cooling of white dwarfs are reviewed. The case of a 0.6 M⊙ white dwarf composed of an oxygen core and a helium envelope is taken as example. Also the amount of hydrogen that a white dwarf can accrete before nuclear burning occurs is estimated and possible evolutionary relations between white dwarfs of types DA, DB and DC, as advanced by Baglin and Vauclair, are presented.

Type
Research Article
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 66: Late Stages of Stellar Evolution , 1974 , pp. 222 - 230
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1974 

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