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White Dwarfs by Scott Miller |
| The nature of white dwarfs. |
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White Dwarf Stars |
| Some facts about White Dwarfs. |
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White Dwarfs and Novae |
| Some interesting information: Chandrasekhar's structure of white dwarfs, Cooling of White Dwarfs, The Nova Mechanism, Hubble image of white dwarfs in globular cluster, Table of Bright White Dwarfs, etc. (Section Not Complete 05.09.99) |
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White Dwarfs page by Stefan Jordan |
| Some facts about investigation of white dwarfs and their evolution. Two major groups the DAs and the non-DAs. |
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White Dwarfs - Level 2 |
| Introduction to White Dwarfs. What's Inside a White Dwarf? Observations of White Dwarfs. Many fine images. |
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White dwarf merger origin for extreme helium star V652 Her |
| Complete article about a star with some remarkable properties. |
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Stellar Evolution: White Dwarfs |
| Online lecture by James Schombert at the University of Oregon website. |
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White Dwarfs and Electron Degeneracy |
| An article at HyperPhysics website by Georgia State University |
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White Dwarf Research Corporation |
| Introductory material, research areas as well as links to white dwarf resources. |
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White dwarfs |
| An article on white dwarfs from National Maritime Museum/Royal Greenwich Observatory. |
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White Dwarfs as Dark Matter? |
| An approach to "dark matter problem". An article by Chris Flynn from Finnish Tuorla Observatory. |
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White Dwarf Database |
| A searchable index of white dwarf observations from Lunar and Planetary Lab of the University of Arizona. |
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The Structure and Evolution of Hot White Dwarfs |
| Report on recent research on white dwarfs by members of the X-ray Astronomy Group at Leicester University. |
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White Dwarfs |
| White dwarfs information at NASA's Imagine the Universe website. |
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Chandra :: Field Guide to X-ray Sources :: White Dwarfs & Planetary Nebulas |
| Brief introduction to evolution and nature of white dwarfs with illustrations from Chandra X-ray Observatory Center. |
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White Dwarfs |
| Some facts about White Dwarf. Sirius B as an exampele. |
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HubbleSite - News Releases about white dwarfs |
| Hubble Space Telescope news releases related to white dwarfs including images made by HST. |
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High Energy Astrophysics Picture Of the Week, February 25, 2001: Dwarf outshines star |
| The star Sirius is the brightest star visible in the northern hemisphere. As realized in 1862, the star has a companion - a small, faint, hot star known as a white dwarf. In this X-ray image the white dwarf companion is much brighter than the visual primary star. |
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White dwarf |
| Information on white dwarfs by Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. |
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White Dwarf Stars |
| Introduction to white dwarfs with examples by Chris Clowes. |
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WHITE DWARFS |
| An online lecture at the Ohio State University website by professor Barbara Ryden. |
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APOD Index - Stars: White Dwarfs |
| Images of white dwarfs with descriptions from NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day site. |
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Old Star's "Rebirth" Gives Astronomers Surprises - NRAO press release |
| Astronomers using the National Science Foundation's Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope are taking advantage of a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to watch an old star suddenly stir back into new activity after coming to the end of its normal life. |
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A cold surprise - Astronomy Magazine article |
| The discovery of an ultra-cool white dwarf in Virgo raises more questions than it answers. |
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Astronomers Use Hubble To ‘Weigh’ Dog Star’s Companion - ESA press release |
| New results published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society provide for the first time an accurate measurement of the weight of the nearest white dwarf, Sirius B, companion of the brightest star in the sky. |
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White dwarfs description from the Astronomy Knowledge Base |
| White dwarf star parameters and properties. |
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White dwarf |
| White dwarfs description from the Encyclopedia of Astrobiology, Astronomy, and Spaceflight by David Darling. |
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Star explosion makes speedy wave - Astronomy Magazine article |
| Astronomers clocked a blast wave from a nuclear explosion on the surface of a white-dwarf star racing through space at nearly 4 million mph (6 million kilometers per hour). |
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New telescope reveals white dwarf gluttony - a New Scientist article |
| A highly magnetised stellar corpse has been caught stealing matter from its companion star in unprecedented detail, reveals the first scientific data from the new Southern African Large Telescope (SALT). The measurements will help scientists understand how matter behaves under extreme magnetic fields. |
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Luyten's White Dwarf Catalogues |
| The catalogue includes all probable white dwarf and degenerate stars found in the Proper Motion and Faint Blue Star Surveys conducted by W.J. Luyten. |
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Cosmic Weight Loss: The Lowest Mass White Dwarf - Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics press release |
| Astronomers have found the lowest mass white dwarf known in our galaxy: a Saturn-sized ball of helium containing only about one-fifth the mass of the Sun. In addition, they have spotted the source of the white dwarf's radical weight-loss plan. An unseen companion, likely another white dwarf, has sucked away much of the tiny white dwarf's material, leaving it a shadow of its former self. |
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How White Dwarfs Get Their 'Kicks' |
| NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is providing strong evidence that white dwarfs, the burned-out relics of stars, are given a "kick" when they form. The sharp vision of Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys uncovered the speedy white dwarfs in the ancient globular star cluster NGC 6397, a dense swarm of hundreds of thousands of stars. |
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White Dwarf Pulses Like a Pulsar - NASA news release |
| New observations from Suzaku, a joint Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and NASA X-ray observatory, have challenged scientists? conventional understanding of white dwarfs. Observers had believed white dwarfs were inert stellar corpses that slowly cool and fade away, but the new data tell a completely different story. |
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White dwarfs too close to the edge - Astronomy Magazine article |
| A strange and violent fate awaits a white dwarf star that wanders too close to a moderately massive black hole.
According to a new study, the black hole's gravitational pull on the white dwarf would cause tidal forces sufficient to disrupt the stellar remnant and reignite nuclear burning in it, giving rise to a supernova explosion with an unusual appearance.
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