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Extreme Ultraviolet Observations of Hot White Dwarfs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Stuart Bowyer
Stuart Bowyer*
Affiliation:
Department of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley

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The term extreme ultraviolet (EUV or XUV) is employed in upper atmosphere physics and in solar work where it usually denotes the wavelength band between 100 and 1000 Å. Since thermal emission with 30,000 ≲ T ≲ 300,000 K peaks in this band, it might be expected that studies at these wavelengths would be especially useful for objects with effective temperatures in this range. In fact9 few such studies have been carried out. The reason for this anomaly is that very few EUV studies have been made at all, particularly because of unreasonably pessimistic estimates of the opacity of the interstellar medium and partially because of instrumental difficulties encountered at these wavelengths. The first search for extreme ultraviolet emitting objects was carried out in 1975 with instrumentation on the Apollo spacecraft in the Apollo-Soyuz mission. Four of approximately thirty preselected objects were detected with this instrumentation. The objects detected unquestionably are more a reflection of the prejudices of the investigators than they are a sampling of the contents of the universe. Nonetheless, two of the four objects detected were hot white dwarfs: HZ 43 and Feige 24. In addition, upper limits which turned out to be extremely useful were obtained on the Sirius A/B system. These results, plus more recent results obtained on hot white dwarfs will be discussed in this review.

Type
Colloquium Session II
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 53: White Dwarfs and Variable Degenerate Stars , August 1979 , pp. 66 - 85
Copyright
Copyright © The University of Rochester 1979

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