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The Hot White Dwarf Population in the EUVE Survey

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Stéphane Vennes
Stéphane Vennes*
Affiliation:
Center for EUV Astrophysics, 2150 Kittredge Street, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720-5030, USA

Abstract

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The processes leading to the formation of white dwarf stars are known only in their most general principles; post-asymptotic giant branch evolution, leading to the formation of C-O degenerate cores, is possibly the main formation channel of white dwarf stars. In contrast, observations of hot white dwarf stars and studies of their main population characteristics offer detailed insights into the origin and evolution of these objects. We examine some new facts uncovered in the study of the survey of hot white dwarf stars at extreme ultraviolet (EUV) wavelengths. We describe model atmosphere techniques required to interpret these observations and discuss some implications of our findings for stellar evolution theory.

Type
IV. White Dwarf Structure/Evolution
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 152: Astrophysics in the Extreme Ultraviolet , 1996 , pp. 193 - 202
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1996

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