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New Developments in Hot White Dwarf Models

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Detlev Koester*
Affiliation:
Institut für Astronomie und Astrophysik, Universität Kiel, D-24098 Kiel, Germany

Abstract

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A short history of EUV observations of white dwarfs is presented, and how they have forced us to use increasingly sophisticated theoretical models—starting from blackbody spectra up to the present generation of NLTE models which include the blanketing effect of millions of atomic lines.

Type
IV. White Dwarf Structure/Evolution
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1996

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