White dwarfs: Recent developments |
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| Authors: | D Koester |
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| Institution: | Institut für Theoretische Physik und Astrophysik, Universit?t Kiel, 24098 Kiel, Germany, DE
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| Abstract: | Summary. During the last decade white dwarfs have become important as tools in many areas beyond traditional stellar physics: from
the age determination of the stars in the solar neighborhood to the dating of open clusters and the distance determination
of globular clusters. They are primary candidates for the MACHO microlensing events, possibly for a stellar component of the
dark halo, and for the supernova Ia progenitors. The recent developments in these areas are reviewed, but some highlights
from more “mature” areas such as stellar parameters, mass distributions, magnetic, and pulsating white dwarfs are also summarized
briefly.
Received 5 October 2001 / Published online 11 January 2002 |
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| Keywords: | , white dwarfs –, Galaxy: halo –, globular clusters: general –, supernovae: general –, open clusters and associations:,,,,,general |
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