Current challenges in the physics of white dwarf stars

D Saumon, S Blouin, PE Tremblay - Physics Reports, 2022 - Elsevier
White dwarfs are a class of stars with unique physical properties. They present many
challenging problems whose solution requires advanced theories of dense matter, state-of …

Probing the interior physics of stars through asteroseismology

C Aerts - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2021 - APS
Yearslong time series of high-precision brightness measurements have been assembled for
thousands of stars with telescopes operating in space. Such data have allowed astronomers …

A Gaia Data Release 2 catalogue of white dwarfs and a comparison with SDSS

NP Gentile Fusillo, PE Tremblay… - Monthly Notices of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
We present a catalogue of white dwarf candidates selected from the second data release of
Gaia (DR2). We used a sample of spectroscopically confirmed white dwarfs from the Sloan …

Overview of the LAMOST survey in the first decade

H Yan, H Li, S Wang, W Zong, H Yuan, M Xiang… - The Innovation, 2022 - cell.com
The Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST), also known as
the Guoshoujing Telescope, is a major national scientific facility for astronomical research …

A measurement of the equation of state of carbon envelopes of white dwarfs

AL Kritcher, DC Swift, T Döppner, B Bachmann… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
White dwarfs represent the final state of evolution for most stars,–. Certain classes of white
dwarfs pulsate,, leading to observable brightness variations, and analysis of these variations …

Pulsating white dwarfs: new insights

AH Córsico, LG Althaus, MM Miller Bertolami… - The Astronomy and …, 2019 - Springer
Stars are extremely important astronomical objects that constitute the pillars on which the
Universe is built, and as such, their study has gained increasing interest over the years …

Carbon–Oxygen Phase Separation in Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics (MESA) White Dwarf Models

EB Bauer - The Astrophysical Journal, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We enhance the treatment of crystallization for models of white dwarfs (WDs) in the stellar
evolution software Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics (MESA) by implementing …

The updated basti stellar evolution models and isochrones – III. White dwarfs

M Salaris, S Cassisi, A Pietrinferni… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We present new cooling models for carbon–oxygen white dwarfs (WDs) with both H-and He-
atmospheres, covering the whole relevant mass range, to extend our updated basti (a Bag of …

22Ne phase separation as a solution to the ultramassive white dwarf cooling anomaly

S Blouin, J Daligault, D Saumon - The Astrophysical Journal …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The precise astrometric measurements of the Gaia Data Release 2 have opened the door to
detailed tests of the predictions of white dwarf cooling models. Significant discrepancies …

Carbon–oxygen classical novae are galactic 7Li producers as well as potential supernova Ia progenitors

S Starrfield, M Bose, C Iliadis, WR Hix… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We report on studies of classical nova (CN) explosions where we follow the evolution of
thermonuclear runaways (TNRs) on carbon–oxygen (CO) white dwarfs (WDs). We vary both …