We survey our understanding of classical novae—nonterminal, thermonuclear eruptions on
the surfaces of white dwarfs in binary systems. The recent and unexpected discovery of GeV …

Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are important distance indicators, element factories, cosmic-ray
accelerators, kinetic-energy sources in galaxy evolution, and end points of stellar binary …

Abstract Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) play a key role in the fields of astrophysics and
cosmology. It is widely accepted that SNe Ia arise from thermonuclear explosions of white …

Binary stars are as common as single stars. Binary stars are of immense importance to
astrophysicists because that they allow us to determine the masses of the stars independent …

We report on the masses (M WD), effective temperatures (), and secular mean accretion
rates () of 43 cataclysmic variable (CV) white dwarfs, 42 of which were obtained from the …

After initial claims and a long hiatus, it is now established that several binary stars emit high-
(0.1–100 GeV) and very high-energy (> 100 GeV) gamma rays. A new class has emerged …

JCW had long wanted to write a new monograph on supernovae. Despite an immense
explosion in the literature and many review articles, there had not been one since that of …

We review the formation and evolution of compact binary stars consisting of white dwarfs
(WDs), neutron stars (NSs), and black holes (BHs). Mergings of compact-star binaries are …

After hydrogen and helium, oxygen, carbon, and nitrogen—hereinafter, the CNO elements—
are the most abundant species in the universe. They are observed in all kinds of …

We examine the properties of white dwarfs (WDs) accreting hydrogen-rich matter in and
near the stable burning regime of accretion rates as modeled by time-dependent …