White Dwarfs

1. White Dwarf Structure and Evolution.- On Oxygen-Neon white dwarfs.- Progenitor evolution and chemical stratification in CO white dwarfs.- Convective coupling: a largely overlooked effect in cooling white dwarfs.- Sinking of 22Ne in liquid WD interiors.- From red giants to white dwarfs: a radiation-hydrodynamics simulation of the planetary nebula stage.- The star formation rate from white dwarfs.- New determination of 12C(?, ?)16O reaction rate and impact on WD models.- The origin of white dwarf rotation velocities.- 2. SNIa Progenitors.- Type Ia Supernovae: constraints for the progenitor scenario.- A new evolutionary path for the progenitors of type Ia supernovae.- Search for double degenerate progenitors of Supernovae type Ia with SPY.- Double degenerates from the Supernova Ia Progenitor Survey (SPY).- 3. Subdwarf B stars.- Subluminous B stars and progenitors of helium core white dwarfs.- The progeny of binary white dwarf mergers.- New subdwarf B star periods.- SdB stars and the structure of the milky way.- High signal-to-noise ratio observations of EC 14026 pulsators.- Fundamental parameters of sdB pulsators from asteroseismology.- Towards asteroseismology of the non-radial pulsating sdB star PG 1605+072.- Pulsation period stability in the sdBV star HS 2201+2610.- Feige 48: a model match for the coolest pulsating subdwarf B star.- MMT blue spectrograph observations of sdB stars: heavy elements abundances.- Radial velocity variations and metal abundances of three bright sdB stars.- Preliminary results from CCD monitoring:light curves of subdwarf B stars.- Physical parameters for subdwarf B stars with composite spectra.- Are helium-rich subdwarf B stars the products of white dwarf mergers ?.- Spectroscopic studies of the pulsating sdB binary PG 1336-018.- Companions to subdwarf B stars - degenerate or non-degenerate ?.- Hot subdwarfs: further photometric observations of pulsating and non pulsating objects.- The temperature of the cool stars in three eclipsing binary systems with the sdB components: HW Vir, PG 1336-018 and HS 0705+670.- Analysis of FUSE and IUE spectra of the sdOB star EC 11481-2303.- Photometric and spectroscopic monitoring of the sdBV star PG 1605+072: the Multi-Site Spectroscopic Telescope (MSST) project.- Stellar wind signatures in sdB stars?.- 4. Atmospheres and Chemical Composition.- A new determination of the spectroscopic mass and radius for Sirius B.- Metal abundances in PG 1159 stars from CHANDRA and FUSE spectroscopy.- High resolution EUV & FUV spectroscopy of DA white dwarfs.- Detection of photospheric O VI in the FUSE spectra of low metallicity white dwarfs.- FUSE observations of the DAO white dwarf Feige 55.- FUSE spectra of DO white dwarfs.- Trace metals in cool DA white dwarfs.- Spectroscopic determination of mass for a sample of DAO white dwarfs.- Improved results for equilibrium abundances from diffusion calculations.- Discovery of oxygen in the DQ white dwarf star G 227-5 (PG 1727+560): a progress report.- Spectral analysis of supra horizontal branch stars in globular clusters.- Abundance patterns in hot DA atmospheres from FUSE.- FUSE observations of the peculiar hot sdO star MCT 0019-2441.- Lyman gamma satellites due to H-H+ collisions: application to FUSE observations of hot white dwarfs.- Quasi-molecular lines in Lyman wings of cool DA white dwarfs; application to FUSE observations of G 231-40.- Defining the red edge of the DB gap with PG 0112+104.- The FUSE spectrum of the DB white dwarf GD 190.- Search for oxygen in cool DQ white dwarf atmospheres.- FUSE spectroscopy of the two prototype white dwarfs with signatures of a super-hot wind.- 5. Magnetic White Dwarfs.- Progress in modeling magnetic white dwarfs.- Spectropolarimetric survey of southern hydrogen-rich white dwarfs.- Magnetic field evolution in accreting white dwarfs.- Radiation-driven diskons.- Constraints on the parameters of a magnetic white dwarf corona imposed by its cyclotron emission.- Zeeman tomography of magnetic