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astro-ph2002
Internal Conditions of Accreting White Dwarfs
Lars Bildsten, Dean M. Townsley
We explain the physics of compressional heating of the deep interior of an accreting white dwarf (WD) at accretion rates low enough so that the accumulated hydrogen burns unstably…
astro-ph2002
White Dwarf Colors in Low Accretion Rate Binaries
Dean M. Townsley, Lars Bildsten
Our recent theoretical work (Townsley and Bildsten 2002) on the thermal state of white dwarfs (WDs) in low mass transfer rate binaries allows us to predict the broadband colors of…
astro-ph2001
Compressional Heating of Accreting White Dwarfs in CV's
Dean M. Townsley, Lars Bildsten
In recent years several Dwarf Novae (DN) systems have been observed in quiescence, when the accretion rate is low and the WD photosphere can be directly detected. The WDs are obser…