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White dwarf cooling sequences and cosmochronology
J. Isern, A. Artigas, E. Garcia-Berro
The evolution of white dwarfs is a simple gravothermal process. This means that their luminosity function, i.e. the number of white dwarfs per unit bolometric magnitude and unit vo…
The impact of mergers in the mass distribution of white dwarfs
J. Isern, S. Catalan, E. Garcia-Berro +1
Recent surveys have allowed to derive the white dwarf mass distribution with reasonable accuracy. This distribution shows a noticeable degree of structure that it is often attribut…
On the origin of high-field magnetic white dwarfs
E. García-Berro, S. Torres, P. Lorén-Aguilar +6
High-field magnetic white dwarfs have been long suspected to be the result of stellar mergers. However, the nature of the coalescing stars and the precise mechanism that produces t…
Outer boundary conditions for evolving cool white dwarfs
R. D. Rohrmann, L. G. Althaus, E. García-Berro +2
White dwarf evolution is essentially a gravothermal cooling process, which,for cool white dwarfs, sensitively depends on the treatment of the outer boundary conditions. We provide…
The on-board data handling concept for the LOFT Large Area Detector
S. Suchy, P. Uter, C. Tenzer +9
The Large Observatory for X-ray Timing (LOFT) is one of the four candidate ESA M3 missions considered for launch in the time-frame of 2022. It is specifically designed to perform f…
Explaining the type Ia supernova PTF 11kx with a violent-prompt merger scenario
Noam Soker, Amit Kashi, Enrique Garcia-Berro +2
We argue that the multiple shells of circumstellar material (CSM) and the supernovae (SN) ejecta interaction with the CSM starting 59 days after the explosion of the Type Ia SN (SN…