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The Spreading Layer and Dwarf Nova Oscillations
Anthony L. Piro, Lars Bildsten
We describe recent theoretical work on the final stage of accretion when material passes from an accretion disk onto a white dwarf surface. Our calculations focus on understanding…
New Views of Thermonuclear Bursts
Tod Strohmayer, Lars Bildsten
Since the advent of powerful new X-ray observatories, NASA's Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE), the Italian - Dutch BeppoSAX mission, XMM-Newton and Chandra, a number of entirely…
Arresting Accretion Torques with Gravitational Radiation
Lars Bildsten
Recent theoretical work has made it plausible for neutron stars (NSs) to lose angular momentum via gravitational radiation on long timescales (around Myrs) while actively accreting…
Sinking of Ne-22 in Liquid White Dwarf Interiors
Christopher J. Deloye, Lars Bildsten
We assess the impact of the trace element Ne-22 on the cooling and seismology of a liquid C/O white dwarf (WD). Due to this element's neutron excess, it sinks towards the interior…
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…
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…