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Preface; About the Author; Acknowledgments; Contents; List of Illustrations; 1.: The First Clues; 2.: A Star the Size of the Earth? Absurd!; 3.: Great Balls of Fire; 4.: Relativity, Wave-Particle Duality, and the Nature of White Dwarfs; 5.: Star Power; 6.: Still Pretty Hot for a Fading Old Star!; 7.: Stalking the Wild White Dwarf; 8.: The Peculiar Spectra of White Dwarfs; 9.: Interlude: Crossing the Digital Divide; 10.: How to Make a White Dwarf; 11.: Diamonds in the Sky; 12.: The Envelope, Please!; 13.: Leaping into Space; 14.: Decoding the Spectra of White Dwarfs
15.: The Secrets in the SpectraEffective Temperatures and Surface Gravities; Luminosities; Individual Luminosities, Radii, and Masses and White Dwarf Mass-Radius Relation; Gravitational Redshifts; Chemical Compositions; Mass Distributions; 16.: Understanding the White Dwarf Menagerie; 17.: Music of the Spheres; 18.: The Whole Earth Telescope and Asteroseismology; 19.: Magnetic Personalities; 20.: Odd Couples; 21.: White Dwarfs and the Nature of the Milky Way Galaxy; The Age of the Galactic Disk; Distances, Ages, and Other Properties of Star Clusters; 22.: White Dwarfs and Cosmology
Appendix A: Some Useful Astronomical UnitsA.1 Distances; A.2 Stellar Parameters; Appendix B: Powers of Ten and Logarithms; Appendix C: Chandrasekhar's Models for Fully Degenerate White Dwarfs; Appendix D: "WD Numbers" for White Dwarfs in this Book; Glossary; Bibliography; Index
15.: The Secrets in the SpectraEffective Temperatures and Surface Gravities; Luminosities; Individual Luminosities, Radii, and Masses and White Dwarf Mass-Radius Relation; Gravitational Redshifts; Chemical Compositions; Mass Distributions; 16.: Understanding the White Dwarf Menagerie; 17.: Music of the Spheres; 18.: The Whole Earth Telescope and Asteroseismology; 19.: Magnetic Personalities; 20.: Odd Couples; 21.: White Dwarfs and the Nature of the Milky Way Galaxy; The Age of the Galactic Disk; Distances, Ages, and Other Properties of Star Clusters; 22.: White Dwarfs and Cosmology
Appendix A: Some Useful Astronomical UnitsA.1 Distances; A.2 Stellar Parameters; Appendix B: Powers of Ten and Logarithms; Appendix C: Chandrasekhar's Models for Fully Degenerate White Dwarfs; Appendix D: "WD Numbers" for White Dwarfs in this Book; Glossary; Bibliography; Index