Session 205. White Dwarfs

Oral, Thursday, January 12, 2006, 2:00-3:30pm, Salon 1

205.01 How Degenerate Stars Came to be Known as White Dwarfs

J. B. Holberg (LPL)

205.02 The White Dwarf Population of Messier 34 (NGC 1039)

K.A. Williams (Steward Obs.), K. Rubin (UCSC), M. Bolte (UCO/Lick Obs.)

205.03 The Mystery Deepens: Spitzer Observations of Cool White Dwarfs

M. Kilic, T. von Hippel, F. Mullally (University of Texas at Austin), W. T. Reach (Spitzer Science Center), M. J. Kuchner (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), D. E. Winget (University of Texas at Austin), A. Burrows (University of Arizona)

205.04 Constraining Convection in White Dwarfs Using Non-sinusoidal Pulse Shapes

M. H. Montgomery, D. E. Winget (University of Texas)