Session 5. White Dwarfs: Properties and Companions

Poster, Monday, January 9, 2006, 9:20am-7:00pm, Exhibit Hall

5.01 White Dwarf / Red Dwarf Binaries Resolved with the Hubble Space Telescope

J. Farihi (Gemini Observatory), S. Wachter (Spizter Science Center), D.W. Hoard (Spitzer Science Center)

5.02 Simulating Binary White Dwarf Mergers

N. Hearn, G. C. Jordan, T. Plewa (ASC Flash Center / Univ. of Chicago)

5.03 The Delaware Asteroseismic Research Center

J.L. Provencal, H. Shipman (University of Delaware), Whole Earth Telescope Collaboration

5.04 Exceptional Stars

S. R. Kulkarni (Caltech), B. Hansen (UCLA), M. van Kerkwijk (U. Toronto), E. S. Phinney (Caltech)

5.05 New White Dwarfs Discovered in the Kepler Discovery Mission Field

W. H. Sherry, S. B. Howell (NOAO), W. Borucki, D. Koch (NASA/Ames), D. Latham (SAO), Kepler Science Team

5.06 Mode Identification of DAVs with Time Series Spectroscopy

S. E. Thompson (Colorado College)

5.07 Calibration of Synthetic Photometry Using DA White Dwarfs

J. B. Holberg (LPL), P. Bergeron (U. of Montreal)

5.08 Cosmological Implications of a Solid Upper Mass Limit Placed on DFSZ Axions Thanks To Pulsating White Dwarfs

A. Kim, M.H. Montgomery, D.E. Winget (UT)