Pulsating white dwarfs and convection
Abstract
Convection is a highly turbulent, three dimensional process that is traditionally treated using a simple, local, time independent description. Convection is one of the largest sources of theoretical uncertainty in stellar modeling. We outline recent progress in studies using pulsating white dwarfs to constrain convection and calibrate mixing length theory.
- Publication:
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White Dwarfs as Probes of Fundamental Physics: Tracers of Planetary, Stellar and Galactic Evolution
- Pub Date:
- 2020
- DOI:
- Bibcode:
- 2020IAUS..357..127P
- Keywords:
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- convection;
- white dwarfs;
- oscillations