Probing Convection in Pulsating White Dwarfs
Abstract
Convection is a highly turbulent, three dimensional process that is traditionally treated using a simple, local, time independent description. Convection remains 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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American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts #235
- Pub Date:
- January 2020
- Bibcode:
- 2020AAS...23521802P