White dwarfs : proceedings of the 9th European Workshop on White Dwarfs held at Kiel, Germany, 29 August - 1 September 1994

Thirty years of white dwarf research in retrospect. - The mass distribution and luminosity function of hot DA white dwarfs. - The stellar formation rate and the white dwarf luminosity function. - On the luminosity function of white dwarfs in wide binaries. - A new determination of the luminosity function of hot white dwarfs. - The luminosity function of dim white dwarfs. - Theoretical white dwarf luminosity functions: DA models. - Cool White Dwarfs in a southern proper motions survey. - The born again AGB phenomenon. - What is wrong with stellar modeling. - Transformation of AGB stars into white dwarfs. - The role of G in the cooling of white dwarfs. - Calibrating white dwarf cosmochronology. - Thermodynamic quantities for evolutionary and pulsational calculations. - Numerical simulations of convection and overshoot in the envelope of DA white dwarfs. - The formation of massive white dwarfs and the progenitor mass of Sirius B. - HST observations of white dwarf cooling sequences in open clusters. - Effects of updated neutrino rates in evolutionary white dwarf models. - Non-LTE line blanketed model atmospheres of hot, metal-rich white dwarfs. - New He I line profiles for synthetic spectra of DB white dwarfs. - Line broadening in hot stellar atmospheres. - Diffusion in PG 1159 stars. - Pure hydrogen in the spectrum of GD229. - Spectroscopic effects of T-inhomogeneities in the atmospheres of DA white dwarfs. - The ? line polarization in magnetic white dwarfs. - Compton scattering in stellar atmospheres at T eff below 100 000 K. - Hydrogen absorption in high field magnetic white dwarfs. - LTE for the analysis of white dwarfs? - Spherically symmetric and plane parallel NLTE model atmospheres for hot high gravity stars. - The influence of the bound-free opacity on the radiation from magnetic DA white dwarfs. - Models of 3 magnetic white dwarf stars in flux and polarization. - Cyclotron absorption coefficients in the Stokes formalism. - IUE Echelle observations of the photospheres and circumstellar environments of hot white dwarfs. - The mass distribution of DA white dwarfs. - PG 1159 stars and their evolutionary link to DO white dwarfs. - Detection of ultra-hot pre-white dwarfs. - White dwarfs in old planetary nebulae. - New analyses of helium-rich pre-white dwarfs. - The high mass white dwarf in HR 8210. - The blue edge of the ZZ Ceti instability strip. - L745-46A: Lyman alpha broadening and metal abundances. - A model for the WC-type central star WR 72. - White dwarf observations with the ultraviolet imaging telescope. - LB 8827: A DB star with peculiar line profiles. - Magnetic or pressure shifts of carbon bands in very cool helium-rich white dwarfs? - IUE and optical observations of DAO white dwarfs. - CD-38 10980 revisited. - Analysis of the DO white dwarf PG 1034+001: Solution of the He II 4686A line problem. - Upper limits for mass-loss rates of PG 1159 stars. - Exposed white dwarfs in dwarf novae. - The spatial and kinematic distributions of field hot subdwarfs. - Fundamental properties of magnetic white dwarfs in CVs. - Searching for binary white dwarfs: A progress report. - Iron- and nickel abundances of sdO stars. - The HST white dwarf project: V 471 Tauri and Procyon B. - The interacting binary white dwarfs. - GD1401 and GD984: X-ray binaries with degenerate components. - The white dwarf in AM Her. - The final results of: A NLTE analysis of the helium-rich sdO stars in the Palomar Green survey of high galactic latitude blue objects. - 3He- and metal anomalies in subluminous B stars. - HST observations of the white dwarf in V471 Tauri. - Hot stars in globular clusters. - From interacting binary systems to DB white dwarfs. - White dwarfs in AM CVn systems. - Hot subdwarf stars in binary systems. - CCD imaging, optical spectroscopy and UBVRIJHK photometry of cool companions to hot subdwarfs. - The multi-periodic pulsating PG1159 white dwarf PG0122+200. - Asteroseismology of DA white dwarf stars. - The hydrogen layer mass of the ZZ Ceti stars. - Grasping at the hot end of ZZ Ceti variability. - WET experiences in Central Asian observatories. - The vista for seismological thermometry of the DBV white dwarfs. - Ionized helium and carbon in the DBV GD358. - Stabilized restoration of pulsating white dwarf spectra. - Extreme ultraviolet spectroscopy of white dwarfs. - White dwarfs in close binaries in the extreme ultraviolet explorer all-sky survey. - Constraints on DAO white dwarf composition from the ROSAT EUV survey. - Spectroscopy of the lyman continuum of hot DAs using the extreme ultraviolet explorer. - An EUV selected sample of DA white dwarfs. - The EUVE spectrum of the hot DA white dwarf PG 1234+482. - ORFEUS and EUVE observations of the cool DO HD 149499 B. - ROSAT studies of DA white dwarfs and the calibration of the PSPC detector.