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LOCATION:4421 Sterling Hall\, Coffee and cookies 3:30 PM\, Talk begins
  3:45 PM
SUMMARY:Probing White Dwarf Binaries with Post-outburst Novae\, Astron
 omy Colloquium\, Bill Wolf\, UW Eau Claire
DESCRIPTION:Novae are the result of thermonuclear flashes on the surfa
 ces of hydrogen-accreting white dwarfs. With peak luminosities in the 
 hundreds of thousands of solar luminosities and roughly fifty detected
  in M31 each year\, novae comprise a well-observed class of stellar tr
 ansients from radio to X-ray. I will review the current understanding 
 of nova evolution and highlight successes we have had in modeling the 
 post-outburst phase of evolution to connect observable quantities to w
 hite dwarf parameters. I will close by introducing the lingering puzzl
 e of observed oscillations in the post-outburst phase and our attempts
  to explain it.<br>
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URL:https://www.physics.wisc.edu/events/?id=5222
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