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- A Brown Dwarf Solar flare - Article on the surprise solar flare of a brown dwarf star detected by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory.
www.msfc.nasa.gov/NEWSROOM/news/releases/2000/00-206.html
- Accreting White Dwarfs - Deep research from the TeSRE Institute - an Italian body who analyze observations in the IR, optical, X-ray and gamma ray energy bands.
www.tesre.bo.cnr.it/Research/SAX/core_program/node27.html
- American Scientist: White Dwarf Stars - Special site that covers the functionality of the white dwarf star.
www.sigmaxi.org/amsci/articles/00articles/Kawaler.html
- Astronomy 162: White Dwarfs and Novae - Short on text, but contains excellent images, diagrams and a table of the brightest white dwarfs
csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr162/lect/novae/novae.html
- Chandra X-Ray Observatory: Brown Dwarf Stars - Introduction and data on brown dwarf stars.
chandra.harvard.edu/xray_sources/browndwarf_fg.html
- Coronae of Dwarf Stars - Highly mathematical explanation of how to calculate the coronae of dwarf stars.
astro.uchicago.edu/rranch/vkashyap/Mcorona
- Cosmic census finds universe full of brown dwarfs - Details the surprising amount of brown dwarf stars in the universe. CNN article
www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/space/08/23/hubble.brown.dwarves/index.html
- Echelle Spectra for White Dwarfs - Contains final processed IUE SWP echelle spectra for all 55 hot white dwarfs
vega.lpl.arizona.edu/newsips
- MSN Encarta - Brown Dwarf - Brief encyclopedia article.
encarta.msn.com/find/Concise.asp?ti=0361B000
- NASA: White Dwarfs Introduction - Easy to understand and includes images
imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/science/know_l1/dwarfs.html
- Royal Observatory Greenwich: White Dwarfs - Explains stellar stability and evolution, electron degeneracy, the observation and evolution of white dwarfs, and the white dwarf Sirius B.
www.rog.nmm.ac.uk/leaflets/white/white.html
- The Discovery of Brown Dwarfs - Less massive than stars but more massive than planets, brown dwarfs were long assumed to be rare. New sky surveys, however, show that the objects may be as common as stars. Article from Scientific American
www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=000276D4-33FB-1C75-9B81809EC588EF21
- Using White Dwarf Stars as Ultraviolet Photometric Standards - Scientific Paper by Christopher K. Pankratz of Johns Hopkins University, March 10, 1997.
www.pha.jhu.edu/~pankratz/white_dwarf/white_dwarf.html
- White Dwarfs by Stefan Jordan - Home page by Stefan Jordan detailing some useful technical properties of White Dwarfs.
www.astrophysik.uni-kiel.de/arbeitsgruppen/agkoe/h-jordan-wz.html
- White Dwarfs Lecture - The origin and general characteristics of white dwarfs. High School level.
www-astronomy.mps.ohio-state.edu/%7Eryden/ast162_5/notes19.html
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