We have developed a sequence of programs designed to help astronomers do time-series photometry. The sequence reflects the way this is done: one must first acquire the data at the telescope, using a suitable photometer (program: Q9), reduce the data (Qed), analyze the data (Qmrg, Qsft), then interpret the data by fitting it with models of the astrophysical processes believed to be operating in the star (WDEC, WD-40).

• Q9 data acquisition software and tutorial
• Qed data reduction software and tutorial
• Q* data analysis utilities
• WD-40 models for data interpretation
• Parallel version of the PIKAIA genetic algorithm
• OpenWD an open-source white dwarf evolution code (in development)

We have recently started an archive for electronic copies of dissertations relevant to white dwarf stars. If you know of a dissertation that should be included here and is available electronically, please contact us and we will gladly post it here.

• Double White Dwarfs as Probes of Single and Binary Star Evolution
  by Jeff Andrews
• The Spectroscopy of DA White Dwarfs at High Resolution
  by Nigel Bannister
• Pulsational Oddities at the Extremes of the DA White Dwarf Instability Strip
  by Keaton Bell
• Propriétés atmosphériques des étoiles naines blanches froides de type DA
  by Pierre Bergeron
• Detailed Studies of White Dwarf Binaries and their Orbital Periods
  by Madelon Bours
• Hot White Dwarfs in Detached Binaries from the ROSAT WFC All Sky Survey
  by Matt Burleigh
• The Age of the Milky Way Galaxy from White Dwarf Chronometry
  by Chuck Claver
• Pulsaciones en Estrellas Enanas Blancas Variables ZZ Ceti
  by Alejandro Córsico
• Peculiar Variations of White Dwarf Pulsation Frequencies and MAESTRO
  by James Dalessio
• White Dwarfs and the Ages of Stellar Populations
  by Steven De Gennaro
• The metal content of hot DA white dwarf spectra
  by Nathan James Dickinson
• The Origin of Carbon-Atmosphere White Dwarfs with Implications for Type Ia Supernovae
  by Bart Dunlap
• Creating and Measuring White Dwarf Photospheres in a Terrestrial Laboratory
  by Ross Falcon
• An Infrared Search for Substellar Companions to Nearby White Dwarfs
  by Jay Farihi
• Dynamical Tides and Oscillations in Stellar and Planetary Systems
  by Jim Fuller
• Heating and Cooling of Accreting White Dwarfs
  by Boris Gänsicke
• Stellar and Planetary Remnants in Large-Area Surveys
  by Nicola Pietro Gentile Fusillo
• Distribuição de Massa, Cristalização e Variabilidade das Estrelas Anãs Brancas DA
  by Odilon Giovannini
• Stellar and Planetary Remnants in Digitial Sky Surveys
  by Jonathan Girven
• From Close Binary White Dwarfs to White Dwarfs
  by José Miguel González Pérez
• Exploring the Final Stages of Stars in our Milky Way Using Large Sky Surveys
  by Sandra Greiss
• Optical Variability in Compact Sources
  by Paul Groot
• Variable Central Stars of Young Planetary Nebulae
  by Gerald Handler
• Gravitational Waves, Pulsations, and More: High-Speed Photometry of Low-Mass, He-Core White Dwarfs
  by JJ Hermes
• The Properties of Cool DZ White Dwarfs
  by Mark Hollands
• White Dwarfs and the Ages of Open Clusters
  by Elizabeth Jeffery
• Astrophysics with White Dwarfs
  by Jasonjot Singh Kalirai
• Magnetism and Pulsating Stars
  by Antonio Kanaan
• The Transformation from Planetary Nebula Nucleus to White Dwarf: A Seismological Study of Stellar Metamorphosis
  by Steve Kawaler
• Cool White Dwarfs and the Age of the Galaxy
  by Mukremin Kilic
• Probing Exotic Physics with Pulsating White Dwarfs
  by Agnès Kim
• G29-38 and the Advent of Cool DAV Asteroseismology
  by Scot Kleinman
• The Physics of the Atmospheres of Cool White Dwarfs
  by Piotr Kowalski
• Computational Asteroseismology [HTML]
  by Travis Metcalfe
• The Evolution and Pulsation of Crystallizing White Dwarf Stars
  by Mike Montgomery
• Ensemble Characteristics of the ZZ Ceti Stars
  by Anjum Mukadam
• Substellar Companions to White Dwarves
  by Fergal Mullally
• NLTE accretion disc models for the AM Canum Venaticorum systems
  by Mosab Nasser
• White dwarfs, black holes and neutron stars in close binaries [HTML]
  by Gijs Nelemans
• Evaluation of Mode Identification Techniques in Two Key White Dwarf Pulsators
  by Atsuko Nitta
• Pre-White Dwarf Pulsation - Variations on a Theme
  by Sean O'Brien
• Time Resolved CCD Photometry - Development of a multi-windowing system and tests on variable subdwarf stars
  by Roy Østensen
• Formación y Evolución de Enanas Blancas Deficientes en Hidrógeno
  by Jorge Panei
• Eclipsing White Dwarf Binaries
  by Steven Parsons
• The Interacting Binary White Dwarf Systems
  by Judi Provencal
• Physical Properties of Eclipsing White Dwarf Binaries
  by Stylianos Pyrzas
• Post-Common-Envelope Binaries from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
  by Alberto Rebassa Mansergas
• Diffusion processes in white dwarf stellar atmospheres
  by Sonja Schuh
• The Origins of Hot Subdwarf Stars as Illuminated by Composite-Spectrum Binaries
  by Michele Stark
• Observations and Theory of Pulsating Helium White Dwarfs
  by Justin Steinfadt
• Revelations from Time Series Spectroscopy of Pulsating White Dwarf Stars
  by Susan Thompson
• The evolution of close binaries with white dwarf components
  by Silvia Toonen
• Understanding the life of evolved stars using modern astronomical tools and techniques
  by Murat Uzundag

• White Dwarfs in Open Clusters: The Initial-Final Mass Relation, the Supernova Mass Limit, and the White Dwarf Deficit
  by Kurtis Williams

• Beobachtung von heißen Weißen Zwergsternen im ultravioletten und extrem-ultravioletten Spektralbereich
  by Burkhard Wolff

• Astero-archaeology: Reading the Galactic History Recorded in the White Dwarf Stars
  by Matt Wood
• Excitation and Saturation of White Dwarf Pulsations
  by Yanqin Wu
• Mode Identification from Combination Frequency Amplitudes in Pulsating White Dwarf Stars
  by Celeste Yeates