Renedo Rouco, Isabel (Date of defense: 2014-11-13)
White dwarfs are the most common stellar evolutionary end-point. Moreover, they can be considered as reliable cosmic clocks to infer the age of a wide variety of stellar populations, including globular ...
Aznar Siguan, Gabriela (Date of defense: 2015-04-30)
Merging white dwarfs is a promising channel to trigger Type Ia supernovae, known as the double degenerate scenario. Supernovae are stellar explosions that radiate as much energy as any ordinary star is ...