Catalán Ruiz, Sílvia (Date of defense: 2008-03-03)
White dwarfs are the final remnants of low- and intermediate-mass stars. About 95% of main- sequence stars will end their evolutionary pathways as white dwarfs and, hence, the study of the white dwarf ...
Morales Garoffolo, Antonia (Date of defense: 2016-03-08)
Core-collapse supernovae (CC-SNe) explosions represent the final demise of massive stars. Among the various types, there is a group of relatively infrequent CC-SNe termed type IIb, which appear to be ...