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Observational and theoretical issues of interacting binaries was the topic of the 22nd of the renowned Advanced Course of the Swiss Society for Astrophysics and Astronomy. The three contributions by outstanding experts collected in this book deal with observations, symbiotic stars, cataclysmic variables, massive binaries and X-ray binaries thus filling a gap in the existing literature. The articles review the state of the art and address both students and researchers. The accessible and didactic approach makes the book a valuable source for future work on interacting binary stars whose study is essential for a better understandingof stellar evolution.

Double stars --- Astrophysics --- Étoiles doubles. --- Étoiles variables cataclysmiques. --- Étoiles doubles. --- Étoiles variables cataclysmiques.

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Étoiles variables --- Novae --- Supernovae --- STARS, NEW --- SUPERNOVAE --- VARIABLE STARS --- Observations --- Observations. --- OBSERVERS' MANUALS

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The astrophysical process of accretion onto compact central objects is ubiquitous across the universe. The study of white dwarf stars has greatly expanded in recent years, and this book presents, from first principles, the physics of the accretion process onto white dwarfs. Among the resulting phenomena are isolated white dwarfs accreting interstellar gas and dust as they orbit the galactic center, white dwarfs accreting from the debris disks of tidally disrupted asteroids, comets and exoplanets in other exoplanetary systems, white dwarfs accreting from red giant winds in symbiotic variable stars, white dwarfs accreting from Roche lobe-detached main sequence stars, white dwarfs accreting in cataclysmic variables, helium accreting white dwarfs in the ultra-compact AM CVn binaries, accreting white dwarf explosions in classical novae and Type Ia supernovae, the cosmologically critical white dwarf supernovae that led to the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the universe and the existence of dark energy. This book is intended for advanced undergraduates, graduate students, astrophysicists who specialize in white dwarf studies as well as non-specialist scientists.

White dwarf stars. --- Accretion (Astrophysics) --- Stars, New. --- Variable stars. --- Supernovae. --- Extrasolar planets. --- Naines blanches. --- Novae. --- Étoiles variables. --- Accrétion (astrophysique) --- Exoplanètes. --- Galaxies & stars. --- SCIENCE / Space Science / Astronomy.