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.

1 A Brief Introduction to the Physics of Non-Accreting White Dwarfs 2 Accretion of Interstellar Matter and Dust by White Dwarfs 3 Accreting White Dwarfs as Probes of the Formation, Composition and Evolution of Exoplanetary Systems 4 Accreting White Dwarfs in Roche Lobe-Detached Post-Common Envelope Main Sequence-White Dwarf Binaries 5 Accreting White Dwarfs in Symbiotic Variable Binaries 6 Accreting White Dwarfs in the Helium-Rich AM Canum Venaticorum Systems 7 The Accreting White Dwarfs in Cataclysmic Variables