  White dwarfs (WDs) are the stellar core remnants of low mass stars. They are
typically divided into three main composition groups: Oxygen Neon (ONe), Carbon
Oxygen (CO) and Helium (He) WDs. The evolution of binary systems can
significantly change the evolution of the binary stellar components. In
particular, striping the envelope of an evolved star can give rise to a core
remnant, which can later evolve into a WD with significantly different
composition. Here we focus on the formation and evolution of hybrid HeCO WDs.
We follow the formation and stellar evolution of such WDs for a range of
initial conditions and provide their detailed structure, mass-radius relation
and luminosity temperature evolution. We find that both low mass WDs (< 0.45M ,
typically thought to be He WDs) and intermediate-mass WDs (0.45 < MWD < 0.7,
typically thought to be CO WDs) could in fact be hybrid HeCO WDs, with 5-25 (75
-95)% of their mass in He (CO). We use population synthesis calculations to
infer the birth rate and properties of such WDs. We find that hybrid HeCO WD
comprise the majority of young (< 2Gyr) WDs in binaries, but are more rare
among older WDs in binaries. The high frequency and large He content of such
WDs could have an important role in WD WD mergers, and may give rise to sub
Chandrasekhar thermonuclear supernova explosions.
