by Jamie Wilson | Apr 9, 2019 | Daily Paper Summaries
Astronomers discover a planetary fragment that survived the destruction of its host star – offering insights into the future of planetary systems like our own.
by Amber Hornsby | May 24, 2018 | Daily Paper Summaries
Imagine going from having data on 250 white dwarfs to almost 14,000 overnight… Thanks to the latest Gaia data release, this dream became reality, allowing astronomers to look for patterns in the local white dwarf population for the very first time.
by Thankful Cromartie | May 9, 2018 | Daily Paper Summaries
We thought we knew how quickly the white dwarf pulsar in AR Scorpii was spinning down, but a new study tells us we can’t know for sure.
by Amber Hornsby | Jan 8, 2018 | Career Navigation, Current Events
To unlock the secrets of the (local) universe, Adam Riess observes the brightness of supernovae and Cepheid variables to measure the distance to galaxies far, far away. Read more about his research before his plenary talk at #AAS231 on Tuesday.
by Mia de los Reyes | Jan 4, 2018 | Career Navigation, Current Events
As Professor Robert Fisher says, “if Yoda had to summarize Type Ia supernovae, he might have said something like ‘the classical model is a theory that misread could have been.'” What is he talking about? Come to his #AAS231 talk to find out!
by Elisabeth Matthews | Dec 29, 2016 | Daily Paper Summaries
Today we look at a polluted white dwarf in a binary system: by calculating how many sperm whales accrete onto the white dwarf each second, can we say anything about planet formation?