UR #31: Using electron-beam lithography to improve X-ray gratings
EBL is capable of producing gratings with high enough resolutions to be used in next-generation X-ray observatories.
Pulsation At Aid: The First Pulsating White Dwarf In An Eclipsing Binary
How does pulsations help us study the core composition of white dwarfs? Find out in today’s guest post by Yuchen Xing.
UR #30: How do you grow a galaxy?
Using new observations from the UVCANDELS survey, a possible link between recent star formation, merger frequency, and the size-mass evolution of massive, quiescent galaxies is investigated.
UR #29: Measuring the White Dwarf Mass-Radius Relation using Thousands of Stars
Today’s undergraduate research post features a student who measures the white dwarf mass-radius relation using thousands of stars and a neat effect predicted by general relativity
UR #28: Photometry and Analysis of a Sample of Quasars on Archival Yerkes Observatory Photographic Plates
Today’s guest post looks at the work of undergraduate physics student Buduka Ogonor on using astronomical photographic plates to study quasars.