PPT-Characterizing the Galactic White Dwarf Population

Nicholas Fantin NGVS Meeting September 22 nd 2016 Outline Motivation Selecting White Dwarf Candidates Photometric and Kinematic Properties Halo White Dwarfs Next Steps Summary Motivation. Outline Outline Foreground fundamentals Galactic synchrotron Galactic synchrotron Galactic free Galactic free - - free free Galactic dust Galactic dust The other galaxies and clusters The other gala HET Dark Energy Experiment. Bárbara G. . Castanheira. The University of Texas at Austin. Universität. Wien. 17. th. European White Dwarf Workshop – . Tübingen. , August 16-20, 2010 . Hobby-. Eberly. iPTF. Eric . Bellm. , . Frank . Masci. , Gandalf Saxe, . Sumin. Tang . [Tom Prince]. 27 Aug 2014. Galactic plane data is new. BEFORE. 2013 July 2nd. Galactic plane data is new. 2014 August 20th. AFTER. By Marco Sherman, Arlo . Valiela. , and Luke Thayer. Hamsters in Watts. One hamster can generate a base power of .1 watt. To charge a phone, you would need 100 hamsters to be running on wheels. Now think of all the other possibilities. The James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (. JCMT. ), with a 15m dish, is the largest single-dish astronomical telescope in the world designed specifically to operate in the sub-mm wavelength regime. The JMT is located close to the summit of Mauna Kea, Hawaii, at an altitude of 4092m.. 5-1013 MSun Diameter: 1-200 kpc Luminosity: 106-1012 little or no rotation, so we can sun = Flares . in . an . L dwarf. John Gizis. Department of Physics and Astronomy. University of Delaware. May 24, 2013. @Brown Dwarfs Come of Age. Collaborators . and Facilities. Adam Burgasser. Edo Berger. S. R. Kulkarni. Supernova . remnan. . The blue emission is X-ray and arises. from relativistic electrons. Red (. Xray. ). Green Forbidden Optical Line. Guitar nebula: Pulsar traveling at 2000 km/s. Charge exchange!. Vidojevica. Vince Oliver, Astronomical observatory of Belgrade. Outline. *. Will . talk about the Serbian side . of the . DWARF . project. . The DWARF: “Definition”. DWARF is an international project aimed . By AJ, Aidan, Cheryl, and Emma. The Dwarf Planets. A dwarf planet is a smaller planet that shares an orbit around the sun such as an asteroid comets.. Scientists believe there may be as many as a few 100 other dwarf planets in the . New discoveries and follow up observations. University of Hertfordshire. Joana Gomes. Outline. New binaries. T dwarf search and summer student. Follow up observations. White dwarf observations. L dwarfs. . Snežana Stanimirović (UW-Madison). At the end of “GoldenEye”. James Bond goes to Puerto Rico . searching for a gigantic . satellite dish…. “GoldenEye” (1995):. the 17th James . Bond movie. Take out your HW (. annotated. “Lamb to the Slaughter” and written analysis). . Pick any part of the story (a paragraph, a few paragraphs, one sentence, etc.) and draw a big box around it. . Then, on the back of your copy of the story, .