Aaron Webster

Aaron Webster

Feb 16, 2015

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Crash Course

Hey Everyone,

Here is Phil Plait's first crash course in astronomy video. It provides great explanations of the fundamental concepts involved in astronomy and you can find more of these on youtube. I invite you to subscribe and check out more!

Enjoy!


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About This Project

We derive the ages and other properties of stars by combining theoretical astrophysics, data from the best telescopes, Bayesian statistical analyses, and advanced computational techniques. We have developed an algorithm that allows us to combine the age information from multiple white dwarf stars to derive the age of our Galaxy. We request funds to support converting our algorithm to high-performance software code. From this we will both derive the age of the Galaxy as well as make our code publicly available for other research groups.

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A project funded by 28 people

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