Several UWM physics students, CGCA postdoctoral researchers, and CGCA professors are members of the Green Bank North Celestial Cap (GBNCC) pulsar survey. The GBNCC collaboration is searching for pulsars in all parts of the sky that can be observed by … Continue Reading »
UWM’s Kaplan helps identify the coolest known white dwarf
A team of astronomers has identified possibly the coldest, faintest white dwarf star ever detected. This ancient stellar remnant is so cool that its carbon has crystallized, forming – in effect – an Earth-sized diamond in space. “It’s a really … Continue Reading »
UWM Physicist collaborates on recently discovered “complex gravitational system”
David Kaplan, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Assistant Professor of Physics, is part of an international astronomical team studying a recently discovered triple stellar system. The system consists of a superdense neutron star which is emitting millisecond pulses of radiation (a pulsar), … Continue Reading »