White Dwarfs in the HET Dark Energy Experiment: A Magnitude-Limited Spectroscopic Survey

该奖项将支持一项观测调查，以探测和描述大量白色矮星的特征。 该项目的目标是在霍比-埃伯利望远镜暗能量实验（HETDEX）用可见光积分场可复制单元摄谱仪（VIRUS）获得的恒星光谱中寻找白色矮星，并创建种群统计数据，研究多种类型的单颗和双星白色矮星的演化和起源，预计将对天体物理学的多个领域产生影响包括白色矮星的产生和演化以及高密度物质的物理学。 该项目还将涉及业余天文学家和从高中到研究生院的学生。

This award will support an observational survey to detect and characterize a large sample of white dwarf stars. The goals of the project are to search for white dwarf stars in the stellar spectra obtained with the Visible Integral-field Replicable Unit Spectrograph (VIRUS) for the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX), and to create population statistics to study the evolution and origin of many types of single and binary white dwarfs.The is expected to have an impact on several fields of astrophysics, including the production and evolution of white dwarfs and on the physics of matter at high densities. The project will also involve amateur astronomers and students from high school through graduate school.