The spectra of white dwarf stars
Thursday, October 9, 2014 - 10:00
in Astronomy & Space
Yesterday I talked about the Higgs, and how its discovery has led to a flurry of articles about how it might apply to astrophysics. So today here's another example, and this one's interesting because it's not simply trying to use the Higgs to explain known phenomena, it's trying to use astronomical observations to understand things about the Higgs. It comes from a paper recently published in the Astrophysical Journal, and concerns the spectra of white dwarf stars.