White Dwarf Research Corporation

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White Dwarf Research Corporation

Logo of White Dwarf Research Corporation
Abbreviation	WDRC
Formation	July 9, 1999 (1999-07-09)
Type	Nonprofit 501(c)
Tax ID no.	74-2924755
Purpose	Scientific Research and Public Education
Headquarters	Golden, Colorado, United States
Director	Travis S. Metcalfe
Website	whitedwarf.org

White Dwarf Research Corporation (WDRC) is a not-for-profit 501(c) corporation, headquartered in Golden, Colorado, which was originally founded in 1990 in Austin, Texas and moved to Colorado 2009.

Description

Astronomers at White Dwarf Research Corporation conduct research in observational and theoretical astrophysics including data analysis, software development, observations, conference presentations, and publications in peer-reviewed journals. They also engage in educational activities such as mentoring undergraduate and graduate students and online and local presentations for astronomy enthusiasts.

Astronomers at White Dwarf Research Corporation carry out observational research using data from the Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope (LCOGT) network, 21 robotic telescopes at 8 sites around the world, which are supported by the National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO) with financial support from the NSF. For theoretical research, they employ the Stampede supercomputer at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) through the National Science Foundation (NSF) Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE).

The Fund for Astrophysical Research (FAR) of the New York Community Trust awarded the first grant to WDRC to support research in astronomy and astrophysics in 2000, which was used for projects in white dwarfs (High Altitude Observatory) in the Whole Earth Telescope (WET) Project. In 2003, WDRC was awarded a AAS small research grant for a theoretical project on empirical test of white dwarf crystallization. The Pale Blue Dot Project Adopt-a-Star Program is another project by WDRC to support the research the Kepler Asteroseismic Science Consortium (KASOC), which provides asteroseismological data from Kepler space telescope. However, the Carl Sagan Institute (Pale Blue Dot and Beyond) objected to the program's unauthorized use of the term “Pale Blue Dot project", since Carl Sagan published a book called Pale Blue Dot in 1994. WDRC spent a significant amount of time to solve the copyright issue with the Carl Sagan Institute. Pale Blue Dot is also a name used for a photograph of planet Earth taken on February 14, 1990, by the Voyager 1 space probe. In 2008, WDRC planned to raise $1.5 million endowment for a research on characterizing stars found by the Kepler space observatory, though it has collected about $150,000 by 2015. The Pale Blue Dot Project Crowdfunding Astronomy Research With Google Sky is another program established in 2015 by WDRC to supports scientific research on the stars observed by the Kepler mission. In 2020, WDRC was awarded a NASA grant as a subcontract to support new observations with Kepler space telescope and Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite.

See also

• Whole Earth Telescope
• Associated Universities, Inc.
• Eureka Scientific, Inc.
• Space Science Institute

External links

• Official website

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