{"id":10086,"date":"2015-03-09T00:58:03","date_gmt":"2015-03-09T04:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=10086"},"modified":"2015-03-09T00:58:08","modified_gmt":"2015-03-09T04:58:08","slug":"help-crowd-fund-research-to-answer-how-old-is-the-milky-way-galaxy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=10086","title":{"rendered":"Help crowd-fund research to answer “How old is the Milky way Galaxy?”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Aaron Webster,<\/a>\u00a0Ted von Hippel,<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Elliot Robinson<\/a>\u00a0at\u00a0Embry Riddle Aeronautical University have opened a crowd-funding campaign<\/a> to raise $3500 to support their research\u00a0into the question of\u00a0How Old is the Milky Way Galaxy? –\u00a0Experiment<\/a>\u00a0–<\/p>\n

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.<\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/em><\/p>\n

This video provides\u00a0more details on their project:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/vimeo.com\/118054821<\/p>\n

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Note that this campaign is based at experiment.com<\/a>, which hosts many\u00a0such crowd-funding efforts<\/a> in many scientific fields. See their FAQ<\/a> for details.<\/p>\n

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Aaron Webster,\u00a0Ted von Hippel,\u00a0and\u00a0Elliot Robinson\u00a0at\u00a0Embry Riddle Aeronautical University have opened a crowd-funding campaign to raise $3500 to support their research\u00a0into the question of\u00a0How Old is the Milky Way Galaxy? –\u00a0Experiment\u00a0– 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. … Continue reading Help crowd-fund research to answer “How old is the Milky way Galaxy?”<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-astronomy","category-education"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-2CG","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9274,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=9274","url_meta":{"origin":10086,"position":0},"title":"Hubble finding overturns theory of how globular clusters of stars are formed","author":"TopSpacer","date":"November 20, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"A new fining from ESA\/Hubble: The riddle of the missing stars Thanks to the NASA\/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, some of the most mysterious cosmic residents have just become even more puzzling. 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