Compact Objects at Wisconsin Home Page

What are Compact Objects?

Compact objects are white dwarfs, neutron stars, and black holes. They are the astronomical bodies formed when a star dies and leaves behind an ultra-compressed remnant of its interior. Here at UW, we study neutron stars and white dwarfs, and their environment.

Picture Gallery

Some of the pretty pictures we produce in our work.

Preprints

A repository of our published and soon-to-be published work.

Members of Our Group

• Observational
  • Hakki Ögelman - Professor
  • Sölen Balman (graduated Ph. D. 1997)
  • Chris Greiveldinger (graduated Ph. D. 1997)
  • Craig Markwardt (graduated Ph. D. 1997)
  • Tom Narita (graduated Ph. D. 1997)
  • Marina Orio - Scientist
  • Samar Safi-Harb (graduated Ph. D. 1997)
• Theoretical
  • Wlodek Kluzniak - Former Professor (now at Copernicus Institute, Poland)
  • Majid Borumand (graduated Ph. D. 1998)
  • William Lee (graduated Ph. D. 1998)

Other Links of Interest

• Astrophysics at UW Madison
• UW Madison Physics Department
• UW Madison Astronomy Department