Professor White collaborated with Professor Keel in a very different research direction: using partially overlapping pairs of galaxies to determine whether spiral galaxies are largely opaque or transparent to light.
Research Interests: Nature and evolution of hot gas in galaxies & clusters of galaxies
Recent studies include:
- constraining Type Ia supernovae models with X-ray spectroscopy of intracluster gas
- constructing and analyzing the first X-ray-complete sample of elliptical galaxies
- using the energy content and chemistry of cluster gas to constrain the nature of galaxy formation
- discovering that abundance gradients in the hot gas of galaxy clusters are common
- determining the dynamical temperature of dark matter in elliptical galaxies
- investigating ongoing galaxy formation in star forming cooling accretion flows at cluster centers
- assessing environmental influences on the X-ray emitting gas in early-type galaxies
- using partially overlapping galaxies to determine directly the opacity of spiral galaxies
Expertise: Astronomy & Astrophysics
