UWEC CERCA 2026

White dwarfs are the end states of stars with masses less than about six times the mass of the sun. They are exotic objects with masses comparable to that of the sun packed into a volume about as small as the earth's. Their very structure requires quantum mechanics to explain, and they host important events like novae and type Ia supernovae, which are responsible for the creation of about half of the iron in the universe. To study the evolution and structure of white dwarfs, astrophysicists use computational models. Creating these models, however, can require evolving a stellar model through all the phases of stellar evolution, which is both time consuming and unpredictable. A researcher would like to simply specify the mass and composition structure of a model and start from there. In this project, we develop several tools and datasets to streamline creating models of white dwarf stars for use in the popular MESA stellar evolution code. These tools have already been used by our research groups and collaborators.