The Structure and Signals of Neutron Stars, from Birth to Death

Session

Plenary session 8

27 Mar 2014, 09:00

Conveners

Plenary session 8

• Ben Owen (Penn. State, USA)

117. Combustion processes in compact objects

Prof. Friedrich Roepke (MPA Garching)

27/03/2014, 09:00

Compact objects can change their state and configuration in combustion processes. In the case of white dwarfs, thermonuclear burning leads to an explosion as Type Ia supernova -- a phenomenon well studied in observations and theoretical models. Combustion processes, however, may also be adequate to describe phase transitions in neutron stars, in particular the "burning" of hadronic matter into...

116. Gravitational Waves from Core-Collapse Supernovae

Dr Christian Ott (Caltech, USA)

27/03/2014, 09:40

The next galactic core-collapse supernova will be observed in the electromagnetic spectrum, in neutrinos, and, for the first time, in gravitational waves. I review gravitational wave emission from stellar collapse and the subsequent core-collapse supernova evolution and discuss how gravitational waves can be used to probe aspects of the explosion mechanism and physical parameters of the...

129. Studying Pulsars with the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope

Prof. Alice K. Harding (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)

27/03/2014, 10:20

Of the several thousand pulsars that have been discovered by radio telescopes over the past forty year, only a handful were known to emit gamma-ray pulsations before the launch in June, 2008 of the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope. After five years of operation, 130 gamma-ray pulsars have been detected and several new populations have been discovered. Millisecond pulsars have been confirmed...