Conveners
Plenary session 8
- Ben Owen (Penn. State, USA)
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...
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...
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...
