Conveners
Plenary session 3
- Armen Sedrakian (Frankfurt University)
Prof.
Nicolas Chamel
(Universitè Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)
25/03/2014, 09:00
At the endpoint of stellar evolution, pulsars are spinning extremely rapidly with periods
ranging from milliseconds to seconds and delays of a few milliseconds per year at most, thus
providing the most accurate clocks in the universe. Nevertheless, some pulsars exhibit sudden
decreases of their spin period. Because it was the first observed pulsar to exhibit such “glitches”, Vela has become...
Prof.
Dmitry Yakovlev
(IOFFE Institute)
25/03/2014, 09:40
Cooling neutron stars may serve as natural laboratories of superdense matter in their interiors. We discuss current theories of neutron star cooling. We outline the main regulators of the cooling such as the equation of state, neutrino emission mechanisms, heat capacity and superfluidity in superdense stellar cores as well as the properties of heat-blanketing envelopes of neutron stars. Next...
Dr
Andrew Melatos
(University of Melbourne, Australia)
25/03/2014, 10:20
I will review some key aspects of the physics of neutron star superfluidity
and superconductivity, which play an important role in the phenomena of
pulsar timing noise and rotational glitches. New results will be presented
from quantum mechanical Gross-Pitaevskii simulations of vortex avalanches
in a pinned, decelerating superfluid, which show the correlated nature of
vortex motion during...
