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

Session

Plenary session 4

25 Mar 2014, 11:30

Conveners

Plenary session 4

• Armen Sedrakian (Frankfurt University)

114. Neutron Star Binary Mergers as the Progenitors of Short GRBs

Prof. Edo Berger (Harvard, USA)

25/03/2014, 11:30

While short-duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have long been suspected to result from the mergers of compact object binary mergers, it is only over the past few years that observational data have been available. In this talk I will present the results of several detailed studies of short GRBs and their environments which demonstrate a connection to neutron star binary mergers, and which can be...

76. Nuclear Physics at Two Kiloparsecs with Millisecond Pulsars

Scott Ransom (National Radio Astronomy Observatory)

25/03/2014, 12:10

The central densities of neutron stars are the highest known in the Universe, so measurements probing the interiors of radio pulsars, or even just their masses and radii, can give us unique insights into the physics of matter at extreme densities. The discovery of several interesting new pulsars as well as improved instrumentation has finally allowed us to start measuring the masses of the...