Conveners
Plenary session 4
- Armen Sedrakian (Frankfurt University)
Prof.
Edo Berger
(Harvard, USA)
3/25/14, 11:30 AM
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...
Scott Ransom
(National Radio Astronomy Observatory)
3/25/14, 12:10 PM
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...
