Conveners
IUPAP young astrophysicist awards
- Virginia Trimble (UCLA)
Prof.
Virginia Trimble
(University of California Irvine)
12/17/15, 11:20 AM
Talk
Astrophysics, both the name and the subject, was born in the halcyon days of irrational international exuberance near the end of the 19th century, when there were 100's of international conferences in a decade and 10's of new international organizations being established. Those included the French-inspired Carte du Ciel and G.E. Hale's International Union for Solar Reseasch. General...
Nanda Rea
(University of Amsterdam/CSIC-IEEC)
12/17/15, 11:50 AM
Talk
Magnetars are a small subset of the neutron star population, being the strongest magnets we know of. They show themselves via powerful X/gamma-ray steady and flaring emission. The energetics of such flares in our Galaxy second only the supernova explosions. In this talk I will first review the observational characteristics of these highly magnetic pulsars, and some recent discoveries in the...
Sylvain Guiriec
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center / UMD / CRESST)
12/17/15, 12:10 PM
Talk
The Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) are the most intense explosions in the universe and the footprints of stellar-mass black hole formation. Their initial phase, called prompt emission, lasts from a few ms to several tens of s. We suggest here to replace the historical spectral model (Band function) for the GRB prompt emission (keV-MeV energy regime) with a new one. We show that the complex GRB...
