[Astronomy seminar] Reminder: First astronomy seminar of the year, Friday 19/01 @ 10:30 in FC 61

[Astronomy seminar announcements]

Dear all,
This is a kind reminder of today’s seminar!
Welcome


> On 15 Jan 2018, at 11:48, Angela Adamo <angela.adamo at astro.su.se> wrote:
> 
> Dear all,
> we welcome you to the first astronomy seminar of 2018, which will take place the 19th of January at 10:30 in FC 61 (6th floor).
> Our speaker will be Dr. Francesco Taddia, from Stockholm University.
> 
> Kind regards,
> Jorrit & Angela
> 
> 
> Title: Core-collapse supernovae and their progenitors
> 
> Abstract: 
> In the recent years we studied a number of core-collapse supernovae (SNe) 
> from different surveys. We focused on stripped-envelope SNe (Type Ib/c and IIb), circumstellar-interacting 
> SNe (Type IIn, Ibn, Ia-CSM) and peculiar Type II SNe (1987A-like), 
> from the intermediate Palomar Transient Factory, from the Carnegie Supernovae Project 
> and from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. We investigated single events, large SN samples, 
> and the host galaxies of specific SN groups, aiming to determine the nature of the SN progenitor stars. 
> Here we review our main results, in particular those concerning the debate between single
> and binary progenitor stars of Type Ib/c, the multi-channel progenitor scenario for SNe IIn and
> the variety of 1987A-like progenitor-star radii. We also review the open questions concerning the
> SN type <-> progenitor-star map and we discuss how we can address them using 
> the new Zwicky Transient Facily survey.
> 
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> Angela Adamo  
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> Department of Astronomy
> Stockholm University and Oskar Klein Centre
> SE-10691 Stockholm - Sweden
> tel: +46 (0)8 5537 8556 
> email: angela.adamo at astro.su.se
> http://ttt.astro.su.se/~adamo
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