[Astronomy seminar] Astronomy seminar TODAY 10:30 FC61: Tim Dietrich

[Astronomy seminar announcements]

On 2019-09-30 8:17 , Alexis Brandeker wrote:
> Astronomy Seminar
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> Time & location: Friday October 4, 10:30 in FC61
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> Speaker: Tim Dietrich (Amsterdam)
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> Title: The multi-messenger picture of merging neutron stars
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> Abstract:
> With the detection of the binary neutron star merger GW170817, a new 
> era of multi-messenger astronomy started. GW170817 demonstrated that 
> neutron star mergers are ideal laboratories for constraining the 
> equation of state of cold supranuclear matter, to study the central 
> engines of short GRBs, to understand the origin and production of 
> heavy elements, and to measure the expansion rate of the Universe. We 
> discuss how the last milliseconds before and after the merger can be 
> investigated with full 3D numerical relativity simulations. We present 
> results from state-of-the-art numerical relativity simulations 
> covering large areas of the binary neutron star parameter space and we 
> explain how these simulations help to develop gravitational wave and 
> electromagnetic models. These models allow us to constrain the unknown 
> equation of state of cold supranuclear matter and in the future might 
> even be helpful to determine the dark matter content in our Universe. 
> I will conclude with a short review of the first months of the ongoing 
> observing run of the LIGO and Virgo gravitational wave detectors with 
> respect to binary neutron star candidates.
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> 11/10 (Fri) @ 10:30: No scheduled seminar
> 18/10 (Fri) @ 10:30: Marta Silva (Oslo ITA)
> 24-26/10 (Thu-Sat): Astronomdagarna
> 8/11 (Fri) @ 10:30: Nikki Zabela (Cardiff)
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> Also see https://www.albanova.se/events/seminars/ for scheduled seminars.
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> All welcome! Alexis Brandeker (Astronomy seminar organiser 2019)
>