[Okc-wp4] Reminder: EO meeting on Nov 22th

[Francesco Taddia]

Today!

> On 19 Nov 2018, at 17:12, Francesco Taddia <ftadd at astro.su.se> wrote:
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> our next EO meeting will be this Thursday at 13:00 (5th floor KTH meeting room).
> 
> David Kaplan will give the following talk:
> 
> Title: Probing Stellar Evolution, Dynamics, and Fundamental Physics with
> Millisecond Pulsar Binaries
> 
> Abstract:  Pulsars are the ultra-dense rotating remnants of massive stars that
> exploded at the ends of their lives.  Millisecond pulsars are normal
> pulsars that have been "recycled" and been brought back from the dead
> by a binary companion.  I will discuss new results on binary systems
> consisting of millisecond pulsars and other stars.  Drawing upon
> recent results, I will explore areas where these binaries help give
> independent constraints on the nature, properties, and evolution of
> compact binary systems.  I will focus on what can be learned from
> "fast" millisecond pulsar binaries: those systems that are moving
> across the sky quickly enough that the Shklovskii effect significantly
> affects their spin-down behavior.  In some of these systems anomalous
> spin-down behavior has led to clues about their nature, formation, and
> evolution.
> 
> 
> see you there!
> 
> cheers
> 
> /Francesco
> 
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