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Joint Astrophysics ColloquiumSpecial Astrophysics SeminarSearching for pulsars, neutron star demographicsFernando CamiloColumbia UniversityThirty-five years after the discovery of neutron stars we still know comparatively little about these fascinating end-products of massive stellar evolution. Our ignorance extends to fundamental questions as varied as `what are the outcomes of core-collapse supernovae?' and `how many double neutron star binaries are there that will spiral-in and generate a burst of detectable gravitational waves within a Hubble time?' I will address these questions while discussing some recent pulsar surveys and discoveries of neutron stars.
Thursday, October 9th 2003, 15:30
Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, room 305 |