Mass ejection, compact objects, and electromagnetic transients
Event Date:
2020-06-22T15:00:00
2020-06-22T16:00:00
Event Location:
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Speaker:
Rodrigo Fernandez (U Alberta)
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Intended Audience:
Undergraduate
Local Contact:
Douglas Scott
Event Information:
Mass ejection is involved in the generation of many types of electromagnetic transient, often in the presence of at least one compact stellar object. A variety of processes can cause mass to become unbound from a gravitational field, including neutrino emission or absorption, magnetic stresses, angular momentum transport, or nuclear processes. In this talk I will discuss two astrophysical situations in which non-trivial mass ejection from the vicinity of a compact object should occur: the accretion disk formed in a neutron star merger, and failed supernovae that make black holes.
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2020-06-22T15:00:00
2020-06-22T16:00:00
Mass ejection, compact objects, and electromagnetic transients
Event Information:
Mass ejection is involved in the generation of many types of electromagnetic transient, often in the presence of at least one compact stellar object. A variety of processes can cause mass to become unbound from a gravitational field, including neutrino emission or absorption, magnetic stresses, angular momentum transport, or nuclear processes. In this talk I will discuss two astrophysical situations in which non-trivial mass ejection from the vicinity of a compact object should occur: the accretion disk formed in a neutron star merger, and failed supernovae that make black holes.
Event Location:
Connect via zoom