Neutron Star Astrophysics - Tests of Einstein Strong Gravitation

par Chengmin Zhang (Pékin)

mardi 1 févr. 2011, 14:00 → 15:00 Europe/Paris

Auditorium M. Vivargent (LAPTH)

As a dense compact object, a neutron star is about 10 km in radius and one solar mass. It possesses a strong gravitational field and magnetic field thousand billion times that of Earth, which makes it a natural lab for extreme physics. The talk will introduce the fundamental facts and observational discoveries of neutron stars in the past 40 years. As a result of a supernova explosion, how it becomes a source of Gamma ray burst, gravitational wave, and how to use it to test the predictions of Einstein's general relativity, to test the nuclear matter in the extreme state.