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18 February 2020

Magnetar birth as engine of extreme stellar explosions

Le 6 septembre 2019 De 10h30 à 12h00 Guilet Jérôme CEA The birth of a neutron star with an extremely strong magnetic field, called a magnetar, has emerged as a promising scenario to power a variety of outstanding explosive events. This includes gamma-ray bursts, supernovae...

18 February 2020

Results of the Insight-HXMT X-ray Satellite and the future eXTP mission

Le 19 juillet 2019 De 10h30 à 12h00 Prof. Zhang ShuangnanInstitute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Science (Beijing) Insight-HXMT is China's first X-ray astronomy satellite and was successfully launched on June 15th, 2017. It carries three sets of collimated X-ray...

18 February 2020

Tidal stellar streams as probes of Gravity and Dark Matter

Le 5 juillet 2019 De 10h30 à 12h00 Khyati Malhan Stockholm University “Tidal stellar streams” have recently sparked burgeoning interest among the community. These structures, that are formed by the tidal disruption of globular clusters or satellite galaxies by the potential...

18 February 2020

High-mass X-ray binaries in nearby galaxies

Le 21 juin 2019 De 10h30 à 12h00 Jun Yang University of Utah The overall objective of my research is to improve understanding of the properties and structures of high-mass X-ray binary (XRB) pulsars, by bringing together a large set of observations spanning the observable...

18 February 2020

Testing weak-field gravity with wide binary stars

Le 14 juin 2019 De 10h30 à 12h00 Indranil Banik University of Bonn Binary stars separated by >3 kAU have orbital accelerations smaller than those typically experienced by stars in the outskirts of galaxies, whose galactocentric motions evince sometimes very large...