Seminar

© 2025 Observatoire Astronomique de Strasbourg | Webdesign et développement Alchimy.

18 February 2020

Magnetars in the Fermi Era

Le 27 septembre 2013 De 10h30 à 11h30 Amphithéâtre - Grande Coupole George YOUNES USRA - Huntsville (USA) Magnetars are thought to be isolated neutron stars powered by the most intense magnetic fields known in the universe (B~10^14-10^16 G). These rare objects, with a total...

18 February 2020

The Halo System of the Milky Way and the CEMP Stars Connection

Le 26 septembre 2013 De 12h30 à 13h30 Amphithéâtre - Grande Coupole Daniela CAROLLO Macquarie University - AAO (Australie) I summarize the current view of the nature of the halo of the Galaxy, which comprises at least an inner halo and outer halo population, each with...

18 February 2020

Astrometry Lost and Regained

Le 28 juin 2013 À 10h30 Amphithéâtre - Grande Coupole Erik HOEG Niels Bohr Institute Copenhagen, Danemark From an experiment in Copenhagen in 1925 to the Hipparcos and Gaia space missions. Astrophysicists need accurate positions, distances and motions of stars in order to...

18 February 2020

Mapping the Galaxy’s Dust in 3D with Pan-STARRS1

Le 21 juin 2013 À 10h30 Amphithéâtre - Grande Coupole Eddie SCHLAFLY MPIA Heidelberg, Allemagne We present work studying the three-dimensional distribution of dust inthe Galaxy, derived from Pan-STARRS1 stellar photometry, covering almost the entire sky north of declination...

18 February 2020

MoCA: a Monte Carlo code for Accretion

Le 14 juin 2013 À 10h30 Salle de Cours - Grande Coupole Francesco TAMBORA Observatoire Astronomique de StrasbourgThe X-ray spectrum observed in X-ray Binaries (XRBs) and Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) is complex and constituted by several components, due to the circumnuclear...

18 February 2020

Young bright and old dark star clusters

Le 7 juin 2013 À 10h30 Salle de Cours - Grande Coupole Sambaran BANERJEE AIfA Bonn, Allemagne In this talk, I discuss two of our recent studies. In the first part, I talk about our studies to explain the observed kinematic and structural properties of two well-studied very...

18 February 2020

MOND laws of galactic dynamics

Le 31 mai 2013 À 10h30 Salle de Cours - Grande Coupole Mordehai MILGROM Weizmann Institute, Israel After an introduction of the MOND paradigm through its basic tenets, I will concentrate on one facet of MOND: the phenomenological laws that follow essentially from only the basic...