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ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM

Wednesday, October 2, 2024
4:00pm to 5:00pm
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Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Stars Disrupted, Destroyed and Coalesced
Iair Arcavi, Professor, School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University,

Supernovae, tidal disruption events and merging neutron stars can provide a wealth of physical insights from nuclear physics to cosmology; they can teach us about the creation of the elements, the formation of compact objects, accretion processes, feedback, galaxy evolution, and more. I will present how my research group is investigating the nature of tidal disruption events and their surprising emission properties; how we are using supernovae to constrain late-stage stellar evolution and explosion, and asteroseismology to constrain the inner structure of massive stars; and how we are hoping to find more gravitational-wave counterparts through multi-observatory coordination. 

For more information, please contact George Djorgovski by email at [email protected] or visit https://www.astro.caltech.edu.