Monte Carlo Simulation and Balloon-Borne Observation of Energetic Radiations and Electromagnetic Fields from Thunderstorms and Lightning Mahdi Bagheri Space Science Center and Physics Department, University of New Hampshire … Continue reading "CRA Seminar: Mahdi Bagheri (University of New Hampshire)"
Title: The Evolving X-ray Spectrum of Active Galactic Nuclei Abstract: The cosmic X-ray background (XRB) spectrum and active galaxy number counts encode essential information about the spectral evolution of active … Continue reading "CRA Cosmic Coffee: Mathilda Avirett-Mackenzie"
Title: How Black Holes Dine above the Eddington "Limit" without Overeating or Excessive Belching Abstract The study of super-Eddington accretion is essential to our understanding of the growth of super-massive … Continue reading "CRA seminar: Prof. Shane Davis (University of Virginia)"
Probing neutron star physics with gravitational wave detections The recent detection of the binary neutron star merger event (GW170817) has marked the beginning of multi-messenger astronomy with gravitational waves. In … Continue reading "CRA Seminar: Prof. Huan Yang (Perimeter Institute)"
https://research.monash.edu/en/persons/juan-calderon-bustillo Title: Exploring the strong field phenomena of black holes Abstract: At the event horizon of a black hole, gravity reaches its most extreme behaviour. Studying the dynamics of event … Continue reading "CRA Seminar: Dr. Juan Calderon Bustillo (Monash University)"
Observational tests of general relativity with black hole inspiral, coalescence, and ringdown Prof. Lee Samuel Finn (Penn State University) Website: https://www.phys.psu.edu/people/lsf5 Abstract: As far as it has been tested, general … Continue reading "CRA Seminar: Lee Samuel Finn (Penn State University)"
Title: “I Like to Myself Believe That Planet 5 Turns Slowly” Abstract: Within the general framework of the core-nucleated accretion theory of giant planet formation, the conglomeration of massive gaseous … Continue reading "CRA seminar: Prof. Konstantin Batygin (Caltech)"
Title: Where Do Population III Stars Form? Abstract: We perform a cosmological simulation with a comoving volume of 1 Mpc^3 to study the birth-places of Population III stars, using … Continue reading "CRA Cosmic Coffee: Danielle Skinner"
Title: Marginally Trapped Surfaces in Black Hole Mergers Abstract: For numerical simulations of black hole mergers, typically the apparent horizon that forms is of primary interest and can be used … Continue reading "CRA Cosmic Coffee: Chris Evans"
Title: “Time Domain Astronomy with the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor in the Multimessenger Era” Abstract: On August 17, 2017, a new era in astronomy began with the detection of merging … Continue reading "CRA seminar (Dr. Colleen Wilson-Hodge)"
