Title: Gravitational Waves: Using Merger to Understand Ringdown Abstract: With the advent of gravitational wave astronomy, we have newly found access to a wealth of knowledge in the form … Continue reading "CRA Cosmic Coffee: Deborah Ferguson"
Title: Intermittent AGN feedback in galaxy clusters driven by cold gas accretion Abstract: Recent observations of cool core clusters provide evidence that the presence of cold, atomic and molecular gas … Continue reading "CRA Cosmic Coffee: KwangHo Park"
Title: Design of an Expanding Cosmological Background for the Moving Punctures approach to Numerical Relativity Abstract: Predicted in 1916 by Albert Einstein in his theory of general relativity, gravitational waves … Continue reading "CRA Cosmic Coffee: Jordi Manyer"
Title: A multi-observatory X-ray approach to characterize heavily obscured AGNs According to the different models of Cosmic X-ray Background (CXB), the diffuse X-ray emission observed in the 1 to ~200-300 … Continue reading "CRA Seminar: Dr. Stefano Marchesi (Clemson University)"
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)"
