First Extreme Object meeting

Thursday 9 Feb 2012, 13:00 → 14:00 Europe/Stockholm

KTH meeting room, 5th floor

KTH meeting room, 5th floor

Description

Astro-ph like format with 3 relevant articles. Speakers: Jesper Sollerman, Josefin Larsson and Christoffer Lundman

- 1
  
  The center of the Type Ia supernova remnant SNR 0509- 67.5 is empty of any ex-companion star to M_V=+8.4
  
  arXiv:1201.2195; Bradley E. Schaefer, Ashley Pagnotta
  
  Speaker: Jesper Sollerman
  
  Paper
- 2
  
  Unusual Central Engine Activity in the Double Burst GRB 110709B
  
  arXiv:1111.2922; Zhang, Bin-Bin; Burrows, David; Zhang, Bing; Meszaros, Peter; Wang, Xiang-Yu; Stratta, Giulia; D'Elia, Valerio; Frederiks, Dmitry; Golenetskii, Sergey; Cummings, Jay R.; Norris, Jay P.; Falcone, Abraham; Barthelmy, Scott D.; Gehrels, Neil
  
  Speaker: Christoffer Lundman
  
  Paper
- 3
  
  Minimum Variability Time Scales of Long and Short GRBs
  
  arXiv:1201.4431; G. A. MacLachlan, A. Shenoy, E. Sonbas, K. S. Dhuga, B. Cobb, T. N. Ukwatta, D. C. Morris, A. Eskandarian, L. C. Maximon, W. C. Parke
  
  Speaker: Josefin Larsson
  
  Paper