5–30 Jun 2017
Nordita, Stockholm
Europe/Stockholm timezone

Exploring the Boundary Between Neutron Stars and Black Holes

21 Jun 2017, 15:00
30m
FD5 (Nordita, Stockholm)

FD5

Nordita, Stockholm

Speaker

Tony Piro

Description

Even though we know that stellar mass black holes exist both from those found in our Galaxy and gravitational wave observations, the actual events that give rise to them is poorly understood. Furthermore, the transition between these black holes and neutron stars have important implications for the elusive high density equation of state. I will discuss two avenues for investigating the boundary between the formation of black holes and neutron stars: (1) the electromagnetic events that may accompany massive stars that die as black holes rather than neutron stars, and (2) the signatures when two merging neutron stars form a massive neutron star rather than a black hole. As transient surveys cover the sky with increasingly short cadences and gravitational wave observatories probe lower masses, the complementary information between these investigations will help us explore these equations.

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