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Elena Rossi20/06/2017, 09:00Double white dwarf systems have a very broad range of possible outcomes, which make them physically very interesting. On the other hand, they are the most common compact object binaries in the Galaxy and they may use as tomographic probes with both electromagnetic and gravitational waves. The limiting factor to current studies is the number of objects known. Notably, the era of...Go to contribution page
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Seméli Papadogiannakis20/06/2017, 09:30Type Ia supernovae, at low and high-redshifts, are used as distance indicators for precision cosmology. The low-redshift SNIa sample is particularly useful for detailed studies not feasible with the distant sample. These studies are important to explore and quantify potential systematic effects in the derived distances. The Palomar Transient Factory (PTF, 2009-2012) and its successor...Go to contribution page
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Epson Heringer20/06/2017, 09:45Traditional techniques used to measure the delay time distribution of SN Ia depend on physical quantities that are notoriously difficult to measure, such as the age of the progenitor system. In this talk I will introduce a novel method, in which the relevant quantites are the color and absolute magnitude of galaxies in a control sample. We find that a power-law slope of t^-1.5 is...Go to contribution page
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Marten Van Kerkwijk20/06/2017, 10:00
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Itai Linial20/06/2017, 11:00
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Ben Margalit20/06/2017, 11:15The merger of binaries consisting of a white dwarf (WD) and a neutron star (NS), though much less studied than their NS-NS/WD-WD brethren, are relatively common astrophysical events which may contribute to the transient sky. We describe a 1D time-dependent model of the accretion flow produced by the dynamical disruption of a WD by a NS, which accounts for the effects of nuclear...Go to contribution page
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Ross Church20/06/2017, 11:30Binaries containing a white dwarf and a neutron star, and their more massive relatives containing a white dwarf and a black hole, are interesting for a number of reasons. Their existance and properties allow us to constrain the evolution of interacting binary stars, probing a number of important poorly-understood physical processes such as common-envelope evolution and...Go to contribution page
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