The Physics & Astronomy Colloquium Series presents Raffaella Margutti of Northwestern University, on “Discovery Frontiers in the New Era of Time Domain Multi-Messenger Astrophysics”, on Monday, Sept. 23, at 4:10 p.m. in Walter 235.
Raffaella Margutti
Abstact: New and improved observational facilities are sampling the night sky with unprecedented temporal cadence and sensitivity across the electromagnetic spectrum. This exercise led to the discovery of new types of astronomical transients and revolutionized our understanding of phenomena that we thought we already knew.
In this talk I will review some very recent developments in the field that resulted from the capability to acquire a true panchromatic view of the most extreme stellar deaths and mergers in nature.
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