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Physics & Astronomy - Astronomy Seminar - Joanna Rankin, University of Vermont

Title: "Radio Pulsars and the Physics of Their Emission"

5/19/2016
4 pm – 5 pm
Wilder 202
Intended Audience(s): Public
Categories: Lectures & Seminars

Abstract: With their enormous densities and fields, neutron stars entail some
of the most exotic physics in the cosmos.  Similarly, the mechanisms of pulsar
radio emission are no less exotic and now only beginning to be understood. 
The talk will provide an introduction to the phenomenology of radio pulsar
emission with a focus on those aspects of of the observations that bear on
their challenging emission physics.  A short review will be given of current
theories of pulsar emission and how the observations are able to test them. 

For more information, contact:
Tressena Manning
tressena.a.manning@dartmouth.edu
603-646-2854
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