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SUMMARY:Pulsars: Real Life Star Destroyers
DESCRIPTION:Seating is limited. Registration is recommended. Walk-ins are 
 also welcome.\n\nAstrophysicist Andrew Sullivan will take us deep into the 
 world of pulsars\, some of the most extreme objects in the universe. 
 Discover how these rapidly spinning remnants of massive stars generate 
 incredible energy and shed light on the mysteries of our galaxy.\n\nThe 
 cosmos is loaded with exotic phenomena straight out of science fiction. 
 Among the most exotic and mysterious objects in the universe are neutron 
 stars. Neutron stars are 10 km sized stars composed almost entirely of 
 neutrons with masses 1-2 times that of the sun\, and form when very massive 
 stars explode. These objects are the strongest magnets in the universe\, 
 more than 1 million times stronger than a refrigerator magnet. Some very 
 rapidly spinning neutron stars called “pulsars” emit bright pulses of 
 radio waves or gamma-ray radiation once every time they spin. Because of 
 their compact size\, strong magnetic fields\, and very fast rotation\, 
 pulsars create intense radiation which can destroy anything in their 
 paths\, including an unsuspecting companion star. In this presentation\, we 
 will study these real-life star destroyers: how they form\, how they work\, 
 and what we can learn from the few thousand pulsars discovered in our 
 galaxy.\n\nAbout the Presenter: Andrew Sullivan is a theoretical 
 astrophysicist specializing in neutron stars and black holes. He is 
 currently a fourth year graduate student at Stanford University\, where he 
 is advised by Roger Romani and Roger Blandford. Before arriving at 
 Stanford\, he was an undergraduate student at Columbia University\, where 
 he served as a member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and studied 
 features of merging compact binaries under the mentorship of Szabolcs and 
 Zsuzsanna Marka. Sullivan's research broadly focuses on relativistic 
 outflows produced by these compact objects and the interaction with their 
 environments\, although they span all of high-energy astrophysics. He has 
 also studied extragalactic radio jets\, gravitational wave sources\, and 
 gamma-ray bursts. Andrew Sullivan is a member of the Kavli Institute for 
 Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC) at Stanford and the Simons 
 Collaboration on Extreme Electrodynamics of Compact Sources (SCEECS). \n\nA 
 Sci-Fi September Event
LOCATION:1st Floor Program Room
ORGANIZER;CN="Kyle Hval":MAILTO:kyle.hval@mountainview.gov
CATEGORIES:Science & History
CONTACT;CN="Kyle Hval":MAILTO:kyle.hval@mountainview.gov
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