Talk this week at the IAA
Seminarios IAA
IAA Severo Ochoa Colloquium
Date: Thursday, 16 April, 12:30 CET
Place: Salón de Actos
Bursting and cool slowly rotating stellar zombies
The large efforts put into studying the transient Universe in the past years allowed the discovery of a variety of new astrophysical classes and events, many of them proposed to be related to the formation of a neutron star or a magnetar, the most magnetic pulsars. Pulsars are unique astronomical laboratories where the most extreme gravity and electromagnetism can be probed. The study of these objects transcends the traditional astrophysical approach and requires a multidisciplinary effort that spans from particle and nuclear physics to astrophysics, from experiment to theory, from gravitational waves to the electromagnetic spectrum. I will review in this seminar what pulsars and magnetars are, their observational characteristics, their expected population, as well as their connection with the most extreme extra Galactic events such as Gamma-Ray Bursts and Fast Radio Bursts.