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Workshop: Probing Neutron Stars with Gravitational Waves
| What | Meeting |
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| When |
2009-06-18 09:00
to 2009-06-20 18:00 |
| Where | The Atherton Hotel, Penn State University, USA |
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Within the next decade gravitational-wave observations by ground-based interferometers will provide unprecedented opportunities to look directly into the dense interiors of neutron stars which are opaque to all forms of electromagnetic radiation. Gravitational waves can reveal bulk properties of neutron stars (masses, radii, locations...) as well as microphysical properties (crystalline structure, viscosity, composition...), some of which are inaccessible by other methods. Gravitational wave searches are more sensitive when combined with and informed by electromagnetic and neutrino observations, and more information can be extracted from signals when they are detected.
The Penn State Center for Gravitational Wave Physics, part of the Institute for Gravitation and the Cosmos, will host a workshop on this interdisciplinary opportunity June 18-20 on the University Park campus. The format involves invited presentations on selected topics and extensive discussion sessions between gravitational-wave scientists, astronomers and astrophysicists, and nuclear and condensed matter physicists.
DPG Spring Meeting 2010