SoCal Plasma Zoom Seminar: On the Electrodynamics of Fast Radio Bursts

Speaker: 
Roger Blandford
Institution: 
Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology & Stanford University, USA
Speaker Link: 

Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology & Stanford University, USA

Date: 
Tuesday, August 25, 2020
Time: 
4:00 pm
Location: 
ZOOM Meeting
Abstract:
Fast Radio Bursts are short spikes of radio emission, typically lasting less than a second, which occur about once a minute over the whole sky.  Recent observations strongly support the association of these radio bursts with magnetars — young neutron stars endowed with 10-100 GT magnetic fields. Explanations of their emission and transmission invoke the electrodynamics of Maxwell, Lorentz, Einstein and Feynman in new and interesting ways. These will be discussed alongside prospects for learning more from future observations and simulations.
 

Join Zoom Meeting
https://ucsd.zoom.us/j/92496959508?pwd=RlAwUzJSZ281VldrZ3hPTlRse0TJFZz09
Meeting ID: 924 9695 9508
Password: 977766

 
Host: 
Bill Heidbrink
Pat Diamond [UCSD]
Troy Carter [UCLA]