Speaker
Wlodek Kluzniak
Description
Weakly magnetized stars lead much more interesting and active lives than their more glamorous cousins (the magnetars and canonical TeraGauss radio and X-ray pulsars), accreting huge amounts of mass and angular momentum, emitting copious amounts of power in energetic particles and quanta, and destroying their companions. I will give a short overview of the highlights of their observed history, from the discovery of the first neutron star in 1963, through eclipsing ("black widow") pulsars and the maximum mass measured of 2.3 solar masses, to ultrahigh frequency X-ray modulation (kHz QPOs), and ultraluminous sources.
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