| 报告题目： |
The formation, life and uses of pulsars, nature's finest cosmic clocks |
| 报告人： |
Andrew Geoffrey Lyne |
| 报告人单位： |
University of Manchester, School of Physics & Astronomy |
| 报告时间： |
4月26号15：50 |
| 报告地点： |
科技楼南104 |
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Pulsars are rapidly rotating neutron stars and are some of the most exotic objects in the universe. They are mostly only observable using radio telescopes. In this talk, I will provide an introduction to pulsars and how they are formed in the violence of the supernova collapse of large stars.
I will describe how these massive cosmic flywheels can make superb clocks which can be used to conduct unique experiments in gravitation. In particular, they can be used to explore some of the fundamental laws of physics that determine how the universe evolved. |
| 报告人简介： |
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Prof. Lyne was appointed as Langworthy Professor of Physics at the University of Manchester in 1991 and was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1996. He became Director of Jodrell Bank Observatory from 1997 to 2006, and has been an Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of Manchester since 2008. The main areas of contribution have been in searches for pulsars, the characterization of their properties, the measurement of their velocities and the study of their galactic distribution and evolution.
Selected publications:
1. Lyne, A.G., Brinklow, A., Middleditch, J., Kulkarni, S., Backer, D.C. & Clifton, T.R., 1987. The discovery of a millisecond pulsar in the globular cluster M28. Nature, 328, 399-401.
2. Lyne, A.G. & Lorimer, D.R., 1994. High Birth Velocities of Radio Pulsars. Nature, 369, 127-129. 8.Lyne, A.G., Pritchard, R.S., Graham-Smith, F.G. & Camilo, F., 1996. Very Low Braking Index for the Vela Pulsar. Nature, 381, 497-498.
3. Lyne, A.G., Burgay, M., Kramer, M., Possenti, A., Manchester, R.N., Camilo, F., McLaughlin, M., Lorimer, D. & Freire, P.C., 2004. A double-pulsar system – A rare laboratory for relativistic gravity and plasma physics. Science, 303, 1153-1157.
4. McLaughlin, M. A., Lyne, A. G., Lorimer, D. R., Kramer, M., Faulkner, A. J., Manchester, R. N., Cordes, J. M., Camilo, F., Possenti, A., Stairs, I. H., Hobbs, G., D'Amico, N., Burgay, M., O'Brien, J. T., 2006. Transient radio bursts from rotating neutron stars. Nature, 439, 817-820.
5. Lyne, A. G., Hobbs, G., Kramer, M., Stairs, I., Stappers, B., 2010. Switched Magnetospheric Regulation of Pulsar Spin-Down. Science 329, 408-409. |
