Conveners
The first multi-messenger event : GW170817
- Szabolcs Marka (Columbia University)
Prof.
Szabolcs Marka
(Columbia University)
18/06/2018, 17:00
Giuseppina Fiorella Burgio
(CT)
18/06/2018, 17:10
The equation of state (EoS) of nuclear matter is one of the key issues in understanding the internal structure of neutron stars (NS), the remnants of massive stellar collapses. They populate the plane of our Galaxy, isolated or in binary systems, and play a crucial role in the indirect (Hulse & Taylor 1975) and direct (Abbott et al. 2017a) testing of the existence of gravitational waves...
Dr
Aniello Grado
(INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte)
18/06/2018, 17:30
With the gravitational event GW170817 on August 17th 2017 the Multi-Messenger astronomy era is started showing the capability of the synergic searches to provide an incredible amount of physical informations.
A world-wide effort has been carried out in optimizing the use of several observing facilities operating at all the available electromagnetic wavelenghts. This led to the...
Dr
Andrea Melandri
(INAF - OAB)
18/06/2018, 17:50
The electromagnetic counterpart of the binary neutron star merger GW170817 has been monitored from early to very late times at all wavelengths. In this talk, we discuss the temporal evolution of the associated afterglow emission in the X-rays and radio bands. These observations seem finally to support a flattening/decaying behaviour, favouring the "structured jet" interpretation for the origin...
Paolo Walter Cattaneo
(PV)
18/06/2018, 18:10
The gamma-ray satellite AGILE, launched on 2007, has just completed its eleventh year of operations in orbit. The main on-board instrument is the gamma-ray imaging detector (GRID) sensitive to gamma-rays in the energy range 30 MeV--30 GeV. The GRID is composed by the
gamma-ray silicon tracker, the mini-calorimeter (MCAL) and the anti-coincidence (AC) system for particle background rejection....
Dr
Imre Bartos
(Columbia University)
18/06/2018, 18:30
The recent discoveries of gravitational waves by LIGO and Virgo unveiled
numerous opportunities in astrophysics, as well as in the study of the cosmos and
the laws of physics. In particular, the observation of a binary neutron star merger
and the ensuing multi-messenger follow-up campaign already yielded a range of
expected and unexpected findings, giving us a taste of what is yet to...
