Khadkikar Sanika Samir "From Cradle to Grave: Interpreting the Extraordinary Lives of Neutron Stars through multimessenger observations"
Sala Lauree (Marconi Building)
La Sapienza
Neutron stars are among the most extraordinary objects in the Universe. Born in the aftermath of stellar collapse, they evolve through lives that broadcast their structure across nearly every messenger we can detect, and end in mergers thought to produce a significant fraction of the heavy elements in the Universe. But neutron stars are not just astrophysical curiosities. They are one of the only places in nature where all four fundamental interactions play competing roles, placing them at the intersection of fields ranging from nuclear and particle physics to general relativity and cosmology. In this talk, I will follow neutron stars from their cradle to their grave, showing how varying their temperature, rotation, composition, and dynamics allows us to probe some of the deepest open questions in physics, and in turn, about our Universe.