5–10 Jul 2021
Europe/Rome timezone

Session

Compact Stars as Laboratories for Testing Strong Gravity

NS2
5 Jul 2021, 16:30

Conveners

Compact Stars as Laboratories for Testing Strong Gravity: Block 1

  • Cesar Augusto Zen Vasconcellos (ICRANet/UFRGS)
  • Aurora Maria Perez Martinez (Instituto de Cibernetica Matematica y Fisica ICIMAF)

Description

There are reasons to believe the 21st century will be the best ever for astrophysics: the James Webb Space Telescope will extend nearly twenty times the present observational limit of visible light; neutrino massiveness opens a new window for exploration on dark energy and dark matter physics and is expected to provide insights into the fate of the Universe; the Higgs boson may allow for an understanding of the weakness of gravity; gravitational waves produced at the birth of the Universe and by compact stellar objects (supermassive black holes, black hole/neutron star mergers, gamma-ray bursts, white dwarf inspirals) have unveiled a new area of astronomy. Framed by this background, compact stars represent an unique astrophysical laboratories for probing the fabric of space-time and the building blocks of matter and their interactions at physical regimes not attainable in terrestrial laboratories. The strong gravitational fields of compact stars - black holes, pulsars, neutron, and exotic stars - provide this way an unique test ground for strong gravity and modified theories of gravity and can offer restrictions for extended theories of general relativity. The aim of this session is to bring together researchers from cosmology, particle physics, nuclear theory and astrophysics, working on these topics from different but complementary viewpoints.

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