Conveners
Tuesday plenary session: FRBs, pulsars, cosmology and AWARD ceremony: Block 1
- Hansjoerg Dittus (University of Bremen)
Tuesday plenary session: FRBs, pulsars, cosmology and AWARD ceremony: Block 2
- Hansjoerg Dittus (University of Bremen)
This year marks the anniversary of the discovery of the Hulse-Taylor pulsar, which ushered in a a new era in the study of relativistic gravity. This Nobel Prize-winning discovery not only provided evidence for the existence of gravitational waves, but also led to the development of new methods and new studies of phenomena under strong field conditions. These included effects such as light...
In this talk will first review some highlights of the scientific results of Insight-HXMT,China’s first X-ray astronomy satellite launched on June 15th, 2017. I will then introduce the future mission eXTP (enhanced X-ray Timing and Polarimetry), planned for launch around 2028, to explore the physics under the extreme conditions of gravity, magnetism and density by making precise observations of...
General Relativity and quantum mechanics are both universally applicable theories and are most important for our present understanding of matter, space and time. Clearly, both theories have to be tested as good as possible. In this talk an overview is given of recent tests of both theories like the Equivalence Principle, equivalence of active and passive gravitational mass, the redshift, the...
A brief reminder of the case for particle dark matter and general search strategies will be followed by a description of the XENON dark matter program. The main part of the talk will cover details about the currently running XENONnT detector, the latest results and an outlook on future plans.
One of the most powerful tests of our cosmological model is to verify the predicted growth of large-scale structure with time. Intriguingly, many recent measurements have reported small discrepancies in such tests of structure growth ("the S8 tension"), which could hint at systematic errors or even new physics. Motivated by this puzzling situation, I will present new determinations of cosmic...
In the late 1998, SN 1998bw, the supernova associated with GRB 980425, catapulted the collapsar engine (caused by the collapse of a massive rotating star to a black hole) to the top of the list of proposed engines for these cosmic explosions. Another engine argues that the collapse of a massive star to a magnetar could also produce these GRBS. The rarity of these events argues that only a...
