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Title: "Unusual transients"

Dr. Stephan Rosswog
Jacobs University Bremen, Germany
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When:  Monday, August 31st at 3.15 p.m.
Where: 2nd Floor Seminar Room

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Abstract:

Several large scale surveys of transient phenomena are about to start
taking data. They promise to  detect many thousands of "non-standard"
transients per year. I will discuss several of these events, including
signals that result from the tidal disruption of a main sequence star by
a supermassive black hole in the centre of a galaxy. I will further
discuss two recently discovered channels how to thermonuclearly explode
white dwarfs in some kind of type Ia supernova none of which is tied to
the Chandrasekhar mass.