Institute Seminar

Neutrino flavor oscillation in neutron star mergers

Neutrino flavor oscillations are ubiquitous in neutron star mergers, affecting the merger dynamics and the electron fraction of the ejecta, which will subsequently impact the r-process nucleosynthesis and heavy-element abundances. Over the years, numerous studies have explored neutrino physics in dense environments such as those found in neutron...

The Extremes of Quasar Variability:  Black Hole Mergers, Acquisitions, and Foreclosures

Variability is one of the key observational properties of quasars, recognized from their initial discovery in the 1960s. Variability probes of the fueling of their supermassive black hole engines, their physics, evolution, and environment. A new generation of synoptic sky surveys, in combination with the novel...