Archives for 2017

Speaker: D.V. Alentiev (Crimean Federal University) Title: “Searching for rapid pulsations in atmospheres of cool Ap stars” Abstract: Sign up for the seminar

1) Speaker: Qian Shengbang (Yunnan Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences) Title: “The Origin of Luminous Red Novae and the Merging of Deep Contact Binary Stars” Abstract: Luminous red novae are a rare type of stellar outburst that are more luminous than most novae, but fainter than supernovae. They were discovered in the Milky Way galaxy

Speaker: D.A. Kononov (INASAN) Title: “On a method to observe the spiral precessional density wave in the accretion disks of cataclysmic binary stars” Abstract: Sign up for the seminar

Speaker: N.P. Topchiev (LPI RAS) Title: “Designing new methods and developing scientific instruments for astrophysical research of high-energy and very high-energy gamma rays on spacecrafts” Abstract: Sign up for the seminar

Speaker: David Buckley (South African Astronomical Observatory, Cape Town, South Africa) Title: “Discovery of a White Dwarf Pulsar” Abstract: I discuss the recent discovery of a spinning white dwarf in the binary system AR Scorpii which shows all of the usual hallmarks of a pulsar. Photometric observations established that it pulses at the 2 minute spin

Speaker: I.S. Savanov (INASAN) Title: “Magnetic activity of stars from Kepler observations” Abstract: Abstract is available in Russian version. Sign up for the seminar