March 11, 1999, Phillips Auditorium, 12:30 pm
Note change of location
The First Known Accretion-Powered Millisecond Pulsar
Dr. Deepto Chakrabarty, MIT
Abstract
After more than 15 years of searching, the first example of an
accretion-powered millisecond pulsar has finally been found. The
failure to unequivocally detect more such objects remains very
puzzling. I will describe a multiwavelength (X-ray, optical,
infrared...) effort to resolve this puzzle through study of our
newly-discovered prototype.