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---+ July 15, 2022 8-10PM
*Event Type*: [[PublicLectures][Lecture and Stargazing]]<br>
*Title*: The Dynamic Lives of Black Holes, Neutron Stars, and White Dwarfs in Globular Clusters
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*Lecturer*: Kyle Kremer<br>
*Position*:Postdoctoral Fellow<br>
*Institution*: Caltech<br>
*Abstract*: <br>
The dense centers of globular clusters are home to a whole zoo of exotic astrophysical phenomena. In this talk I will describe some of the unexpected events experienced by compact objects — black holes, neutron stars, and white dwarfs — within these dense stellar populations. Over the past few years, the groundbreaking detections of gravitational wave signals from merging compact object binaries by LIGO/Virgo have opened a new window to the cosmos. I argue that some of these gravitational wave events very likely originated in globular clusters, made possible by the unique dynamics of compact objects in these systems.
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