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Victoria Kaspi Public Lecture: The Cosmic Gift of Neutron Stars
Original post is here eklausmeier.goip.de/blog/2017/01-12-victoria-kaspi-public-lecture-the-cosmic-gift-of-neutron-stars.
A very fine introduction by Prof. Dr. Victoria Kaspi to
- neutron stars,
- pulsars,
- magnetars,
- binary pulsars.
She is explaining their use in test for general relativity, and detection of gravitational waves.
She also mentions Einstein@Home.
The homepage of Prof. Kaspi is here. A recent (6-Jan-2017) astronomical observation by Prof. Kaspi was published by NASA.
Victoria Kaspi was a pupil and Ph.D. candidate under Joseph Taylor (K1JT).