Speaker
Shirley Li
(UC Irvine)
Description
Isolated neutron stars (INS) are the simplest kinds of neutron stars, but only seven have been discovered and confirmed. We show that in the near future, the Vera Rubin Observatory (VRO) will be able to identify new INS candidates. In this talk, we outline a proof of concept for predicting the signals from INS as seen by VRO, as well as a method for separating those signals from backgrounds. We show that there are opportunities not only for the discovery of new objects, but also for constraining the microphysics of degenerate nuclear matter.
Author
Shirley Li
(UC Irvine)