Studies of Degenerate Stars

在过去的几年里，天体物理学最令人印象深刻的进步之一是 近十年来一直在致密恒星物理学领域。 部分 这些进步的原因是不太明显， 同样重要的进展，在其内部的理论 结构 在过去的几年里，首席研究员 (PI)一直走在固态应用的最前沿 理论物理学与白色矮星模型的建立 和中子星 这一为期一年的奖项将提供支持， 戈登·布朗先生继续他的博士学位dissertation on 两个相关的主题：低质量X射线双星的盘振荡 和磁化中子星的非径向脉动。 第一 这是目前X射线观测的一个热门课题 research. 第二种是一类新的脉动模态 仅限于磁中子星（“磁中子星”）。

Among the most impressive strides in astrophysics over the last decade has been in the area of the physics of compact stars. Part of the reason for these advances has been the less visible but equally important progress made in the theory of their internal structure. In the past several years the Principal Investigator (PI) has been at the forefront of the application of solid-state theoretical physics to the construction of models of white dwarfs and neutron stars. This one-year award will provide support for a student, Mr. Gordon Brown, to continue his Ph.D. dissertation on two related topics: disk oscillations of low-mass X-ray binaries and nonradial pulsations of magnetized neutron stars. The first of these is currently a keen subject of X-ray observational research. The second is a new class of pulsation modes endemic only to magnetic neutron stars ("pulsars").