The non-spherical ground state of Proca stars
Proca stars, first discovered in this paper, are a vector cousin of the well known model of scalar boson stars - see these papers for reviews [1], [2] and comparisons between the two models [3], [4].
Astrophysics News & Events
Iranian Conference on High Energy Physics
The Iranian Conference on High Energy Physics took place from 20-22 November 2023 (online). C. Herdeiro was one of the Plenary Speakers. See the programme here.
Visits of Rodrigo Vicente and Roman Pasechnik
During the week of 13-17 November 2023 we had the pleasure to host Rodrigo Vicente from IFAE, U. Barcelona and Roman Pasechnik from the U. Lund to tell us about their latest research. Of course, discussions are better over a nice lunch!
New Insights into Strong Gravity from Accreting Black Holes
Speaker
Prashant Kocherlakota (Harvard University)
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Venue
On-site: Room TBD
Event type
Recent horizon-scale images of Messier 87* and Sagittarius A* have been used to demonstrate that their spacetimes are well-described by the Ke
Visit to the U. Sofia
C. Herdeiro visited the St. Kliment Ohridski U. Sofia (Bulgaria) delivering a talk on Boson stars and Black holes with synchronised hair, invited by Prof. Stoytcho Yazadjiev (both in the photo).
Tidal effects in compact object binaries and why they matter
Speaker
Gonçalo Castro
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Hybrid: Room 11.2.21 and Zoom
Event type
The field of gravitational wave astronomy is allowing us to study the nature of compact objects in binary systems through their gravitational wave emission. Namely, the tidal deformability of such objects, encoded in their Tidal Love Numbers (TLNs) gives us a window into their composition and the physics behind them.
3rd Annual Meeting of DMat-UA PhD Students
The annual meeting of the Maths Department Ph.D. students will take place on 27 Oct 2023. Marco Brito and Etevaldo Costa, both enrolled in the MAP-Fis Ph.D. programme will represent our group.
Gr@v researchers in world top 2%
Elsevier published the "Updated science-wide author database of standardized citation indicators" in October 2023
NewFunFiCO network meeting in Cuernavaca
The first scientific meeting of the NewFunFiCO network took place in Cuernavaca, Mexico, from 4-6 Oct 2023. Three intense days of workshop and discussions. Many ideas, synergies and collaborations ahead!
4th EPS Conference on Gravitation
The Fourth European Physical Society conference on gravitation will be devoted to Black Holes. The meeting will take place in Valencia, 13-15 Nov 2023, with the participation of our group.