Astronomy Colloquium
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
High energy emission from SNe and super-eccentric hot Jupiters
Boaz Katz,
IAS,
They are out there, they are detectable and they are crucial theoretically. Detection of early high energy emission (soft X-ray to gamma-rays) at the onset of SNe will allow us to measure the radius of the progenitor, the velocity of the blast wave and signify the presence of a dense stellar wind. Detection of highly eccentric (e>~ 0.99) extra-solar gas-giants with periastron of a few stellar radii may answer the question of how hot Jupiters get so close to their host star.
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