Stony Brook University
7:30 pm
ESS Building, Room 001
Friday, September 06, 2024
At the Heart of the Matter: What's Left Over From Supernova 1987A?
Prof. F. Douglas Swesty
In 2022 the James Webb Space Telescope was used to observe the remnant of a supernova was observed 35 years earlier, SN1987A, in February of 1987. What was found was stunning: evidence that in indicative the presence of a neutron star or pulsar. In this talk I will discuss the history of SN1987A, what we have learned from it, and why we now think that there is a possibly moving neutron star or pulsar near the center of it's remnant.
Prof. Swesty received his PhD in Physics from SUNY Stony Brook in 1993. He spent six years at the University of Illinois as a postdoctoral researcher and as a Visiting Assistant Professor. He returned to Stony Brook in 1999 where he is currently a Research Associate Professor. His work focuses on nuclear astrophysics and computational astrophysics.
