Stony Brook University
7:30 pm
ESS Building, Room 001
Friday, Sept 05, 2025
Nova and X-ray Bursts
Prof. Michael Zingale
Novae and X-ray bursts are both explosions on the surfaces on compact objects (a white dwarf and neutron star, respectively). And while they have a lot of similarities -- both involve mass transfer in a binary system and thermonuclear burning under extreme conditions -- the underlying object also makes the events quite different. In this talk, we will discuss binary evolution and how nova and X-ray bursts work, and what they can teach us about the underlying compact object.
Prof. Zingale is a Professor of Astronomy in Stony Brook's department of Physics & Astronomy. He joined the Department in 2006, coming most recently from a postdoctoral position at the University of California at Santa Cruz. His research is in modeling stellar explosions and the basic physics therein, and developing algorithms for performing supercomputer simulations of astrophysical fluid flow.
