{"id":20120,"date":"2017-10-20T12:36:55","date_gmt":"2017-10-20T17:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/?p=20120"},"modified":"2017-10-20T12:36:55","modified_gmt":"2017-10-20T17:36:55","slug":"gravitational-waves-from-colliding-neutron-stars-or-where-do-heavy-elements-like-gold-come-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/20120","title":{"rendered":"Gravitational Waves from Colliding Neutron Stars (or where do heavy elements like gold come from)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Professor Bob Benjamin, Physics Dept., will talk about “The First Detection of Gravitational Waves from Colliding Neutron Stars: When an Irresistable Force Meets an Unmovable Object\u201d at 7 p.m. on Fri., Oct. 20<\/strong>, in Upham Hall 140. Come to hear about how astronomers came to discover neutron stars, to predict that such mergers should happen, their unsolved mysteries, and what we have learned recently.<\/p>\n

You can learn more about related topics with Andersen Library! See, for example, “Gravitational waves: Whispers of neutron stars and the big bang” in the book Secrets of the universe: How we discovered the cosmos<\/em> (3rd-floor Main Collection, QB982 .M87 2009; summary<\/a> at Google Books), articles such as “Wolf\u2013Rayet stars, black holes and the first detected gravitational wave source<\/a>” (New Astronomy<\/em>, 2018, vol.58, 33-46, http:\/\/www.elsevier.com\/locate\/newast), and news sources announcing the recent observation of colliding neutron stars a few days ago, such as the audio and transcript from “Astronomers Strike Gravitational Gold In Colliding Neutron Stars<\/a>,” heard on NPR’s All Things Considered<\/em> on Oct. 16, 2017.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019d like assistance with finding additional information, please ask a librarian<\/a> (choose chat or email, phone 262-472-1032, or visit the Reference Desk).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Professor Bob Benjamin, Physics Dept., will talk about “The First Detection of Gravitational Waves from Colliding Neutron Stars: When an Irresistable Force Meets an Unmovable Object\u201d at 7 p.m. on Fri., Oct. 20, in Upham Hall 140. Come to hear … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[141,1684,3117,178,33787,353,120,228],"class_list":["post-20120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus-connection","tag-articles","tag-astronomy","tag-astrophysics","tag-books","tag-discoveries","tag-lectures","tag-news","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20120"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20138,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20120\/revisions\/20138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}