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SUMMARY:Neutron star mergers: past\, present and future - Nial Tanvir (Lei
 cester)
DTSTART:20171109T160000Z
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DESCRIPTION:Compact binary mergers involving neutron stars have long been 
 thought to be the likely progenitors of short-duration\nGRBs\, and have in
 creasingly been posited as the dominant\nsite of heavy r-process nucleosyn
 thesis in the universe.\nThe recent LIGO/Virgo discovery of the binary neu
 tron star\nmerger GW170817 and its electromagnetic counterpart\nrepresent 
 a landmark in multimessenger astronomy\, and\nprovide important insights i
 nto these long-standing issues.\nI will review (at least some of) the key 
 findings \nand indicate future directions for the field.
LOCATION:Sackler Lecture Theatre\, IoA (tea at 3:30 pm)
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