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When the referee lets you name your stars

When:
Thursday, November 14, 2019, 8:00 PM
Where:
Phillips Auditorium
60 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA  
Additional Info:
Category:
Monthly Meeting
Registration is not Required
Payment In Full In Advance Only
ATMoB Business Meeting and Presentation

When the referee lets you name your stars – Dr. JJ Hermes

Digital surveys have mapped the positions of most stars in our night sky down to a limit roughly 100 million times fainter than can be seen by the unaided eye. It is therefore rare for astronomers to "discover" new stars. However, unraveling new classes of stars by grouping similar types of objects connected by a physical phenomenon happens often at the cutting edge of astronomy. I will discuss the joys (and pitfalls) of naming new classes of stars by focusing on a recent discovery: stellar remnants that were once in a close pair of binary system but have recently been slung-shot out of the Galaxy after a disruptive supernova explosion.

JJ Hermes is an assistant professor in the Department of Astronomy at Boston University, focused on high-precision observations of the endpoints of stars, planets, and binary systems. Before moving to Boston in 2019 he was a Hubble Fellow at UNC Chapel Hill, an ERC postdoctoral fellow at the University of Warwick in central England.  He completed a Ph.D. at the University of Texas at Austin. 


Please join us for a pre-meeting dinner discussion at House of Chang, 282 Concord Ave, Cambridge, MA at 6:00pm before the meeting.