TODAY
Western University
DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY
PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
Date: Thursday, 6th December 2012
Time: 1:30 p.m.
Location: Physics & Astronomy Seminar Room 100
Dr. Jay Strader
Department of Physics & Astronomy
Michigan State University
“Black Holes in Globular Clusters”
ABSTRACT
Hundreds of stellar-mass black holes are expected to form in the early lifetime of a typical globular star cluster, but nearly all are expected to be ejected over short timescales. The existence of black holes in globular clusters would have broad implications for the demography of black holes, gravitational wave sources, and the evolution of globular clusters. I will discuss the use of deep radio continuum data, taken with the upgraded Very Large Array, to search for stellar and intermediate-mass black holes in Milky Way globular clusters.
Refreshments will be available.