Prasad R

Astrophysicist | Postdoctoral Fellow | Compact Stars and Gravitational Wave Physics

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The last night of 2022...#Nightsky

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Wowww

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the next chapter...

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From Chandra's biography...

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@PhysicsNirmal @CHEP_IISc looks awesome !

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From reading his lecture notes as an undergrad/postgrad to hearing him inperson, that's the association most share with him...so was the overflowing auditorium...

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Natural tendency of neutron stars is to spin-down. Can spin-down transform a neutron star into quark star ?...it looks like a plausible scenario with mutiple observational signatures (GWs, braking index, neutrino burst, FRBs, GRBs)...talk @ ICTS In-House.
https://t.co/tnRBJ3Tv1O

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@Subzz_itis @iiserbhopal Semma !

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That's Prof. Kip Thorne sharing his fond memories associated with MTW...

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First published in 1973, referred to as MTW (after the authors)...it's 50 years down the line, and this book remains a masterpiece...it's intriguing and unique, and inspired many to take up research in gravitation and related fields...its 50th anniversary was celebrated today...

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From Prof. Joseph Silk's talk on future of cosmology --> Low-frequency radio astronomy on the far side of moon can provide insights on dark ages of the Universe..dark age is the period b/w CMBR emission and formation of first stars, during this hydrogen gas prevailed & dominated.

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That's Buzz Aldrin with seismometer during the Apollo 11 mission (1969)...plan is to place advanced ones in coming years...

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In search of a quiet place (less seismic noise), it looks moon is the goto option in our solar system...the Lunar Gravitational Wave Antenna (LGWA) is an ambitious project to detect gravitational waves in decihertz band...thrilled to be part of a discussion meeting devoted to it

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The plan is to place a network of sensitive seismometers on the Lunar surface, which will measure the response of moon due to passing gravitational waves...the preferred locations are the Permanently Shadowed Regions (PSRs) on moon, to ensure temperature variations are least...

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LIGO-India will always be counted as a big leap and mega science project that our country possess...few years down the line we will be observing the space-time ripples (Gravitational Waves) from colliding black holes & neutron stars here...the dream dreamt by Indian Physicists !

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@RanaArunveer Also, there are youtube tutorials on how to use it.

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@RanaArunveer Openshot is one such video editor. https://t.co/rtV9wboSGO

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@Kaju_Nut I had the chance to meet him at IISER-B recently. It was very inspiring to witness him pondering so passionately about QM aspects in his presentation.

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@WKCosmo It is indeed !. Many physicists feel the same (Landau and Lifshitz, Pauli, Dirac, and others). There is a article by S. Chandrasekhar on this too : https://t.co/wdF4Qvp8GE.

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A universe "brimming" with galaxies, stars and planets maybe "brimming" with life too...
#Cosmos #astronomy #astrophysics #Universe