| Title |
Scope |
Type |
Summary |
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The first project examines the implications of strong magnetic fields
for white dwarf stars.
|
| Structure of Magnetized White Dwarfs |
M/D |
TC |
A natural extension of my work with neutron-star envelopes and
atmospheres is the determination of the structure of strongly
magnetized white dwarfs. Some questions that need to be answered include:
-
How does a strong magnetic field affect the structure of a white
dwarf?
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Does the strong magnetic field cause the temperature of the
surface to vary?
- Is the emission from the surface polarized?
|
|
These next three projects focus on young neutron stars.
|
| Old AXPs |
U |
P |
How do AXPs die? Do they go out with a burst (lots of them as in
the soft-gamma repeaters) or do they fade away? What does the
relative numbers of AXPs and SGRs tell us about the connection between
these populations?
|
| Young neutron stars and future X-ray telescopes |
U/M |
P |
What will future X-ray telescopes tell us about young neutron
stars? Specifically, how will observations of young neutron stars in
nearby galaxies help us to understand neutron stars in general? |
|
These next two projects focus on Type-I X-ray bursts.
|
| Nucleosynthesis in X-ray Bursts? |
U/M |
P,TA |
|
| Oscillations in Type-I X-ray Bursts |
U/M |
P |
|
|
Although these next projects are connected intimately with the previous three,
they each have a much larger scope.
|
| Neutron-Star Seismology |
M/D |
TC/TA |
|
| Hydrodynamic Modelling of X-ray Bursts |
D |
TC |
|
| Stability of Nuclear Burning on White Dwarfs |
M/D |
TC/TA |
|
|
These projects have to do with wave propagation in
strongly magnetized plasmas
|
| Photon Turpedoes in Magnetized Plasmas |
U/M |
TC/TA |
Do strongly magnetized plasmas have solitary waves (solitons)? |
| Radiation from Fast-Mode Breakdown |
U/M |
TC/TA |
Plasma waves travelling through strong magnetic fields form shocks. What is the spectrum of this radiation in the strong-field limit where the quantum mechanics of the pairs becomes important? |
|
These projects have to do with axions, plasmas and strong magnetic fields.
|
| Axions in the Double Pulsar |
U/M |
TC/TA |
|
| Axions production in white dwarf magnetospheres |
U/M |
TC/TA |
|
The project types denote what type of project it is. O is
mainly observational. Because I don't have any pending proposals
right now, this means the analysis of existing observations rather
than going to the telescope. P denotes phenomenological.
These projects are focussed on the interpretation of observations and
predictions of future observations. The T, theoretical,
projects examine various issues from the perspective of the physical
processes, rather than to answer a specific observational question.
These projects hopefully can make observational predictions, but this
is gravy. C says that the project will probably be rather
computational, while A indicates that significant progress may
be possible with an analytic treatment.
If you don't see anything that interests you, let me know as we could
probably come up with something together.
