Date: Thursday, September 12th, 2024 at 7:30 PM
Topic: New insights into Novae
Speaker: Elias Aydi, PhD; NASA Hubble Fellow
Location: AQ3159 in the Quad at SFU Burnaby Mountain Campus
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https://roomfinder.sfu.ca/apps/sfuroomfinder_web/?q=AQ3159
Bio: Elias Aydi is an Assistant Professor at the Physics and Astronomy department at Texas Tech University. He got his PhD from the University of Cape Town and the South African Astronomical Observatory in 2018. Elias’s main research interest involves multiwavelength and time-domain astronomy, focusing on transient phenomena, particularly nova eruptions and he was awarded the prestigious NASA Hubble Fellowship in 2022 to explore novae and decipher their emission processes. He is also very interested in public engagement and promoting astronomy to the public.
Abstract: With NASA’s Fermi gamma-ray telescope establishing novae as a new class of gamma-ray sources in our Galaxy, we are harnessing multiwavelength observations from a multitude of facilities to rewrite the textbooks and re-evaluate our understanding of how novae work. These multiwavelength observational efforts will culminate with the awaited upcoming eruption of the recurrent nova T Coronae Borealis (T CrB). Lying at a distance of only 2900 light year away, the eruption of T CrB will reach naked eye brightness, providing astronomers and citizen scientists with a chance to study novae with unprecedented details.
Meet-up Link: https://www.meetup.com/astronomy-131/events/301615397/