The physics of compact objects in general relativity.

PIRSA ID: 20060052
Series: Strong Gravity
Event Type: Seminar
Scientific Area(s):
Strong Gravity
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Speaker(s):
  • Antonios Tsokaros, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)

The study of compact objects in the strong field regime needs a thorough understanding of the initial value problem in general relativity at the resence of hydrodynamical or magnetohydrodynamical sources. This is a twofold problem that includes general relativistic solutions that represent realistic astrophysical systems at a given moment in time as well as their subsequent evolutions. In this talk I will present the fundamental principles of this endeavor as well as efforts in understanding a great variety of astrophysical systems from binary neutron stars to ergostars and black hole-disks through numerical relativity.