Speaker
Prof.
Ang Li
Description
Talk title: Constraints on the maximum mass of neutron stars with strangeness
----------
Speaker: Prof. Ang Li, Xiamen University
----------
Abstract:
The study of neutron star equation of state (EOS) has entered a quantitative age, with a growing body of robust data to clarify the basic facts of these mysterious objects. Constraints on EOS mainly come from theoretical many-body calculations, laboratory measurements of nuclear properties & reactions, and observations in astronomy. The golden event of GW170817 from LIGO/Virgo has brought the best time of the multi-messenger era for dense matter EOS. Especially, the NICER mission has simultaneously estimated the mass and radius of two pulsars (PSR J0030+0451 and 0740+6620). I will introduce our recent works on constraining the EOS and the maximum mass of neutrons stars with strangeness (2006.00839, 2009.12571, 2103.15119, 2107.13997, 2107.07979) by connecting consistently nuclear experiments and GW+EM observations of neutron stars.
----------
About the speaker:
Ang Li is currently a professor in the Department of Astronomy, Xiamen University (https://astro.xmu.edu.cn/info/1071/2116.htm). She has worked as visiting scholar in INFN-LNS and University of Catania, Italy and Texas A&M University-Commerce and University of Nevada Las Vegas, USA. From 2012 to 2013, she served as a Foreign Postdoctoral Researcher at RIKEN, Japan. She is engaged in research on the neutron star equation of state on a microscopic basis, and her work has been cited 1000+ times by, e.g., the LIGO/Virgo, NICER collaborations and KAGRA, STROBE-X white papers. Recently, she won the Top Cited Author Award (China) by the American Astronomical Society and IOP Publishing in 2020.
