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LOCATION:4421 Sterling Hall
SUMMARY:New Insights Into Novae\, Astronomy Colloquium\, Elias Aydi\, 
 Texas Tech University
DESCRIPTION:Novae are panchromatic transients triggered by a thermonuc
 lear runaway on the surfaces of white dwarf stars in interacting binar
 ies. Our understanding of how novae are powered has been altered with 
 the Fermi gamma-ray telescope establishing novae as bright GeV gamma-r
 ay sources and thus a new class of particle accelerators in our Galaxy
 . This unexpected discovery underscores the complexity of novae and th
 eir value as laboratories for studying shocks and particle acceleratio
 n. In this talk I will highlight our ongoing multi-wavelength/multi-me
 ssenger efforts aimed at understanding how shocks work in novae. These
  efforts can help us probe critical but poorly understood physical pro
 cesses\, such as common envelope interaction\, super-Eddington luminos
 ities\, particle acceleration efficiency\, and dust formation around e
 xplosive transients\, and are essential for a better understanding of 
 other shock-powered transients in the Universe such as supernovae\, st
 ellar mergers\, and tidal disruption events.
URL:https://www.physics.wisc.edu/events/?id=9008
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