Cavecchi visit
Longtime collaborator and friend of bursts
Yuri
Cavecchi visited Monash this month, supported by the
MoCA Distinguished Visitor Program.
Yuri and I have been working for a few years now on the global properties of
thermonuclear bursts, particuarly the ignition conditions and how they
respond to changes in accretion rate, motivated by
observations with MINBAR.
Yuri had already come up with a
possible explanation for the drop in burst
rates that is observed as accretion rates increase in some sources; during
the visit we plan to work on matching the models in more detail to the observations. Stay tuned for exciting results coming soon!
