[Chennaipy] Minutes of May meetup: corrections in the astro talk.

[Vijay Kumar]

Hi Manjari,
Thanks for the clarification. And thanks for the talk as well. You 
definitely kindled the interest in astronomy in all of us. :-)

Regards,
Vijay

On Thursday 31 May 2018 10:27 AM, Manjari Bagchi wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Thanks for inviting me to give a talk in your meet-up, and also thanks 
> to Vivek for a summary of an astrophysics talk!
> However, I would like to clarify a few issues (kept with "?") with 
> Vivek's summary:
>
>
>     1) They are also known neutron stars - about 10 times heavier than
>     the sun - very dense and regular gravitational physics cannot be
>     used to explain their gravitational behavior? (not clear how they
>     are different from black holes)
>
>
>  Neutron stars are not 10 times heavier than the sun. They are 1 to 2 
> times of the solar mass. They are formed when stars 10 times or more 
> die (a significant amount of mass is lost during the death or the 
> supernova explosion).
>
>
>     2) Python3 script to read this data and plot the positions on the
>     globe - 3d earth image projects on to a 2d oval shaped earth on
>     the screen.
>     Used galpy for plotting(matplotlib?)
>
>
> Yes, galpy did all the calculations but the plotting window was called 
> by matplotlib.
>
>     3) Project SKA - Square Kilometer Array. Huge sets of telescopes
>     etc in Australia and South Africa are used to capture data. Entire
>     world is involved in this project. A lot of programming is
>     required for this. Those interested can contact her
>
>
>  Not me, I am basically a theoretician. Interested people might think 
> to contact relevant persons in NCRA.
>
>
>     4) Link to the National Center for Radio Astrophysics (also
>     contains links to the SKA Indian team???):
>
>
>  Yes, but the team involves theoreticians also.
>
>  Thanks and regards,
> Manjari
>
>
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