Andreas
Reisenegger
Associate
Professor (Profesor Asociado),
Departamento de Astronomía y Astrofísica (DAA),
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (PUC),
Casilla 306, Santiago 22, Chile
Phone: +56 (2)3544940 (direct: +56 (2)3544937)
FAX: +56 (2)3544948
E-mail: areisene@astro.puc.cl
Past President (2007-2008), Chilean
Astronomical Society (SOCHIAS)
Research Interests
Theoretical Astrophysics: Neutron Stars;
Magnetohydrodynamics, stellar magnetic fields;
Dynamics of clusters and superclusters of galaxies
Statistical Mechanics, phase transitions / Astrophysical tests of
fundamental physics
Useful
Links
Departamento de Astronomía y Astrofísica, Pontíficia Universidad Católica de Chile
Departamento de Astronomía, Universidad de Chile
Astronomy Group, Universidad de Concepción
Instituto de Astronomía, Universidad Católica del Norte
European
Southern Observatory (ESO)
Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory (CTIO )
Las Campanas Observatory (LCO )
International astronomy meetings
List
of astronomers in Chile
SOME OUTREACH LECTURES (in Spanish)
Claves
de la Astronomía:
Clase 1 “Vida y
Milagros de las Estrellas” (evolución estelar)
Clase 2 “Muerte y
Transfiguración”
(remanentes estelares
compactos: enanas blancas, estrellas de neutrones y hoyos negros)
Pulsares: Faros de la Galaxia 
Charla
LECTURE SERIES ON NEUTRON STARS
4 lectures for graduate students, held at ESO
Vitacura (Chile) on October 23-27, 2006 (in English)
1: Basics
-
History: prediction of neutron stars, discovery of pulsars, how we know they
are neutron stars
- Theory: Degenerate fermions, weak interaction equilibrium, equation of state,
white dwarfs vs. neutron stars, Chandrasekhar limit, possible exotic forms of
matter, neutron star structure
PRESENTATION
2: Phenomenology
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Classical and millisecond pulsars, high-mass and low-mass X-ray binaries,
magnetars, thermal emitters, "RRATs"
- What can be observed, how physical properties can be inferred, what are the
similarities, differences, and connections among all these objects
PRESENTATION
3: Thermal evolution
-
cooling processes in young neutron stars: neutrino and photon emission, direct
vs. modified Urca processes, effects of superfluidity and different equations
of state, observational constraints
- heating processes in old neutron stars: crust cracking, vortex motion,
rotochemical and gravitochemical heating, constraints on variations of the
gravitational constant
PRESENTATION
4: Magnetic field
-
the origin of the magnetic field, possible connections to main sequence stars
and white dwarfs
- magnetic field evolution: magnetars, young vs. old neutron stars, physical
processes in isolated and accreting neutron stars
PRESENTATION
Shortened & updated version for graduate course “Topics in
Astrophysics”, November 2009
1: Basics
- 2:
Phenomenology - 3: Thermal
evolution - 4:
Magnetism
RESEARCH
PRESENTATIONS (in English)
ESO-Vitacura, December 6, 2006:
Superclusters as future “island
universes” - the case of Shapley
PRESENTATION