Title:
(35) X-ray Astronomy and Astrophysics
Speaker:
Prof. Walter Lewin
Date/Place:
1999-12-08 MIT
Keywords:
Physik, physics, Mechanik, mechanics, balloon flights, high altitude, Astronomie, astronomy, x-rays, stars, Sterne, Neutronensterne, neutron star
Description:
Professor Lewin talks about some of the highlights from his early days at MIT. It began with balloon flights at very high altitude to make observations of the stars in X-rays. This led to discoveries of X-ray flaring events and a periodic X-ray source (GX 1+4). In the seventies and eighties he made important contributions to our understanding of X-ray bursts (thermo-nuclear fusion episodes on neutron stars).
