The Astronomical Society of Australia held it's meeting this week at U. Melbourne. This annual event brings astronomers from all over the country (and the world) together for a week to catch up, present their research, and also award prizes to researchers and students. I gave a poster describing work on using mixed H/He thermonuclear bursts to deduce the neutron star redshift. Zdenka gave a talk on preliminary results from her comparisons of burst properties and models in the candidate He accretor 4U 1728-34. It was nice to be back on campus at U.Melbourne for a week — great location and even better coffee!

Measuring neutron star parameters from mixed H/He thermonuclear bursts (1.1MB PDF)

Labels: 2009, neutron star EOS