Hauke's thesis accepted; postdoctoral position
I am proud and pleased to report
the award of
Hauke Wörpel's
PhD degree was approved last week. Hauke's thesis, entitled
"Radiation drag on the accretion disk in type-I X-ray bursts" was submitted last October.
His thesis involved analysis of a few thousand
thermonuclear (type-I) X-ray
bursts observed by the
Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer</a>,
showing that the accretion rate seems to increase during the bursts, and
by a substantial amount, up to a factor of 20.
Hauke also undertook numerical SPH modelling of accretion disks under the influence of bursts, with a view to better understanding the dynamics of the disk.
Hauke has already left these shores and is now undertaking postdoctoral
work at the
Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam,
where, on arrival, he unexpectedly grew an umlaut.
Congratulations Hauke!
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