Kaushik Satapathy, University of Arizona
When
2:10 – 3:20 p.m., April 26, 2019
Where
PAS 218
Abstract: The study of Accretion Flows gained traction after the advances in the understanding of compact objects in the mid twentieth century. Attempts were made to build analytical models describing flows and infer observational signatures arising from them, until it was realized that numerous instabilities arise in these systems making it very difficult to model. The talk will focus on one such instability, called the magnetorotational instability, which arises in accretion flows in the presence of a magnetic field in a plasma flow and hence is of great astrophysical interest.
** Refreshments served from 2:45pm – 3:00pm in PAS 218. Please join us for the colloquium in PAS 224. Thank you. **