Members of The Redditch astronomical Society gathered on Monday the first of November for their monthly meeting in The Canterbury Suite at St. Augustines High School where Chris Copperwheat from the Department of Physics at the University of Warwick spoke about High Speed Astronomy.
Chris' main research interest is in astronomical events that occur in very short time scales such as XRBs and exoplanet transits Photographs taken in the X Ray area of the Spectrum, and stars that are dependant on each other and Live and die together.
An extract from Chris’s web site:
“We have created the first model that describes in a realistic way the optical/infrared emission from the donor star and accretion disc in a ULX binary. By applying this model to the optical counterparts of various ULXs we have constrained the mass of the BH in a number of systems, and made new determinations of the masses, radii and ages of the donor stars.”
The next meeting of the Society will be on the 6th of December, and as well as the traditional Astronomy quiz will include a visit and book signing by Professor Colin Pillinger C.B.E. promoting his new book “life on Mars”, a précis of which is shown below:
"My Life on Mars" is a dual autobiography - mine interwoven with the untold story (including the bits some people didn't want anybody to know) of Beagle 2. For seven years the British mission to look for life on the Red Planet captivated the public all over the World.
More information to be advised as it emerges.
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