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- Permanent staff: Frank
Verbunt, Jean in 't Zand (SRON)
- postdoc: Elisa Costantini (SRON)
- graduate students:
Cees Bassa,
Marc van der Sluys
Norbert Werner (SRON),
- undergraduate student:
Vidyavathi Kolavalli Devadas, Harmen Oudijk
- close collaboration with SRON Utrecht
(John Heise, Wim Hermsen, Jelle Kaastra)
- recent former staff and students:
Marten van Kerkwijk,
Jerry Orosz,
Remon Cornelisse, Ferdi Hulleman,
Joeri van Leeuwen
- Publications:
- Frank Verbunt,
Jean in 't Zand,
Cees Bassa,
Joeri van Leeuwen,
Marc van der Sluys
Elisa Costantini
Research topics: mainly neutron stars, also white dwarfs and black holes
- neutron stars accreting matter from a binary companion (X-ray
binaries):
we observe(d) these with
| BeppoSAX, ROSAT, AXAF, XMM: | X-ray |
| JKT, WHT, VLT: | visual light |
research goals: find out with what properties neutron stars and black
holes are formed, in particular with what mass, radius, magnetic field,
and velocity? Which processes determine the properties of binaries with
a black hole or neutron star?
theoretical research: binary evolution from detailed study of
individual systems,
and global study by population synthesis
- because of the common occurrence of X-ray sources in globular clusters
we also investigate these and old open clusters
observations:
| ROSAT, AXAF, XMM: | X-ray |
| JKT, WHT: | visual light |
research goals: properties of X-ray sources in clusters, the importance
of close encounters between single stars and binaries as well as binary
evolution for the evolution of the cluster as a whole.
theoretical research: tidal forces in close binaries
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