Christopher Thompson (astronomer)
A. Christopher "Chris" Thompson (* 1961 ) is a Canadian astronomer and astrophysicist.
Thompson is Professor at the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA) at the University of Toronto .
He deals with high energy astrophysics and neutron stars. In 1992 he and Robert C. Duncan developed the Magnetar model (pulsars with extremely high magnetic fields) of the Soft Gamma Repeater (SGR).
In 2003 he and Duncan and Chryssa Kouveliotou received the Bruno Rossi Prize for their work on magnetars. In 2018 he was elected to the Royal Society of Canada .
Fonts
- with Chryssa Kouveliotou, Robert C. Duncan: Magnetare. Spectrum of Science, May 2003, pp. 56–63
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Duncan, Thompson, Formation of strongly magnetized neutron stars: implications for gamma-ray-bursts, Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 392, 1992, L9-L13
- ^ Duncan, Thompson, The soft gamma repeaters as very strongly magnetized neutron stars - I. Radiative mechanism for outbursts, Monthly Notices Royal Astron. Soc., Vol. 275, 1995, pp. 255-300
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| SURNAME | Thompson, Christopher |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Thompson, A. Christopher |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian astronomer and astrophysicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1961 |