[Interview+] How Magnetars Are Born
Magnetars are a special sauce of neutron stars. They are extremely violent with crazy magnetic fields. But how are they created? Do kilonova neutron star collisions produce them? What do we really know about that? Finding out in this interview.
Watch the video here (with no ads) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Q3JGdARjzTA
BONUS PART STARTS AT 28:29
🟣 Guest: Dr. Genevieve Schroeder
https://astro.cornell.edu/genevieve-schroeder https://sites.northwestern.edu/genevieveschroeder/ https://bsky.app/profile/genevieveschroeder.bsky.social
📜 No Sign of a Magnetar Remnant Following the Kilonova-Producing Long GRB 211211A ∼1.7 Years Later https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09744
00:00 Intro
01:58 GRB 211211A
09:37 How can you get a magnetar
12:30 Searching for magnetars
16:28 Findings from GRB 211211A
24:01 What happens next
28:29 Off-axis Gamma-Ray Bursts
39:03 Current obsessions
43:18 Final thoughts
Comments (11)
I don't understand why someone so intelligent would purposefully make themselves look so silly. But I'm not the educated one being interviewed here, so I guess I'll shut the hell up.
Great video. Shame about the breaks in transmission. This has been happening a bit lately. Thanks again Fraser for bringing us these very interesting interviews.
I happens all over discord I think. I get it all over. Edit: I mean patreon of course
All heil the Vera Rubin Observatory. When is it going live?
Would you please enable download for the audio?
Great presentation two bad Patreon hiccups every few seconds, and we lose some content.
Yes, occasional video stuttering here on Patreon again, whereas video on YouTube doesn't stutter. Completely loses a few seconds of the interview each time it stutters.
yesss! that was excellent, loved it :D congrats on Dr.Schroeder for her hard work!
Thank you DR. Genevieve Schroeder. Refreshing, intelligent honest I look forward to hearing more about your work.
Absolutely fantastic I mean I am the queen inquisitor of magnets whether it’s magneton fields or burst this was super enlightening. Thank you Fraser this was amazing and this young lady admitted not finding but her valid findings and kudos. I really enjoyed this. Thank you to both of you.
When a Mummy mutant and a Daddy mutant love each other very much sometimes a Magneto is born. Sorry, I'm feeling very silly today.