{"id":184,"date":"2008-06-03T01:32:36","date_gmt":"2008-06-02T14:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/?p=184"},"modified":"2008-06-03T01:32:36","modified_gmt":"2008-06-02T14:32:36","slug":"065-dr-pilar-gil-pons-binary-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/?p=184","title":{"rendered":"065 &#8211; Dr Pilar Gil-Pons &#8211; Binary Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Pilar Gil Pons is a postdoctoral researcher in the area of super asymptotic giant branch stars who has just received a grant by the Spanish government to work on SAGB stars at Monash University in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>She also happens to be an expert on binary stars, which is what I talked to her about in this episode&#8217;s interview.<\/p>\n<p>How can a black hole exist close to another star?  How does this differ from normal binary star systems?  What is the ultimate fate of a binary star system?  Listen in and find out!<\/p>\n<p>Also featured in this episode are the brain teaser, pin of the episode, a question from a couple of listeners, and some long overdue listener feedback.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i182.photobucket.com\/albums\/x287\/brainsmatter\/audio.jpg\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/~brainsmatter\/BM065-PilarGilPonsBinaryStars.mp3\">Download MP3 of Ep 65<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This episode of Brains Matter is brought to you by <a href=\"http:\/\/astronomy.swin.edu.au\/sao\">Swinburne Astronomy Online<\/a><br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/astronomy.swin.edu.au\/sao\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i182.photobucket.com\/albums\/x287\/brainsmatter\/SAOLogo.png?t=1212883097\"><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nPlease vote for this podcast this month at<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.podcastalley.com\/one_vote2.php?pod_id=40939\" title=\"Podcast Alley - Your Podcast Library\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.podcastalley.com\/images\/podcastalley_icon.gif\" alt=\"PodcastAlley.com Feeds\" border=\"0\" height=\"15\" width=\"80\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr?cmd=_xclick&amp;business=brainsmatterinbox%40gmail%2ecom&amp;no_shipping=2&amp;no_note=1&amp;tax=0&amp;currency_code=USD&amp;bn=PP%2dDonationsBF&amp;charset=UTF%2d8\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/en_US\/i\/btn\/x-click-but04.gif\" alt=\"Donate via Paypal\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can donate by clicking on the button above, and subscribe by <a href=\"http:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewPodcast?id=257301606\">subscribing in iTunes <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i182.photobucket.com\/albums\/x287\/brainsmatter\/iTunesWord.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~f\/BrainsMatter?a=XRoAgi\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i182.photobucket.com\/albums\/x287\/brainsmatter\/digg.jpg\"> digg this<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This episode&#8217;s podcast promo is of <a href=\"http:\/\/hypernonsense.com\/\">Hyper Nonsense<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Pilar Gil Pons is a postdoctoral researcher in the area of super asymptotic giant branch stars who has just received a grant by the Spanish government to work on SAGB stars at Monash University in Australia. She also happens to be an expert on binary stars, which is what I talked to her about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,13,16,19,20],"tags":[354,55,365,196,369],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}