Dear Madame and Sirs,

my name is Matthias Hanauske and I am working at the Goethe University in Frankfurt in the group of Prof. Rezzolla and Prof. Stöcker. I would like to give a talk at the "SQM 2017"-conference, but unfortunately I missed the abstract submission deadline by one day. I wanted to ask, if it would be possible to still consider my contribution. My field of research is "Strangeness in astrophysics" and the new results I would like to present are relevant for the (hopefully soon coming) gravitational wave detection of gravitational waves from binary neutron star mergers. The abstract of my talk would be:

Title: Gravitational waves from binary compact star mergers in the context of strange matter

One hundred years after Albert Einstein developed the field equations of general relativity and predicted the existence of gravitational waves (GWs), these curious spacetime-ripples have been observed from a pair of merging black holes by the LIGO detectors. As GWs emitted from merging neutron star binaries are on the verge of their first detection, it is important to understand the main characteristics of the underlying merging system in order to predict the expected GW signal. Based on a large number of numerical-relativity simulations of merging neutron star binaries, the emitted GW and the interior structure of the generated hypermassive neutron stars (HMNS) have been analyzed in detail. This talk will focus on the internal and rotational HMNS properties and their connection with the emitted GW signal. Especially, the appearance of the hadon-quark phase transition and the formation of strange matter in the interior region of the HMNS and its conjunction with the spectral properties of the emitted GW will be addressed. arXiv:1611.07152

I hope that it will be possible to consider my contribution as a regular talk in the "SQM 2017".

All the best regards,

Matthias Hanauske