Workshop scientific programme The presentations are all available here.
| Thursday 19th March 2009 | ||
| 08:30 | Registration | |
| 09:00 | Welcome and introduction | Mark Cropper (UCL-MSSL) |
| Session 1: Plasma Modelling (Chair: Jelle Kaastra) | ||
| 09:10 | The challenges of plasma modeling: Current status and future plans (review) | Randall Smith (SAO) |
| 09:40 | Impact of sub-keV soft excess on warm absorbers | Susmita Chakravorty (IUCAA) |
| Session 2: X-ray Binaries (Chair: Frank Verbunt) | ||
| 09:55 | X-ray spectroscopy of X-ray binaries (review) | Laurence Boirin (Strasbourg Observatory) |
| 10:25 | Investigating the nature of absorption Lines in the Chandra X-Ray Spectra of the neutron star binary 4U 1820-30 | Ed Cackett (University of Michigan) |
| 10:40 | The complex gas environment of EXO 0748-676 | Elisa Costantini (SRON) |
| 10:55 | Coffee, discussions, poster viewing (and further registration) | |
| Session 2: X-ray Binaries (cont.) (Chair: Frank Verbunt) | ||
| 11:25 | High resolution spectroscopy of the Low Mass X-ray Binary XB1832-330 | Lara Sidoli (INAF-IASF Milano) |
| 11:40 | X-ray velocity profiles round the orbit of WR140 | Andy Pollock (ESAC) |
| Session 3: Active Galactic Nuclei (Chair: Alex Blustin) | ||
| 11:55 | High resolution spectroscopy of Active Galactic Nuclei | Andy Young (University of Bristol) |
| 12:10 | New results on the importance of absorption in shaping the X-ray properties of AGN | Tracey Jane Turner (UMBC) |
| 12:25 | Absorption and wind models of AGN | Lance Miller (University of Oxford) |
| 12:40 | X-Ray in AGN outflows - MCG -6-30-15 multicomponents | Tomer Holczer (Techion) |
| 13:00 | Lunch | |
| Session 3: Active Galactic Nuclei (cont.) (Chair: Tracey Jane Turner) | ||
| 14:00 | Photoionised gas in Seyfert 1 Galaxies revealed through emission lines in high resolution X-ray spectra | Anna-Lia Longinotti (MIT) |
| 14:15 | A broad-line region origin for the iron Kalpha line in NGC 7213 | Stefano Bianchi (Universita' degli Studi di Roma TRE) |
| 14:30 | Spatially resolved HETG spectroscopy of ionization cones in Seyfert Galaxies: Detailed studies of NGC 1068 and NGC 2110 | Daniel Evans (MIT) |
| 14:45 | Locating the warm absorber in NGC 4051 | Katrien Steenbrugge (University of Oxford) |
| 15:00 | X-ray narrow line region variability as a geometry probe: The case of NGC 5548 | Rob Detmers (SRON) |
| 15:15 | On the reality of red/blue-shifted narrow lines in X-ray spectra | Phil Uttley (University of Southampton) |
| 15:30 | LHC science with AGN | Doron Chelouche (CITA) |
| 15:45 | Tea, discussions, poster viewing | |
| Session 4: Hot Stars and Planetary Nebulae (Chair: Andy Pollock) | ||
| 16:15 | High-resolution X-ray spectroscopy of the planetary nebula BD+303639 | Young Sam Yu (Rochester Institute of Technology) |
| 16:30 | Ions crossing the contact discontinuity of an astrophysical shock | Ehud Behar (NASA/GSFC and Technion) |
| 16:45 | Massive Stars in the Orion Trapezium | Norbert Schulz (MIT) |
| 17:00 | The LETG spectrum of delta Ori | Ton Raassen (SRON) |
| Session 5: Stellar Coronae, and Solar System (Chair: Graziella Branduardi-Raymont) | ||
| 17:15 | High resolution X-Ray spectroscopy of comets | Konrad Dennerl (MPE Garching) |
| 17:30 | Discussions, poster viewing | |
| 19:30 | Workshop dinner | |
| Friday 20th March 2009 | ||
| Session 5 continued: Stellar Coronae, and Solar System (Chair: Ehud Behar) | ||
| 09:00 | X-Ray spectroscopy of cool stars: Present view and future expectations (review) | Manuel Guedel (ETH Zurich) |
| 09:30 | Revealing the properties of the weak-lined TTauri binary HDE 245059 with Chandra HETGS and Keck | Carla Baldovin Saavedra (ISDC/Geneva) |
| 09:45 | High-resolution spectroscopy of cool stars | Juergen Schmitt (Hamburger Sternwarte) |
| Session 6: Supernovae, Supernova Remnants, Novae and the ISM (Chair: Paul Plucinsky) | ||
| 10:00 | X-ray spectroscopy of supernova remnants (review) | Jacco Vink (Astronomical Institute Utrecht) |
| 10:30 | Velocities and 3D structure of the SNRs Cas A and SN1987A | Dan Dewey (MIT) |
| 10:45 | X-ray spectroscopy of SN(R)1987A with RGS | Frank Haberl (MPE) |
| 11:00 | Coffee, discussions, poster viewing | |
| Session 6: Supernovae, Supernova Remnants, Novae and the ISM (cont.) (Chair: Jacco Vink) | ||
| 11:30 | The SMC SNR 1E0102.2-7219 as a calibration standard for X-ray | Paul Plucinsky (CfA) |
| 11:45 | Examination of the X-ray spectrum of the SNR 0509-67.5 | Daria Kosenko (Astronomical Institute Utrecht) |
| 12:00 | High-resolution XMM-Newton X-ray spectra of V2491 Cyg probing different stages of evolution | Jan-Uwe Ness (ESAC) |
| Session 7: Clusters of Galaxies and the WHIM (Chair: Takaya Ohashi) | ||
| 12:15 | Local X-ray absorption: Galactic corona or IGM? | Rik Williams (Leiden Observatory) |
| 12:30 | Cool gas in the core of the Centaurus cluster | Jeremy Sanders (IoA, Cambridge) |
| 12:45 | The WHIM: Current observational evidence and future prospects with IXO | Fabrizio Nicastro (INAF-OAR/UoC) |
| 13:00 | Lunch | |
| Session 8: Future Missions (Chair: Fabrizio Nicastro) | ||
| 14:00 | The International X-ray Observatory (IXO) (review) | Arvind Parmar (ESA) |
| 14:30 | The High Resolution X-ray Spectrometer, SXS, on the Astro-H mission | Kazuhiasa Mitsuda (ISAS/JAXA) |
| 14:45 | DIOS: An X-ray mission to survey missing baryons | Takaya Ohashi (Tokyo Metropolitan University) |
| 15:00 | X-ray spectroscopy: Opportunities in the future | Jan-Willem den Herder (SRON) |
| 15:15 | A completely different view of RGS observations: A trial to estimate the intrinsic discovery space | Norbert Schartel (ESA) |
| 15:30 | Closing remarks and general discussion | Jelle Kaastra (SRON) |
| 16:00 | Tea and good-byes | |
| 1-1 | Atomic data for the X-ray plasma modelling - recent advances | Giulio del Zanna (DAMTP Cambridge) |
| 3-2 | XMM-Newton High resolution spectroscopy of NGC 3516 | Missagh Mehdipour (UCL-MSSL) |
| 3-3 | The nuclear environment of 3C 33 as observed by Chandra and XMM-Newton | Eleonora Torresi (INAF-IASF Bologna; University of Bologna) |
| 5-1 | Multi-wavelength observing of a forming solar-like star | Scott Gregory (University of St Andrews) |
| 5-2 | Solar Wind Charge Exchange X-ray emission from the Earth's Magnetosheath | Jennifer Carter, Steve Sembay and Andrew Read (University of Leicester) |
| 6-1 | XMM-Newton RGS spectrum of RX J0720.4-3125: Absorption feature at 0.57 keV | V. Hambaryan (AIU Jena), R. Neuhaeuser (AIU Jena), F. Haberl (MPE), M.M. Hohle (MPE Garching & AIU Jena), A.D. Schwope (Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam) |
| 6-2 | Variable spectrum of the X-Ray pulsar RX J0720.4-3125 | Markus M. Hohle (MPE Garching & AIU Jena) & Frank Haberl (MPE) |
| 8-2 | Role of limb brightening in the angular momentum determination of accreting black holes | Jiri Svoboda (Astronomical Institute of Academy of Sciences in Prague) |
| 8-3 | High Resolution Soft X-Ray Spectroscopy with a Critical-Angle Transmission Grating Spectrometer | Norbert S. Schulz, Ralf K. Heilmann, Minseung Ahn, David Huenemoerder, Mark L. Schattenburg and the MIT CAT team |
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