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New Results in X-ray Astronomy 2016

Wednesday 28 September 2016

Chandra in flight XMM-Newton over the Earth Swift and a gamma-ray burst



Scientific Programme



Wednesday 28th September






10:00 Registration & Coffee



10:25 Welcome and introduction





10:30
Session 1



10:30 Graziella Branduardi-Raymont (MSSL-UCL) - SMILE (Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer): X-ray imaging of the Sun-Earth connection


10:45
Will Dunn (MSSL-UCL) - Does the Solar Wind Create Jupiter’s X-ray Aurora?


11:00
Rory Brown (Southampton) - Modelling decretion disc interactions in Be X-ray binaries with smoothed particle hydrodynamics



11:15
Wynn Ho (Southampton) - Multiwavelength monitoring and X-ray brightening of Be X-ray binary PSR J2032+4127/MT91 213 on its approach to periastron



11:30
Denis González-Caniulef (MSSL-UCL) - Polarization properties in the X-ray and optical bands of the emission from X-ray dim isolated neutron stars






11:45
Break (15 mins)








12:00
Session 2



12:00
Aaran Shaw (Southampton) - No Evidence for a low-mass black hole in Swift J1753.5-0127



12:15
Jakob van den Eijnden (Cambridge) - Differential precession of the inner accretion flow onto black holes



12:30
Paul Kuin (MSSL-UCL) - The February 2016 outburst of recurrent Nova LMC 1968



12:45
Sam Oates (Warwick) – The 80 Ms follow up of the X-ray afterglow of GRB 130427A



13:00
Sam Emery (MSSL-UCL) - The early optical afterglow and non-thermal components of GRB 060218








13:15
Lunch (60 mins)








14:15
Session 3



14:15
Peter Boorman (Southampton) - NuSTAR observations reveal a new heavily Compton thick AGN with strong iron fluorescence



14:30
Daniel Kynoch (Durham) - The gamma-ray emitting narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxy 1H 0323+342



14:45
Sam Conolly (Southampton) - Long-term X-Ray Spectral Variability in AGN from the Palomar sample



15:00
Douglas Buisson (Cambridge) - Ultraviolet and X-ray variability of active galactic nuclei with Swift



15:15
Mat Page (MSSL-UCL) – X-ray selected BAL QSOs



15:30
Dimitris Emmanoulopoulos (Southampton) - General relativistic echoes in the power spectral density functions of AGN








15:45
Break (30 mins)








16:15
Session 4



16:15
Ciro Pinto (Cambridge) - Hitomi’s first light on Perseus cluster of galaxies



16:30
Julian Mayers (Sussex) - The XMM Cluster Survey: Its not just clusters! (X-ray flashes, dark matter lines, black hole masses)



16:45
Alberto Bermeo (Sussex) - Cosmology from DES Clusters: towards mass calibration via optical to X-ray scaling relations



17:00
Carlos Vergara (Sussex) - Testing chameleon gravity models using DES weak lensing and XCS X-ray profiles



17:15
Mike Watson (Leicester) - Athena update








17:30 Reception





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