New Results in X-ray Astronomy 2019

Wednesday 4th September 2019

Scientific Programme

10:00    Registration & Coffee       
10:25    Welcome and introduction               
                   
10:30    Session 1 - Chair: Graziella Branduardi-Raymont       
       
10:30    Will Dunn - Jupiter's X-ray Aurora           
10:45    Giulio Del Zanna - On the satellite lines in the X-rays
11:00    Junjie Mao - CIELO-RGS: a catalog of soft X-ray ionized emission lines
11:15    Santiago del Palacio - X-ray view of the extreme colliding-wind binary HD 93129A during periastron

11:30    Jiachen Jiang - High density reflection spectroscopy: disc density at different black hole mass scales
               
11:45    Break (15 mins)               
                   
12:00    Session 2 - Chair:  Mat Page

12:00    Giulio Mancuso - Thermonuclear Burning on the Neutron Star Surface: Studying the Transition Between Unstable and Stable Burning Regimes

12:15    Nabil Brice - Modelling Pulsating Ultra Luminous X-ray Sources  
12:30    Rajath Sathyaprakash - A new detection of pulsations from an old ULX
12:45    Rob Eyles  - An unusual transient following GRB 071227
13:00    Rhaana Starling - The origin of ultra long gamma-ray bursts: GRB 121027A
             
13:15    Lunch (60 mins)               
                   
14:15    Session 3 - Chair: Ellis Owen  
         

14:15    Ahlam Al'Qasim - A new method to determine X-ray luminosity functions of AGN and their evolution with redshift 

14:30    Adam Ingram - X-ray reverberation mass measurement of accreting black holes

14:45    William Alston – The deep X-ray view of a highly variable AGN

15:00    Stephen Hancock - X-ray reverberation in Active Galactic Nuclei: Modelling the extended corona

15:15    Jiachen Jiang – Multi-epoch X-ray spectral analysis of Sy1 1H 0419-577
15:30    Sam Grafton-Waters - Multiwavelength Campaign on NGC 7469: Photoionisation modelling of the Emission Line Regions

15:45    Break (30 mins)               
                   
16:15    Session 4 - Chair: Myrto Symeonidis  

16:15    Paul Giles - Galaxy cluster science with XCS and DES

16:30    David Turner - FCtrlA: Automated hydrostatic masses of XCS galaxy clusters

16:45    Keir Birchall - X-ray Selected AGN in Dwarf Galaxies

17:00    Beatriz Mingo - The shocking behaviour of 3C 15

17:15    Peter Boorman - Resolving X-ray Obscuration Biases with Isotropic AGN Selection - First Results from the NuLANDS Legacy Survey

17:30    Reception       

Posters will be displayed in the meeting room.