NuSTAR Science Meeting 2016

 

Tuesday – November 15, 2016

• 8:30 – 9:00                Coffee / pastries

 

Mission status and data analysis updates:                                

Session Chair:  Stern

• 9:00 – 9:15                Welcome + mission status                            Harrison
• 9:15 – 9:30                The Crab, clock, mode 6 + dust haloes        Madsen/Grefenstette

 

Galactic surveys:                                                                            

Session Chair:  Hornschemeier

• 9:30 – 9:50                Diffuse emission + dark matter                    Perez
• 9:50 – 10:10              TeV sources                                                    Gotthelf

 

• 10:10 – 10:30            Oral presentation of posters - I             Chair:  Madsen

 

• 10:30 – 11:00            Coffee break

 

Galactic binaries and Galactic sources:                                    

Session Chair:  Wilms

• 11:00 – 11:20               Results on accreting black hole                     Tomsick
• 11:20 – 11:40               Multi-wavelength study of the hard state     Grinberg
• 11:40 – 12:00               Lense-Thirring precession                               Ingram
• 12:00 – 12:20               2015 Outburst of V404 Cyg                             Gandhi
• 12:20 – 12:40               Life cycles of black hole winds                       Neilsen

 

• 12:40 – 2:00              Lunch

 

• 2:00 – 2:20                Neutron stars: Fe, B, boundary layers            Ludlam
• 2:20 – 2:40                Cyclotron lines: theory & observations          Fuerst
• 2:40 – 3:00                Millisecond pulsars                                          Bogdanov

 

Super-Eddington Accretion and Ultraluminous X-ray sources:

Session Chair:  Fuerst

• 3:00 – 3:30                Super-Eddington accretion theory             Sadowski

 

• 3:30 – 4:00                Coffee break

 

• 4:00 – 4:20                Highlights from ULX program                     Walton
• 4:20 – 4:40                ULX pulsars: observations & theory           Fuerst
• 4:40 – 5:00                ULX optical/IR counterparts                         Heida

 

• 5:00 – 6:00                Reception on patio

 

Wednesday – November 16, 2016

• 8:30 – 9:00                Coffee / pastries

 

Novae / Supernovae / Supernova Remnants:

Session Chair:  Pottschmidt

• 9:00 – 9:30                Core collapse theory: recent progress        Fryer
• 9:30 – 9:50                SN2014C                                                          Margutti
• 9:50 – 10:10              Cassiopeia A                                                   Grefenstette

 

• 10:10 – 10:30            Oral presentation of posters - II                  Chair:  Madsen

 

• 10:30 – 10:50                       Coffee break

 

• 10:50 – 11:10                       Extremely hard emission from η Car         Hamaguchi
• 11:10 – 11:30                       Fermi-detected classical novae                  Mukai

 

Starburst galaxies:

Session Chair:  Zezas

• 11:30 – 11:50                       Starburst galaxy program                            Yukita
• 11:50 – 12:10                       Non-thermal diffuse emission in galaxies         Venters

 

• 12:10 – 1:40              Lunch

 

Black Hole Physics:

Session Chair:  Matt

• 1:40 – 2:00                Recent results in X-ray reverberation        Zoghbi
• 2:00 – 2:20                Reflection and reverberation                     Kara
• 2:20 – 2:40                Reflections on relativistic reflection           Garcia
• 2:40 – 3:00                Rapidly variable relativistic absorption       Parker
• 3:00 – 3:20                Flaring and jet launching                           Wilkins
• 3:20 – 3:40                AGN coronae with a jet perspective          King

 

• 3:40 – 4:00                Coffee break

 

Caltech Astronomy Colloquium:

• 4:00 – 5:00                AGN coronae in the NuSTAR era                   Fabian

 

• 5:00 – 5:30                Wine & cheese in Cahill Foyer

 

• 6:00 – 9:00                Conference dinner ($50 per person; RSVP required):  Café Santorini, 64 W. Union St.

 

Thursday – November 17, 2016

• 8:30 – 9:00                Coffee / pastries

Obscured AGN / AGN Studies:

Session Chair:  Lansbury

• 9:00 – 9:20                Famous obscured AGN                             Arevalo
• 9:20 – 9:40                Volume-limited sample                              Annuar
• 9:40 – 10:00              Low-luminosity AGN and NGC 4258         Nowak
• 10:00 – 10:15            Growth rate indicator for CTAGN              Brightman
• 10:15 – 10:30            Intrinsically weak broad-line regions         Bianchi

 

• 10:30 – 11:00                       Coffee break

 

Extragalactic Surveys:

Session Chair:  Civano

• 11:00 – 11:20                       Number counts, luminosity function              Aird
• 11:20 – 11:35                       NuSTAR stacking analysis                            Hickox
• 11:35 – 12:00                       X-ray spectral analysis of NuSTAR AGN      Comastri/Del Moro
• 12:00 – 12:15                       Future extragalactic surveys                         Stern

 

• 12:15 – 1:45              Lunch

 

Future NuSTAR Legacy Surveys:

Session Chair:  Madejski

• 1:45 – 2:00                Swift & NuSTAR: partners in science                Kennea
• 2:00 – 2:15                Galactic Swift/BAT program            Tomsick
• 2:15 – 2:30                Open discussion

 

• 2:30 – 3:00                Coffee break

 

Recent & Future Missions:

Session Chair:  Christensen

• 3:00 – 3:20                X-ray polarimetry                                         Matt
• 3:20 – 3:40                AstroSAT                                                     Bhalerao
• 3:40 – 4:00                NICER                                                         Steiner
• 4:00 – 4:20                eROSITA                                                     Merloni
• 4:20 – 4:40                Future flagships: Athena + XRS                  Stern
• 4:40 – 5:00                HEX-P                                                          Harrison

 

 

Oral Presentation of Posters

Each poster gets exactly 1 slide + 1 minute to present their poster.

 

 

Oral Presentation of Posters – I (Tuesday, Nov. 15)

Session Chair:  Madsen

• A 0535+36 at low luminosity                                                       Ballhausen
• The accreting X-ray pulsar IGR J16393-4643                            Bodaghee
• X-ray pulsars with warped disks and flares                                Brumback
• Catalog of thermonuclear X-ray bursts observed by NuSTAR   Chenevez
• Timing and spectral results for IGR J16320-4751                      Chiu
• “Unidentified” INTEGRAL sources in the Galactic plane            Clavel
• NuSTAR GO programs                                                               Forster
• NuSTAR Norma arm survey                                                       Fornasini
• Testing X-ray Binary Diagnostic Diagrams                                 Galeas
• The accretion-powered pulsar 4U 1626-67 during spin-up         Iwakiri
• The ultraluminous X-ray source NGC 5643 X-1                          Krivonos
• Arches cluster in 2015: fading hard X-ray emission                    Krivonos
• Pre-periastron activity of PSR J2032+4127                                 Li
• Cyclotron absorption inthe HMXB transient IGR J16418-4532   Natalucci
• Centaurus X-3                                                                              Pottschmidt
• Strongly magnetized black hole accretion disks                          Salvesen
• Galactic center molecular clouds:  Sgr A* outburst history           Zhang

 

Oral Presentation of Posters – II (Wednesday, Nov. 16)

Session Chair:  Madsen

• NuSTAR observations of the most powerful blazars                  Ajello
• Anti-correlation between Fe K⍺ and continuum luminosity        Boorman
• Revealing the Underlying AGN population with Simulations      Jones
• ART-XC telescope on board SRG                                              Krivonos
• Dual SMBHs as a tracer of galaxy mergers                                Koss
• NGC1266: star formation suppression by a CTAGN                   Lanz
• The reflection spectrum of the radio-loud quasar 4C 74.26        Lohfink
• Revealing the X-ray background with NuSTAR and Swift          Marchesi
• Coronal parameters in nearby AGN                                           Marinucci
• The phoenix galaxy                                                                    Masini
• Mergers and black hole growth                                                   Ricci
• New time series analysis methods for NuSTAR data                 Scargle
• Two bright Seyfert galaxies, MCG+8-11-11 and NGC 6814      Tortosa
• The M31 NuSTAR legacy survey                                               Wik
• Identification of the hard X-ray Source in M31                            Yukita