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X-ray Binaries in the Chandra and XMM-Newton Era
(with an emphasis on Targets of Opportunity)

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Final Program

Thursday - November 14

08:00 Coffee
09:00 "X-ray Binaries in the 21st Century" (Invited: Phil Charles)


Session 1: Past and Current X-ray Monitoring
09:30"Coordinated Chandra / RXTE Observations of Black Hole Binaries" 30 min (Invited: Remillard)
10:00"Six years of XRB monitoring by the BeppoSAX Wide Field Cameras" 20 min (In 't Zand)
10:20"RXTE PCA Contributions to Monitoring Faint Transients" 20 min (Swank)
   
10:40 Break, 50 min, Open projector, Posters!
   
Session 2: Current Radio Monitoring and the Radio/X-ray Connection
11:30 "Radio Monitoring and the Radio/X-ray Connection" 30 min (Invited: Rupen)
12:00 "Decelerating Relativist Jets From XTE J1550-564" 20 min (Kaaret)
   
12:20 Lunch - 1 hr 10 min


Session 3: Optical Monitoring, and the Optical/X-ray Connection
13:30 "Optical Monitoring" 30 min (Invited: Bailyn)
14:00 "Optical Rapid Variations in the Microquasar V4641 Sgr" 15 min (Uemura)
14:15 "Coordinated Chandra/HST Studies of Stellar Wind X-ray Binaries" 15 min (Vrtilek)
14:30 "Wind Accretion in Cygnus X-1" 15 min (McSwain)
   
14:45 Break, 15 min


Session 4: Quiescent/Low-Luminosity X-ray Binaries
15:00 "Variability in Quiescent Black Holes" 20 min (Hynes)
15:20 "The Intensity Variability of Transiently Accreting Neutron Star Low Mass X-ray Binaries, in Quiescence" 20 min (Rutledge)
15:40 "Globular Cluster X-ray Binaries" 20 min (Pooley)
   
16:00 Break, 1.0 Hours, Open projector, Posters!


Session 5: Actively Accreting and Transient Binaries I
17:00 "Chandra Observations of RX J170930.2-263927" 20 min (Jonker)
17:20 "XMM-Newton Observation of the Millisecond X-ray Pulsar XTE J1751-305 in Outburst" 20 min (Tiengo)
17:40 "High Resolution Spectroscopy of Ultracompact Binaries" 20 min (Juett)


Session 6: Extra-Galactic X-ray Binaries
18:00 "Chandra/HST Observations of X-ray Transients in M31" 15 min (Kong)
18:15 "XMM-N Survey of X-ray Binaries in M31" 15 min (Trudolyubov)
18:30 "X-ray Binaries in M101" 15 min (Mukai)
18:45 "HMXBs, ULXs, and Star Formation" 15 min (Gilfanov)
   
19:00 End of Day 1 sessions


Friday - November 15

08:00 Coffee


Session 7: New Observatories
09:00 "LOFAR" 30 min (Invited: Hewitt)
09:30 "Monitoring with INTEGRAL" 30 min (Invited: Shrader)
10:00 "Persistent Accreting Neutron Stars in the INTEGRAL Galactic Plane Survey" 15 min (Wilms)
10:15 "Bright LMXBs in INTEGRAL's Core Program" 15 min (Vilhu)
10:30 "Monitoring and Detecting X-ray Transients with the Swift Observatory" 30 min (Invited: Markwardt)
   
11:00 Break, 30 minutes, Open projector, Posters!


Session 8: Actively Accreting and Transient Binaries II
11:30 "Long-Term Hysteretic Behavior in Black-Hole Binaries: Galactic and Extragalactic Monitoring" 20 min (D. Smith)
11:50 "Diagnosing Spin in Galactic Black Holes" 20 min (Miller)
12:10 "The promise of TOO Observations of Superbursts" 20 min (Strohmayer)
12:30 "Gravitationally Redshifted Absorption Lines in the X-ray Burst Spectrum of the Neutron Star in EXO 0748-676" 20 min (Cottam)
   
13:00 Lunch - 1 hour 15 min : Last Poster Viewing?


Session 9: High Resolution X-ray Spectroscopy and Plasma Diagnostics
14:15 "Highly Resolved X-ray Spectra from Galactic Objects with Chandra" 15 min. (Schulz)
14:30 "Chandra and XMM Observations of the ADC Source 0921-63" 15 min (Kallman)
14:45 "Measuring the Orbital Parameters of Cygnus X-3" 15 min (Stark)
15:00 "The Hard X-ray Advance in the Centaurus X-3 and Its X-ray Emission Mechanism" 15 min (Kohmura)
   
15:30 30 minute break : Last Poster Viewing!
   
15:45 "Chandra HETG Observations of the Transient Pulsar 2S 1845-024" 15 min (Finger)
16:00 "X-ray Spectroscopy and Modeling of Low-Mass X-ray Binaries" 15 min (Jimenez-Garate)
16:15 "A Sobolev Monte Carlo Scattering Method from HMXB Winds" 15 min (Wojdowski)
   
16:30 Break, 30minutes, Open projector (No Posters)
   
17:00 Summary and Discussion (Tananbaum, White, King, Jansen, Swank)
18:00


Workshop End

Posters: All Day Thursday, Friday until 15:30



Poster Group 1: V4641 Sgr
"Jet-Induced Nucleosynthesis in Misaligned Microquasars" (Butt)
"The Super-Eddington Outburst of V4641 Sgr" (Revnivtsev)
"Quiescent Optical Observations of V4641 Sgr" (Orosz)


Poster Group 2: Super-Soft Sources and Dwarf Novae
"Peculiar Post-novae and Other Supersoft X-ray Sources as Progenitors of Type Ia Supernovae: the Observations We Need" (Orio)
"Luminous Supersoft X-ray Sources in External Galaxies" (Di Stefano)
"On the Correlated X-ray and Optical Evolution of SS Cygni" (McGowan)


Poster Group 3: Actively Accreting and Transient Binaries III
"Highly Ionized Absorption in the X-ray Spectrum of Cyg X-1" (Marshall)
"An Atlas of Chandra ACIS-S/HETG Spectra of X-ray Binaries" (Quaintrell)
"Energy-Dependent Variability of Galactic Black Holes" (I. Smith)
"9.1 Years of All-Sky Hard X-ray Monitoring with BATSE" (Wilson-Hodge)
"Why Spectroscopy is Important: The Case of GX 339-4" (Buxton)
"Long-term Spectral and Timing Behavior of XTE J1908+094" (Gogus)
"Variability Patterns of Black Hole Binaries" (Zdziarski)
"Accretion Disk Spectra of Ultra-luminous X-ray Sources and Galactic Superluminal Jet Sources" (Ebisawa)


Poster Group 4: High Angular Resolution Observations
"Do Large Scale Jets Arise Only in Long Period Black Hole X-ray Novae?" (Garcia)
"Chandra Observations of Faint LMXBs" (Wilson-Hodge)
"X-ray Sources in the Chandra Deep Exposure of Sgr A*" (Muno)
"Precise Localizations of LMXBs with Chandra: The `Big Dipper' X1624-490" (Wachter)



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