Talks will be held in the Georgian Room.
Coffee breaks and posters sessions will be held in the Arlington/Berkeley/Clarendon Mezzaine.
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Wednesday, December 4th
Thursday, December 5th
Friday, December 6th
Tuesday, December 3rd
11:00am - 4:00pm
Registration (Exeter)
11:00am - 1:00pm
Posters & Presentations Setup
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Boxed Lunch (Arlington/Berkeley/Clarendon)
1:00pm - 1:15pm
Welcome - Belinda Wilkes
Clusters of Galaxies IChair: Larry David
1:15pm - 1:45pm
Brian McNamara
(University of Waterloo)
Cluster Atmospheres Unveiled by Chandra
1:45pm - 2:00pm
Stephen Walker
(University of Alabama, Huntsville)
Unravelling the physics of the intracluster medium with cold fronts
2:00pm - 2:15pm
Urmila Chadayammuri
(Yale University)
Constraining plasma microphysics with MHD simulations and Chandra X-ray Visionary Program Observations of the merging cluster Abell 2146
2:15pm - 2:30pm
Edmund Douglass
(Farmingdale State College - SUNY)
Off-Axis Mergers and Cool Core Disruption in Galaxy Clusters
2:30pm - 2:45pm
Qian Wang
(University of Utah)
Searching for X-ray Shock Fronts at Radio Relic Edges in PLCKESZ G200.9-28.2 and Abell 2345 with Chandra
2:45pm - 3:15pm
Coffee Break
Clusters of Galaxies IIChair: Mike Wise
3:15pm - 3:45pm
Steve Allen
(Stanford University)
Chandra and Cluster Cosmology
3:45pm - 4:00pm
Michael McDonald
(MIT)
10 Years of Chandra and the South Pole Telescope
Neutron Stars, Pulsars, PlanetsChair: Dave Pooley
4:30pm - 4:45pm
Andrea Belfiore
(INAF-IASF MI)
Diffuse emission around an ultra-luminous X-ray pulsar
4:45pm - 5:00pm
Georgios Vasilopoulos
(Yale University)
Ultraluminous X-ray pulsars: spin-evolution and super-orbital modulation during super-Eddington accretion
5:00pm - 5:15pm
George Pavlov
(Pennsylvania State University)
High-speed ejecta from the high-mass gamma-ray binary PSR B1259--63/LS 2883
5:15pm - 5:30pm
Chandreyee Maitra
(Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics)
Unveiling the intriguing nature of PSR J0855-4644 through a Chandra observation: Why no Gamma rays?
5:30pm - 5:45pm
Scott Wolk
(Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian)
High Energy Diversity of Exoplanet Host Stars
5:45pm - 6:00pm
William Dunn
(UCL - Mullard Space Science Laboratory)
A New Revolution for Planetary X-ray Emission Through Chandra and Juno
6:00pm - 7:30pm
Poster Session & Refreshments
7:15am - 8:45am
Breakfast (Terrace Room)
8:30am - 3:00pm
Registration (Exeter)
AGN EvolutionChair: Dan Schwartz
9:00am - 9:30am
Priyamvada Natarajan
(Yale University)
Unveiling black holes in the near and far universe
9:30am - 9:45am
Yi-Jung Yang
(Chinese Academy of Sciences)
A Candidate Nuclear IMBH in a Blue Compact Dwarf Galaxy
9:45am - 10:00am
Alberto Masini
(Dartmouth College)
The Chandra Deep Wide Field Survey of the Bootes Field
10:00am - 10:15am
Francesca Civano
(Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian)
In medio stat virtus: the Chandra COSMOS Legacy Survey
10:15am - 10:30am
Becky Canning
(Stanford University / KIPAC)
AGN Evolution in the Universe's Densest Environments
10:30am - 11:00am
Coffee Break
XRB in the Milky Way & Nearby GalaxiesChair: Doug Swartz
11:00am - 11:30am
Vallia Antoniou
(Texas Tech University)
Chandra's 20-year view of X-ray binaries in the Milky Way and nearby galaxies
11:30am - 11:45am
Q. Daniel Wang
(University of Massachusetts)
Large-scale Chandra Survey of the Galactic Central Region
11:45am - 12:00pm
Roberto Soria
(UCAS Beijing)
Ultraluminous X-ray sources and nuclear black holes in the Virgo cluster spirals
12:00pm - 12:15pm
Francesca Fornasini
(Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian)
Connecting the metallicity dependence and redshift evolution of HMXBs
12:15pm - 12:30pm
Breanna Binder
(Cal Poly Pomona)
Revisiting the Lx-SFR Relationship in Nearby Galaxies
12:30pm - 1:30pm
Lunch (Terrace Room)
Stellar Lifecycles IChair: Dave Principe
1:30pm - 2:00pm
Rachel Osten
(StSci & John Hopkins University)
Seeing Stars in a New Light: What Have We Learned from 20 Years of Investigations with Chandra, and What Do We Still Need to Learn?
2:00pm - 2:15pm
Konstantin Getman
(Pennsylvania State University)
Insights into Young Star Cluster Astrophysics Based on Chandra Observations
2:15pm - 2:30pm
David Huenemoerder
(MIT)
A Deep Exposure in High Resolution X-Rays Reveals the Hottest Plasma in the zeta Puppis Wind
2:30pm - 2:45pm
Hans Moritz Günther
(MIT)
New tricks for a mature observatory: Chandra HETG/HRC-I observations of TW Hya probe the structure of accretion
2:45pm - 3:00pm
Margarita Karovska
(Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian)
Chandra's Sub-arcsecond Resolution View of Wind Accreting Interacting Symbiotic Binaries
3:00pm - 3:15pm
Vaughn Parts
(Swarthmore College)
Modeling O star grating spectra to constrain the shock-heated plasma temperature distributions and mass-loss rates of their winds
3:15pm - 3:45pm
Vicky Kaspi
(McGill University)
Chandra and Neutron Stars
3:45pm - 4:30pm
Coffee Break
Stellar Lifecycles IIChair: Hiroya Yamaguchi
4:30pm - 5:00pm
Pat Slane
(Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian)
Probing the Relics of Stellar Explosions with Chandra
5:00pm - 5:15pm
Daniel Patnaude
(Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian)
20 Years of Cas A with the Chandra X-ray Observatory
5:15pm - 5:30pm
Brian Williams
(NASA GSFC)
The Expansion of Tycho's Supernova Remnant
5:30pm - 5:45pm
Vikram Dwarkadas
(University of Chicago)
X-ray Spectroscopy of Young Supernovae with Chandra
5:45pm - 6:00pm
Shuo Zhang
(Boston University)
Fine Morphology of Galactic Center Non-thermal Filaments Revealed by Deep Chandra Observation
6:00pm - 7:30pm
Poster Session & Refreshments
7:15am - 8:45am
Breakfast (Terrace Room)
8:30am - 3:00pm
Registration (Exeter)
Quasars & Radio GalaxiesChair: Anna Wolter
9:00am - 9:30am
Gabriele Ponti
(Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera)
AGN and AGN feedback
9:30am - 9:45am
Ryan Pfeifle
(George Mason University)
Uncovering Buried Dual and Triple AGNs in Galaxy Mergers
9:45am - 10:00am
David Pooley
(Trinity University)
The Most Powerful Lenses in the Universe: Quasar Microlensing
10:00am - 10:15am
Xiangyu Jin
(McGill University)
Connecting Changing-Look Quasar's Optical/X-ray Spectral Shapes and Accretion Rates
10:15am - 10:30am
Kate Napier
(University of Michigan)
Probing the viability of CMB quenching for high-z jetted AGN
10:30am - 10:45am
Malgosia Sobolewska
(Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian)
Environment and growth of young extragalactic radio jets probed with X-rays
10:45am - 11:15am
Coffee Break
Current X-ray MissionsChair: Andrea Prestwich
11:15am - 11:45pm
Norbert Schartel
(ESA - ESAC)
20th Launch Anniversary of XMM-Newton: Scientific Achievements and Future Perspectives
11:45pm - 12:00pm
Paul Nandra
(Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics)
Status and first results from eROSITA
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Lunch (Terrace Room)
The Future of High Resolution X-ray AstronomyChair: Paul Plucinsky
1:00pm - 1:30pm
Paul Hertz
(NASA)
X-ray Astronomy and the Future of Astrophysics
1:30pm - 2:00pm
Alexey Vikhlinin
(Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian)
Future of high-resolution X-ray imaging
2:00pm - 2:30pm
Randall Smith
(Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian)
The Future of High Resolution Spectroscopy
2:30pm - 3:00pm
Coffee Break
Chandra 20 Years Celebrations
3:00pm - 5:00pm
Riccardo Giacconi & X-ray Astronomy
Chair: Claude Canizares
time
Wallace Tucker
(Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian)
Discovery Years with Rockets
time
Christine Jones
(Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian)
Uhuru
time
Pepi Fabbiano
(Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian)
Einstein
time
Harvey Tananbaum
(Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian)
Early Years 1963-1991
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Martin Weisskopf
(NASA MSFC)
Building the Observatory 1991-1999
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Belinda Wilkes
(Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian)
Chandra Science Highlights
5:00pm - 7:00pm
The Launch of STS-93 & the Deployment of
the Chandra X-ray Observatory
Chair: Belinda Wilkes
Astronauts Eilleen Collins, Cady Coleman & Steve Hawley
Conference Banquet (Avenue 34)
7:00pm - 8:00pm
Reception
8:00pm - 10:00pm
Dinner
7:15am - 8:45am
Breakfast (Terrace Room)
Galaxies & AGN FeedbackChair: Antara Basu-Zych
9:00am - 9:30am
Ryan Hickox
(Dartmouth College)
Science with deep surveys: Evolution of black holes and galaxies and the cosmic X-ray background
9:30am - 9:45am
Valentina Braito
(UMBC)
Chandra high resolution map of the emitting regions of NGC 7582
9:45am - 10:00am
Kristin Garofali
(University of Arkansas)
On the Nature of the 0.3–30 keV Spectrum of Low-Metallicity Starburst Galaxy VV114 Based on Chandra, XMM, and NuSTAR
10:00am - 10:15am
Chiara Feruglio
(INAF OATs)
Chandra, ALMA and MUSE@VLT reveal feeding & feedback in obscured AGN
10:15am - 10:30am
Jelle Kaastra
(SRON)
A new era of AGN outflow studies initiated by Chandra's LETGS
10:30am - 11:00am
Coffee Break / Poster Removal
Black Hole Accretion: Disks & JetsChair: Mike Nowak
11:00am - 11:30am
Sera Markoff
(University of Amsterdam)
Chandra’s exquisite view of the accretion processes around black holes
11:30am - 11:45am
Bradford Snios
(Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian)
Detection of Superluminal Motion in the X-Ray Jet of M87
11:45am - 12:00pm
Stéphane Corbel
(Univ. Paris & Obs. Paris & CEA Saclay)
Chandra reveals multiple X-ray jets in black hole X-ray binaries
12:00pm - 12:15pm
Koushik Chatterjee
(University of Amsterdam)
The First High-Resolution GRMHD studies of accretion in Sgr A*
12:15pm - 12:30pm
Lia Corrales
(University of Michigan)
The low-luminosity accretion flow of Sgr A* as seen by Chandra HETG
12:30pm - 12:45pm
Mackenzie Jones
(Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian)
Large Scale Extended Hard X-ray Emission in NGC 7212 with Chandra
12:45pm - 1:45pm
Lunch (Terrace Room)
Transient SourcesChair: Mel Nynka
1:45pm - 2:15pm
Daryl Haggard
(McGill University)
Chandra's Legacy of Discovery in Transient Astrophysics
2:15pm - 2:30pm
James Steiner
(Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian)
Spins of supermassive black holes with X-ray timing observations of tidal disruption events (TDEs)
2:30pm - 2:45pm
Dacheng Lin
(University of New Hampshire)
Three candidate magnetar-powered fast X-ray transients found from Chandra archival data
2:45pm - 3:00pm
Rafael Martínez-Galarza
(Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian)
The Weirdest Objects in the Chandra Source Catalog 2.0. A Machine Learning Approach