Hosted by the Chandra X-ray Center
X-ray Spectroscopy Workshop
July 11-13, 2007
Sheraton Commander Hotel
16 Garden St,
Cambridge, MA
Program
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WEDNESDAY, July 11Photoionization IChair: Jane Turner | |
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| 8:40 am | Welcome |
| 8:45-9:15 | Invited: Claude Canizares -Perspectives on the Development of High Resolution X-ray Spectroscopy |
| 9:15-9:45 | Invited: Mike Crenshaw - X-ray Grating Spectroscopy of AGN |
| 9:45 | Blustin -The mass-energy budget of the ionised outflow in NGC 7469 |
| 10:00 | Young - High Resolution X-ray Spectroscopy of the Low-Luminosity Nucleus of M81 |
| 10:15 | Detmers - NGC 5548 Revisited: The lean years |
| 10:30-10:45 | poster haiku |
| 10:45-11:15 | Coffee |
Chair: Tahir Yaqoob | |
| 11:15-11:45 | Invited: John Raymond - High Resolution X-ray Spectra of Accretion Disks |
| 11:45 | Evans - Probing Unification With High-Resolution Spectroscopy of NGC 2110 |
| 12:00 | Reeves - AGN outflows, the tip of the iceberg? |
| 12:15 | Lee - The High Resolution Optical to X-ray Study of the QSO IRAS 13349+2438 |
| 12:30-1:45 pm | Lunch |
Collisional Ionization I Chair: Marc Gagne | |
| 1:45-2:15 pm | Invited: Manuel Guedel - X-Ray Spectroscopy of Cool Stars: From Coronal Heating to Accretion |
| 2:15 | Ayres - The Fainting of Alpha Cen A |
| 2:30 | Desai - Capella Grating Data and the Emission Line Project: An Update |
| 2:45 | Dewey - Young, Thin, and on the Move: HETG Observations of SNRs |
| 3:00 | Ji - The non-equilibrium ionization model in ISIS |
| 3:15 | Carpenter - Comparison of observed and theoretical Fe L emission from CIE plasmas |
| 3:30-4pm | Coffee |
Chair: Chris Mauche | |
| 4-4:30 pm | Invited: Andy Pollock - The physics and dynamics of the X-ray plasmas in hot stars |
| 4:30 | Kaastra - RGS spectroscopy of the Crab nebula |
| 4:45 | Liefke - Plasma diagnostics of a giant stellar flare |
| 5:00 | Maggio - Benchmark Exercises for stellar X-ray Spectroscopy Testing: initial results |
| 5:15 | Testa - Detailed plasma and fluorescence diagnostics of a stellar X-ray flare |
| 5:30 | Westbrook - X-Atlas: An Online Archive of Chandra's Stellar HETG Observations |
| 5:45 | Marshall - Modeling the SS 433 Jet Bends |
THURSDAY Elemental abundances/Photoionization II Chair: Saku Vrtilek | |
| Invited: Tim Kallman - Atomic Calculations and Laboratory Measurements | |
| 9:15-9:45 | Invited: Mike Nowak - X-ray Binaries in the Era of Chandra and XMM High Resolution Spectroscopy |
| 9:45 | Gu - Experimental and Theoretical X-ray Wavelengths of Astrophysical Ions |
| 10:00 | Heilmann - Blazed transmission gratings for soft x-ray spectroscopy |
| 10:15-10:30 | Poster Haiku |
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee |
Chair: Adrienne Juett | |
| 11:00--11:30 | Invited: Chris Mauche - High Spectral Resolution Observations of Cataclysmic Variables |
| 11:30 | Burwitz- The complex and variable X-ray spectra of the super-soft source RXJ0513.9-6951 |
| 11:45 | Braito -The remarkable soft X-ray emission of the Broad Radio Galaxy 3C 445 |
| 12:00 | Goncalves- The impact of the line-of-sight on the estimation of X-ray plasma diagnostics |
| 12:15 | Orio - RS Ophiuchi in outburst in X-rays: an ``extreme'' nova. |
| 12:30-1:45 pm | Lunch |
Photoionization III Chair: Jelle Kaastra | |
| 1:45pm-2:15 pm | Invited: Q. Daniel Wang - X-ray Absorption Line Spectroscopy of the Interstellar Medium |
| 2:15 | Bianchi - On the origin of soft X-rays in obscured AGN |
| 2:30 | Ho - Modeling High-resolution, Phase-resolved Observations of Isolated Neutron Stars |
| 2:45 | Holczer - Absorption Measure Distribution of Outflows in AGNs |
Discussion I Chair: Nancy Brickhouse | |
| 3:00-3:45 | Modeling, Codes, and Databases - What's New and What's Needed? |
| 3:45-4:15pm | Coffee |
Chair: Herman Marshall | |
| 4:15-4:45 | Invited: Ehud Behar - Highlights from X-ray Grating Spectroscopy |
| 4:45 | Murphy - Resolving the Space-Time Around Black Holes |
| 5:00 | Shulz - X-Ray Spectroscopy of Cool & Warm Absorbers with Chandra: From Oxygen to Iron |
| 5:15 | Rebecca Smith - High-res X-ray spectroscopy of AGN Warm Absorbers |
FRIDAY Collisional Ionization II Chair: Marina Orio | |
| 8:30-9:00 am | Invited: John Peterson - X-ray Spectra of Clusters of Galaxies |
| 9:00-9:30 | Invited: Klaus Werner - X-ray Photospheres |
| 9:30 | Nordon - Large coronal flares and the FIP effect |
| 9:45 | Walborn - Multiwavelength Systematics of O-Type Spectra |
| 10:00 | Yao - Searching for the Large Scale Galactic Halo: Observations Confront Theories |
| 10:15 | Yu - Model fitting of high-resolution X-ray Spectroscopy of the Planetary Nebula BD+30 363 |
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee |
Chair: Julia Lee | |
| 11:00-11:30 | Invited: Branduardi-Raymont - X-ray Spectroscopy of Solar System Objects |
| 11:30-12:30 | Discussion/workshop (Kraemer/Lee) |
| 12:30-1:45 pm | Lunch |
Future Missions/Summary Chair: Paul Green | |
| 1:45-2:15 pm | Invited: Jean Cottam - High Resolution Spectroscopy with Constellation-X |
| 2:15-2:45 | Invited: Randall Smith - A short review of the talks and posters presented |
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