Programme - Conferences Archive
40 years of X-ray bursts: Extreme explosions in dense environments
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17-19 June 2015 ESA/ESAC Madrid, Spain |
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** June 17 **
9.15-9.40 - Registration
9.40-9.50 - LOC welcome
- Session 1 - chair: Andrew Cumming
09.50 - 10.30 - Jordi Jose (30+10) - Thermonuclear Burning Theory
10.30 - 11.10 - Richard Cyburt (30+10) - X-ray Burst Sensitivities
11.10 - 11.40 - coffee break
11.40 - 12.20 - Diego Altamirano (30+10) - A review of the current observational evidence of marginally stable burning of He on the neutron star surface
12.20 - 12.40 - Ming Lyu (15+5) - Investigating spectral and timing properties of mHz QPOs in 4U 1636-53
12.40 - 13.20 - Laurens Keek (30+10) - Superbursts: how to create carbon fuel and ignite it
13:20 - 13.40 - open discussion (20)
13.40 - 15.00 - lunch break
- Session 2 - chair: Laurens Keek
15.00 - 15.20 - Manuel Linares (15+5) - The Fermi-GBM X-ray burst catalog
15.20 - 16.00 - Alexander Heger (30+10) - Simulation of X-Ray Bursts with KEPLER
16.00 - 16.50 - coffee break + group picture
16.50 - 17.30 - Anatoly Spitkovsky (30+10) - Flame spreading during X-ray bursts
17.30 - 18.10 - Yuri Cavecchi (30+10) - Simulating nuclear hurricanes on neutron stars
18.10 - 18.30 - open discussion (20)
18.30 - 19.30 - Welcome cocktail
** June 18 **
- Session 3 - chair: Duncan Galloway
09.30 - 10.10 - Tod Strohmayer (30+10) - Burst Oscillations: Problems and Prospects
10.10 - 10.30 - Simin Mahmoodifar (15+5) - Fanning the Flames: X-ray Burst Probes of Neutron Star Properties
10.30 - 10.50 - Tullio Bagnoli (15+5) - 2D settling solution for the atmosphere of accreting millisecond X-ray pulsars
10.50 - 11.10 - Guobao Zhang (15+5) - Strong evidence for a link between coherent burst oscillations, burst spectral evolution and accretion state in 4U 1728-34
11.10 - 11.40 - coffee break
11.40 - 12.20 - David Ballantyne (30+10) - Burst interaction with its surroundings
12.20 - 13.00 - Nathalie Degenaar (30+10) - The delicate connection between X-ray bursts and the accretion flow
13.00 - 13.20 - Long Ji (15+5) - Type-I burst as a probe to XRB accretion
13.20 - 13.40 - open discussion (20)
13.40 - 15.00 - lunch break
- Session 4 - chair: Mariano Mendez
15.00 - 15.40 - Ed Brown (30+10) - Neutron stars and dense matter: Implications of X-ray burst observations
15.40 - 16.20 - Cole Miller (30+10) - Constraints on NS EOS from burst oscillations
16.20 - 16.50 - coffee break
16.50 - 17.30 - Tolga Guver (30+10) - Masses and Radii of Neutron Stars from Thermonuclear X-ray bursts
17.30 - 18.10 - Valery Suleimanov (30+10) - Atmospheres of X-ray bursting neutron stars
18.10 - 18.30 - Joonas Nattila (15+5) - Mass and radius constraints for neutron stars using the cooling tail method
18.30 - 18.50 - open discussion (20)
** June 19 **
- Session 5 - chair: Erik Kuulkers
09.30 - 10.10 - Mariano Mendez (30+10) - Linking X-ray bursts and the quiescent spectrum of a neutron-star system
10.10 - 10.30 - Rudy Wijnands (15+5) - The thermal properties of neutron star crusts
10.30 - 11.10 - Andrew Cumming (30+10) - NA
11.10 - 11.50 - coffee break
11.50 - 12.10 - Shu Zhang (15+5) - X-ray burst science with HMXT
12.10 - 12.30 - Tadayasu Dotani (15+5) - X-ray burst science with ASTRO-H
12.30 - 12.50 - Arikkala Raghurama Rao (15+5) - X-ray burst science with Astrosat
12.50 - 13.10 - Zaven Arzoumanian (15+5) - The Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER): Capabilities and Status
13.10 - 13.30 - open discussion (20)
13:30 - 13.40 - Duncan Galloway (10) - SOC wrap-up
13.40 - 15.00 lunch