New results in X-ray astronomy 2010

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Programme

The meeting starts at 10:00 and finishes at 17:00. Lunch and two coffee breaks are included.

10:00-10:30 Coffee and welcome
10:30-10:45 Carlos Frenk X-ray coronae around spiral galaxies?
10:45-11:00 Ryan Hickox The edge of detection: The unresolved cosmic X-ray background in the Chandra Deep Fields
11:00-11:15 Mike Hill The X-ray AGN contribution to the FIR and sub-mm backgrounds
11:15-11:30 Agnese Del Moro Revealing the most obscured distant AGNs: new insights from X-ray and infrared spectroscopy
11:30-11:45 Paul Giles X-ray Properties of Galaxy Clusters and comparisons to Weak-Lensing Measurements
11:45-12:00 Kathy Romer XMM Cluster Survey: the first cluster data release (500 temperatures and 1000 redshifts)
12:00-12:15 Beatriz Mingo Fernandez Upset AGNs: bubbles and shocks in Markarian 6 and beyond
12:15-12:30 Adam Patrick Iron Line Profiles in Suzaku Spectra of Bare Seyfert Galaxies
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:30-13:45 Dan Wilkins Determination of the Emissivity Profiles of AGN Accretion Discs and their Physical Implications
13:45-14:00 Simon Vaughan What can we learn from multiple XMM-Newton observations of NGC 4051?
14:00-14:15 Missagh Mehdipour The optical-UV-X-ray variability connection in Mrk 509
14:15-14:30 Dom Walton Ultraluminous X-ray Sources in Nearby Galaxies
14:30-14:45 Roberto Soria X-ray hot spots, optical nebula and radio lobes of a powerful microquasar in NGC 7793
14:45-15:00 Antonia Rowlinson The unusual X-ray emission of the short Swift GRB 090515: Evidence for the formation of a magnetar?
15:00-15:30 Coffee
15:30-15:45 Wynn Ho Lessons from the youngest neutron star in the Galaxy
15:45-16:00 Adam Ingram Low frequency QPOs: a precession model in the context of mass accretion rate fluctuations
16:00-16:15 Pablo Cassatella Time lags from reflection in BHXRBs
16:15-16:30 Lucy Heil The rms-flux relation in Black hole binaries
16:30-16:45 Tony Wilkinson GX 339-4 in 2004 and 2009: Is the PSD break time-scale a signature of the disc truncation radius?
16:45-17:00 Mike Watson The next 15 years: future developments in X-ray astronomy
17:00 Close