1 day meeting on X-ray astronomy
Thurs September 14th 11:00-17:20

10:30 coffee available
10:55 Welcome and Logistics: Chris Done

11:00 Raj Sathyaprakash (Durham)
Spatial extent of emission lines in the UltraLuminous X-ray
source HoIX

11:20 Peter Koesec (Cambridge)
Searching for Outflows in Ultraluminous X-ray Sources

11:55 Jiachen Jiang (Cambridge)
The spectra of IRAS13224 from the 1.5Ms observing campaign

11:40 Ciro Pinto (Cambridge)
The Ultrafast outflow in IRAS 13224

12:10 Douglas Buisson (Cambridge)
The extreme NLS1 1H0707

12:25 Ken Pounds (Leicester)
Powerful AGN winds as a potential diagnostic of inner disc accretion

12:40 - 14:00 lunch

14:00 Beta Lusso (Durham)
Active galactic nuclei as cosmological probes.

14:20 Peter Boorman
An X-ray Baldwin effect for Compton-thick active galactic nuclei

14:40 Myrto Symeonidis (MSSL)
AGN in HyLIRG

15:00 David Rosario (Durham)
The effects of AGN feedback on molecular gas and star-formation

15:20-15:40 coffee

15:40 Daniel Kynock (Durham)
The relativistic jet of the gamma-ray NLS1 1H0323+342

16:00 Ryan Duffy (Bristol)
The X-ray Ribs in the Cocoon Shock of Cygnus A

16:20 Judith Croston (Open University)
Characterising galaxy groups via low-frequency radio surveys

16:40 Carlos Vergara / Sunayana Bhargava (Sussex)
XMM cluster survey + DES weak lensing constrains on cluster masses

17:00 Lillian Garratt-Smithson (Leicester)
High Mass X-ray Binary Feedback in Star-forming Giant Molecular Clouds

17:20 Reception


Athena UK Consortium Meeting: Ogden Centre West, Durham University
Friday 15th September 10.00 -­‐ 17.00

SESSION 1 CHAIR: MIKE WATSON
Athena project status

10.00 Welcome & logistics Chris Done (Durham)
10.05 Introduction Mike Watson (Leicester)
10.10 Athena mission status Paul Nandra (MPE, Athena WFI PI; via Webex)
10.40 ESA perspective Arvind Parmar (ESA Coordination Office, Paris)
11.00 Coffee break

SESSION 2 CHAIR: JULIAN OSBORNE
UKSA-­‐funded activities (Leicester, OU, MSSL)

11.20 UK Athena funding and overview of UK activities Mike Watson
11.40 Reducing instrument background in the WFI Andrew Holland (OU)
12.10 Athena Ground System -­‐ UK role Mike Watson

12.30 Catered lunch

SESSION 3 CHAIR: CHRIS DONE
SCIENCE WITH ATHENA

14.00 Athena X-­‐ray optics update Mike Watson (for Dick Willingale)
14.10 The Athena WFI surveys James Aird (IoA)
14.30 ATHENA unrolls AGN radiative and kinetic feedback in galaxies
Ciro Pinto (IoA)
14.50 AGN winds in Athena Era Ken Pounds (Leicester)
15.10 Cluster science with Athena Judith Croston (OU)
15.30 Additional talks / Q and A

16.00 Tea break

SESSION 4 CHAIR: MIKE WATSON
SCIENCE WITH ATHENA

16.20 High resolution X-­‐ray spectroscopy of accretion disc winds in
X-­‐ray binaries Chris Done (Durham)
16.45 Closing remarks Julian Osborne (Leicester)
17:00 end