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