| Fast X-ray timing and spectroscopy at extreme count rates |
Scientific programme
The Conference will be organized around 8 blocks, which will be held in the morning and in the late afternoon, Wednesday and Friday excepted, leaving free time for informal discussions, studies, and outdoor activities in the afternoons.
The general schedule of the conference is available here.
The Abstract book of the conference is available here.
A printable version of the scientific program is available here.
Monday, Feb 7, Morning
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| SESSION I | Future X-ray timing missions |
8h30 | 8h40 | Didier Barret | Welcome and Introduction |
8h40 | 9h10 | Dave Lumb | Status of IXO and the ESA CV Programme |
9h10 | 9h40 | Didier Barret | The HTRS on IXO |
9h40 | 10h00 | Peter Lechner | Detectors for fast X-ray timing and spectroscopy |
10h00 | 10h30 |
| Coffee break |
10h30 | 10h50 | Joern Wilms | HTRS performance simulations |
10h50 | 11h10 | Kirpal Nandra | The Gravitas mission |
Monday, Feb 7, Afternoon
16h30 | 16h50 | Paul Ray | The AXTAR mission |
16h50 | 17h10 | Marco Feroci | Living in a LOFT |
17h10 | 17h30 | Alexander Stefanescu | HIFI – A HI Framerate Imager for Gravitas |
17h30 | 18h00 |
| Tea break |
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| SESSION II | Science drivers of timing missions |
18h00 | 18h30 | Phil Uttley | Timing of XRBs in the HTRS era |
18h30 | 18h50 | Tomaso Belloni | Timing black-hole binaries: status and prospects |
18h50 | 19h10 | Pablo Cassatella | Time lags as a constraint on the accretion disk geometry in BH XRBs |
Tuesday, Feb 8, Morning
8h30 | 8h50 | Joey Nielsen | Oscillation-phase-resolved spectroscopy in the IXO era |
8h50 | 9h10 | Teo Muñoz-Darias | Fast variability as a tracer of states and state transitions in black holes |
9h10 | 9h30 | Stratos Boutloukos | Undetectable, intermittent and detectable millisecond X-ray oscillations of accreting neutron stars in LMXRBs |
9h30 | 9h50 | Alessandro Papitto | A newly discovered accreting pulsar in Terzan 2 |
9h50 | 10h20 |
| Coffee break |
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| SESSION III | Black-hole spins |
10h20 | 10h50 | Jon Miller | Relativistic disk reflection in stellar-mass black holes |
10h50 | 11h10 | Beike Hiemstra | Broad iron emission lines in the intermediate state of black-hole transients |
Tuesday, Feb 8, Afternoon
16h30 | 17h00 | Jack Steiner | Black-hole spin measurement via X-ray continuum spectroscopy |
17h00 | 17h20 | Agata Rozanska | Theoretical disk spectra and black-hole spin determination |
17h20 | 17h50 |
| Tea break |
17h50 | 18h20 | Ron Remillard | The properties of high-frequency QPOs and their connection to the physical properties of black holes |
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| SESSION IV | Neutron-star equation of state |
18h20 | 18h50 | Maurizio Falanga | What Thermonuclear X-ray Bursts can tell us about Neutron Stars
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18h50 | 19h10 | Guo-Bao Zhang | The complete sample of type-I X-ray bursts in the low-mass X-ray binary 4U 1636-53 with RXTE |
Wednesday, Feb 9, Morning
8h30 | 9h00 | Coleman Miller | New results on the X-ray spectra of thermonu- clear bursts |
9h00 | 9h20 | Tolga Guver | Systematic uncertainties in the spectroscopic measurements of neutron-star masses and radii from thermonuclear X-ray bursts |
9h20 | 9h50 | Maria Diaz-Trigo | M/R constraints from neutron-star iron line |
9h50 | 10h20 |
| Coffee break |
10h20 | 10h40 | Oliwia Madej | Spectral and timing features in the ultra-compact X-ray binary 4U 0614+091 |
10h40 | 11h20 | Juri Poutanen | M/R constraints from accreting millisecond pul- sars // Cooling stages of X-ray bursts |
Thursday, Feb 10, Morning
8h30 | 8h50 | Jérôme Pétri | Constraining the mass and moment of inertia of neutron stars from quasi-periodic oscillations in X-ray binaries |
8h50 | 9h10 | Mariano Mendez | Kilohertz Quasi-Periodic Oscillations as a tool to probe the neutron-star interior and gravita- tional field |
9h10 | 9h30 | Andrea Sanna | Kilohertz quasi-periodic oscillations and broad iron emission lines as a probe of strong-field gravity |
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| SESSION V | Strong field general-relativity signatures |
9h30 | 10h00 | Dimitrios Psaltis | Testing the no-hair theorem with observations of astrophysical black holes |
10h00 | 10h30 |
| Coffee break |
10h30 | 10h50 | Michal Bursa | Epicyclic frequencies |
10h50 | 11h10 | Brynmor Haskell | Signatures of superfluid neutron-star dynamics |
Thursday, Feb 10, Afternoon
16h30 | 17h00 | Luigi Stella | Lense-Thirring precession |
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| SESSION VI | Additional timing science |
17h00 | 17h30 | GianLuca Israel | Present and Future of Magnetar bursting/outbursting studies |
17h30 | 17h50 | Nanda Rea | A non-magnetar Soft Gamma Repeater |
17h50 | 18h20 |
| Tea break |
18h20 | 18h50 | Wim Hermsen | General properties of magnetars and observational developments at high energies |
18h50 | 19h10 | Caroline D'Angelo | Can a “propelling” disc stay trapped near co- rotation? |
Friday, Feb 11, Morning
8h30 | 9h00 | Rudy Wijnands | Cooling of accretion-heated neutron stars |
9h00 | 9h30 | Simon Vaughan | X-ray variability of black holes on all mass scales |
9h30 | 10h00 | Adam Ingram | Fitting a self-consistent physical model to the power spectral density of XTE 1550-564 |
10h00 | 10h30 |
| Coffee break |
10h30 | 10h50 | Colleen Wilson-Hodge | All-Sky Monitoring of Variable Sources with Fermi GBM |
10h50 | 11h10 | Stéphane Corbel | Relativistic jets from Galactic accreting binary systems |
11h10 | 11h30 | Pierre-Olivier Petrucci | The pertinence of jet emitting discs in micro- quasars |
11h30 | 12h00 | Piergiorgio Casella | Multiwavelength high-time resolution observa- tions |
12h00 | 12h30 |
| Concluding remarks |
The Conference will be held in the Palladium in Champéry.
