NEW HARD X-RAY MISSION OBSERVATORY - 1st INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
VALENCIA, SPAIN, NOVEMBER 11-12, 2010
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Scientific programme


Day #1, Thursday 11th:


Session 1: The NHXM Observatory Mission

  • [9:30-10:00] The NHXM Observatory: G. Tagliaferri
  • [10:00-10:20] Mirror assembly: G. Pareschi
  • [10:20-10:40] Low energy detector: I. Hutchinson
  • [10:40-11:00] High energy detector: C. Budtz-Joergensen
  • [11:00-11:20] Focal Plane Assembly cameras: I. Hutchinson / O. Catalano

  • [11:20-11:40] Coffee break

  • [11:40-12:00] X-ray polarimeter: E. Costa
  • [12:00-12:20] Wide-field X-ray monitor: V. Reglero
  • [12:20-12:40] U.S. Mission of Opportunity with NHXM: S. Romaine
  • [12:40-13:10] NHXM Observatory science in a context: F. Fiore

  • [13:10-14:30] Lunch break

Session 2: Black hole census and accretion physics

  • [14:30-14:50] BH census, CXB and obscured AGN: I. Georgantopoulos
  • [14:50-15:10] Extragalactic surveys with NuSTAR: D. Alexander
  • [15:10-15:30] Galactic Centre: Porquet
  • [15:30-15:50] Galactic Ridge/disk: M. Revnivtsev

  • [15:50-16:10] Coffee break

  • [16:10-16:30] AGN/GBH emission models: J. Poutanen
  • [16:30-16:50] Broad band spectra from accreting black hole systems: A. Rozanska
  • [16:50-17:10] AGN broad-band spectroscopy: V. Braito
  • [17:10-17:30] GBH/NH spectroscopy/polarimetry: S. Campana
  • [17:30-17:50] Starburst galaxies: A. Ptak
  • [17:50-18:10] Hard X-ray spectra of Seyfert galaxies: C. Ricci

  • [18:10-18:30] Magnetars: G. Israel (anticipation of Session 4)

End of Day #1.


Day #2, Friday 12th


Session 3: Acceleration mechanisms

  • [ 9:30-9:50] Localising the sites of high-energy emission production in AGN: A. Lobanov (anticipation of Session 4)
  • [ 9:50-10:10] Blazars: G. Ghisellini
  • [10:10-10:30] Galaxy clusters non thermal emission: Nevalainen
  • [10:30-10:50] LOFAR connection: H. Rottgering
  • [10:50-11:10] Galaxy clusters shocks: S. Molendi
  • [10:10-11:30] Young Stellar Objects: Grosso

  • [11:30-12:00] Coffee break


Session 4: Physics of matter under extreme conditions

  • [12:00-12:20] Probing strong gravity effects: S. Bianchi
  • [12:20-12:40] Disentangling the complex structure and dynamics of active galactic nuclei by NHXM X-ray polarimetry: W. Goosmann
  • [12:40-13:00] High energy characterization of BeX systems: P. Blay
  • [13:00-13:20] X-ray spectral index correlations vs mass accretion rate in neutron stars and black hole X-ray binaries in their different spectral states: theory vs observations: L. Titarchuk


[13:20-15:00] Lunch break.

[15:00-15:30] Wrap-up talk: G. Matt

[15:30-17:00] Round-table discussion and conclusions

[17:00] End of Workshop.



Poster or Oral contributions:

If you intend to submit an oral or poster contribution, please send an e-mail to nhxm.conf@iasfbo.inaf.it, including:
  • title;
  • author(s);
  • pdf (if/when ready).