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PRELIMINARY Programme |
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Aspen 2009
Winter Conference on Astrophysics |
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Thirty Years
of Magnetars: New Frontiers |
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February 1 - February 6 |
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http://www.pd.infn.it/astro/pers/aspen2009/ |
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Sunday |
1 February |
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Reception |
18.30-20.30 |
Aspen Meadows |
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TALKS DURATION INCLUDES 5m DISCUSSION |
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Monday |
2 February |
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AXPs/SGRs phenomenology |
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8.15 |
8.30 |
Welcome |
Organizers |
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8.30 |
9.10 |
Non-thermal high-energy
emission from rotation-powered neutron stars and magnetars |
Wim Hermsen |
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9.10 |
9.40 |
Rim Dib |
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9.40 |
10.10 |
COFFEE BREAK |
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10.10 |
10.40 |
Gianluca |
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10.40 |
11.00 |
Spectral and Temporal
Correlation of Magnetar Bursts with SWIFT and RXTE: Implications for the
Fireball Model |
Alaa Ibrahim |
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11.00 |
16.00 |
Lunch/Afternoon break |
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AXPs/SGRs phenomenology |
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16.00 |
16.40 |
Vicky Kaspi |
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16.40 |
17.00 |
Studies on Quiescent and
Burst Emission Spectra of Magnetar Candidates
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Yujin Nakagawa |
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17.00 |
17.30 |
Soft Gamma Repeaters:
Discovery and |
Rafail Aptekar |
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17.30 |
18.00 |
COFFEE BREAK |
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18.00 |
18.30 |
Rosalba Perna |
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18.30 |
19.00 |
Optical/IR observations
of magnetars |
Roberto Mignani |
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19.30 |
21.30 |
Buffet dinner |
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End of Day 1 |
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Tuesday |
3 February |
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A special session on SGR
0501+4516 (and other news) |
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8.10 |
8.30 |
Teruaki Enoto |
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8.30 |
9.00 |
INTEGRAL observations of SGR 0501+4516 |
Kevin Hurley |
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9.00 |
9.30 |
X-ray, nIR and radio
monitoring of the new SGR 0501+4516 in outburst
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Nanda Rea |
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9.30 |
10.00 |
COFFEE BREAK |
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10.00 |
10.30 |
The Anti-Magnetars:
Further Evidence of a Class of Neutron Stars Weakly Magnetized at Birth
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Eric Gotthelf |
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10.30 |
11.00 |
Dark Stars: the first stars
in the Universe may be powered by Dark Matter Heating |
Katherine Freese |
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11.00 |
16.00 |
Lunch/Afternoon break |
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Spectral models |
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16.00 |
16.30 |
Resonant Compton Scattering in Magnetars |
Matthew Baring |
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16.30 |
17.00 |
Silvia Zane |
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17.00 |
17.30 |
COFFEE BREAK |
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17.30 |
18.00 |
Roberto Turolla |
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18.00 |
18.30 |
Modeling of isolated
neutron stars spectra. Achievements
and problems |
Valery Suleimanov |
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18.30 |
19.00 |
Excitation of Supernova
Remnants by Twisting of the NS Dipole Flux
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Stirling Colgate |
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19.30 |
21.30 |
Buffet dinner |
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End of day 2 |
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Wednesday |
4 February |
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Theory in superstrong
magnetic fields |
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8.00 |
8.30 |
Atoms and Ions in Very
Strong Magnetic Fields of Magnetars |
George Pavlov |
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8.30 |
9.00 |
Qiuhe Peng |
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9.00 |
9.30 |
Magneto-thermal evolution
of neutron stars: from magnetars to isolated neutron stars
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Jose Pons |
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9.30 |
10.00 |
COFFEE BREAK |
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10.00 |
10.30 |
D. Bandyopadhyay |
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10.30 |
11.00 |
Dmitry Yakovlev |
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11.00 |
16.30 |
Lunch/Afternoon break |
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16.30 |
17.30 |
Informal discussion
between scientists and non-scientists (at the Physics Café, chaired by L.
Stella, M. Baring, A. Watts) |
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17.30 |
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Life after stellar death:
Supernovae, Neutron Stars, Pulsars and Magnetars (Public Lecture at the
Wheeler Opera House) |
E. Van Den Heuvel |
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19.30 |
21.30 |
Buffet dinner |
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End of day 3 |
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Thursday |
5 February |
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Seismology and neutron
star interior |
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9.00 |
9.30 |
Anna Watts |
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9.30 |
10.00 |
COFFEE BREAK |
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10.00 |
10.30 |
Superfluid Heat Conduction
in the Neutron Star Crust and Magnetar Thermal Evolution |
Sanjay Reddy |
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10.30 |
11.00 |
Debarati Chatterjee |
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11.00 |
16.30 |
Lunch/Afternoon break |
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Magnetospheric activity, models |
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16.30 |
17.00 |
Evolution of magnetic
fields in neutron star and magnetar activity
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Maxim Lyutikov |
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17.00 |
17.30 |
Evolution of twisted magnetospheres |
Andrei Beloborodov |
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17.30 |
18.00 |
COFFEE BREAK |
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18.00 |
18.30 |
Pair Cascades in Pulsar
Magnetospheres: Cascades in the Superstrong Magnetic Field Regime |
Zachary Medin |
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18.30 |
19.00 |
Ali Alpar |
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19.30 |
21.30 |
Dinner banquet and
presentation of the Block Award |
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End of Day 4 |
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Friday |
6 February |
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TBA |
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8.30 |
9.00 |
Pulsar Observations with
the Fermi Large Area Telescope + CTA1 pulsar |
Gottfried Kanbach and Matthew Baring |
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9.00 |
9.30 |
The International X-ray
Observatory and Luminous SGRs, AXPs, and NSs
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Michael Garcia (for the IXO team) |
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9.30 |
10.00 |
Perspectives for IXO |
Wim Hermsen |
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10.00 |
10.30 |
COFFEE BREAK |
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10.30 |
11.00 |
High-time resolution optical observations of two
neutron stars: outbursts of the first optical magnetar Swift
J1955+26 and the polarization of the Crab pulsar |
Gottfried Kanbach |
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11.00 |
16.00 |
Lunch/Afternoon break |
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Magnetars in a wider
context |
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16.00 |
16.30 |
Unified Model of Surface
Magnetic Field for Radio Pulsars and Magnetars |
George Melikidze |
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16.30 |
17.00 |
Magnetorotational
Supernovae and NS formation |
Sergej Moiseenko |
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17.00 |
17.30 |
Newborn Magnetars as
Gravitational Wave Sources |
Luigi Stella |
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17.30 |
18.00 |
COFFEE BREAK |
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18.00 |
18.30 |
What fraction of short
GRBs can be associated with SGR flares? |
Yana Tikhomirova |
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18.30 |
19.00 |
Soft gamma repeaters as
neutron stars with a violent crust |
G.S. Bisnovaty-Kogan |
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19.00 |
19.10 |
Concluding remarks |
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19.30 |
21.30 |
Dinner on your own |
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End of conference |
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