BeppoSAX Symposium n. 4
SYMPOSIUM: "THE ACTIVE X-RAY SKY. RESULTS FROM BEPPO-SAX AND ROSSI-XTE" ACCADEMIA DEI LINCEI - ROMA - 21-24 OCTOBER 1997 3rd Circular, first revision - 2 October 1997. 1 - The Symposium is intended to review the recent observational evidence in X-Ray Astronomy with special emphasis on the results obtained by the space missions Beppo-SAX and Rossi-XTE. The aim is to assess, through the joint evaluation by observers and theorists, the impact of the new data on our understanding of "The active X-ray sky". 2 - Symposium General Information Title: "The Active X-Ray Sky: Results from Beppo-SAX and Rossi XTE" Place: Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei: Villa Farnesina/Palazzo Corsini via Della Lungara - Roma Italy Schedule: October 21 - 1997 Morning: Arrival and Registration. Afternoon: 15:00 Starts Poster Exhibition. Posters will remain exposed permanently during the Symposium October 22 - 23 - 24 Scientific sessions Session Time: from 9.00 to 19.00 hrs with Lunch and Coffee break interruptions. Lunches will be served at Palazzo Corsini. Social Events: Banquet: October 22 at 20:30 Concert: October 23 at 20:30, Farnesina Auditorium Registration fee : LIT. 350.000 (1 US dollar about 1750 LIT.). No additional charge for the Banquet, lunches, Concert and Symposium Proceedings. Hotel reservation: Please note that late October is high season in Rome, make sure to book your hotel as soon as possible, if you have not done it yet. Information on hotels is given at the following URL: http://www.sdc.asi.it/symposium/hotel_reserv.html The number of participants is limited to 250, due to the Accademia Auditorium capacity. In a limited amount of cases a financial support is foreseen for people planning to attend the Symposium. 3 - All together the Symposium will see: - 19 Invited Talks of 30 minutes - 33 Contributed talks of 20 minutes (questions/answers included in the time allocated) - 2 1-hour sessions wherein 3 or 4 "rapporteurs" (to be designated) will summarize the results presented in posters. The number of participants is limited to 250, due to the Accademia Auditorium capacity. In a limited amount of cases a financial support is foreseen for people planning to attend the Symposium. Poster authors: to facilitate the "rapporteur" presentation, please send A.S.A.P. an extended abstract and the text/figure of the spot presentation desired as a postscript file or a fax to the Symposium Local Organizing Committee (E-mail: romaxray@sax.sdc.asi.it FAX:+39-6-40793885). Invited Talks, Contributions and Posters will be published in the Symposium Proceedings. Due to large number of papers submitted and not to overload the proceedings we strongly recomand to maintain the number of current Journal pages to: Invited: 10 pages, Contributed 6 pages, Posters 2-4 pages. 4 - REVISED PROGRAM ___________________________________________________________________ Wednesday Oct.22- Opening -Compact Galactic Objects- ___________________________________________________________________ 08.45-09.00 Welcome addresses 09.00-09.40 Introduction. BeppoSAX,RXTE Status Report by the Mission Scientists 09.40-10.10 M. van der Klis - KHz oscill.in Z and Atoll sources Inv.1 10.10-10.40 F. Lamb - Rapid X-ray Variability of Neutron Stars Inv.2 in Binary Systems 10:40-11:00 C. Miller - Constraints on Neutron Stars Implied by C1 Kilohertz QPOs 11.00-11.20 COFFEE BREAK 11.20-11.50 F. Frontera - High energy properties of Neutron Inv.3 Stars and Black Hole candidates X-Ray sources 11.50-12.10 H. Bradt - RXTE Observations of Circinus X-1 C2 12.10-12-30 J. Swank - The Periods Discovered by RXTE in Thermonuclear Flash Bursts C3 12.30-12-50 L. Stella - Lense-Thirring Precession and QPOs in Low Mass X-Ray Binaries C4 12.50-13.10 D. Dal Fiume - The broad band spectral properties of galactic X-ray binary pulsars C5 13.10-14.50 LUNCH 14.50-15.20 R. Remillard - RXTE Observations of Black Hole Binaries Inv.4 15:20-15:50 R. Taam - Variability in Black Hole Binary Systems Inv.5 15.50-16.10 E. Kuulkers - Dips in the lightcurves of GRO J1655-40 during outburst: mapping the inner disk region C6 16.10-16.30 T. Belloni - Viscous evolution of the unstable disk in GRS 1915+105 C7 16.30-16.50 M.A. Nowak - The Physical Interpretation of X-ray Phase Lags and Coherence: RXTE Data of Cygnus X-1 as a Case Study C8 16.50-17:10 COFFEE BREAK 17:10-17.40 W. Becker - X-ray emission properties of rotation-powered Neutron Stars Inv.6 17.40-18.00 A. Treves - Why Old Neutron Stars are an Elusive Population? C9 18.00-18.20 A. Santangelo - Wide Band Phase resolved spectra of X-ray binary pulsars observed by BeppoSAX. C10 18.20-19.10 Poster Summaries by one or two rapporteurs (to be designated) 20:30 Banquet ____________________________________________________________________ Thursday Oct.23 -Compact Galactic Objects--AGN- ____________________________________________________________________ 09.00-09.30 J. Heise - Wide Field Survey on the Galactic Center Region Inv.7 09.30-10.00 R. Levine - Outbursts, State Transitions and Periodicities observed with Inv.8 the RXTE ASM. 10.00-10.20 S. Campana - SAX observations of the Soft X-ray transient Aql X-1 during the decay of the 1997 outburst. C11 10.20-10.40 K. Jahoda - Peak luminosities during burst from GRO J1744-28 measured with the RXTE PCA C12 10.40-11.00 C. Hellier - Eclipses and outbursts of the intermediate polar XY Ari C13 11.00-11.20 COFFEE BREAK 11.20-11.50 H. Inoue - Galactic Black Hole candidates and AGN: Results from ASCA Inv.9 11.50-12.20 L. Maraschi - Blazar Spectra and Variability, with BeppoSAX Inv.10 12.20-12.40 G. Ghisellini - High energy flares in blazars: MKN 501 A1 12.40-13.00 G. Lamer - Multifrequency observations of MKN 501 during X-ray A2 13.00-14.50 LUNCH 14.50-15.20 G. Matt - Seyfert Galaxies and BeppoSAX Inv.11 15.20-15.40 A. Lawson - RXTE and other waveband monitoring observations of the blazars 3C279 and 3C273 A3 15.40-16.00 P. Uttley - Long term monitoring of Seyfert galaxies A4 with XTE 16.00-16.20 I. McHardy - Short Timescale RXTE Spectral Variability A5 of Seyfert Galaxies 16.20-16.40 G.C. Perola - A spectral survey of bright Seyfert 1 A6 galaxies with BeppoSAX 16.40-17.00 P. Grandi - BeppoSax Observations of Radio Galaxies A7 17.00-17.20 COFFEE BREAK 17.20-17.40 A. Comastri - BeppoSAX observations of Narrow Line A8 Seyfert 1 Galaxies 17.40-18.00 M. Salvati - The BeppoSAX program on X-ray weak A9 Seyfert 2 Galaxies 18.00-18.20 A. Orr - BeppoSAX observations of low-energy spectral features in AGN A10 18.20-19.10 Poster Summaries by one or two rapporteurs (to be designated) 20:30 Concert ___________________________________________________________________ Friday October 24 -Clusters- GRBs-Surveys-SNR-Stars Conclusions ___________________________________________________________________ 09.00-09.20 S. Molendi - Beppo-SAX Observations of Galaxy Clusters CL1 09.20-09.40 J. Kaastra - Spatially resolved spectroscopy of the cluster of galaxies A2199 CL2 09.40-10.00 S. Colafrancesco - Evolution of distant galaxy clusters: CL3 the BeppoSAX results 10.00-10.30 A. Cavaliere - Clusters of Galaxies Inv.12 10.30-10.50 E. Fenimore - Gamma-Ray Burst Spectra and Time Histories From 2 to 400keV G1 10.50-11.10 F. Marshall - RXTE Observations of GRB Afterglows G2 11.10-11.30 COFFEE BREAK 11.30-12.00 E. Costa - Observation of GRB with Beppo-SAX Inv.13 12.00-12.30 J. Van Paradijs - GRB optical counterparts Inv.14 12.30-13.00 M. Rees - Latest Interpretations of Gamma Ray Bursts Inv.15 13.00-14.50 LUNCH 14.50-15.10 M. Tavani - Theory of GRB emission in light of the SAX results G3 15.10-15.30 M. Vietri - Theoretical interpretation of Gamma Ray G4 Burst afterglows 15:30-16:00 P. Giommi - The BeppoSAX Deep Survey Inv.16 16.00-16.30 G. Hasinger - Rosat/ASCA Deep Surveys Inv.17 16.30-17.00 L. Chiappetti - Background-BeppoSAX results Inv.18 17.00-17.15 COFFEE BREAK 17.15-17.35 F. Favata - First coronal results from the SAX X-ray mission S1 17.35 17.55 J. Vink - First Results on three SNR observed by S2 BeppoSAX 17.55 18.15 R. Rothschild - Cosmic Ray Acceleration and Nucleosynthesis in Cas A 18:15-18:45 B. Aschenbach - X-ray from supernova Remnants Inv.19 18.45-19.00 Concluding Remarks ______________________________________________________________________ In total: 19 - 30' Invited 33 - 20' Contributions (subdivided in :13 Compacts, 10 AGN, 3 Clusters, 4 GRB, 3 SNR/Stars). ______________________________________________________________________ ORAL CONTRIBUTIONS ______________________________________________________________________ Abstracts can be found on the Symposium WEB pages: http://www.sdc.asi.it/symposium ______________________________________________________________________ POSTER CONTRIBUTIONS ______________________________________________________________________ ********************************************************************* Compact Galactic Sources ********************************************************************* Tomaso Belloni Broad-band X-ray observation of RE 0751+14 with SAX Christine Done Relativistic smearing of the reflection spectrum in Galactic Black Hole Candidates Andrzej Zdziarski X-rays and gamma-rays from Seyferts and Galactic Black Hole Binaries Eric Ford Quasi-Periodic Oscillations near 1 kHz: new information from 4U 0614+091 Gian Luca Israel SAX and XTE observations of GX1+4, SMCX-1 and RX J0146.9+6121, a sample of X-ray pulsators with extreme properties Luciano Burderi SAX OBSERVATIONS OF A SAMPLE OF X-RAY BINARIES Arvind Parmar A BeppoSAX observation of the X-ray pulsar 1E2259+586 Marco Feroci BEPPOSAX OBSERVATION OF GRS1915+105 SANDRO MEREGHETTI XTE OBSERVATIONS OF THE ANOMALOUS PULSARS 1E 1048-59, 1E 2259+59 AND 4U 0142+61 James Dove Application of Self-Consistent Accretion Disk Corona Models to Black Hole Candidates Philip Kaaret High Frequency QPOs and General Relativity Paolo Soffitta X-ray mapping of an IR selected star forming region with Beppo-SAX NFI's Domitilla de Martino SAX results on AM Her type stars Yuxin Feng Analysis the shot Structure of Cygnus X-1 John Heise X-ray bursts from Black Hole candidate GS1826-24 Deepto Chakrabarty ASM Evidence for a Partial X-Ray Eclipse in the Massive X-Ray Binary GX 301-2 Matteo Guainazzi Monitoring of the HMXRB CenX-3 with the WFC onboard BeppoSAX Dana Lehr Diskoseismology: Probing Black Holes and Their Accretion Disks Lucio CHIAPPETTI BeppoSAX Observations of the exotic black hole candidate GX 399-4 Cristiano Guidorzi Monitoring of high energy X-ray sources with the BeppoSAX GRBM Stefano Del Sordo A BeppoSax observation of the massive x-ray binary Cen X-3 Giancarlo Cusumano Phase resolved spectroscopy of Crab Pulsar (PSR B0531+21) observed by BeppoSAX. Enrico MASSARO A two component model of the Crab Pulsar emission based on the BeppoSAX pulse profiles. Johan Muller A BeppoSAX Wide Field Camera Secondary Observations Results Database Santina Piraino BeppoSAX observation of the transient X-ray pulsar GS1843+009 Maria Teresa Menna Long term monitoring of some galactic sources with BSAX Wide Field Cameras. J.J.M. in 't Zand THREE NEW TRANSIENTS DETECTED IN THE GALACTIC BULGE WITH BeppoSAX-WFC IN 1996 Massimo Cocchi X-ray bursts from XTE1709-267 William Heindl A Search for Cyclotron Lines in the Bursting Pulsar, GRO J1744-28 Luciano Nicastro BeppoSAX observations of PSR B1259-63 Duane Gruber Magnetic Features in the Spectrum of Her X-1 Tim Oosterbroek The BeppoSAX LECS X-ray spectrum of Hercules X-1 Ruediger Staubert New results on Her X-1 from RXTE observations Ranjeev Misra A Fit To The Simultaneous Broad Band Spectrum Of Cygnus X-1 Using The Transition Disk Model Marek Gierlinski Broad-band spectra of black hole candidates Cyg X-1 and GX339-4 Wouter Hartmann Studies of line blanketed Soft X-ray spectra from hot, high-gravity model atmospheres. Eric Gotthelf Detection of X-ray Emission from the 63-ms Radio Pulsar PSR J1105-6107 Teresa Mineo BeppoSAX observations of isolated pulsars. Jeroen Homan New RXTE results on GX17+2 Christine Done The X-ray spectrum of the magnetic CV BY Cam Mauro Orlandini BeppoSAX observations of the X-ray binary pulsar 4U1626-67 Alexander Lutovinov Observations of Cen X-3 with GRANAT/ART-P. J.J.M. in 't Zand RECENT X-RAY MEASUREMENTS OF THE ACCRETION-POWERED PULSAR 4U 1907+09 Massimo Cocchi Bursting Sources in the Galactic Centre Region Hitoshi Negoro Ginga Results of Short-Term X-ray Variability of Black Hole Candidates Juri Poutanen The Non-Thermal Pair Model and Spectral States of Accreting Black Holes ********************************************************************* AGN ********************************************************************* Jane Turner Orientation and the Inner Regions of Seyfert Galaxies Loredana Bassani BeppoSAX broad-band spectra of Seyfert 2 galaxies Kai Otterbein Intensive monitoring of the strongly variable BL Lac S5 0716+714 Gabriele Ghisellini BeppoSAX observations of the gamma-ray loud blazar PKS 0528+134 Kazushi Iwasawa ASCA long observations of the Seyfert galaxy IRAS18325-5926 Francesco Haardt BeppoSAX observations of 3C273 Laura Maraschi BeppoSAX observations of 3C279. Edoardo Trussoni Spectral study of low power radio galaxies Giovanni Fossati BeppoSAX observation of the blazar Mkn 421 Petrucci Pierre-Olivier An anisotropic reillumination model of Seyfert galaxies Ian George Absorption by Ionized Gas in AGN Shiro Ueno The BeppoSAX observation of IRAS20210+1121 Fabrizio Nicastro The Warm Absorber in NGC985: comparing ASCA and ROSAT data Silvano Molendi The Broad Band Spectrum of MCG-6-30-15 as measured by Beppo-SAX Tahir Yaqoob A SIMPLE NEW METHOD FOR ANALYSING GAPPED TIME SERIES Stephane PALTANI Relationship between X-ray emission and other wavebands in 3C 273 Matteo Guainazzi The intruguing flat and featureless spectrum of the Narrow Line Seyfert 1 Galaxy 1H0419-517 Lucio CHIAPPETTI BeppoSAX Observations of the BL Lac object 0716+714 Giovanna M. Stirpe BeppoSAX observations of the Seyfert 1 NGC 3516 Meg Urry RXTE Monitoring of the Blazar PKS 2155-304 Pawel Magdziarz Broad-band continuum and time variability of NGC 5548 Anna Wolter What can BeppoSAX tell us about X-ray spectra of BL Lacs Luigi Piro The complex spectrum and variability of NGC4151 by BeppoSAX Greg Madejski Simultaneous observations of AGN with RXTE and CGRO Marco Rephaeli High Energy X-ray Emission from the Starburst Galaxies NGC253 & M82 Fabrizio Fiore BeppoSAX observations of quasars Julia Lee An RXTE Observation of MCG-6-30-15 Paolo Padovani BeppoSAX Observations of 1 Jy BL Lacertae Objects ********************************************************************* Gamma Ray Bursts ********************************************************************* Geoffrey Burbidge Gamma-Ray Bursts: Manifestations of Creation James Chiang Decelerating Plasmoid Model for Gamma-Ray Burst Afterglows Kevin Hurley BeppoSAX/Ulysses Observations of Cosmic Gamma-Ray Bursts Alessandro Coletta THE QUICK LOOK ANALYSIS AT THE BeppoSAX-SOC: THE HUNT FOR GAMMA-RAY BURSTS L.Angelo Antonelli 1SAX J0651.6+7910.1 a serendipitous source in GRB 970805 field. Luigi Piro Spectral behaviour of X-ray afterglows of GRB observed by BeppoSAX Carlo De Libero BeppoSAX Attitude Operations for GRB Follow-Up Tomas Rezek OMC Camera Experiment For INTEGRAL And Search For Compton GRO BATSE/LOCBURST Optical Transients Daniele Fargion Gamma Ray Burst as the Blazing Flashes of precessing Gamma Jets Graziella Pizzichini The Log N - Log P distribution of Gamma-Ray Bursts in the light of the afterglow results Graziella Pizzichini A comparison between the follow-up results for Gamma-Ray Bursts observed by the Beppo-SAX Wide-Field Cameras and the Rossi XTE ********************************************************************* Clusters of Galaxies ********************************************************************* Pasquale Mazzotta X-Ray Spectra From Hot Thin Plasmas: Results From a New, Updated Plasma Code Francesco D'Acri A study of Temperature and Abundance gradients in Virgo/M87 with the MECS on board Beppo-SAX ********************************************************************* Surveys and X-ray Background ********************************************************************* Fabrizio Fiore A sample of MECS serendipitous hard sources Donatella Ricci The BeppoSAX source catalog Duane Gruber Granularity of the Diffuse Background Observed Azita Valinia RXTE Measurement of the Diffuse X-ray Emission from the Galactic Ridge ********************************************************************* Stars and SNR ********************************************************************* Bruno Sacco Imaging spectral features of Cas A with BeppoSAX Lara Sidoli Discovery of X-rays from the supernova remnant G0.9+0.1 with the BeppoSAX satellite Roberto Viotti The peculiar X-ray behaviour of the outbursting symbiotic system AG Draconis Johan Muller BY Dra stellar X-ray Flare observed with a BSAX Wide Field Camera Roberto Viotti BeppoSAX Observations of the Eta Carinae Region Michael Corcoran X-ray Brightening and Flaring of Eta Carinae Fabrizio Bocchino BeppoSAX observations of the SNR RCW86 Thierry Montmerle X-rays from protostars Gianpiero Tagliaferri The eclipsing binary HD9770: flaring activity and rotational modulation detected by BeppoSAX ********************************************************************* Other ********************************************************************* Paolo Coppi EQPAIR: An Improved Thermal/Non-Thermal Model for Use in XSPEC J.J.M. in 't Zand LOCALIZING X-RAY SOURCES AT ARCMINUTE RESOLUTION WITH BeppoSAX-WFC Loredana Bruca The BeppoSAX Mission facilities Alan Owens BeppoSAX/LECS detection of dust related X-ray emission from comet C1/1995 O1 (Hale-Bopp) ********************************************************************* 5 - SCIENTIFIC ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Bernand Aschenbach Max-Planck-Institut fuer Extraterrestrische Physik Johan A.M. Bleeker Space Research Organization of Nl Hale V.D. Bradt Co-Chairman Massachussetts Institute of Tecnology Alfonso Cavaliere Dipartimento di Fisica 2a Univ. Roma -Tor Vergata H. Inoue ISAS Frederick K. Lamb University of Illinois Francis E. Marshall Goddard Space Flight Center G.Cesare Perola Dipartimento di Fisica E. Amaldi Universita' di Roma-3 Richard E. Rothschild University of California San Diego Marco Salvati Osservatorio Astrofisico Arcetri Giorgio Salvini Accademia Nazionale Dei Lincei Livio Scarsi Co-Chairman Istituto Fisica Cosmica e Informatica/CNR Yasuo Tanaka Astronomical Institute of Amsterdam, NL Brian G. Taylor ESTEC-Space Science Department Joachim Truemper Max-Planck-Institut fuer Extraterrestrische Physik E.P.J. Van Den Heuvel Astronomical Institute Anton Pannekoek LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE A. Baccari (Segretary at Accademia Dei Lincei) A. Cavaliere F. Fiore (Beppo-SAX Science Data Center) P. Giommi (Beppo-SAX Science Data Center) L. Piro (Beppo-SAX Mission Scientist) L. Scarsi. 7 - HOTEL RESERVATION You can read all information about Hotels and retrieve the Hotel Reservation Form at the web page: http://www.sdc.asi.it/symposium/hotel_reserv.html 8 - www home page : http://www.sdc.asi.it/symposium For additional information please contact: Symposium Helpdesk BeppoSAX Science Data Center, ASI c/o Nuova Telespazio Via Corcolle 19 - 00131 ROMA, Italy Tel 39-6-4079-6307, 39-6-4079-6327, 39-6-4079-6328 Fax 39-6-4079-3855, 39-6-4079-6291 e-mail romaxray@sax.sdc.asi.it www http://www.sdc.asi.it/symposium