Chandra Frontiers in Time-Domain Science

Session Schedule

Wednesday, October 7th

11:00–12:30

Tidal Disruption Events and Transients I

11:00–11:05 Welcome and Acknowledgements Chandra Director's Office SOC Chairs

11:05–11:40 Observational Progress in Identifying and Characterizing Tidal Disruption Events Brad Cenko NASA/GSFC

11:40–11:45 Formation of a temporary accretion disk on GX 301-2 during a pulsar spin-up episode Hannah McCall Washington University in St. Louis

11:45–11:50 The Heraklion Extragalactic Catalogue (HECATE): a tool for transient astrophysics Konstantinos Kovlakas University of Crete, IA/FORTH

11:50–12:05 A New Extragalactic Population of Faint, Fast X-ray Transients W. Niel Brandt Penn State University

12:05–12:20 Determining the nature of the Fast Blue Optical Transients Deanne Coppejans Northwestern University

14:00–15:30

Tidal Disruption Events and Transients II

14:00–14:35 Tidal Disruption of Stars by Supermassive Black Holes Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz University of California, Santa Cruz

14:35–14:40 An Energy Inventory of Tidal Disruption Events Brenna Mockler UC Santa Cruz & DARK, NBI

14:40–14:45 Rapid state transitions in a supermassive black hole's accretion flow Dheeraj R Pasham MIT

14:45–14:50 Mysterious Outburst of a Be/X-ray Binary in the LMC Helena Treiber Amherst College, Yale University

14:50–15:05 Long-term Monitoring of Two X-ray Tidal Disruption Events Dacheng Lin University of New Hampshire

15:05–15:20 Ongoing Monitoring of the Tidal Disruption Event Swift J1644+57 Yvette Cendes Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian

Thursday, October 8th

09:00–10:30

Synergies Panel & Discussion

09:00–09:15 Chandra synergies with ALMA Maria Diaz Trigo ESO

09:15–09:30 Synergies of Chandra, SRG/eROSITA, and Athena in X-ray Time Domain Studies Arne Rau Max Planck Institute for extraterrestrial Physics, Garching, Germany

09:30–09:45 Catching Compact AGN Jets at Cosmic Noon in Radio Time Domain Surveys Kristina Nyland NRC postdoctoral fellow, resident at NRL

09:45–10:00 Tailoring X-ray follow-up observations of high-energy gamma-ray targets Elizabeth Ferrara University of Maryland College Park, NASA GSFC, CRESST

Friday, October 9th

09:00–10:30

Synergies I (Microlensing, Dust, Multiwavelength)

09:00–09:35 Dust scattering echoes through cosmic time Lia Corrales University of Michigan

09:35–09:50 Simultaneous optical and X-ray variability in Young Stellar Objects from the CSI2264 project Mario Giuseppe Guarcello INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo

09:50–10:25 MICROLENSING A QUASAR'S ACCRETION DISK George Chartas College of Charleston

10:25–10:30 New Techniques in X-Ray Dust Tomorgraphy Sebastian Heinz University of Wisconsin-Madison

11:00–12:30

Synergies II (Galactic Center, Multiwavelength)

11:00–11:35 Capturing the Galactic Center through Chandra’s Unique Lens Daryl Haggard McGill University, McGill Space Institute

11:35–11:50 Luminous X-ray Emission From a Calcium-rich Transient Wynn Jacobson-Galan Northwestern University

11:50–12:05 Periodic X-ray Sources in the Galactic Center/Bulge -- Application of the Gregory-Loredo Algorithm Tong Bao Nanjing University

12:05–12:20 Extragalactic Fast X-ray Transient Candidates Hidden in the Chandra Source Catalog Jonathan Quirola-Vásquez Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Wednesday, October 14th

09:00–10:30

Stars, Disks, and Planets I

09:00–09:35 Predicting the Past to Understand the Future: The Context of Time in Considering Habitability Rachel Osten Space Telescope Science Institute, Johns Hopkins University

09:35–09:40 Variable X-ray Sources in Intermediate-Age Open Clusters Steven Chen George Washington University

09:40–09:45 Cycles and the Seven Dwarfs Thomas Ayres University of Colorado (CASA)

09:45–09:50 X-ray Flares from T-Tauri Stars Drive Dynamic Chemical Evolution in Protoplanetary Disks Abygail Waggoner University of Virginia

11:00–12:30

Stars, Disks, and Planets II

11:00–11:35 Illuminating the Chemistry of Planet Formation with X-ray Flares Ilse Cleeves University of Virginia

11:35–11:50 High-energy processes in Young Stellar Objects: simultaneous X-ray and radio observations Jan Forbrich University of Hertfordshire

11:50–12:25 X-ray emission from pre-main sequence stars Hans Moritz Günther MIT

Thursday, October 15th

09:00–10:30

Solar System

09:00–09:35 Time Domain studies of Solar System X-ray emission Dennis Bodewits Auburn University

09:35–09:50 Analysis of charge exchange emission from Comet 46P/Wirtanen Damian Christian and Emanuele Bonamente California State University Northridge and Auburn University

09:50–10:25 Revealing the Processes that Produce Planetary X-ray Pulsations William Dunn Mullard Space Science Laboratory, UCL

11:00–12:30

Communications & Coordination (Panel & Discussion)

11:00–11:15 SmartNET & Chandra: Community self organization for simultaneous observing Gregory Sivakoff University of Alberta

11:15–11:30 Coordinating observations between ground- and space-based facilities Erik Kuulkers ESA/ESTEC, The Netherlands

11:30–11:45 Communication and Co-ordination: A GROWTH and ZTF perspective Mansi M. Kasliwal Caltech

11:45–12:00 Planning Coordinated Observations with Chandra Joshua Wing Chandra X-ray Center

Friday, October 16th

09:00–10:30

Massive and Evolved Stars I

09:00–09:35 X-ray observations of supernovae and supernova remnants Manami Sasaki Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuernberg

09:35–09:40 The Metamorphosis of SN 2014C: A Strongly Interacting Supernova Daniel Brethauer CIERA, Northwestern University

09:40–09:45 The exceptional X-ray evolution of SN 1996cr in high resolution Jonathan Quirola-Vásquez Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

09:45–09:50 Characterization of a Supergiant Fast X-ray Transient in the LMC by eROSITA Georgios Vasilopoulos Yale University

09:50–10:25 Deciphering the stellar winds in high mass X-ray binaries with Chandra: A time domain science case Victoria Grinberg Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IAAT), University of Tübingen

11:00–12:30

Massive and Evolved Stars II

11:00–11:35 X-rays as tracers of shocks and burning in novae Jeno Sokoloski Columbia, LSSTC

11:35–11:50 The Colliding Winds of WR 25 in High Resolution X-rays Pragati Pradhan MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research

11:50–12:05 WZ Sge: a magnetic propeller white dwarf system? Maria Georganti University of Southampton

12:05–12:20 Timing Analysis with ACIS HETG spectra Joy Nichols Harvard & Smithsonitan CfA

Tuesday, October 20th

09:00–10:30

Ultraluminous X-ray Sources

09:00–09:35 Variability and pulsations above the Eddington limit Felix Fuerst European Space Agency, ESAC

09:35–09:50 Long and Short-Term Variability of Globular Cluster Hosted UItraluminous X-ray Sources Kristen Dage McGill Space Institute, Michigan State University

09:50–09:55 Probing the long-term variability of ULXs with Chandra monitoring Hannah Earnshaw Caltech

09:55–10:10 Spectral Variability: A Road to Discovery with the Chandra Source Catalog Rafael Martínez-Galarza Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory

11:00–12:30

Gamma-ray Bursts

11:00–11:35 Gamma-ray Bursts in the Era of Multimessenger Astrophysics Eleonora Troja University of Maryland & NASA-GSFC

11:35–11:50 The X-ray afterglow and host galaxy of the unusual GRB 180418A Alicia Rouco Escorial CIERA (Northwestern University)

11:50–12:05 The merger environments of short gamma-ray bursts Brendan O'Connor George Washington University, University of Maryland - College Park, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

12:05–12:10 Search for short GRBs within 200 Mpc with Neil Gehrels Swift observatory Simone Dichiara University of Maryland / NASA-Goddard

12:10–12:25 GW170817: from merger to jet to outflow Davide Lazzati Oregon State University

Thursday, October 22nd

08:00–09:30

X-ray Binaries I

08:00–08:35 A unique view of variability in exotic X-ray binaries from Chandra Arash Bahramian International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research – Curtin University

08:35–08:40 GS 2000+25: The Least Luminous Black Hole X-Ray Binary Jennifer Rodriguez Michigan State University

08:40–08:55 X-ray Binary New Early Warning System (XB-NEWS) Payaswini Saikia New York University Abu Dhabi

08:55–09:30 Extragalactic X-ray Binary Populations Andreas Zezas University of Crete & CfA

10:00–11:30

X-ray Binaries II

10:00–10:35 A Fine Balance: Chandra, Accretion, and Outflows in X-ray Binaries Joey Neilsen Villanova University

10:35–10:40 High resolution X-ray spectroscopy of the Supergiant HMXB 4U1700-37 during the compact object eclipse Maria Martínez-Chicharro Instituto Universitario de Física Aplicada a las Ciencias y las Tecnologías (IUFACyT) Universidad de Alicante E-03690 Alicante Spain

10:40–10:55 Understanding X-ray shots in Cygnus X-1 Yash Bhargava Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), Pune, India)

10:55–11:00 Using the Chandra HETG for Time Resolved X-Ray Spectroscopy of X-Ray Binaries Michael McCollough CXC/SAO/CfA

11:00–11:15 Blackhole X-ray binaries in state transition (a short review) Armin Vahdat Motlagh University of Tubingen

16:00–17:30

X-ray Binaries III

16:00–16:35 Multi-wavelength fast timing in X-ray binaries Alexandra Tetarenko East Asian Observatory

16:35–16:40 Chandra Monitoring and Follow-Up of NGC 300 ULX-1 Breanna Binder Cal Poly Pomona

16:40–16:55 Observations of the disk/jet coupling of X-ray binaries during their descent to quiescence: The case for rapid follow-up Aarran Shaw University of Nevada Reno

16:55–17:00 The spin of GRS 1915+105, revisited Bri Mills University of Virginia

17:00–17:15 Measure the gas to dust ratio towards bright sources in the Galactic Bulge Jun Yang MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research

Monday, October 26th

09:30–11:00

Neutron Stars and Magnetars I

09:30–10:05 Accretion and outflows in neutron star low-mass X-ray binaries Nathalie Degenaar University of Amsterdam, Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy

10:05–10:10 Jet–Accretion Coupling in Luminous Accreting Neutron Stars in Galactic Globular Clusters Teresa Panurach Michigan State University

10:10–10:15 Chandra Eclipse Timing Determination of the Third Body Period of 4U 2129+47 Michael Nowak Washington University in St. Louis

10:15–10:20 Role of temporal features in machine-learning (ML) classification of X-ray sources based on Chandra Source Catalog (CSCv2) Hui Yang George Washington University

10:20–10:55 Strongly magnetised neutron stars in the Chandra era Nanda Rea Institute of Space Sciences (CSIC-IEEC, Barcelona)

11:30–13:00

Neutron Stars and Magnetars II

11:30–12:05 Isolated Neutron Stars Vicky Kaspi McGill University

12:05–12:20 The Chandra ACIS Timing Survey Project (CATS@BAR) GianLuca Israel INAF, Astronomical Observatory of Roma

12:20–12:25 Crust cooling emission from high-magnetic field neutron stars in Be/X-ray transients Alicia Rouco Escorial CIERA (Northwestern University)

12:25–12:40 A Fast Radio Burst Associated with a Galactic Magnetar Christopher Bochenek Caltech

Tuesday, October 27th

09:00–10:30

Active Galactic Nuclei I

09:00–09:35 Monitoring AGN variability over two decades with Chandra Deep Surveys Maurizio Paolillo and Francesca Civano Università di Napoli Federico II and SAO

09:35–09:50 Chandra Observations of the Broad Absorption Line AGN Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 galaxy WPVS 007 Dirk Grupe Morehead State University

09:50–10:05 Flaring in NGC 4869 and the effect of Kelvin Helmholtz instability Dharam V. LAL National Centre for Radio Astrophysics TIFR

14:00–15:30

Active Galactic Nuclei II

14:00–14:35 Complementary Chandra and XMM-Newton measurements of rapid AGN variability Erin Kara MIT

14:35–14:40 A time-domain gamma-ray blazar sequence Manel Errando Washington University in St Louis

14:40–14:45 Chandra Observations of Candidate Subparsec Binary Supermassive Black Holes Lynnie Saade University of California Los Angeles

14:45–15:00 A new statistical scheme to model the time evolution of characteristic variability time scales of accreting objects Darlin Soto Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

15:00–15:15 X-ray Spectral-Timing Modeling of Accreting Black Holes Javier Adolfo García Caltech

Friday, October 30th

09:00–10:30

Multi-messenger Astronomy I

09:00–09:30 An X-ray View of Engine-Powered Transients Brian Metzger Columbia University, Flatiron Institute CCA

09:30–09:45 The X-ray view of IceCube neutrino events Fe Krauss Penn State University

09:45–10:00 The search for LISA Detectable Gravitational Wave Sources using the Zwicky Transient Facility Kevin Burdge California Institute of Technology

10:00–10:30 Multi-messenger astronomy with high-energy neutrinos Anna Franckowiak DESY, Ruhr University Bochum

11:00–12:30

Multi-messenger Astronomy II (Panel & Discussion)

11:00–11:15 X-raying compact binary mergers Eleonora Troja University of Maryland & NASA-GSFC

11:15–11:30 Preparing to Prioritize (and Pounce) in the LIGO-Virgo O4 Era and Beyond Daryl Haggard McGill University, McGill Space Institute

11:30–11:45 Mapping the Diverse Outcomes of BNS Mergers Brian Metzger Columbia University, Flatiron Institute CCA

11:45–12:00 The bright future of GW170817 Raffaella Margutti Northwestern University/CIERA

14:00–15:30

Summary Talk by Jon Miller (University of Michigan)