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1999 Chandra Fellows Symposium

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Phillips Auditorium

October 25, 1999

Symposium Schedule


Abstracts of the talks are available.

Monday, October 25

9:00 - 9:30amWelcome
9:30 - 10:00Tiziana Di Matteo: Quiescent Supermassive Black Holes in Elliptical Galaxies
10:00 - 10:30Kristen Menou: Identifying Black Holes in X-ray Binaries
10:30 - 10:45Coffee
10:45 - 11:15Rudy Wijnands: The very short-lived September 1999 outburst of V4641 Sgr
11:15 - 11:45Ann Esin: X-ray Irradiation of Outer Disks in Black Hole X-Ray Transients
11:45 - 12:15pmEliot Quataert: The Cooling Flow to Accretion Flow Transition
12:15 - 2:00Lunch
2:00 - 2:30Jimmy Irwin: The Contribution of Low Mass X-ray Binaries to the X-ray Emission of Early-type Galaxies
2:30 - 3:00Edward Moran: Faint Radio Sources and the Origin of the Hard X-ray Background
3:00 - 3:30Markus Boettcher: Afterglows and Iron Lines or What Does Chandra have to do with Gamma-Ray Bursts
3:30 - 3:45Tea
3:45 - 4:15Joseph Mohr: Measuring Absolute Distances to High Redshift Galaxy Clusters
4:15 - 5:45David Buote: The Metal Abundances of the Hot ISM in the Centers of Elliptical Galaxies and Galaxy Groups
4:45 - 5:15Amy Barger: Unveiling AGN and Star Formation Activity in Dusty Galaxies





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