Radio Galaxies in the Chandra Era
July 8-11, 2008
Harvard Student Organization Center at Hilles59 Shepard Street, Cambridge, MA
Contributed posters available for download
TUESDAY, July 8 | ||
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| 9:00-9:15 am | Opening Remarks Ralph Kraft and Harvey Tananbaum | |
| 9:15-9:50 | Dave De Young Invited Talk: Radio Galaxies in X-ray Light: Problems and Processes | |
| Session I - Radio Galaxies in the Local Universe Chair: Dan Schwartz | ||
| 9:50-10:25 | Mark Birkinshaw Invited Talk: AGN Jet Flows | |
| 10:25-10:40 | Talk I-1 D. Harris Impulsive Brightening and Variability Timescales in the M87 Jet | |
| 10:40-11:10 | Coffee | |
| 11:10-11:25 | Talk I-2 R. Daly The Properties of the Most Powerful FRII Radio Galaxies | |
| 11:25-11:40 | Talk I-3 C. Jones Centaurus A | |
| 11:40-11:55 | Talk I-4 R. Laing Precision Jet Physics: low-power radio galaxies and their environments | |
| 11:55-12:10 | Talk I-5 I. Fernini Radio Hot Spots in FR II Radio Galaxies and Quasars | |
| 12:20-1:00 | Poster Haiku Session 1 | |
| 1:00-2:30 | Lunch | |
| Session II - Radio Galaxies at High Redshift Chair: Aneta Siemiginowska | ||
| 2:30-3:05 | Teddy Cheung Invited Talk: High Redshift Relativistic Jets | |
| 3:05-3:20 | Talk II-1 P. Hardee Helically Twisted Shocks in the M87 Jet | |
| 3:20-3:35 | Talk II-2 F. Massaro X-ray and optical detections of the bent radio jet in 3C 17 | |
| 3:35-3:50 | Talk II-3 J. Goodger A Radio and X-ray Study of Particle Acceleration in the Centaurus A Jet | |
| 3:50-4:05 | Talk II-4 S. Jorstad Connection between X-ray and Polarized Radio Emission in the Quasar Jets | |
| 4:05-4:20 | Talk II-5 H. Marshall Two Components of the X-ray Emission from the 3C 273 Jet | |
| 4:30-5:00 | Coffee | |
| Session III - Radio Lobes Chair: Ralph Kraft | ||
| 5:00-5:35 | Judith Croston Invited Talk: The Physics of Radio Lobes: Insights from Chandra and XMM-Newton | |
| 5:35-5:50 | Talk III-1 N. Isobe X-ray study of lobes of radio galaxy Fornax A | |
| 5:50-6:05 | Talk III-2 L. Godfrey VLBI Imaging of a High Luminosity X-ray Hotspot | |
| 6:05-6:20 | Talk III-3 E. Hallman The Properties of Radio Relics from Cosmological Simulations of Galaxy Clusters | |
| 6:20-6:35 | Talk III-4 L. Birzan Radiative Efficiency and Content of Extragalactic Radio Sources | |
| 6:35-7:20 | Tutorial I - Mitch Begelman The Role of Special Relativity in Modifying the Spectral, Temporal, and Morphological Features of Extragalactic Jets | |
WEDNESDAY, July 9 | ||
| Session IV - Theory and Simulations on the Interaction of Jets with the Ambient Medium Chair: Paul Nulsen | ||
| 9:00-9:35 | Tom Jones Invited Talk: Stirring and Heating the ICM with AGN Outflows: What are Simulations Telling Us | |
| 9:35-9:50 | Talk IV-1 B. McNamara How are Cluster-scale AGN Outbursts Powered? | |
| 9:50-10:05 | Talk IV-2 N. Soker Inflating Fat Bubbles in Clusters of Galaxies by Slow Wide Jets | |
| 10:05-10:20 | Talk IV-3 M. Perucho Pla Numerical Simulations of the evolution of FRI jets | |
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee | |
| Session V - Radio Lobe/ICM Interactions and Feedback Chair: Sebastian Heinz | ||
| 11:00-11:35 | Marcus Brueggen Invited Talk: The Physics of AGN Feedback in Clusters of Galaxies | |
| 10:35-11:50 | Talk V-1 N. Jetha Shock heating in the group atmosphere of the radio galaxy B2 0838+32A | |
| 11:50-12:30 | Poster Haiku Session 2 | |
| 12:30-2:00 | Lunch | |
| 2:00-2:15 | Talk V-2 D. Rafferty The Regulation of Cooling and Star Formation by AGN Feedback | |
| 2:15-2:30 | Talk V-3 P. Nulsen Radio Mode Feedback in Giant Elliptical Galaxies | |
| 2:30-2:45 | Talk V-4 R. Mittal Role of central AGN in cooling-core galaxy clusters | |
| 2:45-3:00 | Talk V-5 H. Li Cosmological MHD Simulations of Jets and Lobes in Galaxy Clusters | |
| 3:10-4:30 | Dedicated poster session and coffee | |
| 4:30-5:15 | Tutorial 2 - Lukasz Stawarz A Role and a Structure of the Magnetic Field in Jets, Hotspots and Lobes of Radio Galaxies | |
| 5:15-6:00 | Tutorial 3 - Mark Birkinshaw Jets: particle acceleration and entrainment | |
THURSDAY, July 10 | ||
| Session VI - Radio-Loud Seyferts and Low Power Radio Galaxies Chair: Dan Harris | ||
| 9:00-9:35 | Matteo Guainazzi Invited Talk: Did I say radio-quiet? Radio-loudness in radio-quiet AGN | |
| 9:35-9:50 | Talk VI-1 A. Tilak Chandra Observations of AGN in Low Luminosity Radio Galaxies | |
| 9:50-10:05 | Talk VI-2 D. Evans High-Resolution Chandra, HST, and VLA Observations of Radio-Loud Seyferts | |
| 10:05-10:20 | Talk VI-3 S. Raychaudhury The role of feedback in galaxy groups | |
| 10:20-10:35 | Talk VI-4 P. Ogle Impact of Jet Feedback on Molecular Gas and Star Formation in Radio Galaxies | |
| 10:45-11:15 | Coffee | |
| Session VII - The Link between Radio Galaxies and Stellar Binaries Chair: Elizabeth Blanton | ||
| 11:15-11:50 | Sera Markoff Invited Talk: Exploring the Relationship Between (Radio Loud) Quasars and Microquasars | |
| 11:50-12:05 | Talk VII-1 K. Blundell The evolution of classical double radio galaxies: enhanced with X-ray vision | |
| 12:05-12:20 | Talk VII-2 M. Sobolewska What can we learn about AGN from alpha_ox measurements in GBHs? | |
| 12:30-2:00 | Lunch | |
| Session VIII - Accretion and the Central Engine in Radio Galaxies Chair: Dan Evans | ||
| 2:00-2:35 | Rita Sambruna Invited Talk: The disk-jet connection in radio loud AGN, the X-ray Perspective | |
| 2:35-2:50 | Talk VIII-1 M. Hardcastle Accretion modes and feedback in radio-loud AGN | |
| 2:50-3:05 | Talk VIII-2 R. Hickox Host galaxies, clustering, and evolution of radio, X-ray, and IR AGN at z less than 1 | |
| 3:05-3:20 | Talk VIII-3 S. Willner High redshift 3CR sources: Mid-infrared spectral energy distributions | |
| 3:20-3:35 | Talk VIII-4 R. Antonucci Which radio galaxies have hidden quasars: results from a large Spitzer survey | |
| 3:35-3:50 | Talk VIII-5 H. Rottgering Two distinct accretion processes in radio galaxies | |
| 4:00-4:30 | Coffee | |
| Session IX - Lifecycles and Evolution of Radio Galaxies Chair: Herman Marshall | ||
| 4:30-5:05 | Stefi Baum Invited Talk: There and Back Again: Cycles of Activity in Radio Galaxies | |
| 5:05-5:20 | Talk IX-1 Q. Hart X-ray and Radio AGN in Coma Cluster Progenitors | |
| 5:20-5:35 | Talk IX-2 Y.-T. Lin Statistical Properties of Radio Galaxies in the Local Universe | |
| 5:50-6:05 | Talk IX-3 S. Giacintucci Low frequency radio observations of galaxy groups | |
| 7:00 | Dinner at Legal Sea Foods (more info and menu) | |
FRIDAY, July 11 | ||
| Session X - BL Lacs and Blazars Chair: Martin Hardcastle | ||
| 8:30-9:05 | Greg Madejski Invited Talk: Structure of Jet Cores in Blazars: Gamma-Ray Observations in Multi-Wavelength Perspective | |
| 9:05-9:20 | Talk X-1 P. Kharb Pc-scale rotation measures across radio galaxy jets | |
| 9:20-9:35 | Talk X-2 A. Marscher The Long, Bright Extended X-ray Jet of OJ287 | |
| 9:35-9:50 | Talk X-3 T. Ergin Observations of VHE gamma-rays from M87 by VERITAS | |
| 9:50-10:05 | Talk X-4 R. Chatterjee X-ray Dips and Superluminal Ejections in the Radio Galaxy 3C 120 | |
| 10:05-10:35 | Coffee | |
| Future Missions Chair: Christine Jones | ||
| 10:35-11:00 | Tracy Clarke Invited Talk: The Promise of Future Radio Telescope Facilities | |
| 11:00-11:15 | Sebastian Heinz Radio galaxies in the Constellation X era | |
| 11:15-12:30 | Conference Finale Mitch Begelman Invited Talk: Where do we go from here? | |
| 12:30-12:45 | Closing Remarks Aneta Siemiginowska | |
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