REGISTRATION | ABSTRACT SUBMISSION | PARTICIPANTS | PROGRAM | INFORMATION FOR SPEAKERS
LOFT SIMULATOR AND RESPONSE FILES | VENUE | ACCOMMODATION | PHOTO GROUP
All talks are 20 minutes (including questions). Invited talks are marked in red.
| Wednesday October 26 | |||
| 08:30 - 09:30 | REGISTRATION AND COFFEE | ||
| 09:30 - 09:40 | WELCOME ADDRESS - Michiel van der Klis | ||
| 09:40 - 11:00 | INTRODUCTION TO LOFT - Chair: Søren Brandt | ||
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Science overview - Luigi Stella (INAF-OA Roma)
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Mission overview - Marco Feroci (INAF-IASF Roma/INFN Tor Vergata)
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The Large Area Detector - Silvia Zane (MSSL/UCL)
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The Wide Field Monitor - Margarita Hernanz (IEEC-CSIC Barcelona)
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| 11:00 - 11:30 | COFFEE | ||
| 11.30 - 13:00 | STRONG GRAVITY I - Chair: Juhani Huovelin | ||
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LOFT and strong gravity - Didier Barret (IRAP)
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Fe line diagnostics of strong gravity - Andy Fabian (Cambridge)
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Testing GR with compact objects and using GR to measure their properties - Dimitrios Psaltis (U. Arizona)
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Reverberation mapping - Phil Uttley (Amsterdam)
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| 13:00 - 14:00 | LUNCH | ||
| 14:00 - 15:30 | DENSE MATTER I - Chair: Peter Jonker | ||
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LOFT and dense matter - Anna Watts (Amsterdam)
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Recent progress in dense matter theory and its implications for neutron stars - Sanjay Reddy (U. Washington)
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Neutron star spin measurements and dense matter with LOFT - Tod Strohmayer (NASA GSFC)
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Magnetar seismology - Gianluca Israel (INAF-OA Roma)
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| 15:30 - 16:00 | COFFEE | ||
| 16:00 - 18:00 | LOFT, ESA, AND OTHER OBSERVATORIES - Chair: Jan-Willem den Herder | ||
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LOFT mission status at ESA - Dave Lumb (ESA)
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Athena and LOFT - Kirpal Nandra (MPE)
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Gravitational wave observatories and LOFT - Ilya Mandel (Birmingham)
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All-sky synergies of LOFT with LOFAR - Ralph Wijers (Amsterdam)
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Millisecond pulsar studies with the Fermi LAT: Connections to LOFT - Paul Ray (NRL)
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Connecting X-ray and VHE Gamma-ray timing - Stefan Wagner (LSW Heidelberg)
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| 18:00 - 20:00 |
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| Thursday October 27 | |||
| 09:00 - 11:00 | OBSERVATORY SCIENCE I - Chair: Nanda Rea | ||
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LOFT Observatory Science - Jörn Wilms (Erlangen-Nuremberg)
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X-ray Binaries - Marat Gilfanov (MPA Garching)
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Active Galactic Nuclei - Ian McHardy (Southampton)
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GRBs and tidal disruption events - Elena Rossi (Leiden)
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Be/X-ray pulsar binary science with LOFT - Colleen Wilson-Hodge (NASA MSFC)
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Timing and spectral signatures of a high magnetic field in HMXBs - Carlo Ferrigno (ISDC)
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| 11:00 - 11:30 | COFFEE | ||
| 11.30 - 13:00 | DENSE MATTER II - Chair: Andrea Santangelo | ||
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Neutron star equation of state constraints from X-ray pulse profile models - Sharon Morsink (U. Alberta)
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Understanding the spin distribution of accreting millisecond pulsars - Deepto Chakrabarty (MIT)
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Determining the properties of neutron stars and dense matter using LOFT - Fred Lamb (UIUC)
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Thermonuclear burst spectroscopy using LOFT - Duncan Galloway (Monash)
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| 13:00 - 14:00 | LUNCH | ||
| 14:00 - 15:30 | OBSERVATORY SCIENCE II - Chair: João Braga |
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Relativistic jets - Rob Fender (Southampton)
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Monitoring magnetars with LOFT - Vicky Kaspi (McGill)
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X-ray bursts - Jean inʼt Zand (SRON)
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Accreting white dwarf binaries - Domitilla de Martino (INAF-OA Capodimonte Naples)
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| 15:30 - 16:00 | COFFEE | ||
| 16:00 - 18:00 |
OBSERVATORY SCIENCE III - Chair: René Hudec |
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Sky coverage issues for the LOFT WFM and LAD instruments - Ron Remillard (MIT)
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Observation constraints for LOFT - Niels Lund (DTU Space)
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X-ray timing of black hole transients as the compact jet turns on - Emrah Kalemci (Sabanci)
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Beyond X-ray timing: fast multi-wavelength variability from the vicinity of compact objects - Piergiorgio Casella (INAF-Roma)
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A synchrotron self-Compton disk reprocessing model for optical/X-ray correlation in black hole Xray binaries - Juri Poutanen (Oulu)
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ULXs with LOFT - Luca Zampieri (INAF-Padova)
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| Friday October 28 | |||
| 09:00 - 11:00 | PARALLEL SESSIONS | ||
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SESSION1: Dense Matter and Observatory Science - Chair: Rudy Wijnands
(Eulerzaal)
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Magneto-elastic oscillations and magnetar QPOs - Nikolaos Stergioulas (Thessaloniki)
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Gravitational wave instabilities in Low Mass X-ray Binaries - Ian Jones (Southampton)
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Constraining the equation of state of dense matter from X-ray burst oscillations - Romain Artigue (IRAP)
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Unveiling the nature of timing noise in accreting millisecond pulsars with LOFT - Luciano Burderi (Palermo)
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GRB science with LOFT - Lorenzo Amati (INAF-IASF Bologna)
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SESSION2: Strong gravity - Chair: Andrzej Zdziarski
(Turingzaal)
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Response of an accretion disk corona to a change in source luminosity - Wlodek Kluzniak (Copernicus Astronomical Center)
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One formalism for the three Low Frequency QPO types - Peggy Varniere (U. Paris 7)
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Beyond the Standard Scheme for Relativistic Spectral Line Profiles from Black Hole Accretion Discs - Vjaceslav Sochora (Astron. Inst. Czech Academy of Sciences)
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Measuring strong gravity effects in AGN observed with LOFT - Alessandra de Rosa (INAF/IASF Roma)
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X-ray spectral analysis and Fe-line spectroscopy of neutron star LMXBs with LOFT - Tiziana di Salvo (Palermo)
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| 11:00 - 11:30 | COFFEE | ||
| 11.30 - 13:00 | STRONG GRAVITY II - Chair: Enrico Bozzo | ||
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Accretion disks in strong gravity - Chris Done (Durham)
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Higher order statistics as probes for understanding QPOs and noise - Tom Maccarone - (Southampton)
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Global simulations of accretion onto weakly magnetized neutron stars: variability and strong gravity - Marina Romanova (Cornell)
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High-frequency QPOs from black-hole binaries: where we stand and perspectives for LOFT - Tomaso Belloni (Brera)
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| 13:00 | CLOSE OF THE FORMAL MEETING - Michiel van der Klis | ||
| 13:15 - 14:15 | LUNCH | ||
| Afternoon | Science/Instrument Working group discussions | ||
*An informal social gathering involving both drinks and snacks. Also used as a verb - borrelen - ʻto have a
borrelʼ. An important part of Dutch culture!
| POSTERS |
| A. Goldwurm (APC, France) |
An alternative 2-D detector plane for the Wide Field Monitor of LOFT |
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| B. Haskell (Univ. of Amsterdam, Netherlands) | The role of gravitational waves in LMXBs | Abstract |
| J. Poutanen* (Univ. of Oulu, Finland) | Modeling of X-ray burst spectral evolution: constraining the equation of state | Abstract |
| R. Mignani (MSSL-UCL, United Kingdom) | Optical follow-ups of X-ray sources observed by LOFT | Abstract |
| B. Paul (Raman Research Institute, India) | Orbital evolution of X-ray binaries: prospects with LOFT | Abstract |
| S. Motta (Osserv. Astronomico di Brera, Italy) | Low frequency oscillations in black holes: a spectral-timing approach to the case of GX 339-4 | Abstract |
| S. Boutloukos (Univ. of Tuebingen, Germany) | Neutron star mass and radius constraints from high-precision burst spectra | Abstract |
| V. Suleimanov (Univ. of Tuebingen, Germany) | Progress in atmospheres of X-ray bursting stars modeling | Abstract |
| D. Lin (IRAP Toulouse, France) | Study of Neutron-Star Low-mass X-ray Binaries with LOFT | Abstract |
| A. D’Ai (Universita di Palermo, Italy) | Using LOFT to determine the shape of cyclotron absorption features in HMXBs | Abstract |
| H.-K. Chang (National Tsing Hua Univ., Taiwan) | Search for small Trans-Neptunian Objects with serendipitous occultation in X-rays | Abstract |
| G. Torok (SU Opava, Czech Republic) | Properties of neutron stars implied by models of twin-peak QPOs | Abstract |
| A. Tramacere (ISDC, Switzerland) | Stochastic acceleration and the evolution of spectral distributions in synchro-self-compton sources - a self consistent modelling of blazars' flares and the relevance of X-ray data above 10 keV | Abstract |
| K. S. Wood* (NRL, United States) | X-ray Timing of Accretion-Driven Shock Phenomena in AM Her Stars | Abstract |
| Z. Stuchlik (SU Opava, Czech Republic) | Multi-resonance orbital model of high-frequency quasiperiodic oscillations: possible high precision determination of black hole and neutron star spin | Abstract |
| H. Stiele (Osserv. Astronomico di Brera, Italy) | Spectral properties of the transition between soft and hard state of black hole binaries | Abstract |
| B. Mueck (Univ. of Tuebingen, Germany) | 4U 1735-44: The present with XMM and RXTE and the future with XMM and LOFT | Abstract |
| A. Papitto (Univ. of Cagliari, Italy) | The spin evolution of the Terzan 5 accreting pulsar, IGR J17480-2446, during its 2010 outburst | Abstract |
| A. Baykal (Middle East Technical Univ., Turkey) | A Comprehensive Study on RXTE and INTEGRAL Observations of the X-ray Pulsar 4U 1907+09 | Abstract |
| Barbara Heliodora Rodrigues (INPE, Brazil) | Brazilian Contribution to the LOFT Mission | Abstract |
| C. Schmid (Dr. Karl Remeis-Observ. & ECAP) | Simulation Software Package for X-ray Telescopes | Abstract |
| M. Wille (Dr. Karl Remeis-Observ. & ECAP) | SIMPUT - A File Format for Simulation Input | Abstract |
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