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Welcome to the Chandra X-ray Center's Electronic News Bulletin
Number 91.
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Contents:
1. 7th Chandra/CIAO Workshop
2. Upcoming Chandra Science
Workshop -
Accretion Processes in X-rays: from
White Dwarfs to Quasars
3. Chandra Source Catalog User
Interface Updates
4. New Insights into the Physics of
Supernova Remnants and Pulsar Wind Nebulae.
5. 5th
International Astronomical Consortium for High Energy
Calibration
(IACHEC) Meeting
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Item 1. 7th Chandra/CIAO Workshop
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1-3 February 2010
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Chandra X-ray Center, Cambridge Mass, USA
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SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT
The Chandra X-Ray Center (CXC) is announcing the seventh
in a series of workshops started in 2001 aimed at helping users to work
with the Chandra Interactive Analysis of Observations (CIAO) software
(http://cxc.harvard.edu/ciao/)
The seventh workshop will be held at the Center for Astrophysics
in Cambridge, MA (USA) on 1-3 February 2010.
There is no registration fee to attend.
This workshop will be largely based on CIAO 4.2 which was released
in December 2009.
Online registration is NOW OPEN
http://cxc.harvard.edu/ciao/workshop/register_form.html
We are expecting to accept the first 30 registered participants and
space is still available.
Details of the program will be posted on the CIAO Workshop web site at
http://cxc.harvard.edu/ciao/workshop
Please direct any questions about this workshop through the CXC
HelpDesk (http://cxc.harvard.edu/helpdesk/
Antonella Fruscione and the workshop organizing team
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Item 2. Accretion Processes in X-rays: from White Dwarfs to Quasars
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A Science Workshop entitled
Accretion Processes in X-rays: from White Dwarfs to Quasars
hosted by the Chandra X-ray Center, will be held on
July 13-15, 2010
at the DoubleTree Guest Suites in Boston, MA.
Although this workshop is not yet open for registration, please visit
http://cxc.harvard.edu/cdo/accr10/
or contact Local Organizing Committee Chair
Paul Green at accr10@cfa.harvard.edu for more information.
Accretion Processes in X-rays: from White Dwarfs to Quasars
Current X-ray observatories have revolutionized the study of accretion
in diverse astrophysical settings. Chandra and XMM-Newton gratings
have enabled the detection of small velocity shifts and weak but
vitally important lines, and the central engine in nearby accreting
sources has been revealed in new detail. It is now possible to detect
extremely faint sources, enhancing our understanding of accretion
power throughout the universe and low-level accretion within the Milky
Way. Chandra has also revealed unexpected parallels between accretion
onto pre-main sequence stars, white dwarfs, neutron stars,
stellar-mass and super-massive black holes. The goal of this meeting
is (1) to bring together a broad scientific community interested in
probing accretion physics from the X-ray perspective, (2) to leverage
the rich accretion phenomenology and diverse theoretical approaches
toward the understanding of accretion, and (3) to look ahead to the
next ten years with Chandra, and future X-ray missions like Astro-H
and IXO as well.
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Item 3. Chandra Source Catalog User Interface Updates
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A. NEW! CSC sensitivity map service
To determine the CSC flux limit for user-specified celestial
locations of interest, we now provide an on-line tool that
returns the approximate limiting sensitivity of the catalog
(in photons cm-2 s-1) in the ACIS broad energy band
(0.5-7.0 keV).
Users interested in trying out this new interface can go to
http://cxc.cfa.harvard.edu/csc/sens/
or click on the "CSC Sensitivity Map Service" from the main
catalog website.
B. UPDATED! Expanded source properties added to CSC Sky in Google Earth
CSC Sky in Google Earth has been updated to identify master
sources from release 1.0 of the catalog for the displayed region
of the sky. Master source pushpins are displayed when Google
Earth is zoomed in to ~2 degrees field of view and scrolling
has stopped. Clicking on a source pushpin displays a balloon
containing key source properties, including source name, position,
fluxes, hardness ratios, and source extent and variability flags.
Users interested in trying out this updated interface can go to
http://cxc.cfa.harvard.edu/csc/googlecat/
or click on the "CSC Sky in Google Earth" link from the main
catalog website.
Ian N. Evans
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Item 4. New Insights into the Physics of Supernova Remnants and Pulsar Wind Nebulae
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38th COSPAR Scientific Assembly 2010 Event E19
-Meeting Location: Bremen, Germany
-Dates: 2010 July 18-25
(4 half-days, to be announced as soon as fixed)
-URL (main): http://www.cospar-assembly.org/admin/congress_overview.php?sessionid=174
URL (SOC): http://www.physics.umanitoba.ca/~samar/COSPAR2010E19/
(includes a link to the meeting poster if anyone wishes to download or print)
-Sponsor: irfu, CEA, Saclay, France
-Summary:
As the most significant source of chemical enrichment and energy input
in the interstellar medium, supernova remnants (SNRs) offer us a most
valuable laboratory to study heavy element nucleosynthesis, particle
acceleration at fast shocks, and the physics of the extreme associated
with neutron stars (NSs) and associated pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe).
Thanks to current multi-wavelength state-of-the-art missions and
surveys such as HESS, Chandra, XMM-Newton, Suzaku, Spitzer, and
the International Galactic Plane Survey, much has been learnt about
the physics of SNRs and PWNe; and the number of SNRs-NSs associations
has increased by over an order of magnitude in the past decade. Much
is also anticipated with the successful launch of Fermi (formerly
GLAST) and the upcoming launch of ASTROSAT. This session will focus
on the latest multi-wavelength studies, coupled with theoretical
modeling and simulations, targeted to address the physics of SNRs
and particularly their association and interaction with PWNe and NSs.
-Scientific Organizing Committee:
Samar Safi-Harb (Main Scientific Organizer; U. of Manitoba, Canada),
Roland Kothes (Deputy Organizer; NRC/HIA, Canada), Jonathan Arons
(Berkeley, USA), Werner Becker (MPE, Germany), Yang Chen (Nanjing U.,
China), Roger Chevalier (U. of Virginia, USA), Anne Decourchelle
(CEA-Saclay, France), Gloria Dubner (IAFE, Argentina), Martin Laming
(NRL, USA), Jasmina Lazendic-Galloway (Monash U., Australia), Denis
Leahy (U. of Calgary, Canada), Robert Petre (NASA's GSFC, USA), Jacco
Vink (U. Utrecht, The Netherlands).
-Solicited Speakers:
Niccolo' Bucciantini (NORDITA, Sweden), Eric Gotthelf (Columbia
University, New York, USA), Oliver Krause (Max-Planck Institut
fuer Astronomie, Heidelberg, Germany), Cara Rakowski (Naval Research
Laboratory, Washington, D.C., USA), Stephen Reynolds (North Carolina
State U., Raleigh, USA; to be confirmed), Gavin Rowell (University of
Aledaide, Aledaide, Australia), Alicia Soderberg (Harvard-Smithsonian
CfA, USA), Yasunobu Uchiyama (SLAC/KIPAC, Stanford University, USA)
***Abstract submission deadline: Feb. 19 (2010)***
(same deadline for requesting financial support from COSPAR).
Samar Safi-Harb
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Item 5. 5th International Astronomical Consortium for High Energy Calibration
(IACHEC) Meeting
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Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole (Massachusetts, U.S.A.), 2010
April 12-15
[This announcement is also available at: http://web.mit.edu/iachec/meetings/index.html]
The 5th IACHEC meeting will take place 2010 April 12-15 at the Marine
Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Woods
Hole lies at the extreme southeast corner of Cape Cod, and hosts the
National Academy of Science as well as several institutions oriented
towards marine science. The MBL is an international centre for
education and training in biology, bio-medicine and ecology. It is
located about 75 miles south of the Boston Logan International
Airport. Have a look at the MBL directions web page: the link to Peter
Pan/Bonanza Bus Lines will lead you to a page with schedule and costs
of the bus transfer between Logan Airport and MBL. It's a 5 minute
walk from the bus stop to the MBL Swope Center, where registration to
the meeting is expected to take place.
Participants should plan on arriving at MBL on the afternoon of Sunday
April 11th. Dinner will be served that evening at MBL. The meeting
will start on Monday, April 12 at 9AM, and is expected to close around
lunch time on Thursday, April 15. The meeting registration fee is 715
USD (to be paid by March 19, 2010). It covers accommodation and all
meals from dinner on Sunday, April 11 to lunch on Thursday, April 15.
For part-time attendees there will be a registration fee of 50 USD
plus 166 USD per day for board and lodging. It is possible for
participants to extend their stay at MBL to Thursday night at the cost
of 89 USD for the room only. Participants have also the possibility to
lodge at MBL on Saturday, April 10, under the same conditions.
As usual, the meeting will combine plenary sessions with meetings of
the IACHEC Working Groups. A skeleton of the program follows:
Monday, 12 April
Morning session: calibration status of operational missions
Afternoon session: reports on the Working Group results from the last
meeting
Tuesday, 13 April
Morning session: Meetings of the Working Groups
Afternoon session:
- Status of future X-ray missions
- The path to defining a calibration legacy program for future
missions
Wednesday, 14 April
Morning session: Meetings of the Working Groups
Afternoon session:
- Calibrators meet theorists: astrophysical foundations of calibration
- Statistical methodologies
Thursday, 14 April
Morning session: Reports from the Working Group meetings and meeting
closure
A tour of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute Deep Submergence
Laboratory is foreseen on Thursday afternoon.
Please fill in the Pre-registration Form below, and send it to Hermann
Marshall and Paul Plucinsky and by March 10, 2010.
------------------ cut here and send to:
------------------ hermann (at) space.mit.edu
------------------ plucinsky (at) cfa.harvard.edu
------------------ by March 10, 2010
PRE-REGISTRATION FORM FOR THE 5TH IACHEC MEETING - MBL, Woods Hole -
12-15 April 2010
Name:
Surname:
Institute:
Tel. Number:
E-mail:
Mission:
Instrument:
Number of accompanying persons:
Do you intend to present a talk: [YES]/[NO]
If [YES]:
Author(s):
Title:
Session (remove inapplicable topics):
(a) Calibration status of operational missions
(b) Update of the Working Group results from the last meeting
(c) Status of future X-ray missions
(d) Calibrators meet theorists: astrophysical foundations of
calibration
(e) Statistical methodologies
Arrival date:
Departure date:
I wish a [SINGLE]/[TWIN] room (all rooms are nonsmoking)
Dietary requirements:
Vegetarian: [YES]/{NO]
Others:
Additional comments:
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Paul Plucinsky
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