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Tidal Disruption events and AGN outbursts workshop

 

25-27 June 2012

European Space Astronomy Centre, Madrid, Spain

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Agenda:

 

Sunday 24th June

 
19.30 - 21.00

 Cocktail Reception at Husa Moncloa

 

 

      Monday 25th June

 

 
 9.30 - 9.45

Welcome

 
  Session 0: History  
     
 9.45 - 10.30 Star - Massive Black Holes Encounters: a Survey J. P. Luminet ppt movie1 movie2
     
  Session 1: Tidal disruption theory & predictions  
     
10.30 - 11.00 The theory of Tidal Disruption Giuseppe Lodato
11.00 - 11.20 Constraining the parameters of tidal disruption events from their light curves James Guillochon
     
11.20 - 11.50 COFFEE BREAK  
     
     
11.50 - 12.10 Modelling tidal disruption events Pavel Ivanov ppt
12.10 - 12.30 Enhancing the rate of tidal disruptions of stars by a self-gravitating disc around a  Vladimir Karas pdf
  massive central black hole  
12.30 - 12.50 Predictions for the Observational Properties of Tidal Disruption Events: Super-Eddington  Linda Strubbe pdf
  Outflow and Accretion Disk  
12.50 - 13.10 Tidally disruption flares induced by a star with a moderately eccentric orbit Kimitake Hayasaki key
13.10 - 13.30 Optical Emission Lines From Tidally Disrupted White Dwarfs and Other Evolved Stars Drew Clausen pdf
     
13.30 - 14.50 LUNCH  
     
  Session 2:  Observations - high energy (X, gamma)  
     
14.50 - 15.20 Tidal disruption of stars by supermassive black holes: the X-ray view Stefanie Komossa pdf
15.20 - 15.40 A well-monitored candidate X-ray tidal disruption event Richard Saxton pdf
15.40 - 16.00 Discovery of a Tidal Disruption Event Candidate from the 2XMM Catalog Dacheng Lin key
16.00 - 16.20 Relativistic Tidal Disruption Flares discovered by Swift Andrew Levan
16:20 - 16:40 Tidal Disruption Events from the first XMM-Newton Slew Survey Pilar Esquej pdf
     
16.40 - 17.10 COFFEE BREAK  
     
17.10 - 17.30 Lessons from J1644 and J2058 Tsvi Piran key
17.30 - 17.50 Prompt emission from tidal disruptions of white dwarfs by intermediate mass black holes Roman Shcherbakov pdf
17.50 - 18.10 Swift J2058+0516: unique evidence for the Bardeen-Petterson effect induced by a Wenfei Yu pdf
  spinning SMBH  
     
18.10 - 18.50 TDE DISCUSSION  
     
     

 

 

Tuesday 26th June

 
     
  Session 3: Observations - long wavelengths (UV-optical)  
     
 9.30 - 10.00 Ultraviolet and Optical Observations of Tidal Disruption Events Suvi Gezari pdf
10.00 - 10.20 Optical Searches for Tidal Disruption Flares and other Circumnuclear Transients Brad Cenko
10.20 - 10.40 The brightest nuclear transients with PanSTARRS : three astrophysical classes Andy Lawrence
10.40 - 11.00 A star disrupted by a stellar black hole as the origin of the cloud falling towards the Jordi Miralda-Escude ppt
  Galactic center  
     
11.00 - 11.50 COFFEE BREAK  
     
  Session 4: Jets from tidal disruptions - theory and observations  
     
11.50 - 12.10 A Radio View of the Birth of a Relativistic Jet from a Tidal Disruption Event B. Ashley Zauderer pdf
12.10 - 12.30 Afterglow Model for the Radio Emission from Swift 1644+57 Brian Metzger
12.30 - 12.50 Numerical study of dynamics and emission from a TDE-powered jet Petar Mimica pdf
12.50 - 13.10 The first year in the lifetime of the newly born jet associated to Swift J1644+57 Alberto J. Castro-Tirado
13.10 - 13.30 Constraints on radio jets from six known stellar tidal disruption events Sjoert van Velzen pdf
     
13.30 - 14.50 LUNCH  
     
  Session 5: Tidal disruption rates and stellar dynamics  
     
14.50 - 15.20 Stellar dynamics and tidal disruption rates Tal Alexander pdf
15.20 - 15.40 Tidal Flares and Rates from an Archival Cluster Survey Peter Maksym
15.40 - 16.00 Probing supermassive black hole binaries with stellar tidal disruptions Fukun Liu
16.00 - 16.20 Tidal Disruption by Binary Supermassive Black Holes Xian Chen
16.20 - 16.40 Massive gaseous discs around SMBH binaries: binary decay and tidal disruptions Jorge Cuadra
     
16.40 - 17.10 COFFEE BREAK  
     
  Session 6: Current & future missions and surveys  
     
17.10 - 17.40 Current and future surveys and the TDE-TDA connection Josh Grindlay pdf
17.40 - 18.00 XMM-Newton observations of transients Norbert Schartel pdf
18.00 - 18.20 The NGO mission: listening to the tides of space-time Michele Armano
     
21.00 - 24.00 CONFERENCE DINNER IN MADRID  
     
     

Wednesday 27th June

 
     
  Session 7: AGN outbursts and accretion physics  + SNe, GRBs, etc.  
     
 9.30 - 10.00 AGN variability mechanisms Aneta Siemiginowska pdf
10.00 - 10.20 AGN with extreme X-ray amplitude variations Dirk Grupe ppt
10.20 - 10.40 Exceptional AGN long-timescale X-ray variability Giovanni Miniutti pdf
10.40 - 11.00 Measuring the size of the BLR and the torus Matteo Guainazzi ppt
11.00 - 11.20 Stabilization of radiation pressure dominated accretion disks through viscous fluctuations Agnieszka Janiuk
     
11.20 - 11.50 COFFEE BREAK  
     
11.50 - 12.10 Disk modelling by global radiation-MHD simulations Shin Mineshige pdf
12.10 - 12.30 Outbursts from the secondary component in OJ287 Pauli Pihajoki
12.30 - 12.50 Recurrent radio activity in Active Galactic Nuclei Marek Jamrozy pdf
12.50 - 13.10 AGN Outbursts from Mergers of Supermassive Black Holes Takamitsu Tanaka pdf
     
13.10 - 13.30 AGN DISCUSSION  
     
13.30 - 14.50 LUNCH  
     
  Session 8: "New science" with flares, grav waves, binary black holes etc.  
     
14.50 - 15.20 EMRIs and tidal disruptions from separated binaries Pau Amaro-Seoane
15.20 - 15.40 Tidal Disruptions of White Dwarfs by Intermediate Mass Black Holes Pablo Laguna
15.40 - 16.00 Tidal stripping of stars near supermassive black holes Lixin (Jane) Dai ppt
16.00 - 16.20 Tidal disruptions from supermassive black hole binaries in merging galaxies before and Peter Berczik
  after the coalescence  
     
16.20 - 16.40 COFFEE BREAK  
     
16.40 - 17.00 Tidal disruption of asteroids by supermassive black holes Uros Kostic
17.00 - 17.20 Tidal Disruption Flares as the source of Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays Glennys Farrar
17.20 - 17.40 Observing Lense-Thirring Precession in Tidal Disruption Flares Nicholas Stone ppt
17.40 - 18.00 The Evolution and Precession of A Tidal Disruption Event Accretion Disk Rongfeng Shen pdf
     
     
     
Poster Session
   
  Tidal disruption flares: the accretion disk phase Matias Montesinos 
Monday The unique flare in the optical light curve of the quasar J004457.9+412344 Helmut Meusinger pdf
to Long-Term Multiwavelength Observations of S5 0836+710 A. Akyuz
Wednesday TDEs and AGN variability in the radio from the ATA and ASKAP Stephen Croft
  A Road to Supermassive Black Hole Merger Kimitake Hayasaki
  The rate of stellar tidal disruptions from SDSS data Sjoert van Velzen
  Survey of Chandra and XMM Galaxy Cluster Archival Data In Search of Tidal Flare Events Bryant Smith