COSPAR 2011 Event E1.1:

Radio Meets Hard X-rays: Two Skies in Comparison

First announcement for the EVENT (E1.1) at the

39th COSPAR Scientific Assembly - Mysore, India, 14-22 July 2012

 

Duration: 3 half-days

Commissions E (Research in Astrophysics from Space)

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Scientific rationale:

Recently the hard X-ray sky (>10 keV) has been explored with an unprecedented sensitivity thanks to the Swift/BAT and INTEGRAL/IBIS surveys. These instruments are able to probe this energy domain where fundamental changes from thermal to non-thermal sources/phenomena are expected, where the effects of absorption are drastically reduced, and where cosmic acceleration, explosions and accretion take place.

Radio observations of high energy sources, some newly discovered, provide insight into their nature, emission mechanisms and origin but this connection is virtually unexplored. Most accreting sources, such as X-ray binaries, cataclysmic variables and active galaxies show jets during some phases of their life which are found by means of radio observations, so the comparison with hard X-ray data allows the study of the jet/disk relationship. SNR, pulsars, pulsar wind nebulae and clusters of galaxies also exhibit strong emission both in radio and hard X-rays.  Radio follow-up observations of yet unidentified hard X-ray objects are also useful to provide information on their nature and class.

The goal of this meeting is to explore the  "hard X-ray/radio connection" and to bring together a large number of scientists from both communities in order to meet and discuss many astrophysical topics of interest to both fields.

 

 Main Scientific Organizer:  Angela Malizia

                                        INAF IASF-Bologna

                                        Italy

 Deputy Organizer : Hans Krimm

                              Goddard Space Flight Center                                                             

                              United States

  

Scientific Organizing Committee:

A. J. Bird (University of Southampton, UK),

G. Israel (INAF, Osservatorio di Roma, Italy),

F. La Franca (Universita' Roma Tre, Italy),

A. Marscher (Boston University, USA),

A. Merloni (Max-Planck Institute fuer Extraterrestrische Physik, Germany),

R. Mushotzky (University of Maryland, USA),

S. P. Reynolds (NC State University, USA),

G. Romero (Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina),

J. Sokoloski (Columbia University, USA),

P. Ubertini (INAF IASF-Roma, Italy)                                                      

 

Invited speakers:

To be announced soon

 The precise dates of the Event will be announced as soon as they are fixed.

 

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Information on the 39th COSPAR Scientific Assembly can be found

at http://www.cospar2012india.org/

and

http://www.cospar-assembly.org/