Name: HEASA 2024
Start: 2024-10-01T18:30:00+02:00
End: 2024-10-05T09:00:00+02:00
Location: No location set

HEASA 2024

from Tuesday, October 1, 2024 (6:30 PM) to Saturday, October 5, 2024 (9:00 AM)

Monday, September 30, 2024
Tuesday, October 1, 2024

6:30 PM

6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Wednesday, October 2, 2024

7:00 AM Breakfast
Breakfast
7:00 AM - 8:30 AM
8:30 AM
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM
Contributions

8:30 AM Welcome, Introduction - Andrew Chen

8:40 AM Technical Introduction on behalf of WRF

8:50 AM Welcome by SA-GAMMA - Markus Boettcher

9:00 AM Welcome by the Department of Science and Innovation - Takalani Nemaungani (DSI)
9:30 AM
9:30 AM - 10:15 AM
Contributions

9:30 AM Implications of Joint Spectral Analysis from Fermi(GBM, LAT, and LLE) on Phenomenological GRBs Correlations - Tamador Aldowma (Johannesburg University, Omdurman Islamic University)

9:45 AM Compton polarization signatures in gamma-ray burst models - Pieter Vd Merwe

10:00 AM Dissecting the Radiative Puzzle of VHE GRBs: Insights from Multi-Wavelength Modeling - ankur ghosh (University of Johannesburg)
10:30 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Contributions

11:00 AM Emission models for extreme blazars - Andreas Zech (Observatoire de Paris)

11:30 AM An angle- and polarization-dependent synchrotron and synchrotron self-Compton blazar model - Motseothata Tisang

11:45 AM Decoding Blazar Polarization - Lenté Dreyer (North-West University)

12:00 PM Searching for Signatures of Internal Gamma-ray Absorption in High-redshift Blazars - Anton Dmytriiev (North-West University)

12:15 PM Optical spectroscopy and imaging of blazars for the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory - Eli Kasai (University of Namibia)
12:30 PM

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
1:30 PM
1:30 PM - 2:45 PM
Contributions

1:30 PM Pulsar Wind Nebulae as Galactic PeVatron candidates - Elena Amato (INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri)

2:00 PM The possible detection of γ-ray pulsations from J1912-4410 and EUVE J0317-855 using Fermi-LAT observations. - Lurgasho Minnie (University of the Free State)

2:15 PM Towards Modelling AR Sco: Convergence to Aristotelian Electrodynamics and First Results - Louis du Plessis

2:30 PM Pulsed Gamma-Ray Emission from AR Scorpii and AE Aquarii using Fermi LAT Data - Spencer Tendai Madzime (University of the Free State)
2:45 PM
2:45 PM - 3:30 PM
Contributions

2:45 PM The Radiative Origins of Radio Emission in Galaxies - Sthabile Kolwa (University of Johannesburg)

3:00 PM Characterisation of various §\gamma§-ray activity states of a sample of §\gamma§-NLS1 galaxies - Anna Luashvili (North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa)

3:15 PM UHF OBSERVATIONS OF THE TAIL-LIKE REGION OF HYDRA A - Sibongakonke Zondo (University of the Witwatersrand)
3:30 PM

3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
4:00 PM
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Contributions

4:00 PM Relativistic Dynamics and Structure Formation in a Friedmann Universe - Kennedy Konga (Meru University of Science and Technology, Africa Pulsar timing)

4:20 PM Refinement of the Proposed Gamma-Ray Burst Time Delay Model - Godson ABBEY (Copperbelt University Zambia)

4:40 PM MIGHTEE: The radio luminosity and star-formation rate relation for galaxies in the COSMOS field - Thando Mothogoane

5:00 PM The evolution of the 98 GHz ACT source population since z = 4.5 - Obakeng Phiri (Student)

5:20 PM The study of extended radio galaxies in MERGHERS fields - Banele Mthembu (University of KwaZulu-Natal (National Astrophysics & Space Science Programme))

5:40 PM Studying the southerly eclipsing millisecond pulsar J1748−2446A using MeerKAT - Senate Lekomola Senate Lekomola
6:00 PM

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Thursday, October 3, 2024

7:00 AM

7:00 AM - 8:30 AM
8:30 AM
8:30 AM - 9:45 AM
Contributions

8:30 AM Recent results from KM3NeT and ANTARES and Introduction to the ACME project - Antoine David Kouchner (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

9:00 AM Astrophysical Insights into Pseudo-Dirac Neutrinos with IceCube Observations - Khushboo Dixit (Centre for Astro-Particle Physics, University of Johannesburg)

9:15 AM Axions in the galactic centre - Geoff Beck

9:30 AM Dark matter or "dark matter"? - Konstantin Zloshchastiev (Durban University of Technology)
9:45 AM

9:45 AM - 10:15 AM

10:30 AM

10:30 AM - 6:30 PM

6:30 PM

6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Friday, October 4, 2024

7:00 AM

7:00 AM - 8:30 AM
8:30 AM
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM
Contributions

8:30 AM System Agnostic Data Reductions for Astronomy - Sphesihle Makhathini (University of the Witwatersrand)

9:00 AM The Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory - Markus Boettcher

9:15 AM The reflecting panels for the Large Size Telescopes at the southern site of the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) - Cornelia Hanna Esther Arcaro
9:30 AM
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Contributions

9:30 AM Multi-wavelength Study of Extreme High-energy Peaked BL Lac (EHBL) Source 1ES 0229+200 Using multi-waveband Observations - Rukaiya Khatoon

9:45 AM Deciphering Blazar Emission Zones through Polarisation and Spectral Energy Distribution Studies - Hester Schutte

10:00 AM Locating the gamma-ray emission regions in the relativistic jet of 3C 279. - Tekano Mbonani (University of the Free State)

10:15 AM Comparing the optical variability characteristics of different subclasses of AGN - Hartmut Winkler
10:30 AM

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Contributions

11:00 AM A spectral and timing study of MAXI J1820+070 during it's outburst - Kyle Solomons (University of Cape Town, South African Astronomical Observatory)

11:15 AM Multi-wavelength Monitoring of Two Gamma-ray Binaries: 1FGLJ1018.6-5856 and LMC P3 - Masekaisha Andries Mathiba (University of Cape Town)

11:30 AM A record-breaking energetic dwarf nova outburst hosting a massive white dwarf - Yusuke Tampo (South African Astronomical Observatory)

11:45 AM The Modelling of Accretion Driven Plasma Instabilities in the Accretion Columns of Polars Using PLUTO - John-Paul Khumalo (University of the Free State)
12:30 PM

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
1:30 PM
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Contributions

1:30 PM Study of the hadronic synchrotron mirror model for orphan flares in blazars - Application to 3C279 - Laenita Lorraine Oberholzer

1:45 PM H.E.S.S. detection and multiwavelength study of the z ∼ 1 blazar PKS 0346-27 - Ogochukwu Chibueze (NORTH WEST UNIVERSITY, POTCHEFSTROOM, SOUTH AFRICA)

2:00 PM H.E.S.S. observations of composite Seyfert–starburst galaxies - Andrew Chen
3:30 PM

3:30 PM - 4:00 PM

4:00 PM

4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

6:00 PM

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM

7:30 PM

7:30 PM - 10:30 PM
Saturday, October 5, 2024

7:00 AM

7:00 AM - 8:00 AM

8:00 AM

8:00 AM - 9:00 AM

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