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, 1 October 2024 (18:30) to Saturday, 5 October 2024 (09:00)

Monday, 30 September 2024
Tuesday, 1 October 2024

18:30 Welcome Function

18:30 - 21:00
Wednesday, 2 October 2024

07:00 Breakfast
Breakfast
07:00 - 08:30
08:30 Opening
08:30 - 09:30
Contributions

08:30 Welcome, Introduction - Andrew Chen

08:40 Technical Introduction on behalf of WRF

08:50 Welcome by SA-GAMMA - Markus Boettcher

09:00 Welcome by the Department of Science and Innovation - Takalani Nemaungani (DSI)
09:30 Transients
09:30 - 10:15
Contributions

09:30 Implications of Joint Spectral Analysis from Fermi(GBM, LAT, and LLE) on Phenomenological GRBs Correlations - Tamador Aldowma (Johannesburg University, Omdurman Islamic University)

09:45 Compton polarization signatures in gamma-ray burst models - Pieter Vd Merwe

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

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

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

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

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

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

12:30 - 13:30
13:30 Pulsars and Pulsar Wind Nebulae
13:30 - 14:45
Contributions

13:30 Pulsar Wind Nebulae as Galactic PeVatron candidates - Elena Amato (INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri)

14:00 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)

14:15 Towards Modelling AR Sco: Convergence to Aristotelian Electrodynamics and First Results - Louis du Plessis

14:30 Pulsed Gamma-Ray Emission from AR Scorpii and AE Aquarii using Fermi LAT Data - Spencer Tendai Madzime (University of the Free State)
14:45 AGN II
14:45 - 15:30
Contributions

14:45 The Radiative Origins of Radio Emission in Galaxies - Sthabile Kolwa (University of Johannesburg)

15:00 Characterisation of various §\gamma§-ray activity states of a sample of §\gamma§-NLS1 galaxies - Anna Luashvili (North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa)

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

15:30 - 16:00
16:00 Poster Session
16:00 - 18:00
Contributions

16:00 Relativistic Dynamics and Structure Formation in a Friedmann Universe - Kennedy Konga (Meru University of Science and Technology, Africa Pulsar timing)

16:20 Refinement of the Proposed Gamma-Ray Burst Time Delay Model - Godson ABBEY (Copperbelt University Zambia)

16:40 MIGHTEE: The radio luminosity and star-formation rate relation for galaxies in the COSMOS field - Thando Mothogoane

17:00 The evolution of the 98 GHz ACT source population since z = 4.5 - Obakeng Phiri (Student)

17:20 The study of extended radio galaxies in MERGHERS fields - Banele Mthembu (University of KwaZulu-Natal (National Astrophysics & Space Science Programme))

17:40 Studying the southerly eclipsing millisecond pulsar J1748−2446A using MeerKAT - Senate Lekomola Senate Lekomola
18:00 Dinner

18:00 - 19:30
Thursday, 3 October 2024

07:00 Breakfast

07:00 - 08:30
08:30 Multimessenger Astrophysics and Astroparticle Physics
08:30 - 09:45
Contributions

08:30 Recent results from KM3NeT and ANTARES and Introduction to the ACME project - Antoine David Kouchner (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

09:00 Astrophysical Insights into Pseudo-Dirac Neutrinos with IceCube Observations - Khushboo Dixit (Centre for Astro-Particle Physics, University of Johannesburg)

09:15 Axions in the galactic centre - Geoff Beck

09:30 Dark matter or "dark matter"? - Konstantin Zloshchastiev (Durban University of Technology)
09:45 Group Photo

09:45 - 10:15

10:30 Excursion to Kruger

10:30 - 18:30

18:30 Dinner

18:30 - 20:00
Friday, 4 October 2024

07:00 Breakfast

07:00 - 08:30
08:30 Instrumentation
08:30 - 09:30
Contributions

08:30 System Agnostic Data Reductions for Astronomy - Sphesihle Makhathini (University of the Witwatersrand)

09:00 The Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory - Markus Boettcher

09:15 The reflecting panels for the Large Size Telescopes at the southern site of the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) - Cornelia Hanna Esther Arcaro
09:30 AGN III
09:30 - 10:30
Contributions

09:30 Multi-wavelength Study of Extreme High-energy Peaked BL Lac (EHBL) Source 1ES 0229+200 Using multi-waveband Observations - Rukaiya Khatoon

09:45 Deciphering Blazar Emission Zones through Polarisation and Spectral Energy Distribution Studies - Hester Schutte

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

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

10:30 - 11:00
11:00 X-Ray and Gamma-Ray Binaries
11:00 - 12:00
Contributions

11:00 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 Multi-wavelength Monitoring of Two Gamma-ray Binaries: 1FGLJ1018.6-5856 and LMC P3 - Masekaisha Andries Mathiba (University of Cape Town)

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

11:45 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 Lunch Break

12:30 - 13:30
13:30 AGN IV
13:30 - 14:30
Contributions

13:30 Study of the hadronic synchrotron mirror model for orphan flares in blazars - Application to 3C279 - Laenita Lorraine Oberholzer

13:45 H.E.S.S. detection and multiwavelength study of the z ∼ 1 blazar PKS 0346-27 - Ogochukwu Chibueze (NORTH WEST UNIVERSITY, POTCHEFSTROOM, SOUTH AFRICA)

14:00 H.E.S.S. observations of composite Seyfert–starburst galaxies - Andrew Chen
15:30 Coffee Break

15:30 - 16:00

16:00 Poster Session/ SA-GAMMA Executive Committee Meeting

16:00 - 18:00

18:00 Conference Dinner

18:00 - 19:30

19:30 Stargazing

19:30 - 22:30
Saturday, 5 October 2024

07:00 Breakfast

07:00 - 08:00

08:00 Check out

08:00 - 09:00

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