Conveners
20 - Future challenges and experiments
- Bruno Leibundgut (European Southern Observatory)
20 - Future challenges and experiments
- Bruno Leibundgut (European Southern Observatory)
Michael Daniel
(University of Liverpool)
17/12/2015, 14:00
Talk
As an observatory for ground-based gamma-ray astronomy in the energy region from a few tens of GeV to a few hundred TeV, the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be the major next generation facility of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes. The broad energy coverage will be accompanied by an order of magnitude improvement in flux sensitivity in the TeV region along with factor 2-5...
Vincent Tatischeff
(CSNSM, CNRS)
17/12/2015, 14:24
Talk
e-ASTROGAM is a gamma-ray observatory to be proposed as a Medium-size mission for the ESA science program. It is dedicated to the observation of the Universe with unprecedented sensitivity in the energy range 0.3 – 100 MeV extending up to GeV energies, together with a ground-breaking polarization capability. In this energy window, a variety of phenomena and sources await their discovery and...
Prof.
J S Yadav
(Tata Institute of Fundamental Reaserch)
17/12/2015, 14:43
Talk
ASTROSAT is India's first science satellite dedicated to multiwavelength astronomy. It has five science payloads which will cover UV to hard X-ray in low earth orbit. LAXPC instrument is one of the major instruments (415 kg payload weight and above 100 electronic cards). This instrument is designed and developed at TIFR and all the three LAXPC flight units have successfully completed...
Dr
Paolo Soffitta
(IAPS/INAF)
17/12/2015, 15:06
Talk
XIPE, the X-ray Imaging Polarimetry Explorer, is one of the three missions selected by ESA for study phase for down-selection of the fourth medium size mission. XIPE will measure the polarization in hundreds of celestial sources of different classes. It will allow for answering, in a novel way, to questions related to the acceleration phenomena in PWNe, Supernovae and blazars, to the transport...
Dr
Jan-Willem den Herder
(SRON)
17/12/2015, 15:25
Talk
The Athena mission is the second large mission of ESA with an expected launch date of 2028. The data will be gathered by a very large mirror (2 m2) with a 5 arcsec resolution. Athena will have two instruments: the Wide Field Imager combines a large field of view (40 x 40 arcmin2) with Si-class energy resolution and the X-ray Integral Field Unit (X-IFU) which enables high spectral resolution...
Stefan Gillessen
(Max Planck Inst fur Extraterrestrische Physik)
17/12/2015, 16:15
Talk
Located at 8kpc only, the Galactic Center allows studying a galactic nucleus in unparalleled detail.
With the advent of high-resolution, near-infrared instrumentation in the last decade it became
possible to follow individual stellar orbits around the radio source Sgr A* with orbital periods
as short as 12 years. The orbits determine the mass of Sgr A* to 4 million solar masses,
and thus...
Prof.
Sergei Klioner
(Lohrmann Observatorium, Technische Universitaet Dresden)
17/12/2015, 16:35
Talk
Esa's second space astrometry mission Gaia was launched in December 2013 and after an extended commissioning period started its scientific operations in July 2014. After 17 months of observations Gaia delivered an immense dataset of high-accuracy positional observations. In spite of some unexpected difficulties with the instrument, Gaia Data Processing and Analysis Consortium is progressing...
Dr
Robert Braun
(SKA Organisation, Jodrell Bank Observatory)
17/12/2015, 17:15
Talk
The SKA is now in the detailed design phase with construction scheduled to
begin in early 2018, followed by early science from about 2020. A major
component of its broad-ranging science program is focused on addressing
questions in fundamental physics. The current status of the project will
be summarised and the prospects for advancing relativistic astrophysics
will be highlighted.
Dr
Kuo Liu
(Max-Planck-Institute for Radio Astronomy)
17/12/2015, 17:35
Talk
Searching for gravitational waves has nowadays been a vital astrophysical experiment in gravity and pulsar timing array (PTA) constitutes the major effort in low frequency regime. The detection of gravitational waves with PTAs relies on the technique of high precision pulsar timing currently achieved with the 100-m class radio telescopes. In this talk, I will present an overview of the Large...
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The High Energy cosmic-Radiation Detection (HERD) Facility onboard China's Future Space Station
Ming Xu
(Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN))
17/12/2015, 18:15
Poster
The High Energy cosmic-Radiation Detection (HERD) facility is one of several space astronomy payloads onboard China's future Space Station, which is planned for operation starting around 2020. It is designed as a next generation space facility focused on indirect dark matter search, precise cosmic ray spectrum and composition measurements up to the knee energy, and high energy gamma-ray...
Dragan Hajdukovic
(Institute of Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology (ME))
17/12/2015, 18:25
Poster
The unrivalled advantage of tiny trans-Neptunian binaries is that they are the best available realisation of an isolated two body system with very weak external and internal Newtonian gravitational field. As a consequence, in many cases (as for instance in the case of the binary (55637) 2002 UX25), the known Newtonian precession of orbit of the satellite is so small that cannot be detected by...
Mariusz Dabrowski
(University of Szczecin)
17/12/2015, 18:35
Poster
In this talk I will briefly present the advantages and drawbacks of varying speed of light c cosmologies and relate them to the of varying fine structure constant α theories. Then, I will discuss some new tests (redshift drift and angular diameter distance maximum against Hubble function) which may allow measuring timely and possibly even spatial change of the speed of light. The criteria to...
