HTRA-IV
May 5 - 7, 2010
Agios Nikolaos, Crete Greece
published May 18, 2011
Agios Nikolaos, Crete Greece
published May 18, 2011
This workshop is organised as part of the OPTICON-funded European Network for High Time Resolution Astrophysics with the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT).
The goal of the HTRA-IV workshop is to explore the current and future state of observations of all different types of astronomical sources featuring variability at the second and/or sub-second time scales. The three day workshop has been planned to offer the community the opportunity to present contributions in different thematic areas covering science, instrumentation and future observing facilities.
Selected science topics include:
- isolated neutron stars
- X-ray binaries
- white dwarfs and ultra compact binary systems
- stellar oscillations
- flare stars
- extra-galactic transients (GRBs)
- planet transits/occultations
although contributions in other science topics related to the field of HTRA are equally welcome.
The focus of the HTRA-IV workshop is on optical studies in all of the above areas. In particular, the major emphasis will be on optical observations and on the potential of HTRA with the next generation of Extremely Large Telescopes (like the E-ELT, the Thirty Meter Telescope and the Giant Magellan Telescope) to make discoveries beyond our current state of knowledge and expectations.
However, the workshop will also focus on HTRA studies at multi-wavelengths (radio, X-rays, gamma-rays) both with present (XMM, CHANDRA, FERMI) and future (e.g. IKO and SKA) observing facilities.
The HTRA-IV workshop is timed to be just before, and in the same venue as, the meeting:
Astronomy with Megastructures - Joint science with the E-ELT and SKA
http://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/users/Karastergiou/Greece2010/home.html.
so that attendance at both meetings is encouraged.
The purpose is to create a unique opportunity for interaction between the HTRA community and the wider astronomical community. This will stimulate discussions on the exploitation of the scientific potential of future facilities, on the development of their instrumentation, and on a number of technical and engineering aspects related to their design and operation.
| Session 1: Object Reviews (I) - Isolated Neutron Stars and X-ray Binaries |
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Isolated Neutron Stars (Invited Review)
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Magnetars and their Extreme Variability (Invited Review)
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High time resolution observations of millisecond pulsars with the Fermi Large Area Telescope
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Optical timing studies of neutron stars: Current Status
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Fast variability from X-ray binaries (Invited Review)
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Fast multiwavelength variability from jets in X-ray binaries
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The Role of Jets in Black-hole X-ray Binaries
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Mapping LMXBs with reprocessed X-ray bursts
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Rapid variations of polarization in low-mass X-ray binaries
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| Session 2: Object Reviews (II) - Compact Binaries and Transients |
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White Dwarfs and Ultra Compact Binaries (Invited Review)
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High speed spectroscopy of intermediate polars
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Very fast photometric observations of the intermediate polar V2069 Cyg
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Discovery of the Eclipsing Detached Double White Dwarf Binary
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Extra-Galactic Transients (Invited Review)
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Transient Radio Neutron Stars
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Probing magnetar physics through high time-resolved spectroscopy of X-ray flashes
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OPTIMA observations of the first optical magnetar SWIFT J1955+26: an update
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| Session 3: Object Reviews (III) - Stars, Transits, Occultations |
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Stellar Oscillations and Occultations (Invited Review)
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Spectroscopic Confirmation of the 5.4min Orbital Period in HM Cnc
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Probing the nature of the shortest period binary HM Cnc through time-resolved multiwavelength studies
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Flare star observations with OPTIMA
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Fast and transient phenomena in stellar magnetospheres / flare stars
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ULTRACAM observations of SDSS J0926+3624: The first known eclipsing AM CVn star
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Detecting a small Kuiper Belt object using archival data of HST's Fine Guidance Sensor
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| Session 4: Future Science Goals |
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HTRA Discovery Potentials (Invited Review)
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Optical timing studies of neutron stars: Future Goals
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Partially Screened Gap - general approach and observational consequences
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Searching Sub-Millisecond Pulsars in Accreting Neutron Stars
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Fermi pulsar revolution (Invited Review)
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| Session 5: Optical HTRA with Current and Future Instruments |
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Optical HTRA Instruments (Invited Review)
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Solid State Photon-Counters for High Time Resolution Astrophysics (HTRA)
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Results of Iqueye at the NTT in 2009
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Spatial decomposition of polarization components of the Crab pulsar and its nebula
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The European Extremely Large Telescope : science case and project status (Invited Review)
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The optical pulsar B0540-69
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OCTOCAM: A multi-channel imager and spectrograph to explore the transient Universe
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Fast photometry at the Paris observatory: portable cameras and multi-fibre instruments
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| Session 6: Multi-wavelength HTRA with Current and Future Instruments |
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The HTRA potential of the SKA and its relation to observations with large optical telescopes (Invited Review)
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The HTRA Potential of IXO (Invited Review)
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The Chirpolator: A new method for detecting fast transients with radio interferometers
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HTRA potential of future space-based X- and gamma-ray facilities (Invited Review)
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HTRA with Cerenkov Telescopes (Invited review)
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High resolution X-ray Timing from a LOFT
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High Time Resolution Astrophysics in the Extremely Large Telescope Era : White Paper
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| Session 7: Poster Session |
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Timing X-ray Pulsars with Application to Spacecraft Navigation
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MIOSOTYS, a multi-object high-rate photometer designed for TNO serendipitous occultations
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Physical properties of IP Pegasi: an eclipsing dwarf nova with an unusually cool white dwarf
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X-ray thermal radiation from hot polar cap in pulsars
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The OPTIMA photo-polarimeter: updated configuration and calibration
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The orbital ephemeris and emission states of HU Aqr observed with OPTIMA
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Period Variations in Eclipsing Post Common Envelope Binaries
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Fast-time variability in high-mass X-ray binaries: SAX J2103.5+4545
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Detectors for High-Speed Polarimetric Observations Using GASP
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OPTIMA-Burst photon-counting observations of GRB 090726
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A Model of High Energy Activity of Millisecond Pulsars in Globular Clusters
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