HTRS 2011
February 7-11, 2011
Champéry, Switzerland
published December 30, 2011
Champéry, Switzerland
published December 30, 2011
The High Time Resolution Spectrometer (HTRS) is an instrument proposed to
match the top level mission requirement of the International X-ray
Observatory to observe a one Crab X-ray source with less than 10 percent
deadtime. It will perform high precision timing measurements of bright X-ray
sources. It can observe sources with fluxes of one million counts per second
in the 0.3-10 keV band without performance degradation, while providing
moderate spectral resolution of 150 eV FWHM at 6 keV.
The HTRS is dedicated to the study of strong-gravity phenomena and accretion
in the vicinity of accreting black holes and neutron stars, through
simultaneous fast X-ray timing and spectroscopy. It also offers a unique
tool to probe matter at supra-nuclear densities. It addresses primarily the
science theme Matter under Extreme Conditions.
The main goal of the conference is to stimulate current research that will
prepare the science that will be achieved with IXO and the HTRS. The
contributions will build on the experience gained through the Rossi-XTE,
XMM-Newton, Suzaku and Chandra missions, and will explore the gains offered
by HTRS and IXO, focusing in particular on the science that is unique to the
HTRS/IXO combination.
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Foreword
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| Session 1: Future X-ray timing missions |
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Status of IXO and the ESA CV Programme
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The HTRS on IXO
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Detectors for fast X-ray timing and spectroscopy
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HTRS performance simulations
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The Gravitas mission
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The AXTAR mission
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Living in a LOFT
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HIFI - A HI Framerate Imager for Gravitas
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| Session 2: Science drivers of timing missions |
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Timing of XRBs in the HTRS era
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Timing black-hole binaries: status and prospects
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Time lags as a constraint on the accretion disk geometry in BH XRBs
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Oscillation-phase-resolved spectroscopy in the IXO era
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Fast variability as a tracer of states and state transitions in black holes
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Persistent, intermittent, and undetected accretion-powered millisecond X-ray pulsations from neutron stars in low-mass X-ray binary systems
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A newly discovered accreting pulsar in Terzan 5
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| Session 3: Black-hole spins |
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Relativistic disk reflection in stellar-mass black holes
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Broad iron emission lines in the intermediate star of black-hole transients
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Black-hole spin measurement via X-ray continuum spectroscopy
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Theoretical disk spectra and black-hole spin determination
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The properties of high-frequency QPOs and their connection to the physical properties of black holes
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| Session 4: Neutron-star equation of state |
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What Thermonuclear X-ray Bursts can tell us about Neutron Stars
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The complete sample of type-I X-ray bursts in the low-mass X-ray binary 4U 1636-53 with RXTE
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Implications of high-precision spectra of thermonuclear X-ray bursts for determining neutron star masses and radii
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Systematic uncertainties in the spectroscopic measurements of neutron-star masses and radii from thermonuclear X-ray bursts
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M/R constraints from neutron-star iron line
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Spectral and timing features in the utltra-compact X-ray binary 4U 0614+091
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M/R constraints from accreting millisecond pulsar//Cooling stages of X-ray bursts
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Constraining the mass and moment of inertia of neutron star from quasi-periodic oscillations in X-ray binaries
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Kilohertz quasi-Periodic Oscillations as a tool to probe the neutron-star interior and gravitational field
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Kilohertz quasi-Periodic oscillations and broad iron emission lines as a probe of strong-filed gravity
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| Session 5: Strong field geneal-relativity signatures |
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Testing the no-hair theorem with observations of astrophysical black holes
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Epicyclic Frequencies, Resonances & QPOs
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Signatures of superfluid neutron-star dynamics
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Lense-Thirring precession
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| Session 6: Additional timing science |
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Present and Future of Magnetar bursting/outbursting studies
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A non-magnetar Soft Gamma Repeater
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General properties of magnetars and observational developments at high energies
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Can a "propelling" disc stay trapped near corotation?
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Cooling accretion-heated neutron stars
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X-ray variability of black holes on all mass scales
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Fitting a self-consistent physical model to the power spectral density of XTE 1550-564
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All-sky Monitoring of Variable Sources with Fermi GBM
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Relativistic jets from Galactic accreting binary systems
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The relevance of jet emitting discs in micro-quasars
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Multiwavelength high-time resolution observations
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| Posters |
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Preliminary concept of modern X-ray timing mission
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The 2008 outburst of the new X-ray transient XTE J1719-291
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Constraining the equation of state of the dense matter from X-ray burst oscillations
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KHz QPO studies with IXO - Testing the Moving Hotspots Model
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Re Analysis of Timing Parameters of OAO 1657-415
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Time lags in 4U 1608-52
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Implications of Burst Oscillations from IGR J17480-2446
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The COSPIX mission: focusing on the energetic and obscured Universe
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Phase lags and cyclotron lines in 4U 0115+63
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Supergiant Fast X-ray Transients and other windfed accretors - testing with the Corbet diagram
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Aperiodic X-ray variability studies of the black hole candidate MAXI J1659-152
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Dipping and Absorption in the stellar wind in GX 301-2
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Pulse-phase spectroscopy as a tool for the study of X-ray pulsars
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On the nature of low frequency quasi periodic oscillations: a variability study of the BHC GX 339-4
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X-ray bursts and burst oscillations from the slowly spinning X-ray pulsar IGR J17480-2446
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Spectroscopy of the Pulsar-like White Dwarf AE Aquarii from Chandra and Swift XRT Data
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On the time evolution of the lower kHz QPO in 4U 1608-52
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A filter wheel for the HTRS
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Central Engines of GRBs
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Hard X-ray Variability of the brightest Swift/BAT AGN
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A type I X-ray burst of the Rapid Burster with photospheric radius expansion as seen by Swift
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A Catalogue of X-ray bursters detected by JEM-X on board INTEGRAL
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Simulations of the performance of the HTRS on IXO
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Measuring strong magnetic fields of neutron stars with the next-generation of X-ray instruments
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Investigating the disc-jet coupling in accreting compact objects by studying the "radio quiet" sources
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XTE J1752-223: A broad band X-ray spectral investigation combined with timing studies
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X-ray bursting neutron star atmosphere models
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Magnetized neutron star atmosphere:beyond the cold plasma approximation
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Extreme-value analysis of the X-ray emission of Cygnus X-1
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A model for optical/X-ray correlation in black hole X-ray binaries
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Fast variability of gamma-ray emission from supermassive black hole binary OJ 287
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The Digital Data Processing Unit for the HTRS on board IXO
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Are the two peaks of the Cathedral QPO real harmonics?
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Internal resonance and the amplitude evolution of neutron-star QPOs
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