New Results in X-ray astronomy / NewAthena UK community science meeting

 REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED

4th Announcement 30 August 2023

  • programme tweaks

  • code of conduc

  • 3rd Announcement 28 July 2023

  • final programme announced

  • details of how to sign up for dinner (by 18 Aug)

2nd Announcement 12 July 2023

  • meeting dinner confirmed and details

  • initial programme for meetings announced

  • small shift in closing date for abstract submission (now Tuesday 18 July)

Overview

The one-day “New Results in X-ray astronomy” meeting aims to showcase new scientific results in the field of high energy astrophysics, and X-ray astronomy in particular. This is a friendly and informal meeting that provides a great opportunity for newer researchers (PhD students and postdocs) to present their work and engage with the UK community.

 The NewResults meeting will be followed the day after by a “NewAthena UK community science meeting”. The Athena mission was originally selected in 2014 as a large-class ESA mission to provide a next-generation X-ray observatory. However, following a cost-assessment exercise in 2022, Athena has now entered a re-definition phase to identify a “NewAthena” mission that can be achieved within the 1.3 billion Euro cost cap. The meeting will include invited talks on the re-defined NewAthena mission profile and the mission-driving science objectives, as well as welcoming contributed talks that showcase the broad scientific capabilities of NewAthena as an observatory-class facility with the potential for completely new discoveries. We will also discuss UK involvement in NewAthena and provide updates on UKSA-funded activities. The meeting is open to all.

 

Times, date and location

The NewResults meeting will run from 10am-5:30pm on Tues 5th Sept 2023 (talks from 10:30am), while the NewAthena meeting will run from 9am-3pm on Weds 6th Sept.

The meetings will take at the Royal Observatory Edinburgh: see here [https://ifa.roe.ac.uk/visiting] for details on reaching the ROE. Online/hybrid participation options will also be provided.

We will be holding a conference dinner on the evening of 5th Sept at Howies Restaurant in Edinburgh (https://www.howies.uk.com/). 

To sign-up and pay for a dinner ticket, use this link.  Deadline 18 Aug 2023. Dinner costs £37 for 3 courses (but sadly excluding drinks)

Abstract submission / registration

To register for these meetings, please submit a form here:

https://forms.gle/EP6TBgEzUncG6KJ87

We encourage an early registration as places are limited. Note that the  deadline for abstract submission has now passed.

Contributed talks will be in 15 minute time slots (12 min + 3 min for Q&A) and will be considered for inclusion on both days of the meeting.

 

There will be no registration fee and we will provide refreshments and lunches.

 

Important dates

• 18th July: abstract submission deadline 

• 28th July: programme published (TBC)

• 18th Aug: registration deadline (also deadline for dinner sign-up)

  • 5th/6th Sept: meetings

 

Meetings programme

Tues 5th Sept

— Session 1, 10:00-12:35 —
10.00-10.25: Coffee

10.25-10.30: James Aird (University of Edinburgh) – Welcome
10:30-10:45  Jack Delaney  (University of Edinburgh) - Extra-galactic Serendipitous Swift Survey (ExSeSS):Survey definition and constraints on AGN number counts
10:45-11:00  Claire Greenwell  (Durham University) - Extreme Obscured AGN from the NuSTAR 80-month Serendipitous Survey
11:00-11:15  Carolina Andonie (Durham University) - A panchromatic view of obscured quasars: revealing their role in evolutionary scenarios
11:15-11:30  Manika Sidhu (University of Edinburgh) - Measuring obscured supermassive black hole growth across cosmic time
11:30-11:45  Jiachen Jiang (University of Cambridge) - Radiative Feedback by Highly Accreting Black Holes Hidden in the Dust (online)
11:45-12:00  Julia M Sisk-Reynes (University of Cambridge) - A Bayesian Study of Supermassive Black Hole Spins across mass scales from observational estimates.
12:00-12:15  Patrick O'Neill (Newcastle University) - Obtaining a distance measurement for Cygnus X1 using reverberation mapping techniques
12:15-12:30  Daniel Kynoch (University of Southampton) - Continuum reverberation mapping of the X-ray bright Seyfert MCG+08-11-11

12:30-1:30 lunch (Higgs Centre café)

— Session 2, 1:30-3:40pm —
1:30-1:45   Paul Giles (University of Sussex) - Probing Galaxy Clusters with the XMM Cluster Survey
1:45-2:00   Zoe Altria  (University of Bristol) - Modelling the covariance between multivariate scaling relations of CHEX-MATE galaxy clusters
2:00-2:15   Keir Birchall (University of Leicester) - X-ray AGN enhancement found in nearby star-forming galaxies
2:15-2:30   Paloma Guetzoyan  (University of Edinburgh) - Constraining Black Hole growth in massive galaxies
2:30-2:45   James Rene Jones  (University of Leicester) - AGN host galaxies and the distances to their neighbours
2:45-3:00   Amy Rankine (University of Edinburgh) - Determining the intrinsic relation between X-ray and UV/optical tracers of SMBH growth
3:00-3:15   Scott Hagen (Durham University) - What Drives the Variability in AGN: Explaining the UV-Xray Disconnect Through Propagating Fluctuations
3:15-3:30   Mehdy Lefkir  (University of Leicester) - A new look at AGN light curves with Gaussian processes
3:30-3:35   Clara Marie Pennock  (University of Edinburgh) - A probabilistic random forest approach to the identification and classification of extragalactic and stellar sources in the VISTA survey of the Magellanic Clouds catalogue [poster flash talk]
3:35-3:40   Tom Higginson (University of Bristol) - Extended Emission from Quasars at Cosmic Noon [poster flash talk]

3:40-4:00   coffee break

— Session 3, 4-5:35pm —
4:00-4:15   Phil Evans  (University of Leicester) - Swift J0230; an intriguing QPE and the first detected in real time
4:15-4:30   Arianna Albayati (University of Southampton) - “Pauses” in the rises of Type−I X-ray burst
4:30-4:45   Athulya M. P. (University of Hertfordshire) - Exploring the high-density reflection model for the soft excess in RBS 1124
4:45-5:00   Andrés Gúrpide Lasheras (University of Southampton) - Modelling the variability of ULXs through the sparsely-sampled Swift-XRT
5:00-5:15   Ryota Tomaru  (Durham University) - What powers black hole accretion disc winds in low-mass X-ray binaries?
5:15-5:35   Chris Done (Durham University)  - XRISM: a pathfinder for high resolution spectroscopy and the newAthena XIFU

7:30pm - conference dinner, Howies Restaurant, Victoria Street https://www.howies.uk.com

Weds 6th Sept
——— Session 1, 9-10:30 ———
9:00-9:30 Matteo Guainazzi (ESA, SRDT co-chair) - The NewAthena mission
9:30-9:50 Mike Cruise (Birmingham, SRDT co-chair) - Science with NewAthena
9:50-10:10 Mike Watson (Leicester) - The UK’s role in NewAthena
10:10-10:30 Michael Hubbard (Open University) - Non-X-ray background developments for the NewAthena WFI (online)
—
10:30-11am Coffee
—
—— Session 2, 11-12:35 ——
11:00-11:20 Eleonora Troja (University of Rome 3) – NewAthena/Multi-Messenger synergy (online)
11:20-11:40 Judith Croston (Open University) – NewAthena/SKA synergy
11:40-12:00 Julia Sisk-Reynes (Cambridge) - Physics Beyond the Standard Model with Future X-Ray Observatories
12:00-12:20 Johannes Buchner (MPE) - eROSITA results and data release
12:20-12:35 Jessica Pilling (Sussex) - Streamlining X-ray Astronomy with new software XGA and DAXA (presented by Kathy Romer)

—
12:35-1:30 Lunch
—
—— Session 3, 1:30-3pm ——
1:30-1:50 Adam Ingram (Newcastle) - New results from the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (online)
1:50-2:05 Silvia Zane (MSSL) - X-ray polarization in magnetar sources
2:05-2:25 Julian Osborne (Leicester) - SVOM+Einstein probe
2:25-2:45  Phil Evans (Leicester) - STAR-X
2:45-3:00 Cassandra Barlow-Hall (Edinburgh) - High-Redshift Constraints on the X-ray Luminosity Function of AGN

(3pm - meeting closes)

EXTRA

3:30-4:30pm - Johannes Buchner - Institute for Astronomy colloquium (meeting participants are welcome to join)

 

Meeting code of conduct

We are committed to making this meeting productive and enjoyable for everyone, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, nationality or religion. We will not tolerate harassment of participants in any form. Please follow these guidelines:

Behave professionally. Harassment and sexist, racist, or exclusionary comments or jokes are not appropriate. Harassment includes sustained disruption of talks or other events, inappropriate physical contact, sexual attention or innuendo, deliberate intimidation, stalking, and photography or recording of an individual without consent. It also includes offensive comments related to gender, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race or religion.

All communication should be appropriate for a professional audience including people of many different backgrounds. Sexual language and imagery is not appropriate.

Be kind to others. Do not insult or put down other attendees.

Participants asked to stop any inappropriate behaviour are expected to comply immediately. Attendees violating these rules may be asked to leave the event at the sole discretion of the organisers.

Any participant who wishes to report a violation of this policy is asked to speak, in confidence, to any member of the LOC. Members can be identified by the blue name badges and a full list can be found on the webpage.

Accommodation

We encourage booking accommodation early due to high demand in Edinburgh in September. Here is a non-exhaustive list of hotels in the area:

Travelodge Cameron Toll https://www.travelodge.co.uk/hotels/418/Edinburgh-Cameron-Toll-hotel

Premier Inn Lauriston Place https://www.premierinn.com/gb/en/hotels/scotland/lothian/edinburgh/edinburgh-city-centre-lauriston-place.html

Black Ivy https://weareblackivy.com/

The Bruntsfield Hotel https://www.thebruntsfield.co.uk/

Pollock Halls: https://www.uoecollection.com/summer-stays-at-the-university-of-edinburgh/

[budget option but student halls only available 4th+5th Sept and very limited availability so book ASAP; use code EVENT for an additional discount]

See here https://ifa.roe.ac.uk/visiting/accommodation for a list of additional nearby hotels and B&B

 

Science Organising Committee:

James Aird (Edinburgh, co-chair), Mike Watson (Leicester, co-chair), Becky Canning (Portsmouth), Judith Croston (OU), Chris Done (Durham), Poshak Gandhi (Southampton), Jiachen Jiang (Cambridge), Paul O’Brien (Leicester), Mat Page (UCL), Dominic Walton (Herts), Diana Worrall (Bristol).

 

Local Organising Committee:

James Aird, Cassandra Barlow-Hall, Keir Birchall, Jack Delaney, Paloma Guetzoyan, James Jones, Clara Pennock, Amy Rankine, Manika Sidhu.

 

Contact:

For any enquiries related to the meetings please email newresultsnewathena23@ed.ac.uk