X-ray astronomy in the next decade
Principal contact: K. Nandra (k.nandra@imperial.ac.uk )
Organisers: A. Fabian (IoA, Cambridge, UK), K. Nandra (Imperial College London, UK), M. Watson (Leicester, UK)
These sessions will report new results from current X-ray satellites, and look forward to the proposed future X-ray mission, IXO (the International X-ray Observatory), which is a merger of the former XEUS and Constellation-X concepts. IXO will enter the US Decadal Survey process around the time of the meeting, and shortly thereafter will be reviewed by ESA's advisory structure for the "Cosmic Vision" program. Talks will cover the following subject areas:
- Black Holes and Matter Under Extreme Conditions
- Galaxy Formation, Galaxy Clusters and Cosmic Feedback
- Life Cycles of Matter and Energy
The intent is to summarise the new knowledge we have obtained on these topics with Chandra, XMM-Newton and Suzaku, and use this to help motivate the performance requirements for IXO.
Scientific Programme
| Tuesday 21st April | ||
| 11:00 | The International X-ray Observatory | Arvind Parmar |
| 11:20 | Decoding X-Ray Variability | Phil Uttley |
| 11:40 | The First Detection of a Broad Iron L Line and Reverberation in NLS1 1H0707-495 with XMMNewton | Abderahmen Zoghbi |
| 11:50 | The Future of Strong Gravity Studies with X-Ray Spectroscopy | Simon Vaughan |
| 12:00 | The Ultraluminous State | Jeanette Gladstone |
| 12:10 | Science with the ASTRO-H X-ray calorimeter and hard X-ray telescope | Andy Fabian |
| Tuesday 21st April | ||
| 14:00 | The Coolest Gas in Galaxy Clusters | Jeremy Sanders |
| 14:20 | Evolution of Cluster Properties from IXO Observations | Nathan Slack |
| 14:30 | Galaxy Group and Cluster Science with eROSITA | Gabriel Pratt |
| 14:50 | Probing the Evolution of Accretion Activity over Cosmic Time | James Aird |
| 15:10 | Synergies between Future X-ray and Infrared Facilities | Fabrizio Fiore |
