Workshop on Broadband X-ray Spectroscopy (23 - 25 February 2009)

Venue: Bhaskara 3 lecture hall, IUCAA, Pune

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February 23, Monday

10:00-13:00 (including Tea break) - ASTROSAT

T. Padmanabhan - Welcome

D. Bhattacharya - Meeting scope & Overview of ASTROSAT

B. Paul - Broad band spectroscopy with LAXPC

A. R. Rao - CZT imager of ASTROSAT: spectral capabilities

Discussion


13:00-14:30 Lunch Break


14:30-17:00 (including Tea break) - ASTROSAT / multiwavelength studies

S. N. Tandon - Photometry and Spectroscopy with UVIT

Subir Bhattacharyya - LS 5039 : A multiwavelength view

Discussion


18:30-19:30 - Public Lecture: "From Galileo to Black Holes"

by Tomaso Belloni (venue: Chandrasekhar Auditorium, IUCAA)


February 24, Tuesday

9:30-13:00 (including Tea break) - Neutron Stars

Mariano Mendez - Correlated spectral and timing properties of neutron stars

B. Paul - Broad band X-ray spectroscopy of neutron stars

Dipankar Bhattacharya - Modelling of Cyclotron Line spectra

Sudip Bhattacharyya - Neutron stars and thermonuclear X-ray bursts

Discussion


13:00-14:30 Lunch Break


14:30-18:00 (including Tea break) - ASTROSAT / Neutron Stars / Black Hole Binaries

K. P. Singh - SXT and its spectral capabilities

Ranjeev Misra - Correlated UV and X-ray temporal study of X-ray Binaries with ASTROSAT

Vivek Agrawal - Wide Band Spectroscopy of LMXBs containing Neutron Stars

Beike Hiemstra - Accretion disk geometry in the low/hard state of the black hole candidate Swift J1753

Discussion

February 25, Wednesday

9:30-13:00 (including Tea break) - Black Hole Binaries & AGNs

T. Belloni - Broad-band spectral evolution of black-hole transients

A. R. Rao - Wide band X-ray continuum spectroscopy of black hole X-ray binaries

K. P. Singh - Broadband X-ray spectroscopy of AGNs with ASTROSAT

G. C. Dewangan - X-ray excess emission from AGNs

Discussion


13:00-14:30 Lunch Break


14:30-16:00 - Discussion, summary & conclusion (coordinator: A.R. Rao)