Variable Galactic Gamma-Ray Sources

Workshop Program (November 30th - December 3rd)

Detailed Program (pdf)
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Tuesday, November 30th

Registration 9:00-9:45

Welcome Introduction 9:45-9:55, Felix Aharonian

Organization Information 9:55-10:00, Valentí Bosch-Ramon/Dmitry Khangulyan

Morning Session 10:00-11:00
"Gamma-ray binary @ VHE: spectra and variability" Jim Hinton
"Gamma-ray binary @ radio: spectra, variability, and morphology" Marc Ribó

Coffee Break 11:00-11:30

Morning Session 2 11:30-13:00
"Gamma-ray binary @ X-rays: spectra, variability, morphology" Yasunobu Uchiyama
"Gamma-ray binary @ GeV: spectra and variability" Diego Torres
"Particle acceleration in the context of Gamma-ray binaries" Frank Rieger

Lunch 13:00-15:30

Afternoon session 1 15:30-16:30
"Leptonic radiation in the context of Gamma-ray binaries" Dmitry Khangulyan
"Hadronic radiative processes in the context of Gamma-ray binaries" Andrii Neronov

Coffee Break 16:30-17:00

Afternoon session 2 17:00-18:30
Discussion on "Particle acceleration and radiation processes in Gamma-ray binaries"

Wednesday, December 1st

Morning Session 1 9:30-11:00
"The properties of the winds of massive stars" Stan Owocki
"Radiation absorption and reprocessing: cascading and secondary synchrotron emission" Valentí Bosch-Ramon
"Simulations of accretion in binaries formed by an OB star plus a compact object" Atsuo Okazaki

Coffee Break 11:00-11:30

Morning Session 2 11:30-13:00
Discussion on "Cascading versus pure absorption in Gamma-ray binaries"

Lunch 13:00-15:30

Afternoon session 1 15:30-16:30
"Accretion/Blandford-Znajeck processes and jet formation" Maxim Barkov
"Jets in high-mass microquasars" Manel Perucho

Coffee Break 16:30-17:00

Afternoon session 2 17:00-18:30
"Microquasars: multiwavelength observational phenomenology from radio to X-rays" Simone Migliari
"VHE emission from microquasars" Gustavo E. Romero
"High energy emission from microquasar jet - clumpy stellar wind interaction" Anabella Araudo
"Gamma-ray flares from the Crab Nebula" Rolf Bühler

Thursday, December 2nd

Morning Session 1 9:30-11:00
"Colliding winds in massive star binaries: expectations from radio to gamma-rays" Michaël de Becker
"Massive star colliding winds: spectral and variability behavior" Julian Pittard
"X-ray and VHE emission from LS I +61 303" Víctor Zabalza
"LS I+61 303 in the VHE range" Tobias Jogler

Coffee Break 11:00-11:30

Morning Session 2 11:30-13:00
"Pulsars and pulsar winds" Jerome Petri
"Binary pulsars: expected spectral and variability behavior" Guillaume Dubus
"AGILE Discovery of a Flaring Crab Nebula and other Galactic Gamma-Ray Transient and Variable Sources" Andrew Chen

Lunch 13:00-15:30

Afternoon session 1 15:30-16:30
"A model for TeV binaries: pulsar wind shock with pair feedback" Evgeny Derishev
"TeV lightcurve of PSR B1259-63" Matthias Kerschhaggl
"Discovery of extended and variable radio structure from the gamma-ray binary system PSR B1259-63/LS 2883" Javier Moldón
"VHE emission in MQ jets/ISM interactions" Pol Bordas

Coffee Break 16:30-17:00

Afternoon session 2 17:00-18:30
Discussion on "Magnetohydrodynamics in the context of gamma-ray binaries"

Friday, December 3rd

Morning Session 1 9:30-11:00
"Colliding winds in pulsar binaries" Sergey Bogovalov
"New candidates for the gamma-ray loud binary systems" Maria Chernyakova
"The gamma-ray binary candidate HESS J0632+057" Joanna Skilton
"Striped pulsar wind emission in binary systems" Jerome Petri
"eta Carinae: a very large hadron collider" Christian Farnier

Coffee Break 11:00-11:30

Morning Session 2 11:30-12:45

"Recent VERITAS results on VHE emission from Galactic binary systems" Gernot Maier
"Gamma-ray nova V407 Cyg and Fermi-LAT Galactic Plane Transients" Teddy Cheung
"Gamma-ray emission from Cyg-X3" Benoit Cerutti
"X-ray modulation in LS 5039" Anna Szostek
"The effect of a soft X-ray source near the compact object in LS 5039" Masaki Yamaguchi

Lunch 12:45-15:30

Afternoon session 1 15:30-17:00
Discussion on "Colliding winds versus accretion/Blandford-Znajeck processes"

Concluding remarks 17:00