Wide Band Spectral and Timing Studies of Cosmic X-ray Sources

10 Jan 2017, 10:00 → 13 Jan 2017, 16:00 Asia/Kolkata

AG-66 (TIFR-Mumbai)

A R Rao (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)

Wide Band Spectral and Timing Studies of Cosmic X-ray Sources
January 10-13, 2017 at TIFR-Mumbai, India

Wide band X-ray spectral and timing study of  Cosmic X-ray sources  has seen a tremendous boost in recent times due to the extension of focusing techniques to hard X-rays in NuSTAR and and the launch of Astrosat with a suite of instruments covering a wide X-ray range and also having a large area timing instrument.  This conference aims to bring together experts in this field and have an in-depth discussion on several of the emerging research topics like:

• Measuring the fundamental parameters of stellar mass black holes like mass and spin using X-ray spectral and timing studies. 
• Time resolved X-ray spectral study of pulsars (accreting as well as rotation powered pulsars).
• Cyclotron resonance features in accreting neutron stars.
• Accretion geometry in Cataclysmic Variables.
• Multi-wavelength studies of AGN.
• Disk-jet connection across mass scales. 
• Intermediate mass black holes.
• Hot astrophysical plasma.

Please register before Aug 31, 2016.

Once registration is accepted:

• Registration fee need to be paid  before  Nov 30, 2016.
• Accommodation (in the block booked hotels) need to be confirmed  before Oct 31, 2016.
• Sightseeing tours can be confirmed and booked at the Registration counter.
• Foreign nationals need to fill an online form before Aug 31, 2016 for Visa.
• Registration confirmation and other information will be updated periodically in the website.

Organising Committee:
• A R Rao (TIFR)
• K P Singh (TIFR)
• S Bhattacharyya (TIFR)
• D Bhattacharya (IUCAA)
• G C Dewangan (IUCAA)
• S V Vadawale (PRL)
• Anuj Nandi (ISAC)
• Samir Mandal (IIST)

notes

• daily_transport.pdf
• Fullinfo-Web-6jan.pdf
• information_booklet_(1).pdf
• iucaa.jpg
• Schedule-final.pdf

Photos image_024.zip

Slides image_024.zip

Tuesday, 10 January

XRB -1

Convener: Prof. Sudip Bhattacharyya

1 Study of accretion flow around black holes becomes Science

Speaker: Prof. Sandip Chakrabarti

2 How black hole spin may affect jets from accretion discs around black holes

Speaker: Prof. Indranil Chattopadhyay

Slides

• ._ic17.pdf
• ic17.pdf
• ._ic17.ppt
• ic17.ppt

3 TCAF Solution in XSPEC: An Efficient Model to Study Accretion Flow Properties of Black Hole Sources

Speaker: Prof. Dipak Debnath

Slides Dipak_D.pdf

XRB-2

Convener: Prof. Arun Mangalam

4 Black-hole binaries in the AstroSat era

Speaker: Prof. Tomaso Belloni

Slides Belloni.pdf

5 Lessons from simultaneous multiwavelength astronomy in the Time Domain Era

Speaker: Prof. Poshak Gandhi

6 A wide-band spectral and timing model for jets in X-ray binaries

Speaker: Prof. Julien Malzac

7 Evidence for an extremely energetic jet-base during the June 2015 outburst of V404 Cygni

Speaker: Prof. Dipankar Maitra

Slides 201701-dmaitra-tifr.pptx

XRB-3

Convener: Prof. Indranil Chattopadhyay

8 A model for jet polarization and emission in blazars

Speaker: Prof. Arun Mangalam

9 Dissipative accretion flow around black holes

Speaker: Prof. Santabrata Das

Slides Lecture_TIFR.pdf

10 Accretion Properties of Outbursting Black Hole Sources

Speaker: Prof. Samir Mandal

Slides SAM_TIFR-17.pdf

11 Broadband nature of OBH Sources

Speaker: Prof. Anuj Nandi

12 Flow geometry variation of Compact objects during their outbursts

Speaker: Prof. Partha Sarathi Pal

13 A tilted accretion disk around a spinning black hole: an analytical solution

Speaker: Prof. Chandrachur Chakraborty

Parallel Sessions: XRB-4 (AG-66), AGN-1 (AG-69), Others-1 (AG-80)

Conveners: Dr Anuj Nandi, Prof. G. C. Dewangan, Prof. Preeti Kharb

14 Estimation of mass of black hole candidate H 1743-322 during its 2010 and 2011 outbursts with TCAF solution

Speaker: Dr Aslam Ali Molla

15 Heliospheric modulation of cosmic rays during solar cycle 23/24

Speaker: Dr Bhupendra Tiwari

16 Large-amplitude rapid variability in the NLS1 galaxy PG 1404+226

Speaker: Dr Labani Mallick

17 Measurements of coronal properties of the AGN with NuSTAR

Speaker: Dr Priyanka Rani

18 Numerical simulations of creation and destruction of a Keplerian disk inside a two component advective flow (TCAF)

Speaker: Dr Abhishek Roy

19 Possibilities of millisecond time & amp; spectral variability studies in optical bands using FOSC on 3.6 meter Devasthal Optical Telescope

Speaker: Dr Amitesh Omar

20 Torus covering factors of a sample of type 1 AGN in the local Universe

Speaker: Dr Savithri Ezhikode

21 Estimation of X-ray Jet Flux for Black Holes using TCAF Solution

Speaker: Dr Arghajit Jana

Slides jet_tifr.pdf

22 Spectral ageing property of giant radio galaxy

Speaker: Dr Dusmanta Patra

23 Variability study of UV sky

Speaker: Dr Sriyasriti Acharya

24 Analysis of declining phase of 2004 outburst of H1743-322 using TCAF solution

Speaker: Dr Anuvab Banerjee

25 Spectral and Time Series Analyses of the Seyfert 1 AGN: Zw 229.015

Speaker: Dr Oluwashina Adegoke

Slides Oluwashina_TIFR-Jan2017_reduced.pdf

26 X-ray Properties of Young Stars

Speaker: Dr Himali Bhatt

27 A Very Long and Hot X-ray flare on an RS CVn type eclipsing binary SZ Psc

Speaker: Dr Subhajeet Karmakar

28 Effects of Magnetic Flux Tubes on the Origin, Acceleration and Collimation of Outflows from an Advective Flow

Speaker: Dr Arnab Deb

29 A study of Quasi-stellar Objects (QSOs)

Speaker: Dr Ajitkumar Salam

30 Dynamics of accretion flow around Cyg X-1 using TCAF fits of Spectral and timing data

Speaker: Dr Indrani Banerjee

31 V2400 Oph: A disc-less IP with soft X-ray excess

Speaker: Dr Aarti Joshi

32 Intra-night optical variability characteristics of NLSy1 galaxies

Speaker: Dr Kshama Kurian

33 Image and Time Evolution of Photons of Two Component Advective Flow in presence of Comptonization

Speaker: Dr Arka Chatterjee

34 Radio Observations of Candidate Dual Active Galactic Nuclei in Double Peaked Emission Line Galaxies

Speaker: Dr Rubinur Khaton

35 Is neutron star spectrum also an outcome of TCAF?

Speaker: Dr Ayan Bhattacharjee

Wednesday, 11 January

XRB-5

Convener: Prof. Santabrata Das

36 Accretion in black-hole binaries: how does the inner flow look like?

Speaker: Prof. Andrzej Zdziarski

Slides Andrzej_Jan11_XRB5.pdf

37 Radio observations of X-ray binaries and the disk-jet connection

Speaker: Prof. James Miller-Jones

Slides Radio_observations_of_X-ray_binaries_and_the_disk-jet_connection.pptx

38 Modeling MWL data from BHs

Speaker: Prof. Sera Markoff

39 MHD driven winds from accretion discs around black hole binaries

Speaker: Prof. Susmita Chakravorty

Slides ChakravortySusmita_170111_Tifr.pptx

XRB-6

Convener: Prof. Varun Bhalerao

40 Tale of X-ray eclipses

Speaker: Prof. Biswajit Paul

41 Swift-BAT observation of the cyclotron lines in HMXB

Speaker: Prof. Giancarlo Cusumano

Slides Cusumano_talk_Jan11_XRB6.pdf

42 X-ray Pulsars as GW sources

Speaker: Prof. Deepto Chakrabarty

43 Cyclotron Resonance Scattering Features in High Mass X-ray Binary Pulsars

Speaker: Prof. Sachindra Naik

Slides SN_TIFR_11Jan17.ppt

44 The mass, radius, distance and cooling of the neutron star in EXO 0748-676 in quiescence with XMM-NEWTON

Speaker: Prof. Zheng Cheng

XRB-7

Convener: Prof. Santosh Vadawale

45 LAXPC- recent results

Speaker: Prof. J. S. Yadav

Slides Yadav_Jan11_XRB7.pdf

46 LAXPC observation of Cyg X-1

Speaker: Prof. Ranjeev Misra

Slides Ranjeev_Misra.pdf

47 Thermonuclear X-ray bursts in rapid succession in 4U 1636-536 with AstroSat

Speaker: Prof. Aru Beri

Slides Aru_Beri.pdf

48 Time resolved spectroscopy of high mass X-ray binaries

Speaker: Prof. Gaurava Kumar Jaisawal

Slides tifr_2017.pdf

Colloquium

Convener: Prof. Mariano Mendez

Parallel Sessions: XRB-8 (AG-66), XRB-9 (AG-69), BLA-1 (AG-80)

Conveners: Prof. S. Naik, Dr S. Sahayanathan, Mr Samir Mandal

49 AstroSat/LAXPC view of micro-quasars at different spectral states

Speaker: Dr Mayukh Pahari

50 Smearing of Mass Accretion Rate Variation by Viscous Processes in Accretion Disks in Compact Binary Systems

Speaker: Dr Arindam Ghosh

51 Time Resolved Broadband Spectral Energy Distribution of Blazars

Speaker: Dr A Krishna Mohana

52 General relativistic study of astrophysical jets with non-radial cross section

Speaker: Dr Mukesh Kumar Vyas

53 A plausible origin of lognormality in the high energy emission from blazars

Speaker: Dr Atreyee Sinha

54 X-ray Spectral Analysis of AstroSat Observation Cygnus X-1

Speaker: Dr Sharada Jogdand

Slides laxpc-cygx-1-sharada.odp

55 Radiation-Dominated Accretion in LMXBs; why GRS 1915+105 is Special

Speaker: Dr James Court

56 Study of timing properties of black hole binaries with AstroSat/LAXPC

Speaker: Dr Anjali Rao

Slides tifr_conf_Jan_2017.pdf

57 Computation of black hole spectrum

Speaker: Dr Shilpa Sarkar

Slides ShilpaSarkar_Jan11_XRB8.pdf

58 X-ray spectral evolution of flaring blazars

Speaker: Dr Nibedita Kalita

59 Timing studies of 4U 0115+63 using LAXPC

Speaker: Dr Jayashree Roy

Slides slowest-qpo-jr.pdf

60 Mass loss from viscous accretion disc around rotating black holes

Speaker: Dr Md Ramiz Aktar

61 The connection between optical and GeV flux variations in blazars

Speaker: Dr Bhoomika Rajput

62 Kinematic models for QPOs in BHBs

Speaker: Dr Prerna Rana

63 Two temperature accretion flow around rotating black hole

Speaker: Dr Indu Dihingia

64 X-ray Intra-day Variability of Five TeV Blazars with NuSTAR

Speaker: Dr Ashwani Pandey

65 A spectral-timing analysis of the kHz QPOs in 4U 1636-53: the frequency-energy resolved RMS spectrum

Speaker: Dr Evandro Ribeiro

Slides Ribeiro_TIFR.pdf

66 Core shift effect in blazars

Speaker: Dr Aditi Agrawal

67 Study of magnetized accretion flow with relativistic equation of state

Speaker: Dr Kuldeep Singh

68 A study of Cross-Correlation in a Neutron star source GX 17+2

Speaker: Dr K. Sriram

Slides sriram_tifr_talk_2017.pptx

69 Implications of standing shocks in magnetized accretion discs around black holes

Speaker: Dr Biplob Sarkar

Thursday, 12 January

AGN-2

Convener: Prof. Vaidehi Sharan Paliya

70 X-ray and multiband variability of AGN

Speaker: Prof. Ian Mchardy

Slides IanMchardy_Jan12_AGN2.pdf

71 : Need for simultaneous UV to hard X-ray observations to study quasar evolution

Speaker: Prof. Sibasish Laha

72 Narrow line Seyfert 1 galaxies and their multi-wavelength properties

Speaker: Prof. C. S. Stalin

Slides CSStalin_Jan12_AGN2.pdf

73 Multi-wavelength properties of Transient Radio Sources

Speaker: Prof. Sabyasachi Pal

74 Measuring primary black hole spin in OJ287 from the predicted General Relativity centenary flare

Speaker: Prof. Achamveedu Gopakumar

Slides Gopakumar_Jan12_AGN2.pdf

AGN-3

Convener: Prof. Susmita Chakravorty

75 Tidal Disruption Events (TDEs)

Speaker: Prof. Smita Mathur

Slides TDE.pdf

76 GMRT Upgrade: Our Experiences from Observations of AGNs and Diffuse Radio Sources

Speaker: Prof. Dharam Veer Lal

77 Multi-Band Spectral Studies of Seyfert Galaxies

Speaker: Prof. Preeti Kharb

78 Panchromatic echoes from the tidal disruption of a star by a supermassive black hole

Speaker: Prof. Dheeraj Pasham

Slides DheerajPashan_talk_TIFR_Final.pdf

79 Time-resolved X-ray spectroscopy of stellar flares

Speaker: Prof. Vinay Kashyap

Slides vlk_highzjets_tifr2017.pdf

Special Session : X-rays in Focus

Convener: Prof. P. N. Bhat

80 The beauty of X-ray images

Speaker: Prof. Ajit Kembhavi

81 Mirrors : Test them on ground and/or in space

Speaker: Prof. Vadim Burwitz

82 Seyfert galaxies: AstroSat results

Speaker: Prof. Gulab Dewangan

Slides Gulab_tifr_12jan17.pdf

83 Cataclysmic Variables: Hard X-ray view from NuSTAR

Speaker: Prof. Vikram Rana

Slides nustar_cvs_vikram.pdf

84 Blazar Spectral Shape : Clues on particle acceleration process

Speaker: Prof. Sunder Sahayanathan

85 X-ray spectral deprojection of clusters of galaxies using jMCMC

Speaker: Prof. Kiran Lakhchaura

86 A peek into the future

Speaker: Prof. K. P. Singh

Slides XRA_Future.pdf

Parallel Sessions XRB-10 & GRB-1

Conveners: Dr Banibrata Mukhopadhyay, Mr Sudip Chakrabarty

87 Luminosity function of Gamma Ray Bursts

Speaker: Mr Debdutta Paul

88 Mass Accretion and Binary Modulation

Speaker: Dr Manojendu Choudhury

Slides M_Choudhury-presentation.odp

89 CZTI veto as GRB detector

Speaker: Mr Sudip Chakraborty

90 Spectral Properties of High Mass X-ray Binary Cen X-3

Speaker: Dr Shivangi Gupta

Slides shivangi_tifr_presentation_final.pdf

91 Broadening of the thermal component of the prompt GRB emission due to rapid temperature evolution

Speaker: Ms Priya Bharali

92 Timing and spectral studies of the transient X-ray binary pulsar KS 1947+300

Speaker: Dr Prahlad Epili

Slides prahlad-tifr-conf-2017.pdf

93 Evolution of Spectral and Timing Properties of XTE J1118+480 during its 2000 outburst

Speaker: Dr Debjit Chatterjee

Slides tifr_debjit.pdf

94 2003 Outburst of H1743-322 : A unique X-ray flare after long silence

Speaker: Dr Shreeram Nagarkoti

Slides TIFR_shreeram.pdf

95 NuSTAR observations of the neutron star 4U 1636-53

Speaker: Dr Yanan Wang

Slides TIRF_Yanan.pdf

Special Lecture: Writing Successful Observing Proposals: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Convener: Prof. Charles Bailyn

Friday, 13 January

GRB-2

Convener: Prof. Amit Shukla

96 Recent developments in Gamma Ray Bursts

Speaker: Prof. Narayana Bhat

Slides NarayanaBhat_Jan13_GRB2.pdf

97 X-ray polarimetry of GRBs

Speaker: Prof. Santosh Vadawale

98 AstroSat CZT-Imager as a GRB monitor

Speaker: Prof. Varun Bhalerao

Slides Varun_Jan13_GRB2.pdf

99 The first CZTI detected GRB: 151006A

Speaker: Dr Rupal Basak

Slides Rupal_TIFR_2017.pdf

100 Observations of Crab and other SNR with AstroSat

Speaker: Prof. Firoza Sutaria

Slides Firoza_Sutaria_Jan13_GRB2.pdf

BLA-2

Convener: Prof. Dharam Veer Lal

101 AGN Feedback in groups and clusters of galaxies

Speaker: Prof. Somak Raychaudhury

102 Chasing the Most Powerful Blazars

Speaker: Prof. Vaidehi Sharan Paliya

103 Constraing the particle energy distribution in blazars using recent AstroSat observations

Speaker: Dr Sunil Chandra

104 Multi-waveband study of TeV blazar 1ES1959+650

Speaker: Prof. Amit Shukla

105 Long term variability study of blazars in Fermi Era

Speaker: Dr Debbijoy Bhattacharya

Others-2

Convener: Prof. Vikram Rana

106 Identification of a white dwarf pulsar and observations of a diskless intermediate polar

Speaker: Prof. David Buckley

107 AR Scorpii as a possible seed of highly magnetized white dwarfs

Speaker: Prof. Banibrata Mukhopadhyay

108 X-ray observations of novae with Swift

Speaker: Prof. Kim Page

Slides TIFR_KimPage.pdf

109 Giant pulse emission from pulsars and ASTROSAT

Speaker: Prof. B.C. Joshi

110 Coordinated timing of Crab pulsar with Astrosat CZTI and radio observatories

Speaker: Prof. D. Bhattacharya