Program

The programme for the meeting is given below. The first is for the New Results in X-ray Astronomy meeting, the second is for the NewAthena UK Community meeting.

Please note that for both days of the meeting, the meeting will take place in Pevensey 1A7. The building is pinned here on Google Maps.

Time Wednesday 4th - New Results in X-ray Astronomy (Pevensey 1A7)
10:00-10:25 Registration & coffee (Pevensey 1B2)
10:25-10:30 Welcome & Introduction - Paul Giles
Session 1 Galaxies and Galaxy Clusters (Chair: Paul Giles)
10:30-10:45 Lucy Ivey - Hidden Cooling Flows in Elliptical Galaxies
10:45-11:00 Joseph Hall - eROSITA X-ray properties of galaxy clusters selected with different methods
11:00-11:15 Mikey Jennings - Abell 2146: A Laboratory for Studying Ram Pressure Stripping and Turbulence in the Intracluster Medium
11:15-11:30 Jessica Pilling - Streamlining Galaxy Cluster X-ray Analysis with XGA and DAXA
11:30-11:40 10 minute comfort break
Session 2 AGN and host galaxies (Chair: Kathy Romer)
11:40-11:55 Tom Higginson - Exploring the role of X-ray gas perpendicular to AGN radio jets
11:55-12:10 Paloma Guetzoyen - Black hole - galaxy assembly in massive populations
12:10-12:25 Teresa Matamoro - Investigating the complex absorbers of Mrk 766 with XMM-Newton
12:25-13:30 Lunch (Dine Central, 2nd floor of Eat Central)
Session 3 Accretion and Variability (Chair: James Aird)
13:30-13:45 Arianna Albayati - A NICER understanding of how type-I X-ray bursts interact with accretion discs
13:45-14:00 Rob Eyles-Ferris - A tidal disruption event that turned off
14:00-14:15 Martina Veresvarska - Unveiling the Role of Magnetic Field in Generating Quasi-Periodic Oscillations: Insights from Accreting White Dwarf Systems
14:15-14:30 Aya Kubota - Anti-correlation between QPO frequency and size of disc-corona region in black hole binaries
14:30-14:45 Mehdy Lefkir - New methods and discoveries in AGN power spectra
14:45-15:00 Fergus Baker - Moving out from under the lamp post: extended corona modelling
15:00-15:15 Scott Hagen - Systematic Collapse of the Accretion Disc Across the Supermassive Black Hole Population
15:15-15:20 Jia-Lai Kang - Systematic Collapse of the Accretion Disc in AGN confirmed by UV
15:20-15:30 Poster flash talks (Chair: Jessica Pilling)
15:30-16:00 coffee break (Pevensey 1B2)
Session 4 X-ray studies utilising survey data (Chair: Scott Hagan)
16:00-16:15 Clara Pennock - Exploration of the X-ray – Radio relationship (or lack thereof?) of AGN
16:15-16:30 Yue Zhao - High-velocity X-ray sources as candidate compact object binaries in the Gaia era: A comprehensive search from Chandra, XMM-Newton, and eROSITA source catalogues
16:30-16:45 Amy Rankine - The wind properties of the X-ray selected SDSS-V quasar sample
16:45-17:00 Anastasia Fialkov - Constraining first X-ray sources with hydrogen 21-cm line
19:00 Conference dinner at The Walrus
Time Thursday 5th - NewAthena UK community meeting (Pevensey 1A7)
Session 1 Chair: Phil Evans
9:00-9:30 Kirpal Nandra - The NewAthena mission
9:30-10:00 Richard Willingale - The NewAthena X-ray mirror
10:00-10:30 Mike Watson - NewAthena UK activities
10:30-11:00 Coffee break (Pevensey 1B2)
Session 2 Chair: Mike Watson
11:00-11:15 Michael Hubbard - NewAthena, a new background…?
11:15-11:45 Prakriti PalChoudhury - How to produce spirals in galaxy cluster cores?
11:45-12:00 Cassandra Barlow-Hall - Constraints on the X-ray Luminosity Function of AGN at z=4-10
12:00-12:30 James Aird - NewAthena Surveys
12:30-13:30 Lunch (Pevensey 1B2)
Session 3 Chair: Andrew Young
13:30-14:00 Esra Bulbul - Galaxy Cluster Astrophysics and Cosmology with eROSITA
14:00-14:30 Chris Done - XRISM
14:30-15:00 Silvia Zane - Current Status of X-ray polarimetry
15:00 Meeting End