Wide Field X-ray Telescope Collaboration
Event details
- Date
- July 6, 2009 – July 10, 2009
- Location
- Sport & Kurhotel at Bad Moos - Via Val Fiscalina 27, 39030, Sexten
Scientific Rationale
The Sexten Center for Astrophysics will host a workshop on the Wide Field X-Ray Telescope mission (WFXT) to be held on July 6-10.
The aim of the workshop is to bring together the members of the WFXT collaboration and a selected number of interested people to discuss both scientific and technological aspects related to WFXT. The format will be based on informal talks of about 30 minutes, spanning a wide range of topics: X-ray surveys of clusters and cosmology, surveys of AGN, physics of the intra-cluster medium and of AGN, mirror design, survey strategies, synergies with planned and future surveys and telescopes, etc. A significant fraction of time will be left open for informal discussions.
Monday, July 6th
Riccardo Giacconi – “The history of the WFXT concept” (30m)
Stephen S. Murray – “Current WFXT Mission Design Concept as Submitted to the Decadal Survey Committee” (30m)
Martin Weisskopf – “Optics development at MSFC and the design of the WFXT optics” (30m)
WFXT Optics in Brera:
Giovanni Pareschi – “Introduction to the design” (15m)
Giancarlo Parodi – “Structureal aspects of thin mirror shells with small height/diameter aspect ratio” (15m)
Oberto Citterio – “Aspects of the shells manufacturing” (20m)
Giancarlo Parodi – “Thermo-Mechanical consideration on the mirror module assembly” (20m)
Peter Langstrof – “Development of fused silca thin carriers” (5 m)
Giovanni Pareschi – “Programmatic aspects” (10m)
Tuesday, July 7th
Piero Rosati – “The WFXT White Book: the ASI/Italian contribution to WFXT” (20m)
Paolo Tozzi – “WFXT simulations” (30m)
Yu Heng – “WFXT simulations and cosmological tests” (20m)
Steve Murray – “Recovery of Extended and Point-like Sources from Simulated WFXT Images” (30m)
Stefano Borgani – “Cluster astrophysics and cosmology with WFXT” (30m)
Rebecca Stanek – “Multivariate Scaling Relations of Massive Halos in Millennium Gas Simulations” (30m)
Wednesday July 8th
Luigi Stella – “Searching for the X-ray counterpart of LIGO/Virgo gravitational wave events with WFXT” (30m)
Andrew Ptak – “Normal/Starburst Galaxies in WFXT Surveys and Their Evolution” (30m)
Ginevra Trinchieri – “Galaxies with WFXT” (30m)
Alberto Moretti – “Swift XRT cluster observations: serendipitous survey and external regions” (20m)
Thursday, July 9th
Andrea Comastri – “AGN highlights from large area surveys” (30m)
Roberto Gilli – “Growth and evolution of obscured supermassive black holes in the early Universe” (30m)
Guido RIsaliti – “Determining the structure of AGNs through X-ray absorption variability” (30m)
Maurizio Paolillo – “The restless nature of AGNs: results from Chandra and XMM” (30m)
Cristian Vignali – “Multi-wavelength data handling and source identification in current and future X-ray surveys” (30m)
Friday, July 10th
Piero Rosati – “Multi-wavelength observations of XMM2235 at z=1.4” (30m)
Joana Santos – “Evolution of cool cores in X-ray clusters” (30m)
Andrea Bignamini – “First results from the SWIFT-XRT cluster survey” (20m)
Alfonso Cavaliere – “A novel look at the ICM profiles” (30m)
Silvano Molendi – “Clusters Outskirts” (30m)
Stefano Ettori – “Cluster outskirts, mass profiles and concentrations” (30m)
Sabrina De Grandi – “Metal Abundances in the cool-cores of Galaxy Clusters” (30m)
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