6th FERO meeting

ASTRONOMICAL INSTITUTE
ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, PRAGUE
Boční II 1401, 141 00 Praha 4
Czech Republic

30th – 31st of August 2012



Euro in Czech Crowns: 1€ =
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Programme

The proposed timing in this schedule is only approximate, the meeting will have a rather informal character, the length of the talks and discussions may be shorter or longer according to the need. The programme and abstracts are available also in the pdf format.

Thursday 30/8

9:30  Arrival at the institute
9:50  Welcome – Vladimír Karas
9:55  Few notes on organization of the 6th FERO meeting – Michal Dovčiak
I. Session: Timing – Vladimír Karas
10:00  Iossif Papadakis:
Fast variability of the iron line red wing in MCG-6-30-15 and NGC 4051
10:20  Alessandra De Rosa:
Measuring strong gravity effects in AGN observed with LOFT
10:40  Vjačeslav Sochora:
The relativistic iron line produced by a viscously spreading ring near a massive black hole
11:00  Coffee break
11:30  Tomáš Pecháček:
The theory of power spectrum break frequency in multi-flare accretion disc variability models
11:50  Michal Dovčiak:
Time lags in the lamp-post geometry of the compact corona illuminating a black-hole accretion disc
12:10  Discussion on future work in X-ray timing – flares, spots, variability, time lags and reverberation
12:30  Lunch break
II. Session: Polarization – Giorgio Matt
15:00  Francesco Tamborra:
MoCA: a Monte Carlo code for Accretion
15:20  Michal Dovčiak:
Polarization in the lamp-post geometry of the compact corona illuminating a black-hole accretion disc
15:40  Frédéric Marin:
X-ray polarimetry as a new and independent tool to discriminate reflection from absorption scenarios – investigating the case of MCG-6-30-15
16:00  Discussion on future work in X-ray polarimetry in AGN and GBHBs
16:20  Coffee break
III. Session: Galactic black holes – Matteo Guainazzi
16:50  Agata Różańska:
Spectral fitting of absorption iron lines in 4U1630-472
17:10  Gabriele Ponti:
Ubiquitous equatorial accretion disc winds in black hole soft states
17:30  Discussion on X-ray GBHBs in FERO
17:50  Individual work meetings
20:00  Social dinner

Friday 31/8

IV. Session: Other ways to FERO – Iossif Papadakis
9:30  Michal Bursa:
X-ray continuum fitting of accretion disc spectra
9:50  Cosimo Bambi:
Testing the Kerr-nature of black hole candidates
10:10  David Heyrovský, Lukáš Ledvina:
Resolving quasar accretion discs by gravitational microlensing
10:40  Coffee break
11:10  Vladimír Karas:
Massive magnetic dipole in relativity
11:30  Ladislav Šubr:
Catch me if you can: is there a 'runaway-mass' black hole in the Orion Nebula Cluster?
11:50  Discussion on observational prospects for other ways to FERO
12:10  Lunch break
V. Session: Observations of AGN – Stefano Bianchi
14:30  Jiří Svoboda:
Active galaxy 4U 1344-60: did the relativistic line disappear?
14:50  Pierre-Olivier Petrucci:
Multiwavelength campaign on Mrk 509: testing realistic comptonization models
15:10  Kendrah Murphy:
A Chandra HETG View of MCG+8-11-11
15:30  Matteo Guainazzi:
Measuring black hole spins in AGN: where do we stand?
15:50  Discussion on future proposals
16:25  Concluding remarks – Matteo Guainazzi
16:30  Coffee break
17:00  Individual work meetings