Astrophysics in the LOFAR era

Abstract Booklet

 

Program

 

Monday, April 23, 2007

 

14:00

M. Garrett, M. van Haarlem

Welcome

 

 

 

Session: LOFAR

 

14:10

C. Vogt

Long and short baseline LOFAR

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14:45

A. Gunst

LOFAR Station Processing

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15:15

G. de Bruyn

CS-1 commissioning and LOFAR Calibration

 

15:40

W. Reich

First Light in Effelsberg

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Coffee Break

 

16:30

J. Bregman

Data Processing in the LOFAR era

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16:50

G. de Bruyn

EOR Key Science Project Plans

 

17:10

H. Röttgering

Survey Key Science Project Plans

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17:30

R. Wijers

Transients Key Science Project Plans

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17:50

H. Falcke

Cosmic Ray Key Science Project Plans

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18:10

J. Otieno Malo

Kenya International Radio Observatory

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19:00

 

Dinner

 

20:30

 

Reception

 

 

 

Tuesday, April 24, 2007

 

 

 

Session Pulsar

 

9:00

A. Lyne

Finding, observing and understanding RRATs

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9:25

B. Stappers

Pulsars at Low Frequencies

 

9:45

J. Gil

Drifting subpulse phenomenon in pulsars

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10:10

O. Ulyanov

Subpulse structure of pulsar radio emission in the decametre range

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Session: Magnetic Fields, AGN

 

10:30

W. Reich

Galactic research with LOFAR

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Coffee Break

 

11:25

K. Ferriere

Galactic Magnetic Fields

 

11:50

L. Ferretti

Extragalactic Magnetic Fields

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12:15

R. Beck

Observation of weak magnetic fields around galaxies with LOFAR

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12:40

 

 

 

 

 

Lunch Break

 

 

 

Session: Cluster

 

14:00

M. Arnaud

Clusters and the X-ray connection

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14:25

M. Murgia

Dying radio galaxies with LOFAR

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14:45

R. Dunn

Radio Bubbles in Clusters: Relativistic Particle content

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15:05

M. Wise

Tracing AGN Heating in Clusters with Low Frequency Radio Observation

 

15:25

R. Cassano

Statistics of Radio Halos and Future Low Frequency Observations

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Coffee Break

 

16:15

D. Dallacasa

Perspectives in the low frequency study of diffuse cluster radio sources

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16:35

R. Pizzo

The diffuse extended emission and the first polarimetric results at low frequency for Abell 2255

 

16:55

F. Govoni

Polarization of cluster radio sources with LOFAR

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17:15

G. Brunetti

Constraining cosmic rays in Galaxy Clusters

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17:35

J. Croston

Constraining the energy budget of radio galaxies with LOFAR

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18:30

 

Football Match

 

 

 

 

 

19:30

 

Dinner

 

 

 

Wednesday, April 25, 2007

 

 

 

Session: Stellar Sources & Transients

 

9 :00

T. Montmerle

Magnetic fields in young stars and accretion disks: the X-ray perspective

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9:30

J. Eislöffel

Investigating the launching mechanism of young stellar jets with LOFAR

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9:50

S. Corbel

Jets in XRBs

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10:20

C. Kaiser

Radio lobes of microquasars

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Coffee Break

 

11:10

S. Markoff

LOFAR constraints on weakly accreting black hole jets

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11:30

J. Miller-Jones

Low-frequency radio observations of Galactic X-ray binary systems

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11:50

C. Brocksopp

A Highly Polarised Jet in XTE J1748-288

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12:10

S. Roy

New Results in Radio emission from the Transient Bursting Source GCRT 1745-3009

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12:30

J. Grießmeier

The search for radio emission from extrasolar planets with LOFAR

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Lunch Break

 

14:00

C. Maccone

Innovative SETI by the KLT

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14:30

 

Excursion to LOFAR site