Breaking the limits

Super-Eddington accretion on compact objects.

Arbatax (OG), Italy, September 19-23, 2016

About this conference

Recent years have seen an increasing interest of the astronomical community on the topic of super-Eddington accretion on compact objects, which can apply to a variety of systems, such as supermassive black holes, black hole binaries, ULXs, neutron stars. Moreover, the possibility that the Eddington limit may be violated can have important implications for the related topics of black hole growth, galaxy evolution and AGN feedback.

This workshop will be an opportunity to compare recent observations with state-of-the-art theoretical modeling of super-Eddington flows, and to discuss the cosmological implications of this regime of accretion.


Scientific Organizing Committee

Matteo Bachetti (co-chair) - INAF Cagliari, Italy
Paola Castangia - INAF Cagliari, Italy
Tiziana di Salvo - University of Palermo, Italy
Chris Done - Durham University, UK
Fiona Harrison - California Institute of Technology, USA
Andrew King - University of Leicester, UK
Rodrigo Nemmen - University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Ken Ohsuga - National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, Japan
Alberto Pellizzoni - INAF Cagliari, Italy
Katja Pottschmidt - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA
Chris Reynolds - University of Maryland, College Park, USA
Joe Silk - Institut de Astrophysique de Paris, France
Alexander Tchekovskoy - University of California, Berkeley, USA
Francesco Tombesi (chair) - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA
Marta Volonteri - Institut de Astrophysique de Paris, France

Local Organizing Committee

Matteo Bachetti (chair)
Marta Burgay
Tiziana Coiana
Elise Egron
Noemi Iacolina
Andrea Tarchi
Alessio Trois

Invited speakers per session

The program will be divided into themes, covering around half/one day each. A discussion on the topics of the session will take place at the end of each session, coordinated by an invited moderator.

Accretion and ejection physics
Aleksander Sadowski (MIT, USA)

Black hole growth and galaxy evolution
Marcella Brusa (University of Bologna, Italy)

Active Galactic Nuclei and quasars
Chris Reynolds (University of Maryland, USA)
Andrew King (University of Leicester, UK)

Galactic super-Eddington black holes and neutron stars
Rob Fender (University of Oxford, UK)
Felix Mirabel (CEA Saclay, France)

Ultraluminous X-ray sources
Ken Ohsuga (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, Japan)
Matthew Middleton (University of Cambridge, UK)
Mar Mezcua (University of Montréal, Canada) TBC

Gamma-ray bursts and tidal disruption events
Stefanie Komossa (Max Planck Institute, Germany)
Andrei Beloborodov (Columbia University, USA)
Luigi Piro (INAF-IAPS, Italy)

New and future observatories
Nicolò D'Amico (INAF, Italy)
Didier Barret (IRAP, France)

Venue

The venue will be the Arbatax Park Resort Congress Centre. We strongly encourage participants to book a room in the Resort. Discounted prices are available for the participants. You will receive the discount code during the registration process.

Contacts

Organizing Secretariat

Kassiopea News sas
Via Stamira n 10
09134 Cagliari
Italy
Tel.: +39 (0)70 894 0426
Fax: +39 (0)70 656 263
e-mail: breakingthelimits2016@gmail.com
web: http://www.kassiopeanews.com

Conference Hotel/ Venue

Hotel Arbatax Park Resort

Via Capri 49
08048 Arbatax (OG)
Italy
Tel.: +39 (0)782 667 790
Fax: +39 (0)782 667 795
E-mail info@arbataxpark.com
http://www.arbataxpark.com/

To contact the LOC, please use the following email address:
supereddington2016 at oa-cagliari.inaf.it