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BREAKING THE LIMITS
Super-Eddington Accretion on Compact Objects
Arbatax (OG), Sardinia, Italy
September 19-23, 2016
Email: breakingthelimits2016@gmail.com
Email: (LOC) supereddington2016@oa-cagliari.inaf.it
Website: http://matteobachetti.github.io/supereddington2016
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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.
Accretion and ejection physics
Aleksander Sadowski (MIT, USA) TBC
Mitch Begelman (University of Colorado, USA) TBC
Black hole growth and galaxy evolution
Marta Volonteri (IAP, France)
Marcella Brusa (University of Bologna, Italy)
Joe Silk (IAP, France) TBC
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)
Shin Mineshige (Kyoto University, Japan)
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
Hitomi: Tadayuki Takahashi (ISAS/JAXA, Japan)
Athena: Didier Barret (IRAP, France)
INAF and the Sardinia Radio Telescope: Nicolo’ D’Amico (INAF President, Italy)
• 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 Tchekhovskoy - University of California, Berkeley, USA
• Francesco Tombesi (chair) - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA
• Marta Volonteri - Institut de Astrophysique de Paris, France
• Matteo Bachetti (chair)
• Marta Burgay
• Tiziana Coiana
• Elise Egron
• Noemi Iacolina
• Andrea Tarchi
• Alessio Trois
The abstract and registration forms are available on the website (http://goo.gl/5d4OBF). The conference fee ranges from 250 euros to 350 euros depending on career status and early/late registration. The early registration deadline is May 15th, 2016.
The conference will be held at the Arbatax Park Resort, in Arbatax (OG), a small town along the beautiful East coast of Sardinia. This resort offers a variety of lodging solutions and discounted prices for conference participants (as low as ~60E/night for the basic solution).
This is the website of the Arbatax Park Resort:
http://www.arbataxpark.com/en/
The Travel Information page on the conference website will be updated soon.
Besides the traditional social dinner, during this workshop we will organize a visit to the recently commissioned Sardinia Radio Telescope (http://srt.inaf.it), a 64-m antenna for Radio Astronomy, Geodynamical studies and Space science, with active surface and bleeding-edge technology, able to work either in single dish or in VLBI mode.