RATIONALE AND PROGRAM
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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.
After two years from the first edition of Breaking the limits,
we reconvene to discuss the advancement done in the last two years.
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.
Tentative list of sessions:
• Accretion and ejection physics
• Black hole growth and galaxy evolution
• Active Galactic Nuclei and quasars
• Galactic super-Eddington black holes and neutron stars
• Ultraluminous X-ray sources
• Gamma-ray bursts and tidal disruption events
• New and future observatories: XARM, NICER, Astrosat, Athena,
JWST, SKA, LIGO/VIRGO, LISA, …
ORGANIZING COMMITTEES
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## Scientific Organizing Committee (alphabetical order)
• Matteo Bachetti (co-chair) - INAF Cagliari, Italy
• Paola Castangia - INAF Cagliari, Italy
• Tiziana di Salvo - University of Palermo, Italy
• Chris Done - Durham University, UK
• 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 - Northwestern University, USA
• Francesco Tombesi (co-chair) - Università di Roma “Tor Vergata”
• Marta Volonteri - Institut de Astrophysique de Paris, France
REGISTRATION
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Registration is open!
The standard conference fee ranges from 310 (very early) to 410 (late)
euros, with reductions for students.
https://matteobachetti.github.io/supereddington2018/registration/
VENUE
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The conference will be held at the Sant’Elmo Beach Hotel
http://www.hotelsantelmobeach.it/en), in Castiadas (CA),
a small town along the beautiful East coast of Sardinia, in Italy.
This resort offers a variety of lodging solutions and discounted
prices for conference participants (please book through our
secretariat following the instructions in our website).
SOCIAL EVENTS
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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 cutting-edge technology, able to work either in
single dish or in VLBI mode.
-- Francesco Tombesi and Matteo Bachetti
on behalf of the SOC and the LOC