X-ray Spring School 2006

Observing the X- and Gamma-ray Sky

Astrophysical Spring School, Cargèse/Corsica April 2006

The school finished on Friday, April 14. Thanks to all of you who came and helped to make the two weeks a great success! There are 36 presentations available on the proceedings page and a lot of fotos can be found as well.

Click here for a two page summary of the school in PDF format

Our understanding and knowledge of the sky at high energies has improved in many ways over the past 10 years, thanks to studies performed with Chandra, XMM-Newton, RXTE, BeppoSAX, and more recently INTEGRAL, HESS, Swift, and Suzaku. This school (April 3-14, 2006), dedicated to PhD students and young researchers, will clarify our actual knowledge of the X- and gamma-ray sky and give the opportunity to learn about the observatories and tools which are available.

The school topics cover most of the physics relevant for X-ray astronomy, from Galactic to extragalactic objects, through their radiation processes, their temporal behavior, and our actual understanding of these objects.

Attendees will have the opportunity to give short presentations about their own research or topics related to the aim of this school.

The list of topics:

History of high energy astronomy

Fundamental Physics :
- Introduction to MHD
- Accretion
- Particle Acceleration
- Thermal and non-thermal radiation processes

X-ray and Gamma-ray instruments and analysis techniques
- X-ray and gamma-ray instrumentation
- Ground based gamma-ray instrumentation
- How to build/develop an entire mission?
- First results from Suzaku

Astrophysical Objects :
- Active Galactic Nuclei
- Clusters of Galaxies
- Galactic X-ray binaries: Black holes, neutron stars and CVs
- Gamma-ray bursts
- Relativistic jets
- Sgr A*: The black hole at the center of our Galaxy
- Pulsars, anomalous X-ray pulsars and soft gamma-ray repeaters
- Source populations in other galaxies: ULXs, IMBH and XRBs
- Supernova remnants: Nucleosynthesis, acceleration
- Diffuse emission
- General relativity in compact objects
- Pulsar wind nebulae
- Stellar coronae

X- and gamma-ray missions:
- XMM-Newton
- Chandra
- Swift
- INTEGRAL
- Suzaku (formerly Astro-E2)
- Agile
- RXTE
- HESS
- GLAST

Interested? Find more information about
Program of the school
Location
Lecturers
Scientific Organising Committee
Local Organising Committee
Proceedings
Third Announcement and Registration

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This page is maintained by Volker Beckmann
background graphic: Chandra image of Eta Carinae (credits: NASA/CXC/SAO)