IXO Science Team Meeting – Present Status and Future Prospects in X-Ray Astronomy

March 14—16, 2011, Rome, Italy

The purpose of this meeting was to gather together the X-ray astronomical community worldwide to discuss the key science topics of IXO, and to review the discovery space opened by science and technological developments. Major parts of the meeting were devoted to IXO, its science objectives and instruments, although, a session for discussing other future missions was also available.

Science Topics:

Co-evolution of galaxies and their supermassive black holes: The first supermassive black holes, obscured growth of supermassive black holes, Cosmic feedback from supermassive black holes.
Large scale structure and the creation of chemical elements: The hot diffuse components of the Universe, Missing baryons and the Warm-Hot Intergalactic Medium, Cluster physics, evolution and cosmology, Chemical evolution through cosmic time.
Matter under extreme conditions: Strong gravity and accretion physics, Neutron star equation of state, Probing Quantum Chromodynamics through the neutron star equation of state.
Life cycles of matter and energy in the Universe: Supernova remnants: formation of the elements, shock heating and particle acceleration, Characterizing the Inter-stellar Medium in the Galaxy, The Galactic Center and its surroundings, Stars and planets.

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IXO Science Meeting Program

Monday, March 14 ›› Tuesday, March 15 ›› Wednesday, March 16 ››

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Monday, 14 March 2011

S1: IXO reviews, SMBH & Evo
Lumb	Mission status (I)
Nandra	Science overview (I)
Favata	ESA selection process (I)
Ferrara	First stars and BH (I)
Maiolino	ALMA, SPICA and high‐z universe (I)
Feruglio	Compton thick quasars at high z
Zhang	Formation and Evolution of Dusty Tori in AGN
S2: SMBH, coevolution
Gilli	IXO and high‐z universe (I)
King	Outflows in AGN (I)
Kazanas	AGN unification, X‐ray absorbers and Accretion
Hartmann	Chemical evolution & feedback (I)
S3: SMBH coevo/ Large scale Structure
Diego	Large scale structure formation (I)
Merloni	E‐Rosita: clusters and AGN surveys (I)
Brusa	Perspectives of IXO followup of E‐Rosita sources
Ettori	IXO and clusters (I)
Tamura	Suzaku measurements of gas bulk motions in galaxy clusters
Baldi	Evolution of metal abundances in distant clusters

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Tuesday, 15 March 2011

S4: IXO payload
Rando	Mission Studies (I)
Bavdaz	Mirror ESA (I)
Bookbinder	Mirror NASA (I)
Willingale	Path to Mirror readiness (I)
de Korte	Overview and path to instrument readiness (I)
S5: LSS/Large scale structures
Ohashi	IXO and WHIM (I)
Costantini	The ISM seen at unprecedented resolu tion
Behar	What if Missing Baryons do not produce absorption lines?
S6: LSS/Matter under extremes
Stiavelli	JWST and high‐z universe
Kaastra	Feedback and enrichment from SNR to LSS (I)
Takahashi	ASTRO-H: compact objects, clusters and SNR (I)
Tomsick	Galactic Science with NuSTAR (I)
S7: Matter under extremes
Reynolds	IXO and Fe line as probe (I)
Matt	IXO and strong gravity (I)
Kallmann	GEMS: matter under extremes (I)

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Wednesday, 16 March 2011

S8: Matter under extremes/Obs. science
Barcons	IXO and the multi‐v view of the Universe (I)
Miller	Probing NS EOS and synergy with Adv. LIGO and VIRGO (I)
Fender	Radio (Lofar, SKA) and transient universe (I)
Becker	Studying NS ith IXO and E-Rosita
Decourchelle	IXO and SNR (I)
S9: IXO as Observatory
Stelzer	IXO and stars (I)
Audard	Prospective studies of star forming regions
Wolk	X‐ray observations of Hot Jupiters
Argiroffi	Poster selected talk I
Ranalli	Poster selected talk II
S10: Path forward
White	Concluding Remarks for IXO (I)
Barret	Gravitas
den Herder	ORIGIN
Pareschi	NHXM
Feroci	LOFT
Lumb	Conclusions

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