The Fermi Bubbles: Theory and Observations

11 Apr 2013, 09:00 → 12 Apr 2013, 18:00 US/Pacific

Kavli auditorium (SLAC)

Thursday, 11 April

09:00 → 10:30 Session 1

09:00 Gamma-ray bubbles, Meng Su

Speaker: Dr Meng Su (MIT/Harvard)

09:30 Fermi-LAT update on the bubbles, Anna Franckowiak

Slides FermiBubblesWorkshopV4.pdf

10:00 X-ray observations of the bubble edges, Jun Kataoka

Slides FB_SLAC_Kataoka.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Break

11:00 → 12:30 Session 2

11:00 Planck haze, Davide Pietrobon

Speaker: Dr Davide Pietrobon (Caltech - JPL)

Slides 2013_Planck_Haze_SLAC_upload.pdf

11:30 Connecting microwave and gamma-ray observations, Greg Dobler

Slides dobler_slac13.pdf

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch Break

13:30 → 14:30 Session 3

13:30 The AGN Jet Model of the Fermi Bubbles, Fulai Guo

Slides guo.pdf

14:00 Star capture by Sgr A* and hot plasma expansion, Dmitry Chernyshov

Slides Bubbles_Stanford_chernyshov.pdf

14:30 → 15:00 Break

15:00 → 16:00 Session 4

15:00 Stochastic acceleration of the CR, Philipp Mertsch

Slides bubbles_workshop_Mertsch.pdf

15:30 MHD simulations of the bubble and haze emission from leptonic AGN jets. Hsiang-Yi Karen Yang

Slides hsyang2013.pdf

16:15 → 17:15 KIPAC Colloquium on AMS2 results

17:30 → 18:30 Session 5

17:30 Discussion

18:30 → 19:30 Poster presentations

18:30 Suzaku observations of the Fermi bubble edges

Speaker: Masaya Tahara

Slides FB_workshop_2013_tahara_ver3.pdf

18:50 Parametric Modeling of the Fermi Bubbles,

Speaker: Richard Anantua

Friday, 12 April

09:00 → 10:30 Session 6

09:00 Sgr A* activity, Frederick Baganoff

Slides Fermi_Bubbles_2013_Baganoff_v2.pdf

09:30 Sgr A*, Star Formation and Cosmic Rays at the Galactic Center, Farhad Yusef-Zadeh

Slides farhad_fermibubble.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Break

11:00 → 13:00 Session 7

11:00 Radio observations, Teddy Cheung

11:30 Insights on the Galactic Center Outflow from UV Absorption Lines, Andrew Fox

Slides fox.bubbles.pdf

12:00 Galactic Halo, Josh Peek

Slides Halo_FB.pdf

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 → 15:30 Session 8

14:00 Galactic winds, Joss Bland-Hawthorn

Slides Joss_BH.pdf

14:30 Cosmic ray dynamics inside the Cygnus A cluster cavities, Bill Mathews

Slides mathews.cyga.kipac.pdf

15:00 VLBI observation of jets in M87, Avery Broderick

Slides Broderick.pdf

15:30 → 16:00 Break

16:00 → 18:00 Session 9

16:00 Extended lobes in AGN at high energies, Lukasz Stawarz

Slides FB_Stawarz.pdf

16:30 Jets and lobes in Seyfert galaxies, Beatriz Mingo

Slides bmingo_Fermi_2013.pdf

17:00 Discussion