The Fermi Bubbles: Theory and Observations

Name: The Fermi Bubbles: Theory and Observations
Start: 2013-04-11T09:00:00-07:00
End: 2013-04-12T18:00:00-07:00
Location: SLAC

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

Kavli auditorium (SLAC)

Kavli auditorium

SLAC

Participants

Anna Franckowiak
Beatriz Mingo
Davide Pietrobon
Dmitry Malyshev

Thursday, 11 April
- Wed, 10 Apr
- Thu, 11 Apr
- Session 1
  - 1
    
    Gamma-ray bubbles, Meng Su
    
    Speaker: Dr Meng Su (MIT/Harvard)
  - 2
    
    Fermi-LAT update on the bubbles, Anna Franckowiak
    
    Slides
  - 3
    
    X-ray observations of the bubble edges, Jun Kataoka
    
    Slides
- 10:30
  
  Break
- Session 2
  - 4
    
    Planck haze, Davide Pietrobon
    
    Speaker: Dr Davide Pietrobon (Caltech - JPL)
    
    Slides
  - 5
    
    Connecting microwave and gamma-ray observations, Greg Dobler
    
    Slides
- 12:30
  
  Lunch Break
- Session 3
  - 6
    
    The AGN Jet Model of the Fermi Bubbles, Fulai Guo
    
    Slides
  - 7
    
    Star capture by Sgr A* and hot plasma expansion, Dmitry Chernyshov
    
    Slides
- 14:30
  
  Break
- Session 4
  - 8
    
    Stochastic acceleration of the CR, Philipp Mertsch
    
    Slides
  - 9
    
    MHD simulations of the bubble and haze emission from leptonic AGN jets. Hsiang-Yi Karen Yang
    
    Slides
- KIPAC Colloquium on AMS2 results
- Session 5
  - 10
    
    Discussion
- Poster presentations
  - 11
    
    Suzaku observations of the Fermi bubble edges
    
    Speaker: Masaya Tahara
    
    Slides
  - 12
    
    Parametric Modeling of the Fermi Bubbles,
    
    Speaker: Richard Anantua
Friday, 12 April
- Wed, 10 Apr
- Thu, 11 Apr
- Session 6
  - 13
    
    Sgr A* activity, Frederick Baganoff
    
    Slides
  - 14
    
    Sgr A*, Star Formation and Cosmic Rays at the Galactic Center, Farhad Yusef-Zadeh
    
    Slides
- 10:30
  
  Break
- Session 7
  - 15
    
    Radio observations, Teddy Cheung
  - 16
    
    Insights on the Galactic Center Outflow from UV Absorption Lines, Andrew Fox
    
    Slides
  - 17
    
    Galactic Halo, Josh Peek
    
    Slides
- 12:30
  
  Lunch Break
- Session 8
  - 18
    
    Galactic winds, Joss Bland-Hawthorn
    
    Slides
  - 19
    
    Cosmic ray dynamics inside the Cygnus A cluster cavities, Bill Mathews
    
    Slides
  - 20
    
    VLBI observation of jets in M87, Avery Broderick
    
    Slides
- 15:30
  
  Break
- Session 9
  - 21
    
    Extended lobes in AGN at high energies, Lukasz Stawarz
    
    Slides
  - 22
    
    Jets and lobes in Seyfert galaxies, Beatriz Mingo
    
    Slides
  - 23
    
    Discussion