X-ray Binaries Session

Monday, 16 December 1996, 4:15-6:15 pm

Preliminary Program

Chair: Edward P. J. van den Heuvel (Universiteit van Amsterdam)

If you have any queries or comments on the program please email: edvdh@astro.uva.nl

Speakers

The numbers indicate: speaking time (+ discussion time)

The black hole x-ray binaries

4:15 P.Charles (Oxford University): "Review on Black Hole X-Ray Binaries" 20 (+4)
4:39 M. Gilfanov (IKI, Moscow): "GRANAT/SIGMA Observations of the Galactic Black Hole X-Ray Binaries" 20 (+4)
5:03 E. Harlaftis (St. Andrews, UK): "Keck Observations of Black Hole Candidates" 10 (+2)
5:15 F. Mirabel (Saclay, France): "The High Mass X-ray binary GRS0915+105 and what we learned from its superluminous jets" 10 (+2)
5:27 R. Narayan (Harvard): "Theoretical Models of Black Hole Binary X-ray Sources" 10 (+2)

Other topics

5:39 E. Ford et al. (Columbia University): "KiloHertz QPOs in the Low Mass X-Ray Binary 4U 0614+091: evidence for a millisecond pulsar" 10 (+2)
5:51 B. Vaughan (CalTech): "BATSE observations of accretion-powered pulsars" 10 (+2)
6:03 C. Fryer et al. (University of Arizona): "Probing the Neutron Star Kick Distribution with X-ray Binary and Pulsars" 10 (+2)

Posters

• S.N. Zhang (USRA/MSFC), W. Yu , W. Zhang (USRA/GSFC), B.A. Harmon (NASA/MSFC), W.S. Paciesas (UAH), P. Kaaret, E. Ford, M. Tavani (Columbia), D. Barret, J. Grindlay and P. Bloser (CfA), "Spectral Evolution of the LMXB X1608-522, observed by RXTE and BATSE/GRO during an outburst decay"
  
• W. Yu (IHEP/USRA/MSFC), S.N. Zhang (USRA/MSFC), W. Cui, R. Remillard (MIT), D. Barret (CfA), M. Tavani (Columbia), B.A. Harmon (NASA/MSFC), W.S. Paciesas (UAH), P. Kaaret, E. Ford (Columbia), J. Grindlay and P. Bloser (CfA) "Continuous Long-term monitoring of Atoll Sources between 1.3-12 keV by RXTE"
  
• Han Wen (Stanford Lin.Accel.Center) "8 Microsecond resolution HEAO-1 observations of Cyg X-1, Her X-1 and other X-Ray Binaries"
  
• V. Burdyuzha, V. Kauts (Lebedev Institute, Moscow) "Meson Structures in the spectrum of X-ray Binaries"
  
• E. Harlaftis (University of St. Andrews, UK) "Probing the Black-hole Transient J1655-40 with X-ray/optical 1-second photometry"
  
• V. Kalogera & D. Psaltis (University of Illinois at Urbana) "The X-ray pulsars with spin periods close to 7 seconds - a possible X-ray binary model"
  
• V. Kalogera (University of Illinois at Urbana) and C. Fryer (University of Arizona) "The origins of double neutron stars and the necessity of kick velocities"
  
• S.K.Chakrabarti (Tata Institute for Fundamental Research, Bombay,India) "Nature of Advective Disks Around Black Holes"
  
• Insu Yi (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton): "High Lithium Abundance in Soft X-ray Transients: Evidence of Hot Advection-Dominated Accretion Flows"
  
• P.Goldoni, M.Vargas, A.Goldwurm and P.Laurent (SIGMA-group, Saclay Laboratories, France): "SIGMA observations of Nova Velorum 1993(GRS 1009-45)"
  
• Sylvia Zane (International School for Advanced Studies, Trieste, Italy), "High Energy Emission from Accreting Neutron Stars"
  
• Hui Li (Los Alamos National Lab.) & James A. Miller (UAH), Electron Acceleration and the Production of Nonthermal Electron Distributions in Accretion Disk Coronae