X-ray and Gamma-ray Timing and Broad-band Spectroscopy Session

Thursday 19 December 1996, 2-5 pm

Preliminary Program

Chairs: Neil Gehrels (NASA GSFC) and Hale Bradt (MIT)

If you have any queries or comments on the program please email: hale@space.mit.edu or gehrels@lheavx.gsfc.nasa.gov

Speakers

Chair: Neil Gehrels

2:00 Eric Grove , "Gamma-ray Observations of X-ray Novae"
2:30 Ronald Remillard (MIT), "Multifrequency Behavior of Galactic Microquasars"
3:00 Will Zhang (GSFC/NASA), "RXTE Results on Kilkohertz Quasi-periodic Oscillations in X-ray Binaries"

3:30 BREAK

Chair: Hale Bradt

3:45 Luigi Piro (IAS-CNR, Frascati), "Wide band observations of galactic, extragalactic sources and gamma-ray bursts by BeppoSAX"
4:15 Anatoli Iyudin (MPE Garching), "MeV-Bright Unidentified High-Latitude Gamma-Ray Sources found with COMPTEL"
4:25 Nan Zhang (MSFC/NASA), "BATSE/RXTE observations of Cyg X-1"
4:35 Bob Wagoner (Stanford), "Relativistic Diskoseismology: Search for a Definitive Black Hole Signature"
4:45 Coleman Miller (U. Chicago), "Sonic Point Model for KiloHertz Oscillations"

Posters

• Ranier Kotthaus (MPG), "Hard X-ray Polarimetry based on the Photoeffect in a CCD"
  
• Coleman Miller (Chicago), "Sonic Point Model for KiloHertz Oscillations"
  
• Will Zhang, K. Jahoda, and J. H. Swank (GSFC), "Peak Flux Levels of GRO J1744-28 Bursts"
  
• M. P. Ulmer, D. A. Grabelsky, S. M. Matz, and W. R. Purcell , (Northwestern), J. P. Finley (Purdue), R. B. Wilson (MSFC/NASA), G.N. Pendleton (U. Alabama-Huntsville), J. M. Cordes, (Cornell), "High rate telemetry as a novel approach to opening new vistas of high-energy space astrophysics"
  
• Hale Bradt and Robert Shirey (MIT), "The Transition of Circinus X-1 into its Flaring/Active State"
  
• Dimitrios Psaltis & Frederick K. Lamb (U. Illinois), "X-ray Spectra of Low-Mass X-ray Binaries"
  
• F. Frontera et al. (ITESRE Bologna) "First observations of compact galactic sources with the high energy instrument PDS on board BeppoSAX"
  
• L. Chiappetti, et al. (ITCTR/CNR Milano) "First results from the MECS experiment on board of BeppoSAX satellite."
  
• S. Giarrusso et al. (IFCAI/CNR Palermo) "First results from the HPGSPC experiment on board of BeppoSAX satellite"
  
• R. Jager et al. (SRON Utrecht) "The SAX Wide Field Cameras: design, calibration and first scientific results"
  
• P. Giommi et al. (SAX-SDC Roma) "The Scientific Data Center of BeppoSAX"
  
• Arvind Parmar, et al. "First Results from the LECS Instrument Onboard the BeppoSAX Satellite"