HEAD14 Meeting
Overview
HEAD
14
Annual Meeting for High Energy Astrophysics Division
Chicago, IL
17
–
21 August 2014
The 14th HEAD meeting was held 17-21 August 2014 in Chicago, Illinois.
Meeting Posters
- 106.02 Mason Keck: The AGN of NGC 4151 as revealed by NuSTAR and Suzaku
- 106.03 Dom Walton: NuSTAR and XMM-Newton Observations of NGC 1365: Extreme Absorption Variability and a Constant Inner Disk
- 106.04 David R. Ballantyne: NuSTAR Reveals the Comptonizing Corona of the Broad-Line Radio Galaxy 3C 382
- 106.08 Joseph L. Richards: The Parsec-scale Structure and Kinematics of Radio-Loud Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 Galaxies
- 106.09 Haocheng Zhang: Gamma-ray Flares in Blazars Accompanied by Synchrotron Polarization Angle Swings
- 106.11 Manel Errando: Bright Gamma-ray Flares of the Quasars 3C 279 and PKS 1222+216 Observed at the Highest Energies with Fermi-LAT and VERITAS
- 106.14 Qi Feng: Simultaneous X-ray and gamma-ray observations of Mrk 421 during a strong flaring episode
- 106.16 Imran Hasan: SMARTScience Tools: Interacting with Blazar Data in the Web Browser
- 106.19 Markus Boettcher: Sneaky Gamma-Rays: Using Gravitational Lensing to Avoid Gamma-Gamma-Absorption
- 106.22 Serguei Komissarov: Stability of Astrophysical Jets
- 106.24 Ken-Ichi Nishikawa: Radiation from Accelerated Particles in Relativistic Jets with Shocks and Shear-flow
- 106.25 : Xuhui Chen: Particle Diffusion and Localized Acceleration in Inhomogeneous AGN Jets
- 107.01 Vikram Dwarkadas: Probing Efficient Cosmic-Ray Acceleration in Young Supernovae using the Cherenkov Telescope Array
- 107.02 Thomas Weisgarber: High Energy Astrophysics with the HAWC Observatory
- 107.05 James Tucci: Indirect Dark Matter Detection in Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies at VERITAS
- 108.01 Alexis Popkow: The VERITAS Survey of the Cygnus Region of the Galaxy
- 108.03 Lia Corrales: X-ray Scattering through the Intergalactic Medium: Time Variability and Ghost Halos
- 108.06 Stefano Marchesi: The Chandra COSMOS Legacy Survey: First Results
- 109.03 Hans A. Krimm: Swift Observations of the 2014 Outburst of the X-ray Nova/Black Hole Candidate GRS 1739-278
- 110.05 Neven Vulic: Faint X-Ray Binaries and their Optical Counterparts in M31
- 110.08 Edmund J. Hodges-Kluck: The Ultraviolet Halos of Nearby Spiral Galaxies
- 110.12 Ann E. Hornschemeier: What's important at z>5? X-ray Emission from Starbursts!
- 111.01 Melville P. Ulmer: Improving our Knowledge of the Distant X-ray Universe via Gravitational Lensing: RCS2 032327-132623, A Case Study
- 111.02 Eric D. Miller: Exploring the Outskirts of Galaxy Clusters
- 111.05 Jan M. Vrtilek: Development of a Hot Intergalactic Medium in Spiral-rich Galaxy Groups: The Example of HCG 16
- 111.07 Ka-Wah Wong: X-ray Observations of the Outskirts of the Nearest Non-Cool Core Cluster: the Antlia Cluster
- 112.04 V. Zach Golkhou: Uncovering the Intrinsic Variability of Gamma-Ray Bursts
- 112.06 Ramandeep Gill: Non-Thermal Gamma-Ray Emission from Delayed Pair Breakdown in Magnetized and Photon-Rich Outflows
- 113.03 Dipongkar Talukder: Searches for Gravitational Waves Associated with Gamma-ray Bursts
- 114.07 Jules P. Halpern: Discovery of X-ray Pulsations from the INTEGRAL Source IGR J11014−6103
- 114.09 Doosoo Yoon: The dynamics of Bow-shock Pulsar Wind Nebula: Reconstruction of multi-bubbles
- 114.10 David Tsang: Timing Noise in Pulsars and Magnetars and the Magnetospheric Moment of Inertia
- 114.12 Slavko Bogdanov: The Central Compact Object in Kesteven 79: A Strongly Magnetized Neutron Star
- 114.14 Jesse Ickes: Compton Scattering Cross Sections in Strong Magnetic Fields: Advances for Neutron Star Applications
- 115.01: Swaraj S. Tayal: Electron Impact Excitation Collision Strengths for Extreme Ultraviolet Lines of Fe VII and Fe IX
- 116.01 Robin Corbet: Animating Fermi - Science Outreach through Art
- 116.03 Catherine E. Grant: The Effects of Orbital Environment on X-ray CCD Performance
- 116.05 Christopher Griffith: The Speedster-EXD - A New Event-Triggered Hybrid CMOS X-ray Detector
- 116.06 Laura Brenneman: In-Flight Calibration Plans for Astro-H
- 116.15 Martin C. Weisskopf: Transforming Our Understanding of the X-ray Universe: The Imaging X-ray Polarimeter Explorer (IXPE)
- 116.16 P. T. O'Brien: The Athena X-ray Observatory: Observing Luminous Extragalactic Transients
- 116.21 Philip Kaaret: HaloSat - A CubeSat to Study the Hot Galactic Halo
- 116.22 : Giovanni Pareschi: Thin Fused Silica Optics for a High Angular Resolution and Large Collecting Area X Ray Telescope After Chandra
- 116.23 William Zhang: Next Generation X-ray Optics: High Angular Resolution, Light Weight, and Low Production Cost
- 116.25 Giovanni Pareschi: The ASTRI/CTA Mini-array of Small Size Telescopes as a Precursor of the Cherenkov Telescope Array
- 116.30 Jeff Grube: Science with the Cherenkov Telescope Array
- 117.02 Katja Pottschmidt: NuSTAR Observations of SMC X-1 at Two Different Superorbital Phases
- 117.04 Julia K. Vogel: Observations of the Magnetar 1E 2259+586 with NuSTAR
- 118.01 Farhad Yusef-Zadeh: Flaring Activity of Sgr A* During the Passage of the G2 Cloud
- 118.02 Daryl Haggard: New and Recurring Galactic Center X-ray Transients from Chandra, Swift, and XMM
- 118.03 Vladimir Karas: Modelling Pericenter Passage Near a Supermassive Black Hole
- 118.04 Devaky Kunneriath: Two-phase Medium of the Galactic Centre Mini-spiral as the Origin of Activity of Sgr A* Supermassive Black Hole at Different Level of Accretion Rate
- 119.02 Jeremy J. Drake: X-ray Evidence for a Pole-Dominated Corona on AB Dor
- 119.05 Vinay Kashyap: Tanagra: Timing Analysis of Grating Data
- 120.03 Stephen P. Reynolds: Nonuniform Expansion of the Youngest Galactic Supernova Remnant G1.9+0.3
- 120.05 Vanessa Mangano: GRO J1744-28: The Swift view of the reactivation of The Bursting Pulsar
- 120.06 Vikram Dwarkadas: The X-ray and Radio Evolution of Supernova 1993J
- 120.10 Glenn E. Allen: The Expansion Rate, Age, and Distance of the Supernova Remnant G266.2−1.2
- 121.03 Marina Orio: A NuSTAR Observation of Nova V475 Sco
- 122.01 Sebastien Guillot: Measuring the Neutron Star Radius to Constrain the Dense-matter Equation of State
- 122.02 Robin Corbe: Superorbital Periods in Supergiant High-Mass X-ray Binaries
- 122.03 Vladimir Karas: The Harmonic Content of High-Frequency QPOs from the Relativistic Orbiting-Spot v.s. Oscillating-Torus Models
- 122.06 Frederick Lamb: Determining the Masses and Radii of Rapidly Rotating, Oblate Neutron Stars Using Energy-resolved Waveforms of Their X-ray Burst Oscillations
- 122.15 Slavko Bogdanov: XSS J12270-4859: A Transformation from an X-ray Binary to a Rotation-Powered Millisecond Pulsar System
- 122.16 Slavko Bogdanov: Deep XMM-Newton Observations of the "Missing Link" Binary PSR J1023+0038 in an Accreting State
- 122.17 Matthew Brorby: X-ray Binaries in Blue Compact Dwarf Galaxies/a>
- 122.20 Dom Walton: Recent highlights from NuSTAR Observations of extreme ULXs
- 122.24 Mark Peacock: The LMXB Population of Local Early Type Galaxies and Implications for a Variable IMF
- 122.25 Dheeraj Ranga Reddy Pasham: A Stable 3:2 Twin Peak X-ray Quasi-periodic Oscillation from an Ultraluminous X-ray Source: Evidence for a 400 Solar Mass Black Hole
- 122.26 Paul S. Ray: Discovery of a 1.69 ms radio pulsar associated with the X-ray binary XSS J12270-4859
- 122.27 Laurens Keek: A Superburst's Impact on the Accretion Disk Around the Neutron Star in 4U 1636-536
- 122.28 Holger Stiele: Energy Dependence of Power-spectral Noise in X-ray Binaries
Meeting Presentations
- 100.05 Tim Linden: The Characterization of the Gamma-Ray Signal from the Central Milky Way: A Compelling Case for Annihilating Dark Matter
- 101.01 Reinout van Weeren: Particle Acceleration in Merging Galaxy Clusters
- 102.01 Bradford Benson: Sunyaev Zel'dovich Cluster Surveys
- 105.02 Vallia Antoniou: A Deep Chandra Survey of One of the Nearest Star-Forming Low-Metallicity Galaxies: First Results
- 105.05 Tod Strohmayer: Discovery of a Neutron Star Oscillation Mode During a Superburst
- 204.01 Francis Halzen: IceCube and the Discovery of High-Energy Cosmic Neutrinos
- 300.02 Dan Wilkins: Driving Extreme Variability: Measuring the Changing Characteristics of the X-ray Emitting Coronae in AGN
- 300.03 Laura Brenneman: Probing Supermassive Black Hole Spins in MCG--6-30-15 and NGC 1365 with XMM-Newton and NuSTAR
- 300.05 Fan Guo: Particle Acceleration and Plasma Dynamics during Magnetic Reconnection in Highly Magnetized Plasmas
- 300.06 Kyle Parfrey: Powering Jets with Small-scale Magnetic Flux
- 301.02 Matteo Guainazzi: Instrumental Limits to Our Knowledge of the X-ray Sky
- 301.04 Colleen Wilson-Hodge:The HEROES Balloon-borne Hard X-ray Telescope
- 301.05 Jeffrey Grube: Performance of VERITAS
- 304.04 Paul O'Brien: Explaining Extended Emission GRBs Using Accretion onto a Magnetar
- 304.05 Emmanouil Chatzopoulos: Emission from Pair Instability Supernovae with Rotation
- 400.02 Stephanie LaMassa: Unveiling Obscured AGN with X-ray Spectral Analysis
- 400.03 Belinda Wilkes: High Levels of Absorption in Orientation-unbiased, Radio-selected 3CR Active Galaxies
- 403.04 Matthew Miller: Analyzing the Milky Way's Hot Gas Halo with OVII and OVIII Emission Lines
- 404.03 Patrizia Romano: The 100-month Swift Catalogue of Supergiant Fast X-ray Transients
- 404.04 Marianne Heida: Near-infrared Counterparts of Ultraluminous X-ray Sources — Towards Dynamical Mass Measurements
- 404.06 Stephen Drake: Very Bright, Very Hot and Very Long: Swift Observations of the DG CVn "Superflare" of April 23rd, 2014