Scientific Programme
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REGISTRATION: March 6, 17:30 - 20:00
WELCOMING COCKTAIL: March 6, 20:00
Program Overview
- Sunday, March 6: Welcome reception
- Monday, March 7: Introduction to Compact Binaries / Close Binary Formation
- Tuesday, March 8: Common Envelope Physics / Post Common Envelope Phase
- Wednesday, March 9: Contact Phase
- Thursday, March 10: Contact Phase (cont.) / Graveyard or boom
- Friday, March 11: Graveyard or Boom (cont.) / Instruments and Telescopes
| Sunday: Welcome reception |
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| 17:30 - 20:00 |
Registration |
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| 19:00 - 19:30 |
Anibal Correa - pianist - will play four pieces of his own creation, all related to astronomical events. |
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| 20:00 |
Cocktail |
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| Monday |
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| 09:15 - 09:30 |
Welcome |
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| Session: Introduction to Compact Binaries |
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| 09:30 - 10:20 |
Ch. Knigge |
Introduction to Cataclysmic Variables (review) |
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| 10:20 - 11:00 |
COFFEE |
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| 11:00 - 11:50 |
Ph. Charles |
Introduction to LMXBs (review) |
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| 11:50 - 12:40 |
S. Chaty |
Introduction to HMXBs (review) | |
| 12:40 - 14:30 |
LUNCH |
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| 14:30 - 14:50 | P. Hakala | Fast optical variability in the UCXB X0614+091 | |
| Session: Close binary formation |
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| 14:50 - 15:40 | K.M. Kratter | Formation of close binaries (review) |
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| 15:40 - 16:00 | R. Chini |
Most high-mass stars are born as twins |
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| 16:00 - 16:30 |
COFFEE |
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| 16:30 - 16:50 |
C. Abate |
How did Carbon-enhanced metal-poor stars form? |
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| 16:50 - 17:10 |
Ch. Nitschelm |
An investigation on close binaries in the Sco-Cen Complex |
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| 17:10 - 17:30 |
H. Perets |
Formation and evolution of compact binaries in triple systems |
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| 17:30 |
Poster presentation |
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| Tuesday - Session: Common Envelope Physics |
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| 09:00 - 09:50 |
N. Ivanova |
Common envelopes (review) |
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| 09:50 - 10:10 |
M. Zorotovic |
Post Common Envelope Binaries from SDSS: Constraining the Common Envelope Efficiency |
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| 10:10 - 10:30 |
Ph. Davis |
Is the common envelope ejection efficiency a function of the binary parameters? |
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| 10:30 - 11:00 |
COFFEE |
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| 11:00 - 11:20 |
J.-C. Passy |
Simulations of the Common Envelope Interaction using Grid-Based and SPH Codes |
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| 11:20 - 11:40 |
T. Linden |
The Importance of Common Envelope Evolution on the Formation of High Mass X-Ray Binaries |
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| 11:40 - 12:00 |
T. Woods |
On The Formation of Double White Dwarfs: Reevaluating how we parametrize the Common Envelope |
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| 12:00 - 12:20 |
C. Conrad |
Search for wide compact binaries with astrometry |
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| 12:20 - 14:30 |
LUNCH |
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| Session: Post Common Envelope Phase |
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| 14:30 - 15:20 | G. Hussain |
Magnetic Braking (review) | |
| 15:20 - 15:40 | H. Boffin |
When asymmetric cosmic bubbles betray a difficult marriage: the study of binary central stars of Planetary Nebulae |
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| 15:40 - 16:00 | D. Jones |
Spatio-kinematic modelling: Testing the link between planetary nebulae and close binaries |
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| 16:00 - 17:00 |
POSTERS & COFFEE |
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| 17:00 - 17:20 |
R. Heller |
Spectral Analysis of white dwarf-M star binaries from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey |
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| 17:20 - 17:40 |
A. Nebot Gomez-Moran |
Orbital period of post common envelope binaries |
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| 17:40 - 18:00 |
A. Rebassa |
The primary mass distribution of Post-Common-Envelope Binaries |
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| 18:00 - 18:20 | R. Østensen | Hot subdwarf stars as tracers of binary stellar evolution | |
| 18:20 - 18:40 | M. Vuckovic | Looking into the bright side of AA Dor | |
| 19:30 | Felix Mirabel | Public talk: Evolucion cosmica de los agujeros negros estelares | |
| Wednesday - Session: Contact Phase |
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| 09:00 - 09:50 |
M. van der Sluys |
Gravitational Waves from Compact Binaries (review) |
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| 09:50 - 10:10 |
I. Mandel |
Compact Binary Coalescences: Connections to Gravitational-Wave Astronomy |
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| 10:10 - 11:00 |
POSTERS & COFFEE |
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| 11:00 - 11:20 |
E. Breedt |
Faint CVs in the SDSS footprint | |
| 11:20 - 11:40 |
M. Pretorius |
The space density and X-ray luminosity function of non-magnetic cataclysmic variables |
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| 11:40 - 12:00 | R. Hamilton | Moderate Resolution NIR Spectra and Modeling of Cataclysmic Variables | |
| 12:00 - 12:20 | A. Ederoclite | When New Becomes Old: The Old Nova Population Project | |
| 12:20 - 12:40 |
J. Bornak | DIRTY Novae: Modeling dust formation in classical novae | |
| 12:40 - 13:00 | E. Filippova | Classical Nova explosion in the binary system with B[e] star | |
| 13:00 - 15:30 |
LUNCH |
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| 15:30 |
Visit to Valparaiso |
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| 19:00 | Boat tour in the harbour | ||
| 20:00 | Conference dinner | ||
| Thursday - Session: Contact Phase (cont.) |
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| 09:30 - 09:50 |
R. Martin | Tidal warping of Be Star Discs | |
| 09:50 - 10:10 |
J. Liska | AV CMi - binary star with surprise | |
| 10:10 - 10:30 |
Prodan, S. | Constraint on the Tidal Dissipation Rate and Love Number of the White Dwarf in 4U 1820-30 | ODP |
| 10:30 - 11:00 |
COFFEE |
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| 11:00 - 11:20 |
N. Blind |
SS Leporis probed with optical interferometry: imaging the mass transfer in a symbiotic system |
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| 11:20 - 11:40 |
Z. Carikova |
Creation of neutral disks during outbursts of symbiotic binaries |
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| 11:40 - 12:00 |
A. Skopal |
Multiwavelength modeling the SED of symbiotic X-ray binaries |
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| 12:00 - 12:20 |
F. Mirabel | Evolution of massive binaries as a function of metallicity | |
| 12:20 - 14:30 |
LUNCH |
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| 14:30 - 14:50 | F. Valsecchi | Theoretical Modeling of Massive Black Hole X-Ray Binaries | |
| 14:50 - 15:10 | A. Coleiro | Study of formation, evolution and nature of HMXBs | |
| Session: Graveyard or Boom |
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| 15:10 - 16:00 | F. Roepke | SNe Ia as nal stage of binary evolution (review) | |
| 16:00 - 16:30 |
COFFEE |
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| 16:30 - 16:50 |
J. Claeys |
Supernovae type Ia and their progenitor evolution |
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| 16:50 - 17:10 |
F. Forster |
Hydrostatic carbon burning in white dwarf stars |
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| 17:10 - 17:30 | J. Guillochon |
Detonating Sub-Chandrasekhar White Dwarfs in Dynamically Unstable Double White Dwarf Systems |
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| 17:30 - 17:50 |
G. Luna |
X-ray emission from symbiotic stars - not as soft as you thought they were |
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| 17:50 - 18:10 |
M. Schreiber |
The primary mass distributions of CVs and pre-CVs |
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| 18:10 - 18:30 |
E. Mason |
U Sco in the context of SN-Ia progenitors |
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| Friday - Session: Graveyard or Boom (cont.) |
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| 09:20 - 10:10 |
T. Tauris |
Five and a half roads to form a millisecond pulsar (review) |
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| 10:10 - 11:00 |
E. Ramirez | Short Gamma-Ray Bursts from Coalescing Compact Binaries (review) | |
| 11:00 - 11:30 |
COFFEE |
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| Session: Instruments and Telescopes |
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| 11:30 - 12:20 |
R. Gilmozzi |
The E-ELT for binary observations |
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| 12:20 - 12:40 |
J.-P. Berger |
Symbiotic binaries at the milli-arcsecond resolution: the PIONIER contribution |
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| 12:40 - 13:00 | M. van der Sluys |
Gravitational-wave astronomy of binary inspirals with LIGO/Virgo |
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| 13:00 | Closing lunch and fi nal remarks |
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Posters
- M. Altan: Characterising white dwarf - red dwarf binaries in the SDSS
- O. Ayyildiz: Natural Evolution Process of SS Cyg Based on X-Ray Data Analysis in Very Short Period
- D. Barria: Spectroscopic analysis of AU Mon
- C. Conrad: Search for wide compact binaries with astrometry
- A. Danehkar: The essential role of central star binary in morphological classes of planetary nebulae
- Ph. Davis: Introducing BINSTAR: a new binary evolution code
- L. Hric: Is there any extrasolar planet in the triple pre-cataclysmic system V471 Tau?
- A. Nasseri: Multiplicity of Southern B stars - preliminary results
- C. Nitschelm: A close binary research in the Sco-Cen Complex
- C. Tappert: Emission line pro les in post-common-envelope binaries
