Programme
Talks will take place in the Frank and Powell lecture theatres on the ground floor of the Physics Building, through the doors to the right of the entrance on Tyndall Avenue.
Posters and refreshments will be kept throughout the conference in the Enderby room, in the basement just below the Frank and Powell lecture theatres. There is step free access to the right of the main entrance also on Tyndall avenue.
Here is the programme for New Results in X-ray Astronomy (Thursday) and NewAthena UK Community Science Meeting (Friday).
New Results in X-ray Astronomy schedule
| Time | Activity | Venue |
|---|---|---|
| 10:00 – 10:25 | Registration | Enderby Room |
| 10:25 – 10:30 | Welcome | Frank Lecture Theatre |
| 10:30 – 11:45 | Chair: Rebecca Canning (University of Portsmouth) | |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Invited: Jiachen Jiang (University of Warwick) The Awakening Beasts in Our Universe |
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| 11:00 – 11:45 | AGN and Blazars I: | |
| 11:00 – 11:15 | Dominic Walton (University of Hertfordshire) The Broadband View of the Bare Seyfert PG1426+015: Relativistic Reflection, the Soft Excess and the Importance of Oxygen |
Frank Lecture Theatre |
| 11:15 – 11:30 | Clara Marie Pennock (University of Edinburgh) Exploring the X-ray–radio connection for AGN via measurements of the multi-dimensional luminosity function |
Frank Lecture Theatre |
| 11:30 – 11:45 | Mehdy Lefkir (University of Leicester) Modelling the X-ray and UV/optical variability of active galaxies |
Frank Lecture Theatre |
| 11:45 – 12:00 | Coffee break | Enderby Room |
| 12:00 – 13:00 | AGN and Blazars II: Chair: Kathy Romer (University of Sussex) | Frank Lecture Theatre |
| 12:00 – 12:15 | Tom Higginson (University of Bristol) AGN wings: unravelling the mystery of cross-shaped X-ray emission |
Frank Lecture Theatre |
| 12:15 – 12:30 | Athulya Menon Madathil Pottayil (University of Hertfordshire) Constraining black hole spin in PG 1535+547 amidst complex multi-layered absorption |
Frank Lecture Theatre |
| 12:30 – 12:45 | Jessica Pilling (University of Sussex) A Closer Look at XRISM PV Blazar Targets |
Frank Lecture Theatre |
| 12:45 – 13:00 | Mohammed Iddrisu Nlowie (University of Edinburgh) Optical spectroscopic properties of Fermi detected blazars from SDSS-V |
Frank Lecture Theatre |
| 13:00 – 13:15 | Poster flash talks: Chair: Cai Wood (Bristol) | Frank Lecture Theatre |
| 13:15 – 14:15 | Lunch break | Enderby Room |
| 14:15 – 15:30 | Binaries, Timing and ULXs I: Chair: Dominic Walton (University of Hertfordshire) | |
| 14:15 – 14:30 | Srijan Srivastava (University of Leicester) Improving Transient Identification With Swift-XRT |
Frank Lecture Theatre |
| 14:30 – 14:45 | Robbie Webbe (IRAP) Identifying Variable and Transient X-ray Sources with XMM-Newton |
Frank Lecture Theatre |
| 14:45 – 15:00 | Ruican Ma (University of Southampton) Spectral-Timing Analysis of Swift J1727.8–1613 Using Insight-HXMT Observations |
Frank Lecture Theatre |
| 15:00 – 15:15 | Yue Zhao (University of Southampton) Exotic Binaries in Galactic Globular Clusters: Insights from Optical and Radio counterparts |
Frank Lecture Theatre |
| 15:15 – 15:30 | Amy Knight (Durham University) A New Pulsating Ultraluminous X-ray Source Candidate in Centaurus A |
Frank Lecture Theatre |
| 15:30 – 15:45 | Coffee break | Enderby Room |
| 15:45 – 16:15 | Binaries, Timing and ULXs II: Chair: Helen Russell (University of Nottingham) | |
| 15:45 – 16:00 | Alistair Pagan (Durham University) Checking for a pulse: A Comprehensive Search for Pulsating ULXs |
Frank Lecture Theatre |
| 16:00 – 16:15 | Patrick O’Neill (Hull University) X-ray Reverberation Distance Measurement of Cygnus X-1 |
Frank Lecture Theatre |
| 16:15 – 17:15 | Galaxy Clusters: | |
| 16:15 – 16:30 | Cai Wood (University of Bristol) The X-ray properties of Optically Selected Galaxy Clusters |
Frank Lecture Theatre |
| 16:30 – 16:45 | Joseph Hall (University of Bristol) Investigating the impact of selection methods on measured ICM properties with eROSITA |
Frank Lecture Theatre |
| 16:45 – 17:00 | Paul Giles (University of Sussex) A consensus of Dark Energy Survey Year 3 redMaPPer galaxy clusters in a high exposure eROSITA All Sky Survey region |
Frank Lecture Theatre |
| 17:00 – 17:15 | Zoe Altria (University of Bristol) Modelling covariance in multivariate scaling relations of CHEX-MATE galaxy clusters |
Frank Lecture Theatre |
| 19:00 | Conference Dinner | Hort’s Townhouse |
NewAthena UK Community Science Meeting schedule
| Time | Activity | Venue |
|---|---|---|
| 9:30 – 9:55 | Coffee break | Enderby Room |
| 9:55 – 10:00 | Welcome | Powell Lecture Theatre |
| 10:00 – 12:00 | New Athena: Chair: Mat Page (UCL/MSSL) | |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Invited: Matteo Guainazzi (European Space Agency) NewAthena status, science and outlook (remote) |
Powell Lecture Theatre |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Invited: James Aird (University of Edinburgh) The NewAthena Science Study team activities |
Powell Lecture Theatre |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Invited: Richard Willingale (University of Leicester) The New Athena X-ray Mirror 2025 |
Powell Lecture Theatre |
| 11:30 – 12:00 | Invited: Phil Evans (University of Leicester) WISCing up some X-rays: the UK’s roles in NewAthena |
Powell Lecture Theatre |
| 12:00 – 13:00 | Lunch break | Enderby Room |
| 13:00 – 14:15 | Accretion and Reverberation Modelling: Chair: Andy Young (University of Bristol) | |
| 13:00 – 13:15 | Nabil Brice (University of Hertfordshire) Testing Precession Models in NGC5907 ULX1 via Super-orbital Phase Analysis |
Powell Lecture Theatre |
| 13:15 – 13:30 | Fergus Baker (University of Bristol) Towards geometrically extended coronal models for X-ray reverberation |
Powell Lecture Theatre |
| 13:30 – 13:45 | Jiachen Jiang (University of Warwick) Near and Far, Now and Future: The Rest-Frame Hard X-ray-Far UV Monochromatic Luminosity Correlation of Broad-Line AGNs |
Powell Lecture Theatre |
| 13:45 – 14:15 | Invited: Sotiria Fotopoulou (University of Bristol) Euclid today: from launch to the first data release |
Powell Lecture Theatre |
| 14:15 – 14:30 | Coffee break | Enderby Room |
| 14:30 – 16:00 | Present and Future: Chair: Belinda Wilkes (University of Bristol) | |
| 14:30 – 15:00 | Invited: Chris Done (University of Durham) New results from XRISM: a pathfinder for future missions like NewAthena |
Powell Lecture Theatre |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | Invited: Rob Eyles-Ferris (University of Leicester) A new era of wide-field X-ray instruments: the present and future of X-ray transient astronomy |
Powell Lecture Theatre |
The AGN content in eROSITA/DR1, thinking of NewAthena (remote) |