V^th School of Astroparticle Physics
23 - 28 May 2016
OHP, Saint Michel l'Observatoire

Physics of the Universe in X-rays

Program
Schedule

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HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE

• From the 1960s, going over successive X-ray instruments and discoveries, to future X-ray observatories (historical perspective) : René Goosmann (Obs. Strasbourg) 1h30 — pdf (9.1 Mo)

ASTRO)PHYSICS: 15 hours

• Radiative mechanisms (incl. polarisation), thermal and non-thermal processes, transfer, absorption: general view (no details) : Annalisa Celotti (SISSA Trieste) 1h30 — pdf (4.8 Mo)

• X-ray binaries (accretion disks, coronae and jets, spectral states, fast variability, scaling relations, sub- and super-Eddingtion accretion) : René Goosmann (Obs. Strasbourg) 1h30

• Accreting supermassive black holes at different accretion rates (X-ray spectroscopy, iron line, Active Galactic Nuclei from Sgr A* to bright quasars, X-ray background) : Annalisa Celotti (SISSA Trieste) 2h — pdf (3 Mo)

• Neutron stars, pulsars, PWNe : Natalie Webb (IRAP Toulouse) 2h30 — pdf (5.1 Mo)

• Supernovae, supernova remnants (incl ejecta and accelerated particles), hot interstellar medium: Fabio Acero (AIM Saclay) 2h30 — url

• Gamma-ray bursts, magnetars (mostly on X-ray specificities) : Olivier Godet / Matteo Bachetti (IRAP Toulouse) 1h30 — pdf (2.5 Mo)

• Using the Universe as a fundamental physics laboratory : Pasquale Serpico (LAPTh Annecy) 1h30 — pdf (11.2 Mo)

• Galaxy clusters, cosmology : Gabriel Pratt (AIM Saclay) 1h30 — pdf (44 Mo)

DATA ANALYSIS: 8 hours

This will be addressed as a hands-on activity starting from real observations. We will ask the participants to install softwares on their laptop so to have the ready to be used.
• General introduction, catalogs, archives, event lists: Natalie Webb (IRAP Toulouse) 1h30 — pdf (2 Mo)

• Imaging (background subtraction, exposure correction, hardness maps, mosaic) : Fabio Acero (AIM Saclay) 2h — url

• Introduction and spectroscopy : Jean Ballet (IRFU CEA) 2h30 — pdf (443 Ko), zip (21.2 Mo), pdf (1.3 Mo)

• Variability (period search, power spectrum, cross-correlation between energy bands, quasi-periodic oscillations) : Matteo Bachetti (INAF/OAC) 2h — url

Software
We strongly encourage you to install Virtualbox. A Virtualbox virtual machine with all the software preinstalled will be distributed the first day.
If your computer does not support Virtualbox, please install the following software:

HEASoft (for tutorials on X-ray data reduction and spectral analysis): http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/software/lheasoft/download.html
- At step 2, please select at least General-Use FTOOLS, XANADU
XMM : http://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/xmm-newton/download-and-install-sas
Python (v. 2.7) we strongly recommend the Anaconda Python distribution, available at : https://www.continuum.io/downloads
Topcat: http://www.star.bris.ac.uk/~mbt/topcat/#install

INSTRUMENTATION: 6 hours 30 min

Emphasis on present and future, not history. Discuss the effect of charged particles when applicable. The effect of the background on the measurements will be dealt with in the Data Analysis sessions.
• X-ray telescopes (general principles and specific solutions for high resolution, high effective area, high energy, low cost, light weight) : Richard Willingale (University of Leicester) 1h30 — pdf (11.5)

• collimators-concentrators, coded masks and all sky monitors : Philippe Laurent (APC Paris) 2h — pdf (2.3 Mo), pdf (13.4 Mo)

• X-ray detectors (CCDs, DePFETs, CdTe, calorimeters) and gratings : Jean-Luc Sauvageot (AIM Saclay) 2h — pdf (26.1 Mo)

• Polarimetry : René Goosmann (Obs. Strasbourg) 1h — pdf (9.5 Mo)

SOCIAL PROGRAM

On Wednesday afternoon, banquet at the Château de la Dorgonne and visit of the vineyard.

Breaks are moments of discussions whom the duration is at the discretion of the speaker and the convenience of the audience.
Lunch is scheduled at 12:00 and dinner at 19:00. Workshops will be organized in the evening discussions.

Speakers
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Fabio Acero (AIM Saclay)	Matteo Bachetti (INAF/OAC)	Jean Ballet (IRFU CEA)	Annalisa Celotti (SISSA Trieste)	Olivier Godet (IRAP Toulouse)	René Goosmann (Obs. Strasbourg)
Philippe Laurent (APC Paris)	Gabriel Pratt (AIM Saclay)	Jean-Luc Sauvageot (AIM Saclay)	Pasquale Serpico (LAPTh Annecy)	Natalie Webb (IRAP Toulouse)	Richard Willingale (Univ. Leicester)