The Innermost Regions of Relativistic Jets and Their Magnetic Fields. Granada (Spain). June 10th-14th, 2013.

Program

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Sunday, 9th 

20:00                  Early registration and wellcome cocktail at the Nazaríes Hotel

 

Monday, 10th 

08:00                  Registration opens


09:00 - 09:15    Welcome and scope of the meeting, José L. Gómez (PDF)

Jet formation (Chair: Gabriele Ghisellini)

09:15 - 09:45    "The Role of Magnetic Fields in the Production and Propagation of Relativistic Jets",

                          D. Meier (Review) (PDF)

09:45 - 10:15    "Relativistic Jet Formation by Spinning Black Holes", A. Tchekhovskoy (Invited)

10:15 - 10:45    "Probing the inner jet of M87; from the jet base to HST-1", K. Hada (I)


10:45 -11:15              Coffee break


11:15 - 11:35    "The firs 2-years in the lifetime of the newly born jet associated to Swift J1644+57",

                         A. J. Castro-Tirado 

11:35 - 11:55    "The M87 Jet", M. Nakamura    

11:55 - 12:15    "JEDs and SADs in X-ray Binaries", J. Ferreira  (PDF)

12:15 - 12:35    "Polarimetric Observations of the Innermost Regions of Relativistic Jets in X-ray Binaries",

                         D. Russell (PDF)

12:35 - 12:55    "The force-free magnetosphere of a rotating black hole", I. Contopoulos  (PDF) 


12:55 - 15:00              Lunch break


Jet dynamics, structure and stability (Chair: José-María Martí)

15:00 - 15:30    "The Role of Macroscopic & Microscopic Instabilities in Relativistic Jets", P. Hardee (R)  (PDF)

15:30 - 16:00    "Jet dynamics and stability", M. Perucho (I)  (PDF)

16:00 - 16:20    "Kink instability in relativistic magnetized jets", N. Vlahakis


16:20 - 16:50             Coffee break


16:50 - 17:10    "Radiation from relativistic jets from particle accelerated by shocks, shear-flows,

                          and reconnection", K. Nishikawa  (PDF)

17:10 - 17:30    "Current-Driven Kink Instability in Magnetically Dominated Rotating Relativistic Jet",

                         Y. Mizuno  (PDF)

17:30 - 17:50    "Rayleigh-Taylor and Richtmyer-Meshkov Instabilities in Relativistic Hydrodynamic Jets",

                          J. Matsumoto  (PDF)

17:50 - 18:10    "3 dimensional magneto hydrodynamical jet simulations", J. Staff

 

Tuesday, 11th

Emission across the electromagnetic spectrum I (Chair: Jose L. Gómez)

09:00 - 09:30    "Multi-waveband Behavior of Blazars", A. Marscher (R)  (PDF)

09:30 - 10:00    "The "Far Distance" Scenario for Gamma-ray Emission in Blazars: A View from the VLBI

                         Observing Perspective", I. Agudo (I)   (PDF)

10:00 - 10:20    "The Gamma-ray Activity of the high-Z Quasar 0836+710", S. Jorstad   (PDF)

10:20 - 10:40    "The radio/gamma-ray connection in Active Galactic Nuclei in the Fermi era", M. Giroletti


10:40 -11:10              Coffee break


11:10 - 11:30    "What can we learn from high energy flares in the Fermi sample of FSRQ: from a case study to

                         dozens of objects", L. Pacciani    

11:30 - 11:50    "The nature of the IR emission in LLAGN at parsec scales: Does the jet dominate at low

                          luminosities?", J. A. Fernández Ontiveros

11:50 - 12:10    "Jet evolution in Steep Spectrum Radio Quasars. A multiwavelength study", E. Torresi   

12:10 - 12:30    "Gamma-Ray variability studies of Misaligned AGN", P. Grandi   

12:30 - 12:50    "Probing the Radio Counterpart of Gamma-ray Flaring Region in 3C 84", H. Nagai (PDF) 

12:50 - 13:10    "On the connection between radio and gamma rays. Variability and polarization properties in

                          relativistic jets", M. Orienti


13:10 - 15:00              Lunch break


Jets from stellar-mass objects (Chair: Marcello Giroletti)

15:00 - 15:30    "Jets across the black hole mass scale: new insights from X-ray binaries", S. Markoff (R)

15:30 - 16:00    "Relativistic stellar jets: dynamics and non-thermal radiation", V. Bosch-Ramon (I)

16:00 - 16:20    "Search for new stellar sources of gamma-rays", J. Martí  (PDF)


16:20 - 16:50             Coffee break


16:50 - 17:10    "Discovery of synchrotron emission from a YSO jet", C. Carrasco González   

17:10 - 17:30    "Spectra and fast multi-wavelength variability of compact jets powered by internal shocks",

                          J. Malzac   

17:30 - 17:50    "Doppler-shifted lines revealing baryons in the jets of the X-ray binary 4U 1630-47", S. Migliari   

17:50 - 18:10    "Magnetic Field Structure in Relativistic Jets", H. Jermak  (PDF)

 

Wednesday, 12th

Emission across the electromagnetic spectrum II (Chair: Svetlana Jorstad)

09:00 - 09:30     "Multi-wavelength emission models in blazars", G. Ghisellini (R) (PDF)

09:30 - 10:00     "Radio-loud AGN unification: Connecting jets and accretion", E. Meyer (I) (PDF)

10:00 - 10:20     "Leptonic and Hadronic Modeling of Fermi-Detected Blazars", M. Boettcher (PDF)

10:20 - 10:40     "Constraining the location of gamma-ray emission in Blazar jets", M. Joshi (PDF)


10:40 -11:10              Coffee break


11:10 - 11:30     "An Exceptional Radio Flare in Markarian 421", J. Richards (PDF)

11:30 - 11:50     "Time dependent photon and neutrino emission from Mkn421 in the context of the one-zone

                           leptohadronic model", A. Mastichiadis

11:50 - 12:10     "Panchromatic Observations of the Nuclei of z<0.5 3CRR Radio Galaxies: Implications for

                            Feeding, Feedback, and Black Hole Spin", D. Evans

12:10 - 12:30     "Relativistic jets in Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 galaxies. New discoveries and open questions",

                            F. D'Ammando

12:30 - 12:50     "The origin and emission mechanism of VHE (>100 GeV) emission from FSRQs", B. Behera

12:50 - 13:10     "Uncovering the physics behind the blazar sequence using a realistic model for jet emission",

                            W. Potter


Free afternoon for social activities (visit to Alhambra)

 

Thursday, 13th

Magnetic fields and jet physics I (Chair: Gabriele Giovannini)

09:00 - 09:30     "Magnetic fields and polarization in AGN jets", J. Wardle (R) (PDF)

09:30 - 10:00     "Parsec-Scale Polarization and Magnetic Field Characteristics of MOJAVE AGN Jets",

                            M. Lister (I)

10:00 - 10:20     "Magnetic field in the jet of 3C 454.3", M. Zamaninasab

10:20 - 10:40     "Probing the magnetic field of 3C279", S. Kiehlmann (PDF)


10:40 -11:10              Coffee break


11:10 - 11:30     "A sensitive study of the peculiar jet structure HST-1 in M87", C. Casadio (PDF)

11:30 - 11:50     "Longitudinal and transverse velocity fields in parsec-scale jets", F. Mertens

11:50 - 12:10     "AGN jet physics and observed apparent opening angles", E. Clausen-Brown

12:10 - 12:30     "Intrinsic brightness temperatures of blazar jets at 15 GHz", T. Hovatta

12:30 - 12:50     "Study of High Energy Emission from Relativistic Jets with VERITAS", R. Mukherjee

12:50 - 13:10     "Hadronic Modeling of AGN Variability", M. Weidinger


13:10 - 15:00              Lunch break


Magnetic fields and jet physics II (Chair: John Wardle)

15:00 - 15:30     "Multi-wavelength Polarization Studies of AGN Jets", D. Gabuzda (R) (PDF)

15:30 - 15:50     "Constraints on Blazar Jet Conditions During Gamma-Ray Flaring from Radiative Transfer

                           Modeling", M. Aller (PDF)

15:50 - 16:10     "Recollimation Shock and the Fire Hose in BL Lacertae", M. Cohen (PDF)

16:10 - 16:30     "Broadband radio circular polarization observations of the quasar PKS B2126-158",

                           S. O'Sullivan (PDF)


16:30 - 17:00             Coffee break


17:00 - 17:20     "A Rotation Measure Gradient on the M87 VLA Jet", J. C. Algaba

17:20 - 17:40     "Multi-frequency study of the TeV blazar Markarian 421 with VLBA observations", R. Lico

17:40 - 18:00     "Studies of Blazar emission using a spatially resolved SSC model", S. Richter


Conference dinner at Palacio de los Cordova

 

Friday, 14th

AGN Jets (Chair: Markus Böttcher)

09:00 - 09:30     "Space VLB interferometer RadioAstron: early results and future prospects of AGN studies",

                            Y. Kovalev (I)

09:30 - 10:00     "Quasar large scale jets: Fast and powerful or weak and slow, but efficient accelerators?",

                            M. Georganopoulos (I) (PDF)

10:00 - 10:20     "Poynting flux dissipation in jets", J. Kirk

10:20 - 10:40     "Magnetic field amplification and blazar flares", X. Chen


10:40 -11:10              Coffee break


11:10 - 11:30     "The jet of the LLAGN of M81: Evidence of Precession", A. Alberdi (PDF)

11:30 - 11:50     "Evidence for internal rotation in the jet of the quasar NRAO150", S. Molina (PDF)

11:50 - 12:10     "The core shift measurements for two-sided jets affected by free-free absorption using

                           VLBA", T. Haga (PDF)

12:10 - 12:30     "Astrometric observations of the core position changes in Mrk 421 after the large X-ray flare in

                            2011", K. Niinuma

12:30 - 12:50     "High-energy signatures of binary supermassive black holes", G. Vila


12:50 - 13:20     Conference summary by Alan P. Marscher (PDF)