Scientific Program:

Topics for this year are:

References and papers are available here.

The schedule can be downloaded here.



 

Saturday (17 October) Opening Ceremony / XMM-Newton Section

GMT/UTC

EDT

 

 

11:30-12:00

7:30-8:00

Opening Ceremony

ArAS President, NIARG President, ArAS SfA Director

12:00-13:00

8:00-9:00

Introduction to Black Hole Systems

Ranjeev Misra

13:00-13:30

9:00-9:30

Break

 

13:30-15:00

9:30-11:00

Installation & Demonstration of XMM-Newton data analysis

Sherehan Shehata

15:00-15:30

11:00-11:30

Break

 

15:30-17:00

11:30-13:00

Installation & Demonstration of XMM-Newton data analysis - in Arabic

Sherehan Shehata


 

 

Sunday (18 October) XMM-Newton Section

 

GMT/UTC

EDT

 

 

10:30-11:30

6:30-7:30

Introduction to AGN spectral and timing analysis

Gulab Dewangan

11:30-12:00

7:30-8:00

Break

12:00-13:00

10:00-10:30

Interaction Question/Answers and Feedback

Ranjeev Misra 

13:00-13:30

8:30-9:00

Break

 

13:30-14:30

9:00-10:00

Introduction to X-ray binaries

Poshak Gandhi

14:30-15:00

10:30-11:00

Break

 

15:00-16:30

11:00-12:30

Interaction Question/Answers and Feedback

ArAS SfA-5 Team


 

 

Monday(19 October) CHANDRA/CIAO Section

 

GMT/UTC

EDT

 

 

12:00-12:45

8:00-8:45

Introduction to X-ray Astronomy

Jonathan McDowell

12:45-13:30

8:45-9:30

Introduction to CIAO

Antonella Fruscione

13:30-14:00

9:30-10:00

Break

 

14:00-14:45

10:00-10:45

From archive to source detection (Help, Docs, Archive, Repro, Detect)

Nick Lee

14:45-15:30

10:45-11:30

Point Source Analysis (specextract and srcflux)

Antonella Fruscione

15:30-16:00

11:30-12:00

Break

 

16:00-16:45

12:00-12:45

The Chandra Source Catalog

Frank Primini

16:45-17:4

12:45-13:45

Lunch/Dinner

 

17:45-18:30

13:45-14:30

Introduction to DS9 and Dax

Kenny Glotfelty

18:30-20:3

14:30-16:30

Start of Hands-on session

Antonella Fruscione and Kenny Glotfelty

 

 

 

 

Tuesday(20 October) CHANDRA/CIAO Section

GMT/UTC

EDT

 

 

12:00-12:45

8:00-8:45

Radial Profile, Combining, Reprojecting, Smoothing

Doug Durke

12:45-13:30

8:45-9:30

High-Resolution Spectroscopy and the TGCAT

Hans Moritz Gunther

13:30-14:00

9:30-10:00

Break

 

14:00-16:30

10:00-12:30

Hands-on session

Chandra Team

16:30-17:30

12:30-13:30

Lunch/Dinner

 

17:30-20:30

13:30-16:30

Hands-on session

Chandra Team

 

 


 

Wednesday(21 October) CHANDRA/CIAO Section

GMT/UTC

EDT

 

 

12:00-12:45

8:00-8:45

Extended Source Analysis with Jupyter notebook

Rodolfo Montez

12:45-13:30

8:45-9:30

Introduction to Astrostatistics

Vinay Kashyap

13:30-14:00

9:30-10:00

Break

 

14:00-14:45

10:00-10:45

Sherpa: the CIAO modeling and fitting application

Aneta Siemiginowska

14:45-16:30

10:45-12:30

Hands-on session

Chandra Team

16:30-17:30

12:30-13:30

Lunch/Dinner

 

17:30-18:30

13:30-14:30

Hands-on session

Chandra Team

18:30-19:30

14:30-15:30

Final Q&A session

 

 

 

 

Thursday (22 October) ArAS SfA Section

GMT/UTC

EDT

 

 

13:00-15:0

9:00-11:00

Final Q&A session

ArAS SfA Team

15:00-15:30

11:00-11:30

Break

 

15:30-16:30

11:30-12:30

Discussion with students

ArAS SfA Team

16:30-17:00

12:30-13:00

Closing Ceremony

ArAS SfA Team