"Prospects, challenges and evolution of AGN modeling in the Astro-H Era"

Rikkyo University (Tokyo), October 21-22 2015

Main Topics

✔Accretion and Winds
✔Photoionized plasma from theory and lab
✔Modeling of spectra

Organizers

Tadayuki Takahashi (ISAS/JAXA), Yasunobu Uchiyama (Rikkyo University)
Dmitry Khangulyan (Rikkyo University), Anton Dorodnitsyn (GSFC/NASA)

Agenda

AGN is a multi-scale phenomenon with different parts coupled by intense radiation and winds. Due to limitations of currently operating instruments, many details of this complex interplay remain a mystery. Drastic changes in this field are anticipated in the near future: observations with the calorimeter onboard of ASTRO-H will take studies of AGN to the next level. This presents an unprecedented opportunity to advance theoretical understanding of how these complex machines work. The goal of the workshop is to discuss the current state as well as the prospects of AGN modeling in the upcoming era of ASTRO-H.

Program

Time Start Time Stop Speaker Title
October 21st

9:45 10:00 Registration  
10:00 10:40 Hirofumi Noda "ASTRO-H Studies of Accretion Flows onto Supermassive Black Holes"
10:40 11:20 Norita Kawanaka "Theoretical Models of X-ray Emission from Black Hole Accretion Flows"
11:25 11:50 Break  
11:50 12:30 Yoshiyuki Inoue "Unveiling the nature of accretion disk coronae with ASTRO-H and ALMA"
12:30 12:50 Kohei Ichikawa "Determining the dust torus covering factor using clumpy torus models in IR"
12:55 13:55 Lunch  
13:55 14:35 Ken Ebisawa "Origin of the Spectral Variation and Seemingly Broad Iron Line Feature in Seyfert Galaxies"
14:35 15:15 Hirokazu Odaka "Monte Carlo approach to radiation modeling"
15:20 15:45 Break  
15:45 16:25 Matteo Guainazzi "NUSTAR X-ray spectroscopy of obscured AGN: new constraints on the circumnuclear gas and dust,
and Compton-scattering model uncertainties"
16:25 16:45 Kazuo Makishima "How to Compare AGNs with Stellar-Mass Black Holes"
16:45 17:05 Yoshihiro Ueda "Broadband X-ray Spectra of AGNs and Synthesis of the X-ray Background"
17:10 17:30 Break  
17:30 18:30 Discussion  
18:30 20:30 Dinner  
October 22nd

10:00 10:20 Susumu Inoue "Nonthermal multi-wavelength and multi-messenger signals from fast winds in AGN"
10:20 10:40 John Silverman cancelled
10:40 11:00 Tomohisa Kawashima "Photon Spectra of Super-critical Black Hole Accretion Flows"
10:00 11:20 Mariko Nomura "Radiation Hydrodynamic Simulations of Line-Driven Disk Winds for Ultra Fast Outflows"
11:25 11:50 Break  
11:50 12:30 Ken Ohsuga "Radiation-magnetohydrodynamics simulations of black hole accretion flows and outflows"
12:30 12:50 Kouichi Hagino "Disk wind interpretation of the strong iron K features in 1H 0707-495"
12:55 13:55 Lunch  
13:55 14:15 Shigenobu Hirose "Thermal stability of radiation-dominated accretion disks"
14:15 14:35 Atsushi Tanimoto "ASTRO-H prospects on Compton thick AGNs"
14:35 15:15 Anton Dorodnitsyn "AGN accretion and winds at parsec scales"
15:20 15:55 Break  
16:00 17:00 Tim Kallman "Microphysics and X-ray Spectra of AGN Outflows"
17:00 18:00 Discussion  

Invited Speakers

Ken EBISAWA, Matteo GUAINAZZI, Kouichi HAGINO, Shigenobu HIROSE, Kohei ICHIKAWA, Yoshiyuki INOUE, Tim KALLMAN, Norita KAWANAKA, Kazuo MAKISHIMA, Hirofumi NODA, Mariko NOMURA, Hiro ODAKA, Ken OHSUGA, John SILVERMAN, Yoshihiro UEDA

Workshop Venue

The workshop will take place at Ikebukuro Campus of Rikkyo University


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Additional Information

✔There will be NO workshop fee
✔On October 21st there will be a social dinner at the campus.