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LB&B II: Program and Presented Talks/Posters

Monday - 21 April

ISM Overview: Magnetic Fields, Molecular Clouds, and Interstellar Bubbles

9:00 - 9:35 Carl Heiles The LHB-Local Cavity interface and Other Bubbles  
9:40 - 10:05 You-Hua Chu The observation of ISM Bubbles in the Galaxy and Beyond PPT
10:10 - 10:35 Jane Arthur Bubbles in the ISM  
11:10 - 11:25 B-G Andersson The Magnetic Pressure in the Local Bubble Wall towards 1,b ~ 300, 0 PPT
11:30 - 11:45 Susan Lepri The Solar Wind as an Astrophysical Laboratory  

 

Local ISM: The Physical Conditions of Nearby Gas

14:00 - 14:35 Ed Jenkins The physical conditions of the nearby gas PPT
14:40 - 15:05 Jon Slavin The Most Local ISM PPT
15:10 - 15:35 Merav Opher LISM, Heliosphere and Solar Wind Models  
16:10 - 16:25: Greg Brown Measurements of X-ray Spectral Signatures of Charge Exchange  
16:30 - 16:45 Steve Snowden XMM-Newton Observation of Magnetoscheath SWCX Emission PPT
16:50 - 17:05 Dennis Bodewits Chandra Comet Observations During the Last Solar Cycle PPT

 

Tuesday - 22 April

Modeling the LHB & ISM

9:00 - 9:35 Don Cox Theoretical Models of the LHB, LB interfaces with other structures, possible formation scenarios for the LB  
9:40 - 10:05 Sally Oey The Power Problem of Bubbles PPT
10:10 - 10:35 Dieter Breitschwerdt Modeling the Local Hot Bubble PPT, Movies
11:10 - 11:25 Nicole Wityk Probing the Galaxy with Superbubbles: Three Dimensional Simulations PPT, Movies
11:30 - 11:45 Seth Redfield (Jeff Linsky) Structure, Dynamics, and Physical Properties of the Warm LISM Within the Local Bubble  
11:50 - 12:05 Terrance Gaetz X-ray Observations of the Vela SNR Ejecta Fragments  

 

Observation and Models of Distant Hot Gas: Superbubbles & Galactic Halo

14:00 - 14:35 Robin Shelton Observations and Models of Distant Hot Gas in the Galactic Halo  
14:40 - 15:05 Daniel Wang Global Hot Gas in and Around the Galaxy PPT
15:10 - 15:25 Anjali Gupta Sources of Contamination in the Emission from the Local Bubble PPT
16:10 - 16:25 Paul Plucinsky The Monogem Ring: A Nearby SNR Similar to the Local Bubble? PPT
16:20 - 16:35 Eric Miller The North Polar Spur: Detection of Nitrogen Enhancement with Suzaku PPT

Wednesday - 23 April

The Local Bubble in X-rays

9:00 - 9:35 K. D. Kuntz Review of the X-ray evidence for the LHB PPT
9:40 - 10:05 Dan McCammon (Randall Smith) Observations of the Local Hot Bubble - Future Missions (SXG) PPT
10:10 - 10:35 Noriko Yamasaki Suzaku Detection of the Charge Exchange Emission and Observations for Soft X-ray Diffuse Emissions Keynote
11:10 - 11:35 Massimiliano Galeazzi Shadowing Studies in the Moderate (CCD) Resolution Era  
11:40 - 11:55 Brad Wargelin Separating Local and Cosmic Soft X-ray Emission in the Chandra Deep Field - South PPT

Charge Exchange

14:00 - 14:35 Tom Cravens Solar Wind Charge Exchange Contributions to the Diffuse X-ray Background PPT
14:40 - 15:05 Dimitra Koutroumpa The Spectrum of Solar Wind Charge Exchange Emission PPT
15:10 - 15:35 Michael Collier Observation of Solar Wind Charge Emission - Future Missions (MagEx, CODEX) PPT
16:10 - 16:25 Ina Robertson Solar Wind Charge Exchange and the ROSAT Sky Maps PPT
16:30 - 16:45 David Henley Observing Solar Wind Charge Exchange from a Coronal Mass Ejection PPT
16:50 - 17:05 Jennifer Carter Identifying Solar Wind Charge Exchange Emission in XMM-Newton Observations PPT
17:10 - 17:25 W. Van Dyke Dixon The FUSE Survey of the Diffuse O VI Emission from the ISM  

 

Thursday - 24 April

Local Bubble & Local Cavity in other wavebands

8:30 - 8:55 Jeff Linsky Results from the ISSI Workshop: "From the Outer Heliosphere to the Local Bubble: Comparison of New Observations with Theory." PPT
9:00 - 9:25 Bill Oegerle The O VI Issue, Part I PPT
9:30 - 9:55 Martin Barstow The O VI Issue, Part II PPT
10:00 - 10:15 Shauna Sallmen FUSE Observations of the Loop I/Local Bubble Interaction Region PPT
10:20 - 10:35 Michael Kowalski Future EUV Observations of the ISM PPT

Posters

1 Richard Edgar The Spectrum of the 1/4 keV Band Diffuse Soft X-ray Background  
2 Jeffrey Bloch Limits on the Emission from Fe IX-X from the Interstellar Medium PPT

 

Coming Soon: The Video --"Don Cox / Barry Welsh - The Local Cavity : Hot or Not?"