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Rome, 16-17 October 2008 – Centro Congressi Conte di Cavour - Via Cavour 50/A |
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"Polarimetry days in Rome: Crab status, theory and prospects" |
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THE CRAB ACROSS THE ELECTROMAGNETIC SPECTRUM |
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Date: Thursday, 16 October 2008, 09.00 -18.00 |
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| Reception | (30) | 09.00 | |
| P. Ubertini | Welcome address | (30) | 09.30 |
| J. Jeff Hester | General talk on Crab properties based on Ann. Rev. paper | (25’) | 10:00 |
| M. C. Weisskopf | High Energy Polarisation - Historical remarks | (25’) |
10.25 |
| A.J. Dean | The gamma-ray Crab scenario | (25’) |
10.50 |
| Coffee break | (30’) |
11.15 |
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| P. Laurent | The IBIS result | (20’) |
11.45 |
| S. Gunji | The PHENEX experiment result | (20’) |
12.05 |
| M. Lopez | The TeV Crab | (20’) |
12.25 |
| Lunch break | (90’) |
12.45 |
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| B. Atwood | Can FERMI-LAT measure Gamma Ray Polarization? | (20’) | 14.15 |
| A. Pellizzoni | AGILE: preliminary resuts | (20') | 14.35 |
| R.P. Mignani | The Crab Optical & UVPolarimetry | (20’) | 14.55 |
| A. Slowikowska | Phase Resolved Optical Polarisation | (20’) | 15.15 |
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Coffee break |
(30’) |
15:35 |
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| G. Kanbach | Interpretation and modelling | (20’) | 16.05 |
| P. Persi | The Crab Nebula in the infrared: a review | (20’) | 16.25 |
| P. De Bernardis for the Planck Collaboration | The Crab nebula as a calibrator for microwave polarimeters | (20’) | 16.45 |
| Open discussion and conclusions | (55’) | 17.05 | |
| End of Day 1 |
18.00 |
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| Common dinner | 20.30 | ||
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THEORY AND GENERAL IMPLICATIONS |
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Date: Friday, 17 October 2008, 9.30 -16.30 |
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J. Takata |
The Crab X/gamma-ray polarisation processes |
(20’) |
9.30 |
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I. Grenier |
The Implication of the INTEGRAL Result |
(20’) | 9.50 |
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J. Dyks |
The role of special relativistic effects in shaping the intensity profiles and polarisation of pulsars |
(20’) |
10.10 |
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H.Ardavan |
A new mechanism of generating broadband pulsar-like polarization |
(20’) |
10.30 |
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D. Volpi |
Polarisation from Pulsar Wind Nebulae |
(20’) | 10.50 |
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L. Maccione |
Gamma-ray polarization constraints on Planck scale violations of special relativity |
(20’) | 11.10 |
| Coffee break | (20’) |
11.30 |
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FUTURE PERSPECTIVES AT HIGH ENERGY |
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N. Barriere |
The Gamma Ray Imager |
(20’) |
11.50 |
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R.M. Curado da Silva |
The Polca experiments |
(20’) | 12.10 |
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S. Larsson |
The PoGOLite Experiment |
(20’) | 12.30 |
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L. Lamanna |
The POLAR Experiment | (20') | 12.50 |
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G. Kanbach |
MEGA/GRIPS |
(20’) | 13.10 |
| Lunch break | (60’) |
13.30 |
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E. Costa |
The Italian Polarimetry Programmes |
(20’) | 14.30 |
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L. Piro |
Polarimetry with ESA-NASA IXO Observatory |
(20’) | 14.50 |
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H. Krawczynski |
Polarimetry with EXIST |
(20’) |
15.10 |
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All |
General discussion and concluding remarks |
(60’) | 15.30 |
| End of Day 2 |
16.30 |
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| INTEGRAL 6th Birthday - Toast | 16.30 | ||
| INTEGRAL BOOK - 2008 | |||
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