Chandra Announcement: Chandra Events at the 243rd AAS
Tingle, Evan
Chandra Events at the 243rd AAS
The Chandra Director’s Office would like to bring to your attention some Chandra and X-ray related events during the 243rd meeting of the American Astronomical Society, where we will kick off events for our twenty-fifth anniversary celebration! All times are CST.
Chandra X-Ray Observatory Booth (Exhibit Hall)
We encourage you to visit the Chandra booth, where you can learn about spacecraft updates and proposal opportunities, talk to CXC experts, and browse our latest collection of materials and swag. The booth will be staffed and open whenever the exhibit hall is open, beginning the evening of January 7th. We can be found in the larger Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian booth, #315.
Meet with the Director
Chandra X-ray Center director Pat Slane will be at the Chandra booth (part of the Center for Astrophysics booth, #315). In particular, he is interested in answering all of your questions about the Chandra Legacy Program. Pat will be at the booth:
Tues, Jan 9 4:30 - 5:30 PM
Wed, Jan 10 9:00 - 9:45 AM
Chandra Special Session
As part of our 25th Anniversary Celebration, we have organized a special session Tuesday morning (Chandra at 25; Tues, Jan 9 10:00 - 11:30 AM; Room 222) featuring the following line-up of speakers:
Here, There, and Everywhere: High Resolution All Across The Universe
David Pooley (Trinity University and Eureka Scientific)
10:00 – 10:20 AM
High Resolution X-ray Astrophysics in the Era of Multi-messenger Astronomy
Shuo Zhang (Michigan State University)
10:20 – 10:40 AM
Black Holes at High Resolution
Joey Neilsen (Villanova University)
10:40 – 11:00 AM
Twenty-five Years of Galaxy Clusters with the Chandra X-ray Observatory
Elizabeth Blanton (Boston University)
11:00 – 11:20 AM
Press Briefing
NASA Telescopes Show Famous Exploded Star in Its Best Light
Dan Milisavljevic (Purdue University)
Mon, Jan 8 10:15 AM; Room 229
Astronomers Find Spark of Star Birth Across Billions of Years
Michael Calzadilla (MIT)
Tues, Jan 11 10:15 AM; Room 229
Workshop
Effective Astronomy Visualizations for Research, Outreach, and Learning
Sun, Jan 7 1:00 - 5:00 PM; Room 223
Town Halls
Mon, Jan 8 12:45 - 1:45 PM; Great Hall A
HEAD Social and Business Meeting
Tues, Jan 9 7:00 - 8:00 PM; Room 225
Splinter and Special Sessions
Tues, Jan 9 10:00 - 11:30 AM; Room 222
HEAD I - Status of the X-ray Imaging Spectrometry Mission
Mon, Jan 8 10:00 - 11:30 AM; Room 212
The Line Emission Mapper: A NASA X-ray Probe Mission Concept
Mon, Jan 8 2:00 - 3:30 PM; Room 209
HEAD II - High-Energy observations of Stellar-mass Compact Objects: A Tribute to Tomaso Belloni
Tues, Jan 9 10:00 - 11:30 AM; Room 212
The NASA Hubble Fellowship Program: Creating 21st Century Leaders in Astronomy
Tues, Jan 9 2:00 - 3:30 PM; Room 220
CfA Theater
The Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian booth (#315) will be hosting talks during the morning and evening poster sessions. Please stop by on Wednesday morning to learn more about the Chandra Source Catalog.
The Chandra Source Catalog
Rafael Martínez-Galarza and Mojegan Azadi (Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian)
Wed, Jan 10 9:30 - 10:00 AM; Exhibit Hall Booth 315
Exhibitor Theater
Chandra at Twenty-five: NASA’s Flagship X-ray Observatory
Tues, Jan 9 4:00 - 4:30 PM; Exhibit Hall B-1/B-2
Hyperwall Talks
The Many Discoveries of the Perseus Cluster with Chandra
Steve Ehlert (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center)
Mon, Jan 8 9:05 - 9:20 AM; NASA SMD Booth, Exhibit Hall
Chandra Innovations in Data Visualization: 3D Modeling, Sonification & Beyond
Kimberly Arcand (Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian)
Tues, Jan 9 9:35 - 9:50 AM; NASA SMD Booth, Exhibit Hall
Gravitational Lensing for Astrometric Determinations: Milli-arcsec X-ray Structure in Active Galactic Nuclei
Dan Schwartz (Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian)
Wed, Jan 10 9:50 - 10:05 AM; NASA SMD Booth, Exhibit Hall
Top 5 Chandra Discoveries
Rodolfo Montez Jr. (Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian)
Wed, Jan 10 5:30 - 5:45 PM; NASA SMD Booth, Exhibit Hall
Please refer to the meeting program for the latest information or to explore other events.