Chandra Announcement: High Resolution X-ray Spectroscopy Workshop

[Tara Gokas]

The Chandra X-ray Center is excited to offer a hybrid science workshop to be held August 1-3, 2023 on the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on the subject of High Resolution X-ray Spectroscopy.

Chandra contains two separate transmission gratings – the HETG and LETG – that have enabled high-resolution spectroscopy in the X-ray domain at high angular resolution. This science workshop will cover the observational results of – and theoretical advances attained through – the past twenty-five years of high-resolution X-ray spectroscopy. 

Topics to be explored include:

• AGN

• Massive Stars

• X-Ray Binaries and Compact Objects

• Interstellar Medium

• CGM and WHIM

• Clusters of Galaxies

• Novae and Cataclysmic Variables

• Supernovae and Remnants

• Laboratory Astrophysics

• Transient Phenomena 

In addition to results from the LETG and HETG on board Chandra, the workshop will also incorporate results from XMM-Newton’s RGS and Hitomi as well as the prospects of future missions, including XRISM and Athena.

For up-to-date details on in-person and virtual registration and attendance information, please visit: https://cxc.harvard.edu/cdo/hrxs2023/

Important Dates:

• Abstract Deadline: April 3, 2023

• Registration Closes: May 1, 2023 

The Scientific Organizing Committee is composed of:

• Hans Moritz Günther, co-Chair  (MIT)

• David P Huenemoerder, co-Chair  (MIT)

• Aya Bamba (University of Tokyo)

• Ehud Behar (Technion)

• Lia Corrales (University of Michigan)

• Anna Lia Longinotti (UNAM)

• Delphine Porquet (LAM)

• Daniele Rogantini (MIT)

• Aurora Simionescu (SRON)

• Jose Torrejon (Universidad de Alicante)