Monday, September 7th
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Session I: What is the Central Mass Concentration? What are the size and spectrum of Sgr A*? | ||
Session moderator: Eric Becklin | ||
08:55-09:00 | Introduction and Workshop Welcome | (Angela Cotera)* |
09:00-09:30 | The Dark Mass in the Center of the Milky Way | (Reinhard Genzel)* |
09:30-09:50 | New Proper Motion Data | (Andreas Eckart)* |
09:50-10:10 | High Proper Motion Stars in the Vicinity of Sgr A* | (Andrea Ghez)* |
10:10-10:30 | NICMOS observations of the central Parsec | (Marcia Rieke)* |
10:30-11:00 | Coffee Break | |
11:00-11:20 | Constraints on the mass of SgrA* from its proper motion | (Mark Reid)* |
11:20-11:40 | NICMOS Observations of the Central Parsec: Deep Imaging at 1.6 microns, Short-Term Variability, and Ionized Emission | (Susan Stolovy)* |
11:40-12:40 | Discussion | |
12:40 | Lunch (On Site) | |
Session II: Can VLBI constrain the size and structure of Sgr A*? | ||
Session moderator: Anton Zensus | ||
14:30-14:50 | Corruption of the Visibility of Sgr A* by Intervening Plasma | (Don Backer)* |
14:50-15:10 | 7mm evidence for intrinsic source size and structure of Sgr A* | (K.Y. Lo)* |
15:10-15:30 | 7 mm VLBI Imaging of Sgr A* | (Geoff Bower)* |
15:30-15:50 | Millimeter Observations of Sgr A* | (Thomas Krichbaum)* |
15:50-16:20 | Coffee Break | |
16:20-16:40 | 86GHz VLBI observations of Sgr A* | (Shep Doeleman)* |
16:40-17:00 | Flare of Sgr A* at 100 Ghz | (Masato Tsuboi)* |
17:00-18:00 | Discussion | |
20:00 | Volleyball Tournament (optional) | |
Tuesday, September 8th
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Session III: How do we reconcile Models and Observations of Sgr A*? | ||
Session moderator: Reinhard Genzel | ||
09:00-09:30 | Introduction | (Fulvio Melia)* |
09:30-09:50 | Explaining the spectrum of Sgr A* using a two temperature plasma | (R. Mahadevan/R. Narayan)* |
09:50-10:10 | The Influence of an Advection-dominated Accretion Flow on the Appearance of Sgr A* | (T. Beckert)* |
10:10-10:40 | Coffee Break | |
10:40-11:00 | The jet model for Sgr A* and the nature of the submm-bump | (Heino Falcke)* |
11:00-11:20 | Sgr A* - The radio spectrum | (Wolfgang Duschl)* |
11:20-12:20 | Discussion | |
12:20 | Lunch | |
Session IV: Morphology and Gas Dynamics within Sgr A West: How are the various components of Sgr A West related? | ||
Session moderator: Peter Mezger | ||
14:20-14:50 | The Various Components of Sgr A West and their Interrelationship | (Farhad Yusef-Zadeh)* |
14:50-15:10 | 3D Simulations of the Gas Dynamics in the Central Region | (Robert Coker)* |
15:10-15:30 | Proper Motions and Structure of the Radio Components around Sgr A* | (Jun-Hui Zhao)* |
15:30-15:50 | Mid-infrared observations of Sgr A West from Keck | (Angela Cotera)* |
15:50-16:20 | Coffee Break | |
16:20-16:40 | Sgr A* in the Mid-Infrared Reference Frame: The Relationship Between the Radio and Infrared Sources in the Central Parsec | (Dan Gezari)* |
16:40-17:00 | Theoretical studies of the Circumnuclear Disk | (Robert Sanders)* |
17:00-18:00 | Discussion | |
18:00 | Tour of the Mirror Lab? | |
Wednesday, September 9th
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08:00-12:00 | Arizona Sonoran Desert Museum | |
12:00 | Lunch | |
Session IV: continued | ||
Session V: How, when, where and why are stars formed in the GC? | ||
Session moderator: Kris Sellgren | ||
13:00-13:30 | Stellar Interactions in Dense Clusters | (Fred Rasio)* |
13:30-13:50 | Stellar Content of the Galactic Center | (Bob Blum)* |
13:50-14:10 | Stellar Content of the central 30pc | (Peter G. Mezger)* |
14:10-14:30 | Properties of stars in the galactic center | (Thomas Ott)* |
14:30-15:00 | Coffee Break | |
15:00-15:20 | The Arches Cluster | (Gene Serabyn)* |
15:20-15:40 | NICMOS observations of the Quintuplet Cluster | (Don Figer)* |
15:40-16:00 | Theoretical modelling of stars | (Paco Najarro)* |
16:00-17:00 | Discussion | |
17:00 | Break for the day | |
18:30 | No host Cocktail Hour (The Last Territory) | |
19:30 | Workshop Banquet (The Last Territory) | |
Thursday, September 10th
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Session VI: What is the metallicity as determined by old and new stars? | ||
Session moderator: ? | ||
09:00-09:20 | Stellar abundances at the GC | (Solange Ramirez)* |
09:20-09:40 | OH/IR stars as signposts for ancient starburst activity in the Galactic center | (Lorant Sjouwerman)* |
09:40-10:00 | Discussion | |
10:00-10:30 | Coffee Break | |
Session VI: How do the various components of the inner 100 parsecs interact with each other? | ||
Session moderator: Miller Goss | ||
10:30-10:50 | Wide-field Imaging of the Galactic Center | (Namir Kassim)* |
10:50-11:10 | Sgr East and it's interactions with the surrounding gas | (Robert Zylka)* |
11:10-11:30 | Recombination lines from the SgrA complex near 20 cm | (K.R. Anantharamaiah)* |
11:30-12:00 | Discussion | |
12:00 | Lunch | |
14:00-14:20 | OH 1720 MHz Masers at the GC | (Mark Wardle)* |
14:20-14:40 | Free Electrons and Radio-Wave Scattering in the GC | (T. Joseph Lazio)* |
14:40-15:30 | Discussion | |
15:30-16:00 | Coffee Break | |
Session VII: What is the strength of the magnetic field in the GC and what are its large and small scale effects? | ||
Session moderator: Yoshiaki Sofue | ||
16:00-16:20 | Magnetic Fields in the Sagittarius A region | (Doug Roberts)* |
16:20-16:40 | Far-infrared/Submillimeter Polarimetric Observations of the Galactic Center | (Giles Novak)* |
16:40-17:00 | The Galactic Center Radio Threads: A Multifrequency, Polarimetric Study | (Cornelia Lang)* |
17:00-18:00 | Discussion | |
18:00 | Tour of the Mirror Lab? | |
Friday, September 11th
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Session VIII: How "standard" are the central regions of our Galaxy? What would the GC look like from 1 Mpc? | ||
Session moderator: Heino Falcke | ||
08:00-08:20 | The GC in comparison to AGN | (Ski Antonucci)* |
08:20-08:40 | Is the GC a broad line/Seyfert/LINER Galaxy? | (George Rieke)* |
08:40-09:00 | The MIR Spectrum in the GC: a Starburst Nucleus | (Janet Simpson)* |
09:00-09:30 | Discussion | |
09:30-10:00 | Coffee Break | |
Session IX: What can we learn from High-energy emission in the GC? | ||
Session Moderator: Fulvio Melia* | ||
10:00-10:20 | AXAF X-ray Observations of the Galactic Center | (Gordon Garmire)* |
10:20-10:40 | Cosmic rays in the GC | (Peter Biermann)* |
10:40-11:00 | gamma -rays from the GC: A Point-like or Diffuse Source? | (Sera Markoff)* |
11:00-11:20 | The Galactic Center EGRET Source and the Broad-band Spectrum of Sgr A East | (Marco Fatuzzo)* |
11:20-11:40 | Cold Matter measurements in the GC with the X-ray satellite ASCA | (Masaaki Sakano)* |
11:40-12:00 | Coffee Break | |
12:00-12:30 | Discussion | |
12:30-13:00 | Closing Thoughts and Workshop Summary | (Charles Townes)* |
13:00 | Lunch | |
14:00 | Leave for the Grand Canyon (optional) | |
All Week
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POSTER SESSION | ||
(only first Author is listed here) | ||
(-) | Accretion Disk Instabilities in the Vicinity of Black Holes | (W. Auer)* |
(-) | Acceleration processes towards a quasi-monoenergetic electron distribution | (Zeno Jauch)* |
(-) | ASCA Observations of the Sgr A region | (Y. Maeda)* |
(-) | Life Time of the Radio Arc Filaments determined by mm-Wave Observations with the 100-m Telescope | (Y. Sofue)* |
(-) | Spatially Resolved Dust Shells in the Central Parcec | (Angelle Tanner)* |
(-) | Physical Properties of OH/IR Stars Close to the Galactic Center | (Anders Winnberg)* |