Category:
Astrophysics I
Lectures for this program:
| Lecture Time | Speaker | Lecture subject |
|---|---|---|
| 13:30-14:00 | Jordan Camp |
Time Domain X-Ray Astronomy on the ISS with Lobster Optic We propose a focusing x-ray telescope, based on the so-called Lobster optic, to be placed on the International Space Sta... |
| 14:00-14:15 | Dafne Guetta |
The redshift distribution of GRBs Long gamma ray bursts (GRBs) are associated to the death of massive stars and have been discovered, so far, up to z = 8. |
| 14:15-14:30 |
Gilad Svirski [1] Ehud Nakar [1] |
Probing Soft Gamma Repeaters (SGRs) and dust in intervening molecular clouds by analyzing x-ray echoes from SGR bursts Soft gamma repeaters (SGRs) are objects emitting soft gamma-ray and hard x-ray bursts at irregular intervals, thought to... |
| 14:30-14:45 | Uri Keshet |
Cool cluster cores: the largest spiral flows The mechanisms shaping the cool cores of galaxy clusters and stabilizing them against catastrophic cooling are not yet... |
| 14:45-15:00 | Oded Papish [1] |
Exploding Core-Collapse Supernovae with Jittering Jets In this talk a new jets-driven model for core collapse supernova explosion will be presented. This model uses jittering... |
| 15:30-16:00 | Boaz Katz |
Super-eccentric hot Jupiters They are out there, they are detectable and they are crucial theoretically. |
| 16:00-16:30 |
Smadar Bressler [1] Giora Shaviv [1] |
Planetary atmospheric response to changes in greenhouse gas concentration The temperature profile of planetary atmospheres is controlled by insolation from the central star and by the radiative... |
| 16:30-16:45 |
Stephen Rafter [1] Shai Kaspi [1] |
Reverberation Mapping of the Intermediate-mass Nuclear Black Hole in SDSS J114008.71+030711.4 Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) are believed to reside in the center of nearly every galaxy. The primary characte... |
| 16:45-17:00 |
Haim Edri [1] Stephen Rafter [1] |
Photometric Reverberation Mapping of NGC 4395 Reverberation mapping (RM) is spectroscopic technique to measure masses (M_BH) of supermass |