Meetings

 

1st IXPE Science Collaboration Meeting (SCM1) 
2018 November 7-8, Roma

Day 1: November 7, Wednesday (all day),
CNR HQ, Piazzale Aldo Moro 7, Aula Marconi

Day 2: November 8, Thursday (morning only),
Centro Congressi Cavour, Via Cavour 50/a,  Sala 6+7
 
Wednesday 7 November 2018
08:45 - 10:15 Session I Reports on the Mission and on working-group activities (Chair: Steve O'Dell)
  • 08:45 Opening, welcome (Barbara Negri) 15'
  • 09:00 Status of the IXPE Mission (Martin Weisskopf) 10'
    Material: Slides
  • 09:10 Status of the Mirror Module Assemblies (Brian Ramsey) 10'
    Material: Slides
  • 09:20 Status of the Polarimetry Instrument, (Paolo Soffitta) 10'
    Material: Slides
  • 09:30 Report from the Science Calibration WG (Wayne Baumgartner & Fabio Muleri) 15'
    Material: Slides
  • 09:45 Report from the Science Data Processing WG (Allyn Tennant & Matteo Perri) 15'
    Material: Slides
  • 10:00 Report from the Science Analysis and Simulation WG (Luca Baldini & Herman Marshall) 15'
10:15 - 10:45 Coffee Break
10:45 - 13:00 Session II Reports from the Topical Working Groups (Chair: Giorgio Matt)
  • 10:45 TWG1: Isolated pulsars & PWNe (Niccolò Bucciantini) 15'
    Material: Slides
  • 11:00 TWG2: SNRs (Pat Slane) 15'
    Material: Slides
  • 11:15 TWG3: Accreting stellar-mass black holes (Michal Dovciak) 15'
    Material: Slides
  • 11:30 TWG4: Accreting neutron stars & white dwarfs (Juri Poutanen) 15'
    Material: Slides
  • 11:45 TWG5: Magnetars (Silvia Zane, for Roberto Turolla) 15'
    Material: Slides
  • 12:00 TWG6: Radio-quiet AGN & Galactic Center (Frédéric Marin) 15'
    Material: Slides
  • 12:15 TWG7: Radio-loud AGN & blazars (Alan Marscher) 15'
    Material: Slides
  • 12:30 TWGs discussion 30'
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 17:00 Session III IXPE scientific objectives - Special talks (Chair: Roger Romani)
  • 14:00 The Crab and its key role in polarization across the wavebands (Martin Weisskopf) 20'
    Material: Slides
  • 14:20 Exploring synergies of radio and X-ray polarimetry in the study of Compact Objects (Maura Pilia) 20'
    Material: Slides
  • 14:40 Polarization statistics for extended sources (Jacco Vink) 20'
    Material: Slides
  • 15:00 Polarization modulation from Lense-Thirring precession in X-ray binaries (Adam Ingram) 20'
    Material: Slides
  • 15:20 X-ray polarization in accreting magnetized neutron stars (Victor Doroshenko) 20'
    Material: Slides
  • 15:40 Observing magnetars with IXPE: what we can expect to see (Roberto Taverna) 20'
    Material: Slides
  • 16:00 Archeoastronomy of the Galactic Center (Eugene Churazov) 20'
    Material: Slides
  • 16:20 Comments on Selecting Blazar Targets (Roger Romani) 10'
    Material: Slides
  • 16:30 General discussion 30'
Thursday 8 November 2018
09:00 - 10:40 Session IV Simulation set-up, output, and analysis (Chair: Herman Marshall) 
  • 09:00 An introduction to ixpeobssim (Melissa Pesce-Rollins) 20'
    Material: Slides
  • 09:20 Measuring it all in MSH 15-52: Position, energy, time and polarization (Roger Romani) 20'
    Material: Slides
  • 09:40 Simulating extended sources with ixpeobssim (Riccardo Ferrazzoli) 20'
    Material: Slides
  • 10:00 An IXPE simulation of the Compton-thick AGN NGC 1068 (Andrea Marinucci) 20'
    Material: Slides
  • 10:20 Simulating GRS 1915+105 (Romana Mikušincová) 20'
    Material: Slides
10:40 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 13:30 Session V Technical details of simulation and analysis (Chair: Luca Baldini)
  • 11:00 ixpeobssim live demo (Luca Baldini) 30'
  • 11:30 IXPE data formats and CALDB (Matteo Perri) 20'
    Material: Slides
  • 11:50 Instrument response functions in ixpeobssim (Niccolò di Lalla) 20'
    Material: Slides
  • 12:10 Progress toward a machine learning tool for measuring IXPE event tracks (Herman Marshall & Kevin Shi) 20'
    Material: Slides
  • 12:30 Phenomenological XSPEC models (Lindsey Lisalda) 20'
  • 12:50 Preliminary idea for a TWGs web (Stefano Ciprini) 5'
    Material: Slides
  • 12:55 Discussion 35'