Meetings

List of STROBE-X meetings. Click on the meeting name for the agenda.

STROBE-X Mini-Golf Event!

Come try for a "Black Hole in One" and enjoy a free round of mini-golf at the Whitewater Putting Course at the Horseshoe Bay Resort. Have fun and chat with the STROBE-X team!

Shotgun start at 7:00 PM CDT

Custom scorecards and balls will be provided.

STROBE-X Update for Science Team and Community

Slides are here.

Video recording is here

Agenda

Cynthia Froning (SwRI) STROBE-X Introduction
Paul Ray (NRL) Mission and Instrument Overview
Jamie Kennea (Penn St.) Mission Operations
Tom Maccarone (TTU), Nicole Lloyd-Ronning (LANL), Jack Steiner (CfA), Anna Watts (Amsterdam) Science Tag Team
Q&A Session

STROBE-X Presentations

Pete Roming Oral 250.04 (Tue @ 2:30 PM, R01) STROBE-X A Probe-Class TDAMM Mission
Paul Ray iPoster 360.11 (Wed @ 5:30 PM) STROBE-X Mission Overview
Zaven Arzoumanian iPoster 457.04 (Thu 1:00 PM) The STROBE-X X-ray Concentrator Array: Expanding the Dynamic Range of X_ray Astrophysics
Tony Hutcheson iPoster 360.16 (Wed @ 5:30 PM) The Large Area Detector Design for the STROBE-X Mission
Ron Remillard iPoster 360.15 (Wed @ 5:30 PM) The Wide Field Monitor for STROBE-X
Nicole Lloyd-Ronning iPoster 360.27 (Wed @ 5:30 PM) Multi-messenger Astrophysics with the STROBE-X satellite
Jack Steiner iPoster 177.08 (Mon @ 5:30 PM) STROBE-X as a Probe of Black Hole Spin
Slavko Bogdanov iPoster 360.02 (Wed @ 5:30 PM) STROBE-X Probing Neutron Star Structure and the Dense Matter Equation of State
Tom Maccarone iPoster 177.08 (Wed @ 5:30 PM) STROBE-X General Observer Program
Jamie Kennea iPoster 457.16 (Thu @ 1:00 PM) STROBE-X: A True Swift-Like Operations Concept that Enables TDAMM Scioence

The STROBE-X splinter session will be held on Sunday, 26 March 2023, 12:00pm - 1:30pm at Queen's 5 (HILTON WAIKŌLOA VILLAGE).

Agenda

Paul Ray Instruments of STROBE-X
Tom Maccarone Science case overview of STROBE-X
Anna Watts Neutron star equation of state with STROBE-X
Jack Steiner Strong gravity with STROBE-X
Jamie Kennea Multi-messenger astronomy with STROBE-X

The STROBE-X splinter session will be held 11 January 2018, 10:00am - 11:30am at National Harbor 8 (Gaylord at National Harbor).

Agenda

Paul Ray STROBE-X Overview
Colleen Wilson-Hodge STROBE-X Instrument and Mission Design Lab Runs
Jack Steiner Stellar-mass Black Holes
Adam Goldstein Gamma-ray Bursts
Zaven Arzoumanian Dense Matter Equation of State Science
Erin Kara AGN

The STROBE-X Science Definition Workshop will be held 18-20 September 2017 at Museum of Texas Tech University.

Agenda

INTRODUCTION
8:30 - 8:35 Tom Maccarone Welcoming remarks
8:35 - 8:50 Paul Ray Mission proposal process overview
8:50 - 9:05 Colleen Wilson-Hodge Hardware baseline and launch issues
STRONG GRAVITY
9:05 - 9:30 Javier Garcia-Martinez Reflection modelling
9:30 - 9:55 Abdu Zoghbi Reverberation Mapping in AGN
9:55 - 10:20 Ed Cackett Reverberation Mapping in X-ray Binaries
10:20 - 10:45 Chris Fragile Quasi-periodic oscillations and tests of strong gravity
10:45-11:05 COFFEE
AGN
11:05-11:30 Jonelle Walsh Reverberation Mapping & Black Hole Masses
11:30-11:55 Mislav Balokovic Absorbed AGN
11:55-12:20 Mike Koss AGN Surveys in the STROBE-X context
12:20-2:00 LUNCH
ACCRETION/EJECTION PHYSICS
2:00-2:25 Sebastian Heinz Jets from X-ray binaries
2:25-2:50 Steve Eikenberry Rapid multiwavelength correlated variability
2:50-3:15 Joey Neilsen (remote) Disk winds
3:15-3:35 COFFEE
3:35-4:00 Marco Ajello Blazars
4:00-4:25 Jack Steiner Geometrically thin accretion disks
Poster pops