Meetings
List of STROBE-X meetings. Click on the meeting name for the agenda.
| Cynthia Froning (SwRI) | 20 June - 17:30 JST | The Spectroscopic Time-Resolving Observatory for Broadband Energy X-rays (STROBE-X) Proposed 2023 Astrophysics Probe Explorer |
April 10, 2024 7:00 PM CDT - STROBE-X at the High Energy Astrophysics Division Meeting in Austin, TX
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 | ||
| NUCLEAR PHYSICS | ||
|---|---|---|
| 8:30-8:55 | Hendrik Schatz | Key problems in nuclear astrophysics |
| 8:55-9:20 | Laurens Keek | Type I bursts |
| 9:20-9:45 | Tommy Nelson | Novae & CVs |
| 9:45-10:05 | COFFEE | |
| NORMAL AND ABNORMAL PHASES OF BINARY EVOLUTION | ||
| 10:05-10:30 | Alessandro Patruno | Binary evolution with STROBE-X |
| 10:30-10:55 | Matt Middleton (remote) | Ultraluminous X-ray Sources (remote) |
| 10:55-11:20 | Silas Laycock | Populations of High Mass X-ray Binaries |
| CLUSTER AND GROUP | ||
| 11:20-11:45 | Mike McDonald | General problems in diffuse emisison with STROBE-X |
| 11:45-12:10 | Esra Bulbul (remote) | Cluster abundance measurements |
| 12:10-2:00 | LUNCH | |
| NEUTRON STARS | ||
| 2:00-2:25 | David Kaplan | Pulsars |
| 2:25-2:50 | Zaven Arzoumanian | Neutron star equation of state |
| 2:50-3:15 | Craig Heinke | Cooling curves of neutron stars |
| 3:15-3:35 | COFFEE | |
| TRANSIENTS | ||
| 3:35-4:00 | Alessandra Corsi | STROBE-X and LIGO |
| 4:00-4:25 | Adam Goldstein | Gamma-ray bursts |
| 4:25-4:50 | Katie Auchettl (remote) | Tidal Disruptions |
Breakout sessions.
Location: Klein Room.
Topics: TBD.