IAU Symposia
IAUS 290: Feeding compact objects: Accretion on all scales
Start date/time
August 20, 2012
End date/time
August 24, 2012
Place
Beijing,
China Nanjing
Contact
Zhang Chengmin
zhangcm@bao.ac.cn
Event website
Coordinating Division
Division XI Space & High Energy Astrophysics
SOC Co-Chairs: Tomaso Belloni (Italy), Mariano Méndez (Netherlands), Chengmin ZHANG (China Nanjing), Shuangnan ZHANG (China Nanjing)
SOC Members: Roger Blandford (United States), Chryssa Kouveliotou (United States), Ramesh Narayan (United States), Günther Hasinger (Germany), Brian Warner (South Africa), Donald Melrose (Australia), Rashid Sunyaev (Russian Federation), Gustavo Romero (Argentina), Jean-Pierre Lasota (France), Bozena Czerny (Poland), Chris Done (United Kingdom), Ken Ebisawa (Japan)
Editors of Proceedings: Tomaso Belloni (Italy), Mariano Méndez (Netherlands), Chengmin ZHANG (China Nanjing), Shuangnan ZHANG (China Nanjing)
Topics:
- Accretion phenomenon in AGN, X-ray binaries, CVs
- Probing General Relativity through accreting systems
- Multi-wavelength coverage from radio to gamma rays
- Magnetic environments around compact objects
- Large scale properties of accretion
- Accretion-ejection connection
- Jets & outflows
- Time variability across electromagnetic spectrum
- Scaling properties & unified models
- Instrumentation for next decade
