Division D High Energy Phenomena and Fundamental Physics
President
Diana Mary Worrall
University of Bristol
HH Wills Physics Laboratory
Tyndall Avenue
Bristol BS8 1TL
United Kingdom
Phone: +44 117 928 8787
Fax: +44 117 925 5624
Email: d
worrall
bristolacuk
Organization website: http://www.bristol.ac.uk/
Last updated:
September 14, 2011
Vice-President
Felix Albert Aharonian
Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies
School of Cosmic Physics
31 Fitzwilliam Place
2 Dublin
Ireland
Phone: +353 3-86-7358222
Fax: +353 3-1- 5242302
Email 1: FelixAharoniandiasie
Email 2: FelixAharonianmpi-hdmpgde
Personal website: http://www.mpi-hd.mpg.de/astrophysik/HEA/1600.html
Organization website: http://www.dias.ie/
Last updated:
September 6, 2012
Steering Committee
Xavier Barcons
Christine Jones
John Kirk
Chryssa Kouveliotou
Elena Pian
Tadayuki TAKAHASHI
Anna Wolter
Description
Division D subsumes the old Div. XI (Space and High Energy Astrophysics) with a broader scientific perspective including, e.g., "multi-messenger astronomy" (cosmic rays, neutrinos, gravitational waves, etc.), and non-thermal phenomena emitting radiation from the radio to TeV gamma-rays. Interests span from the mildly-relativistic electrons of supernova remnants or the hot intracluster medium, to ultra-relativistic cosmic-rays and their products in active galaxies and elsewhere. Phenomena include plasma astrophysics, magnetohydrodynamics, shocks, particle acceleration, photoionization, jets, outflows, bursts, extreme gravity, strong magnetic fields, etc. Example questions of topical interest might include the physics of dark matter, active-galaxy feedback, missing baryons in the warm/hot phase of the intergalactic medium, and the equation of state of neutron-star matter. Some of these topics will be shared with Div.J ("Galaxies & Cosmology").
