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DATE: June 21-25, 2010
VENUE: Lecture Theatre T2, Meng Wah Complex, The University of Hong Kong

Purpose of the Workshop:

Fermi has detected over thousand gamma-ray point sources. Nature of most of these sources is still unknown. Most important data of Fermi is publicly available. In this workshop we would like to discuss what topics are commonly interested in the participants and we will offer a mini-training course for postgraduate students. We hope that this mini-workshop can benefit to all participants and results in collaboration among us.

(I) Topics and Speakers (Tentative):

Download Final Program Updated 8.6.10

  • Frequency Variation of the kHz QPOs and the Flux of the Band-limited Noise in Scorpius X-1 - Xiaofeng Cao (Huazhong Normal U./Shanghai Astronimical Observatory) Download
  • A model of gamma-ray pulsars - K.S. Cheng (HKU) Download
  • Gamma-ray emission from AGN - Jun Hui Fan (Guangzhou University) Download
  • X-ray point sources in globular clusters - Hsiu-Hui Huang (MPE, Germany) Download
  • Globular clusters: MSP population, X-ray and gamma-ray emission - David Hui (Chungnam National University, South Korea) Download
  • Gamma-rays production resulting from the annihilation of neutrino/antineutrino emitted from accretion disk surrounding a compact object - Zoltan Kovacs (HKU) Download
  • Gamma-ray Emission from Terzan 5 - Albert Kong (THU, Taiwan) Download
  • Modeling the GRB afterglow numerically - Siwei Kong (NJU, China) Download
  • Periodicity search of the Geminga-like pulsars - Lupin Chun-Che Lin (NCU, Taiwan)
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  • Gamma-ray point sources - Ting-Ni Lu (THU, Taiwan) Download
  • Neutron Star Environment: from Supernova Remnants to Pulsar Wind Nebulae - Stephen Ng (McGill U, Canada) Download
  • Neutron Star Zoo: Radio Pulsars, Magnetars, and Central Compact Objects - Stephen Ng (McGill U, Canada) Download
  • The Optical Microvariability of the BL Lacertae Object S5 0716+714 and Its Multi-waveband Correlations - Helen Poon (Beijing Normal University) Download
  • Gamma-ray emission from pulsar binaries - Jumpei Takata (HKU) Download
  • A Monte Carlo Study of gamma-ray pulsars - Jumpei Takata (HKU) Download
  • Very High Energy Gamma-ray Emission - Thomas Tam (THU, Taiwan) Download
  • Transient gamma-rays and multi-wavelength emission from stellar capture events - Xiangyu Wang (NJU, China) Download
  • A numerical study of the afterglow emission from GRB double-sided jets - Xin Wang (NJU, China) Download
  • A theoretical study of spectral properties of gamma-ray pulsars - Yu Wang (HKU) Download
  • GRB ring-shaped jets and their afterglows - Ming Xu (NJU, China) Download
  • The damping mechanism and the thermal evolution of neutron stars - Shu-Hua Yang (Huazhong Normal U.) Download
  • Accretion-driven Millisecond X-ray Pulsars and the Discovery of the First Eclipsing Event - Yi Jung Yang (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands) Download
  • Microquasars - Phyllis Yen, Tzu-Ching (THU, Taiwan) Download
  • Gamma-ray bursts with magnetars as central engines - Yunwei Yu (HKU/Huazhong U)
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  • Synchro-Curvature Self-Compton Radiation of Electrons in Curved Magnetic Fields - Bo Zhang (NJU, China) Download

    (II) Discussion Topics:

  • Very old gamma-ray pulsars - why do they still survive?
  • Gamma-ray binaries and their orbital dependent spectral properties
  • Gamma-rays from magnetars?
  • Various population studies
  • Correlation between gamma-rays and x-rays
  • Phase-resolved spectrum
  • Emission morphology of MSPs
  • Unidentified gamma-ray transient sources detected by Fermi

    (III) Mini-training Course for Analysing Fermi Data

    Instructors : David Hui and Albert Kong

    The hands-on workshop will involve the exploration and analysis of Fermi LAT data. All participants should install all the required tools in their laptop computers before attending the workshop. Analysis will be performed in a Linux environment. Participants should select the precompiled binaries of the tools that match their machine type. Here we provide the links for downloading and installing the required tools.

    Main package:
    1. Fermi Science Tools: http://fermi.gsfc.nasa.gov/ssc/data/analysis/software/

    Auxiliary tools:
    2. Image viewer ds9: http://hea-www.harvard.edu/RD/ds9/
    3. HEASOFT: http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/lheasoft/download.html

    Notes for Fermi Analysis
    Notes for likelihood analysis

    Participant List:

  • Xiaofeng Cao (Huazhong Normal U./Shanghai Astronimical Observatory) (Email: caoxfccnu@tom.com)
  • Tsz Man CHAN (HKU) (Email: h0830291@hku.hk)
  • Dalong Cheng (CUHK) (Email: dlcheng@phy.cuhk.edu.hk)
  • K.S. Cheng (HKU) (Email: hrspksc@hkucc.hku.hk)
  • Chiu Yeung CHU (HKU) (Email: yeungchi@hku.hk)
  • de Grouchy, Philip (Imperial College, UK) (Email: p.de-grouchy09@imperial.ac.uk)
  • Fan Jun Hui (Guangzhou University) (Email: jhfan_cn@yahoo.com.cn)
  • Hsiu-Hui Huang (MPE, Germany) (Email: u870302@gmail.com)
  • David Hui (Chungnam National University, South Korea) (Email: cyhui@graduate.hku.hk)
  • Albert Kong (THU, Taiwan) (Email: akong@phys.nthu.edu.tw)
  • Siwei Kong (NJU, China) (Email: siweikong@gmail.com)
  • Zoltan Kovacs (HKU) (Email: zkovacs@titan.physx.u-szeged.hu)
  • Ping Wai Kwok (The Hong Kong Institute of Education) (Email: pwkwok@ied.edu.hk)
  • Chun Sing Leung (National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences) (Email: astrosinghk@yahoo.com.hk)
  • Ching LI (HKU) (Email: megasama@hku.hk)
  • Kwan Lok LI (HKU) (Email: liliray@hku.hk)
  • Lupin Chun-Che Lin (NCU, Taiwan) (Email: lupin@crab0.astr.nthu.edu.tw)
  • Ting-Ni Lu (THU, Taiwan) (Email: s9825802@m98.nthu.edu.tw)
  • Stephen Ng (McGill U, Canada) (Email: ncy@hep.physics.mcgill.ca)
  • Helen Poon (Beijing Normal University) (Email: china_108@yahoo.com)
  • Jumpei Takata (HKU) (Email: takata@hku.hk)
  • Thomas Tam (THU, Taiwan) (Email: phtam@phys.nthu.edu.tw)
  • XiangYu Wang (NJ, China) (Email: xywang@nju.edu.cn)
  • Xin Wang (NJU, China) (Email: wxnl198@126.com)
  • Yu Wang (HKU) (Email: yuwang@hku.hk)
  • Fanky Wong (HKU) (Email: fankywong@gmail.com)
  • Ka Wing Wong (CUHK) (Email: kawingplus@yahoo.com.hk)
  • Hung Kit WU (HKU) (Email: jasonkit@hku.hk)
  • Man Ho WU (HKU) (Email: wmheric@hku.hk)
  • Xu, Ming (NJU, China) (Email: astro_xm@126.com)
  • Shu-Hua Yang (Huazhong Normal U.) (Email: ysh@phy.ccnu.edu.cn)
  • Yi Jung Yang (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands) (Email: y.j.yang@uva.nl)
  • Phyllis Yen, Tzu-Ching(THU, Taiwan) (Email: phyllis@gangtzai.co.cc)
  • David Yu (HKU) (Email: sptfung@hkusua.hku.hk)
  • Yunwei Yu (HKU/Huazhong U) (Email: yuyw@phy.ccnu.edu.cn)
  • Bo Zhang (NJU, China) (Email: zhangbo@nju.edu.cn)

    Registration:

    There is no registration fee and everyone is invited to participate in this mini-workshop. However, the conference room is very small we need to know the exact number of participants in order to make necessary arrangement. Also you are encouraged to make contributed talk related to the workshop. The registration deadline is May 1, 2010. You are required to registered in advance by sending email to

    Prof. K S Cheng

    Email: hrspksc@hkucc.hku.hk
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    Image of the Fermi Satellite. Credit: NASA E/PO, Sonoma State University, Aurore Simonnet



    This composite shows the Cassiopeia A supernova remnant across the spectrum: Gamma rays (magenta) from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope; X-rays (blue, green) from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory; visible light (yellow) from the Hubble Space Telescope; infrared (red) from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope; and radio (orange) from the Very Large Array near Socorro, N.M. Credit: NASA/DOE/Fermi LAT Collaboration, CXC/SAO/JPL-Caltech/Steward/O. Krause et al., and NRAO/AUI



    Fermi's Large Area Telescope resolved GeV gamma rays from supernova remnants of different ages and in different environments. W51C, W44 and IC 443 are middle-aged remnants between 4,000 and 30,000 years old. Cassiopeia A, which is only 330 years old, appears as a point source. Credit: NASA/DOE/Fermi LAT Collaboration



    Fermi's Large Area Telescope (LAT) shows that an intense star-forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud named 30 Doradus is also a source of diffuse gamma rays. Brighter colors indicate larger numbers of detected gamma rays. Credit: NASA/DOE/Fermi LAT Collaboration