Physics of the Cosmos News

23 March 2023

High Energy X-ray Probe Splinter Session at HEAD 2023

We invite the high-energy community to a Splinter Session dedicated to the High Energy X-ray Probe (HEX-P) mission concept, taking place during the HEAD 20 Meeting in Kona, HI. The talk session is in the Queen’s Ballroom on Sunday 26 March 2023 at 10:30a Hawaii Time (1:30p Pacific | 4:30p Eastern).

There will be a series of talks describing the overall mission design and some of the most relevant science goals. In addition, a set of posters will be presented expanding on these topics. Talks include

• HEX-P: Mission Overview – Kristin Madsen
• Accretion Power I: Black Hole Spins, Truncated Disks, Neutron Stars and ULXs – Javier Garcia
• Accretion Power II: Ejection Physics, the X-ray Corona, and Spectral-Timing – Dan Wilkins
• Black Hole Growth I: A complete census of AGN across cosmic time – Francesca Civano
• Black Hole Growth II: A complete census of AGN in our cosmic backyard – Peter Boorman
• Resolved Populations: the Broadband X-ray View of Normal Galaxies – Kristen Garofali
• Galactic Science – Ben Coughenour
• Time-Domain and Multi-Messenger Astronomy – Murray Brightman

This session is open to the public and can be accessed remotely via Zoom.