STAR-X Special Community Session at HEAD Meeting in Hawaii, 28 March 2023
We are pleased to announce a session about the proposed STAR-X mission at the March 2023 HEAD meeting, entitled "The Proposed STAR-X Explorer Mission: Opportunities for the HEAD Community to Explore the Fast, Furious and Forming Universe with Simultaneous UV and X-ray Observations."
The talk session is in the Queen’s Ballroom on Tuesday 28 March 2023 at 5p–6:30p Hawaii Time.
There will be five talks and several associated posters. Agenda details are at http://star-x.xraydeep.org/events/, and presentation slides will be posted to this page after the session.
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