Physics of the Cosmos
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Physics of the Cosmos Program Analysis Group
Events: Meetings

239th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society
(Cancelled)

Salt Lake City, UT 84101
9 – 13 January 2022


In Lieu of AAS Meetings

All Virtual
Joint PAG Meeting (Hybrid) — Postponed Indefinitely PhysPAG — Postponed
Astrophysics Science Smallsat Studies, Results X-ray SIG — Cancelled
Decadal Survey on Astronomy and Astrophysics (Astro2020) — Cancelled Gravitational Wave SIG
— Postponed
NASA Town Hall — Same date and time. Virtual in lieu of AAS In-person Gamma Ray SIG
Diversity in Astronomy and Astrophysics at NASA — PostponedCosmic Ray SIG

Joint PAG Meeting (Hybrid)

Sunday, 9 January 2022
| 5:00pm – 7:00pm Eastern / 4:00pm – 6:00pm Central / 3:00pm – 5:00pm Mountain / 2:00pm – 4:00pm Pacific |
(Postponed Indefinitely)


Astrophysics Science Smallsat Studies, Results

Monday, 10 January 2022
| 2:30 pm– 6:00pm Eastern / 1:30pm – 5:00pm Central / 12:30pm – 4:00pm Mountain / 11:30am – 3:00pm Pacific |

Agenda

All times given are Eastern Standard Time (EST).

Time Presentation
2:30pm – 2:55pm Asantha Cooray: MISE, The Mid-Infrared Sky Explorer
2:55pm – 3:20pm Derek Buzasi: MAGIC, The Massive star AsteroseismoloGy Instrument Cubesat
3:20pm – 3:45pm Jeremy Drake: NExtUP, The Normal-incidence Extreme Ultraviolet Photometer
3:45pm – 4:10pm  Baroujan Gorjian: BHAGERA, The Black Hole Accretion and Growth Experiment with Reverberation Analysis
4:10pm – 4:20pm 10 min Break
4:20pm – 4:45pm Michelle Hui: MoonBEAM, A Beyond Earth-orbit Gamma-ray Burst Detector for Multi-Messenger Astronomy
4:45pm – 5:10pm Eliad Peretz: ORCAS, The Orbiting Configurable Artificial Star.
5:10pm – 5:35pm Herman Marshall: GOSoX, The Globe Orbiting Soft X-ray Polarimeter
5:35pm – 6:00pm Sara Seager: A Constellation of Small Satellites to Search for a Transiting Earth-Size Planet in an Earth-like Orbit about a Bright Sun-Like Star

Decadal Survey on Astronomy and Astrophysics (Astro2020)

Monday, 10 January 2022
| 2:45pm – 3:45pm Eastern / 1:45pm – 2:45pm Central / 12:45pm – 1:45pm Mountain / 11:45am – 12:45pm Pacific |
(Cancelled)


NASA Town Hall

Tuesday, 11 January 2022
| 2:45pm – 3:45pm EST / 1:45pm – 2:45pm Central / 12:45pm – 1:45pm Mountain / 11:45am – 12:45pm Pacific |
(Virtual in lieu of AAS In-person)

Agenda

All times given are Eastern Standard Time (EST).

  • Keynote presentation from NASA Astrophysics Division Director Paul Hertz. This presentation will feature an update on the status of NASA Astrophysics in light of the release of the Astro2020 Pathways to Discovery Decadal Survey.
    • Paul Hertz Presentation [PDF]

Diversity in Astronomy & Astrophysics at NASA

Wednesday, 12 January 2022
| 4:00pm – 5:30pm Eastern / 3:00pm – 4:30pm Central / 2:00pm – 3:30pm Mountain / 1:00pm – 2:30pm Pacific |
(Postponed)


PCOS Science Interest Group (SIG) Splinter Sessions

Physics of the Cosmos Program Analysis Group (PhysPAG)

Virtual
6 January 2022
| 12:00pm – 1:00pm Eastern / 11:00am – 12:00pm Central / 10:00am – 11:00am Central / 9:00am – 10:00am Pacific |
(Postponed)


X-Ray SIG

Virtual
Wednesday, 19 January 2022
| 1:00pm – 2:30pm Eastern / 12:00pm – 1:30pm Central / 11:00am – 12:30pm Mountain / 10:00am – 11:30am Pacific |
(CANCELLED)


Gravitational Wave (GW) SIG

7 January 2022
| 1:00pm – 2:30pm Eastern / 12:00pm – 1:30pm Central / 11:00am – 12:30pm Mountain / 10:00am – 11:30am Pacific |
(Postponed)


Gamma Ray SIG

Virtual
28 January 2022
| 2:00pm – 3:30pm Eastern / 1:00pm – 2:30pm Central / 12:00pm – 1:30pm Mountain / 11:00am – 12:30pm Pacific |

Agenda

All times given are Eastern Standard Time (EST).

Time Topic Speaker
2:00pm – 2:10pm Gamma-ray Science Interest Group
(5+5 minutes) [PDF]
Justin Finke
2:10pm – 2:30pm Space-based Gamma-ray Missions and the Decadal Review
(15+5 minutes) [PDF]
Judy Racusin
2:30pm – 2:50pm Ground-based Gamma-ray Missions and the Decadal Review
(15+5 minutes) [PDF]
Reshmi Mukherjee
2:50pm – 3:10pm Compton Spectrometer and Imager
(15+5 minutes) [PDF]
Jacqueline Beechert
3:10pm – 3:30pm Starburst
(15+5 minutes)
Daniel Kocevski
Session Video

Cosmic Ray SIG

Virtual
18 January 2022
| 1:00pm – 2:30pm Eastern / 12:00pm – 1:30pm Central / 11:00am – 12:30pm Mountain / 10:00am – 11:30am Pacific |

Agenda

Topic Speaker
Multimessenger probes of UHECR source environments & their connection to astrophysical neutrinos [PDF] Marco Muzio
Pulsars as cosmic-ray sources [PDF] Claire Guepin
GeV Cosmic Ray Transport: Confronting Simulations with Observations [PDF] Chad Bustard
A Long Wavelength View of Cosmic Rays: Cosmic Rays in the Context of Multimessenger Astronomy [PDF] Joseph Lazio
Statistical Inference for Multimessenger Astrophysics [PDF] Zsuzsa Marka
Session Video
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