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

HEAD 20: 20th Divisional Meeting of the High Energy Astrophysics Division

Hilton Waikōloa Village, Waikōloa, Hawai‘i
26 – 30 March 2023


PhysCOS-Related Sessions at HEAD 20

High Energy X-ray Probe (HEX-P) Splinter Session

We invite the high-energy community to a HEAD splinter session dedicated to the High Energy X-ray Probe (HEX-P) mission concept. The session will be held in the Queen’s 6 room on Sunday 26 March 2023 at 10:30a Hawaii Time (4:30p Eastern).

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

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:

Agenda

Topic Speaker
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
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