PCOS Mission Studies

2014-2016 ESA-NASA Athena Study

December 14, 2015, NASA Headquarters
Agenda [PDF]

1:00 PM	NASA Reports—10 min + 5min Q&A each Garcia: Welcome, NASA/HQ Athena Actions and Plans [PDF] Petre: NASA/GSFC Athena Projects [PDF] Smith: Athena Science Study Team and SWG 3.0 Report [PDF] Davis: NASA/HQ Athena Program [PDF]
2:00 PM	Hertz: NASA/HQ Athena Perspective (30 min, calling in from CA)
2:30 PM	SWG Co-Chairs reports (10 min each) Allen: SWG 1.1, Evolution of galaxy groups and clusters Brenneman, SWG 2.0, The Energetic Universe [PDF] Ptak: SWG 2.3, Astrophysics of feedback in local AGN [PDF] Hornschemeier: SWG 3.2, Star formation and evolution [PDF] Miller: SWG 3.3, End points of stellar evolution Troja: SWG 5.6, Targets of Opportunity
3:30 PM	NASA Instrument Team Co-I reports Bandler: NASA contribution to X-IFU [PDF] Burrows: NASA contribution to WFI
4:30 PM	Discussion, lead by Brandt and Bregman
5:00 PM	Adjourn
6:30 PM	Dinner in DC, location TBD (Garcia)

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