Texas 2010
December 6-10, 2010
Heidelberg, Germany
published June 06, 2011
Heidelberg, Germany
published June 06, 2011
The 25th Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics (TEXAS 2010) was held in Heidelberg, Germany, during December, 6-10, 2010. More than 350 astrophysicists attended a very interesting meeting, designed to exchange ideas and results, and to discuss future directions in Relativistic Astrophysics.
A wide range of scientific results were discussed in about 100 oral and about 200 poster
contributions during nine parallel afternoon sessions and one highlight evening session.
Further information, including the full program, can be found on the conference webpage:
http://www.mpi-hd.mpg.de/texas2010/
The papers published here in these proceedings represent the contributions accepted for the parallel sessions and the main poster session at TEXAS 2010.
The TEXAS 2010 SOC included: F. Aharonian (Chair), G. Barbiellini, M. Bartelmann, P. Binetruy, G. Bisnovatyi-Kogan, R. Blandford, J. Bluemer, C. Cesarsky, B. Czerny, R. Genzel, W. Hermsen, W. Hofmann, R. Kolb, A. Loeb, K. Makishima, L. Maraschi, A. Melatos, H. Murayama, J.M. Paredes, M. Rees, S. Ritz, R. Ruffini, D.J. Saikia, J. Silk, R. Sunyaev, V. Trimble (Co-Chair), L. van Waerbeke and Q. Yu.
The TEXAS 2010 LOC included: W. Hofmann (Chair), F. Rieger (Co-Chair), F. Aharonian, V. Bosch-Ramon, S. Casanova, R. Crocker, W. Domainko, C. van Eldik, B. Feuerstein, A. Foerster, H. Gast, D. Jones, E. de Ona Wilhelmi and G. Weese.
Editorial Board of these Proceedings: Frank M. Rieger (Chair), Christopher van Eldik and Werner Hofmann.
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Preface
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| SESSION P1 Black Holes, accretion and jets (chairs: Bozena Czerny & Silke Britzen) |
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Accretion disks with a large scale magnetic field around black holes, and magnetic jet collimation
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Recoiling Black Holes in Merging Galaxies: Relationship to AGN Lifetimes, Starbursts, and the M_BH -sigma_* Relation
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Relativistic Jet Feedback in Galaxy Formation
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Episodic Activity in Active Galactic Nuclei
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A model for jets of low mass microquasars
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Accreting Magnetofluids around a Rotating Compact Object with a Dipolar Magnetic Field
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Numerical Simulations of QPOs in Bondi-Hoyle type accretion: the case of SgrA*
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Disk accretion onto relativistic object due to wind of the magnetized plasma and jet formation.
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Rapid VHE variability in blazars
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Subrelativistic Jets' Heating Mechanisms
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Energy shifts of spectral lines from accretion discs near a black hole with negative spin
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Gravitational Lensing in Plasma
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X-ray spectral and timing investigations of XTE J1752-223
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Searching for the most distant blazars with the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
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AGN and starburst galaxies at low radio flux densities
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3D Collapse and Accretion in Slowly Rotating Polytropes
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Steady-state rarefaction waves in relativistic magnetized flows: Theory and application to gamma-ray burst outflows
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Charge-starved jets and rapid variability in blazars
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Searching for a pulsar black hole binary
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Understanding the light curves of the HST-1 knot in M87
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TeV emission and jet formation in M87
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Active galaxy unification in the era of X-ray polarimetry
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| SESSION P2: Gravitational waves (chairs: Andrew Melatos & Stefano Vitale) |
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Stellar mass black holes in star clusters: gravitational waves and 'dark remnants'
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Gravitational-wave signatures in successful and failed core-collapse supernova explosions
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Stochastic Background of Gravitational Waves Generated by Compact Binary Systems
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Gravitational Wave Background from Supermassive Black Holes
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Supra-thermal viscosity of magnetized neutron star matter
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Enabling PTAs for gravitational wave detection: The all-sky HTRU pulsar survey
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Gravitational Wave sources in Ultralow frequency band
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| SESSION P3: Transient phenomena (chairs: Chryssa Kouveliotou & Jochen Greiner) |
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Type Ia Supernovae (invited talk)
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Gamma-ray burst spectral evolution in the internal shock model: confrontation with Fermi observations
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Supergiant Fast X-ray Transients (invited talk)
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Supernovae Type Ia: non-standard candles of the Universe
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A New Mechanism of Hypernovae Explosions
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Gamma ray emission from magnetized relativistic GRB outflows
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Results of the sixth Waseda Nasu radio transient survey using a new system
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Gravitational waves from precessing GRBs
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Three different types of the gamma-ray bursts
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AGILE Observations of Variable and transient $\gamma$-ray sources in the Galactic plane, Catalog improvements
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Observation of GRBs and TGFs with AGILE
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A tight correlation for GRB afterglows with “canonical” light curves
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Effects of the upper cutoff of the electron distribution on the light curves of GRB afterglows
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GRB 090618: a possible case of multiple GRB?
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The height distribution of type II supernovae in spiral galaxies
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Do Fermi-LAT observations really imply very large Lorentz factors in GRB outflows ?
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| SESSION P4: Reports from space-based gamma-ray telescopes (chairs: Isabelle Grenier & Marco Tavani) |
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The variable Crab Nebula
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The "Crazy Diamond" 3C 454.3 and its siblings: confirmations and surprises
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Constraints on the gamma-ray opacity of the Universe with the Fermi-LAT instrument
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Fermi observations of gamma-ray pulsars (invited talk)
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AGILE observations of PSR B1509-58: a new class of highly magnetized, 'soft' gamma-ray pulsars?
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Recent detections of TeV Pulsar Wind Nebulae with the Fermi-Large Area Telescope
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On the origin of the GeV and TeV emission in gamma-ray binaries (invited talk)
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The Swift Supergiant Fast X-ray Transients Project: recent results
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Radio and Gamma-ray Observations of PSR J2043+2740
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Gamma-ray emission from Seyfert galaxy NGC 1068
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Seyfert 2 galaxies in the GeV band: jets and starburst
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Middle-aged Supernova Remnants with AGILE
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Studies on blazar variability in gamma rays with Fermi-LAT
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LS I +61 303 and LS5039 behavior in the high energy regime during two years of Fermi monitoring
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Long-term Fermi-LAT and multi-band observations of blazar 3C 279
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Geometric modeling of radio and gamma-ray light curves of 6 Fermi-LAT pulsars
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Report of the observations of AGL J1238+0406 (Fermi-LAT J123939+044409)
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| SESSION P5: Galactic and Extragalactic Cosmic Rays (chairs: Andrei Bykov & Reinhard Schlickeiser) |
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Latest results of the Pierre Auger Observatory and astrophysical interpretations (invited talk)
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The propagation of UHE cosmic rays (invited talk)
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Cosmic ray transport in magnetised turbulence (invited talk)
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Tunka-133: the New EAS Cherenkov Light Array for Cosmic Ray Study
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Shock acceleration of relativistic particles in galaxy-galaxy collisions
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Cosmic-ray acceleration efficiency of the supernova remnants RCW 86 and SNR 0509-67.5
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GeV Gamma-Rays from Supernova Remnants Interacting with Molecular Clouds
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Supernova remants as cosmic ray factories
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Propagation and interaction of nuclei within massive binary system
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Cosmic-Ray Acceleration in Centaurus A
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The role of ionization in the shock acceleration theory
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Nuclear lines revealing the injection of cosmic rays in supernova remnants
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Fermi-LAT observation of Intermediate Synchrotron Peaked blazars
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Contribution from Star-Forming Galaxies to the Cosmic Gamma-Ray Background Radiation
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Molecular Clouds as Cosmic Ray Laboratories
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| SESSION P6: VHE gamma-ray sources (chairs: Brenda Dingus & Stefan Wagner) |
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Searching for extended Pair Halo emission
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A two-component model of the HE radiation from LS 5039 as observed by Fermi/LAT
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A lepto-hadronic model for the multiwavelength emission from the jets of radiogalaxies
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Discovery of VHE gamma-rays from the vicinity of the shell-type SNR G318.2+0.1 with H.E.S.S.
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H.E.S.S. Observations of strong flaring activity of Mrk421 in February 2010
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Gamma-ray emission from AP Librae (PKS1514-241)
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Discovery of VHE emission from PKS 0447-439 with H.E.S.S. and MWL studies
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Discovery of VHE gamma-ray emission from the W49 region with H.E.S.S.
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Discovery of VHE and HE emission from the blazar 1ES 0414+009 with H.E.S.S and Fermi-LAT
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Luminosity function of BATSE GRBs whose prompt emission is not dominated by the P-GRB
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The formation of hard TeV gamma-ray spectra in blazars
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A new ordering parameter of SEDs from SSC-emitting blazars
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MAGIC discovery of the distant quasar 4C +21.35 in VHE gamma rays
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Gamma-ray flares from red giant/jet interactions in AGN
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Modeling GeV observations of gamma-ray bursts
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Eta Carinae: a very Large Hadron Collider
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Galactic TeV Gamma Ray Sources and Diffuse Emission - Results from Milagro
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Gamma astronomy with the ARGO-YBJ experiment
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New AGNs discovered at VHE by H.E.S.S.
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Fermi acceleration at relativistic shocks and its radiative signatures
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On the TeV Gamma-ray Emission from Cyg X-3
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Gamma-rays from Cataclismic Variables
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Time dependent production of gamma-rays in the inverse Compton $e^+e^-$ pair cascades in AGNs.
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High-energy radiation from T-Tauri stars
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Gamma-ray flares from black hole coronae
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Detection of very high energy gamma-ray emission from IC 310 by the MAGIC telescopes.
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Recent results of extra-galactic observations with the MAGIC telescope system
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Monitoring the synchrotron and Compton emission of PKS 2155-304 Fermi-LAT and RXTE long term observations
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Discovery of very high energy gamma-ray emission from 1FGL J2001.1+4351 by MAGIC
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Gamma-ray emission in binary systems
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The Milky Way Heart: Investigating molecular gas and gamma-ray morphologies in the Central Molecular Zone
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Testing quantum gravity on extragalactic sources
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Galactic centre star formation writ large in gamma-rays
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Transient gamma-ray emission from Cygnus X-3
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Chandra X-ray observations of the HII region G5.89-0.39 and TeV Source HESSJ1800-240B
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X-ray observations of HESS J1702-420 and HESS J1427-608 with Suzaku
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| SESSION P7:Astroparticle Physics (chairs: Laura Baudis & Veronique van Elewyck) |
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Direct dark matter search using liquid noble gases
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Theory of indirect dark matter detection
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Search for a DM annihilation signal from the Galactic Center halo with H.E.S.S.
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Recent results from searches for high energy neutrinos with IceCube
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The Search for neutrinoless double beta-decay
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Observation of neutrinos from sun and earth with the Borexino detector
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Future limits on isotropic LV from UHECRs and TeV gamma rays
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A new mechanism for dark matter generation from an interacting cosmological constant
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Self-interacting Dark Matter Energy Density
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Dark Matter searches with H.E.S.S. towards dwarf spheroidal galaxies
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| SESSION P8:Intergalactic magnetic and radiation fields (chairs: Ruth Durrer & Andrea Ferrara) |
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Large-scale, intergalactic magnetic and radiation fields (invited talk)
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Limits for primordial magnetic fields (invited talk)
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Constraints from electromagnetic cascades in the EBL
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Evolution of the Cosmological UV Background (invited talk)
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Extragalactic Background Light Inferred from AEGIS Galaxy SED-type Fractions
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Constraints on dark matter powered stars from the extragalactic background light
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MHD simulations of accretion onto magnetized neutron star in the "propeller" regime
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The first galaxies - assembly of disks and prospects for direct detection
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Pulsar Rotation Measures and the Large-Scale Magnetic Structure of the Milky Way
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| SESSION P9:Next generation major instruments (chairs: Catherine Cesarsky/Richard Tuffs) |
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KM3NeT: A km^3-scale neutrino telescope in the Mediterranean Sea
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The General Antiparticle Spectrometer (GAPS) - Dark matter search using cosmic-ray antideuterons
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Simulation of the expected performance for the proposed gamma-ray detector HiSCORE
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Exploring the Universe from hard X-rays to gamma rays with GRIPS
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Instrumentation at the UC Centre for Astro-Engineering (AIUC)
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Potential of the next generation VHE instruments to probe the EBL
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Single electromagnetic sub-cascades in hadronic showers as the background in IACT observations
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Patch effect in drag-free satelites
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The COSPIX mission: focusing on the energetic and obscured Universe
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| SESSION OG (general) |
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A search for young stellar objects as possible counterparts of Fermi sources.
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H.E.S.S. observations of the massive stellar cluster Westerlund 1
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Monotonous and thousands-of-years cyclic components of isolated radio pulsars spindown.
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Variability of the Naked-Eye Burst prompt optical emission as a manifestation of its central engine periodic activity.
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Search for pairs of isolated radio pulsars - components in disrupted binary systems
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Search for connections between isolated radio pulsars and supernova remnants
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Impact of general reionization scenarios on extracting inflationary parameters
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Cosmic Equation of state from Strong Gravitational Lensing Systems
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The general relativistic Thomas-Fermi theory of white-dwarfs
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The influence of the core on the structure of the outer crust of neutron stars
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A general relativistic Thomas-Fermi treatment of neutron star cores
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Cosmological brane solutions
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Excitation and destruction of nuclei in hot astrophysical plasmas around black holes
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On Magnetic Fields in Rotating Nuclear Matter Cores of Stellar Dimensions
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Fermi Observation of Solar System Gamma-Ray sources
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