The the third "Science with SALT" conference was held at the Stellenbosch Institute of Advanced Study from 1-5 June 2015. The goals of this conference were to:
-Present and discuss recent results from SALT observations;
-Anticipate scientific programs that will be carried out with new SALT instrumentation such as RSS-NIR;
-Provide a scientific environment in which to foster inter-institutional and inter-facility collaborations between scientists at the different SALT partners;
-Provide an opportunity for students and postdocs to become more engaged in SALT science and operations;
-Encourage the scientific strategic planning that will be necessary to insure an important role for SALT in an era of large astronomical facilities in the southern hemisphere such as MeerKAT, the SKA, LSST, and ALMA;
-Consider options for future instrumentation and technical development of SALT; and,
-Present, discuss, and engage in the SALT Collateral Benefits program led by SAAO.
Conference proceedings editors: David Buckley and Anja Schroeder
| Janusz Kaluzny, Session 1 (Chair: Michael Shara) |
| Janusz Kaluzny (1955-2015): career and activities PoS(SSC2015)001 pdf |
| Spectroscopic Study of the Low-Mass Eclipsing Binary UV Psc PoS(SSC2015)002 
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| Observing Galactic Be/X-ray binaries with the SALT high-resolution spectrograph PoS(SSC2015)003 pdf |
| Janusz Kaluzny, Session 2 (Chair: Marek Sarna) |
| SALT observations of the Be/X-ray binary A0538-66 PoS(SSC2015)004 pdf |
| A Carbon-rich Mira variable in a globular cluster: A stellar merger PoS(SSC2015)005 pdf |
| Target of opportunity observations of an X-ray binary in outburst PoS(SSC2015)006
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| How to best use SALT: maximizing your chances PoS(SSC2015)007 pdf |
| ALMA and Related Science (Chair: Ilani Loubser) |
| Transformational Science with ALMA and Synergies with SALT and SKA PoS(SSC2015)008
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| The RINGS Survey: High-Resolution H-alpha Velocity Fields of Nearby Spiral Galaxies with the SALT Fabry-Perot PoS(SSC2015)009 pdf |
| Halpha emission from galaxies at anomalous velocities PoS(SSC2015)010
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| SALT and SUNBIRD: Young massive star clusters and superwinds in strongly star-forming galaxies PoS(SSC2015)011 pdf |
| Star Formation in Galaxies (Chair: Ando Ratsimbazafy) |
| Star Formation Histories of S0 Galaxies PoS(SSC2015)012 pdf attachments |
| The importance of mergers to the stellar mass build-up of Brightest Cluster Galaxies PoS(SSC2015)013
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| Constraining the merger history of Luminous Red Galaxies with SDSS and SALT PoS(SSC2015)014 pdf |
| Fuelling (and quenching) star formation in Brightest Cluster Galaxies PoS(SSC2015)015 pdf |
| Galaxies (Chair: Patricia Whitelock) |
| Synergies between SALT and Herschel, Euclid and the SKA: strong gravitational lensing and galaxy evolution PoS(SSC2015)016 pdf |
| HELP-ing Extragalactic Surveys : The Herschel Extragalactic Legacy Project and the Coming of Age of Multi-Wavelength Astrophysics PoS(SSC2015)017 pdf |
| Characterising (U)LIRGs using SALT/RSS PoS(SSC2015)018 pdf |
| Age dating Luminous Red Galaxies observed with the Southern African Large Telescope PoS(SSC2015)019 pdf |
| The Variable Universe #1 (Chair: Ted Williams) |
| The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope PoS(SSC2015)020
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| SALT Investigations of Transients PoS(SSC2015)021 pdf |
| SALT Spectroscopy of Dark Energy Survey Supernovae and Their Classification PoS(SSC2015)022 pdf |
| Multi-wavelength Studies of High Latitude Black Hole X-ray Transients PoS(SSC2015)023 pdf |
| The Variable Universe #2 (Chair: Jack Hughes) |
| Observing optical and very high energy emission from gamma-ray bursts PoS(SSC2015)024 pdf |
| Hypermassive Black Hole Shines in the Childhood Universe PoS(SSC2015)025 pdf |
| Accretion Dynamics in Pre-Main Sequence Binaries PoS(SSC2015)026
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| Searching for Erupting Dwarf Novae in the LMC PoS(SSC2015)027 pdf |
| The Variable Universe - AGN (Chair: Rosalind Skelton) |
| Obscured Quasars: Finding and Understanding the Most Luminous Active Supermassive Black Holes with SALT PoS(SSC2015)028 pdf |
| Southern African Large Telescope spectroscopy of unclassified Fermi-2LAC Active Galactic Nuclei PoS(SSC2015)029 pdf |
| Multifrequency observations of the extreme X-ray weak quasar PG0043+039 PoS(SSC2015)030 pdf |
| Probing the time variability of high velocity outflows in QSOs PoS(SSC2015)031
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| Study of flaring quasars using optical/gamma-ray correlations PoS(SSC2015)032 pdf |
| SALT and The Radio Universe #1 (Chair: Renee Kraan-Korteweg) |
| MeerKAT - an update PoS(SSC2015)033
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| SALT observations of the largest radio galaxies PoS(SSC2015)034 pdf |
| Cold HI 21-cm Absorption Line Survey PoS(SSC2015)035
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| SALT and The Radio Universe #2 (Chair: Michelle Cluver) |
| Looking At the Distant Universe with MeerKAT and SALT PoS(SSC2015)036 pdf |
| The MeerKAT Absorption Line Survey: building the dust unbiased quasar sample PoS(SSC2015)037
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| Analysis of SALT Fabry-Perot Medium Resolution Data PoS(SSC2015)038 pdf attachments |
| Multiwavelength variability of the radio quasar J2042+7508 PoS(SSC2015)039 pdf |
| Galaxy Groups and Clusters (Chair: Richard Britto) |
| The Unveiling of the newly discovered Vela Supercluster PoS(SSC2015)040 pdf |
| Investigating the intergalactic medium in galaxy groups PoS(SSC2015)041 pdf |
| SALT spectroscopic observations of galaxy clusters detected by ACT and a Type II quasar hosted by a brightest cluster galaxy PoS(SSC2015)042 pdf |
| On the Trail of the Most Massive Galaxy Clusters in the Universe PoS(SSC2015)043
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| Milky Way and Planets (Chair: Simon Jeffrey) |
| Cepheids in the flared outer disk of our Galaxy PoS(SSC2015)044 pdf |
| Diffuse Interstellar Bands in Emission PoS(SSC2015)045 pdf |
| The Search for Planets around Evolved Binary Stars PoS(SSC2015)046
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| Current and future observations of Near Earth objects with SALT and RSS PoS(SSC2015)047 pdf |
| Stellar Astrophysics #1 (Chair: Vanessa McBride) |
| The disappearing string of pearls: Super Star Clusters in a nuclear star-forming ring of NGC 2328 PoS(SSC2015)048 pdf |
| Revealing evolved massive stars with Spitzer, WISE and SALT PoS(SSC2015)049 pdf |
| Hot Bottom Burning Star in IC1613 PoS(SSC2015)050
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| Multi-tomography of polars from SALT spectroscopy PoS(SSC2015)051 pdf attachments |
| Stellar Astrophysics #2 (Chair: Kevin Hainline) |
| On the relationship between circumstellar discs and X-ray outbursts in Be X-ray binaries PoS(SSC2015)052
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| SALT Observations of Hot Subdwarfs and Other Evolved Stars PoS(SSC2015)053 pdf |
| High Resolution Spectroscopic Abundance Analysis of Metal-Poor Stars PoS(SSC2015)054 pdf |
| Observational Constraints on the Nature of the X-ray bright supergiant B[e] stars LHA 115-S18 & LHA 120- S134 PoS(SSC2015)055 pdf |
| Spectroscopic Follow-up of the Unusual Nova OGLE-2015-Nova-01 PoS(SSC2015)056 pdf |
| SALT's Future (Chair: Eric Wilcots) |
| Machine Learning Classification of Transients PoS(SSC2015)057
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| Searching for Millisecond Pulsar Binaries Among Fermi Sources PoS(SSC2015)058 pdf |
| SALT's Venture into Near Infrared Astronomy with RSS-NIR PoS(SSC2015)059 pdf |
| The RSS-NIR Detector System Progress PoS(SSC2015)060
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| Conference Summary PoS(SSC2015)061 pdf |
| Poster Presentations |
| Probing accretion in magnetic CVs through rapid photometry with SALTICAM PoS(SSC2015)062
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| Seeing characterization at Sutherland and Adaptive Optics prospects for SALT PoS(SSC2015)063
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| Observational verification of the limb darkening laws in contact binaries PoS(SSC2015)064
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| Starspots on an extremely close binaries: spectroscopy vs continuous photometry PoS(SSC2015)065
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| Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) as probes of Cosmological Parameters PoS(SSC2015)066 pdf |
| Observations of PSR B1259-63/LS 2883 around the 2014 periastron passage with SALT PoS(SSC2015)067 pdf |
| Constraining the dark matter density in galaxy clusters PoS(SSC2015)068 pdf |
| Probing the Structure and Kinematics of Outflows in Episodic Accretion of YSOs PoS(SSC2015)069 pdf |
| Accretion processes in cataclysmic variables: Insights from optical transient surveys PoS(SSC2015)070
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| SALT observations of outflows in three supersoft X-ray binaries PoS(SSC2015)071 pdf |
| SALT - A Cost Effective Science Machine: Statistical Evaluation of Publications PoS(SSC2015)072 pdf |
| Gamma-Ray Bursts and its afterglow modeling PoS(SSC2015)073 pdf |
| Stellar Populations in the Dwarf Galaxy NGC59 PoS(SSC2015)074 pdf |
| The Aid of Optical Studies in Understanding Millisecond Pulsar Binaries PoS(SSC2015)075 pdf |