HEASA 2017 is the fifth conference in the annual series "High Energy Astrophysics in Southern Africa". Its goal is to bring together scientists from the southern African region, the African continent, and around the world, with an interest in high-energy astrophysical phenomena. Topics discussed include gravitational wave astrophysics, cosmology, theoretical astrophysics, multi-wavelength and multi-messenger observational aspects of active galactic nuclei, galaxy systems, gamma-ray bursts, X-ray/gamma-ray binaries, supernovae and supernova remnants, neutron stars, pulsars and pulsar wind nebulae, cataclysmic variables, and modern aspects of astro-particle physics.
Wednesday, 4 October: Session a: Gravitational Waves and Transient Sources |
Current status of gravitational wave observations PoS(HEASA2017)001 pdf |
Correlation between intrinsic peak luminosity and spectral peak energy for energetic Fermi GRBs PoS(HEASA2017)002 pdf |
Multi-wavelength observations of the unusual soft X-ray transient ASASSN-16oh PoS(HEASA2017)003 pdf |
SALT observations of X-ray transients PoS(HEASA2017)004 pdf |
Wednesday, 4 October: Session b: Cosmology and Galaxy Clusters |
Cosmology now (Invited Talk) PoS(HEASA2017)005 |
Studying the dark matter annihilation in galaxy clusters through radio and gravitational lensing measures PoS(HEASA2017)006 pdf |
Observations and analysis of the diffuse radio emissions in Abell 1682 galaxy cluster PoS(HEASA2017)007 |
Analysis of differential observations of the cosmological radio background : studying the SZE-21cm PoS(HEASA2017)008 pdf |
Wednesday, 4 October: Session c: AGN I |
Multi-wavelength and multi-messenger modelling of blazars (Invited Talk) PoS(HEASA2017)009 |
Centaurus A: Hard X-ray and soft gamma-ray lightcurve correlation PoS(HEASA2017)010 pdf |
Some things change, some don’t. An exploration of Seyfert galaxy luminosity changes over a generation PoS(HEASA2017)011 pdf |
Hydrodynamic instabilities as a source of variability in AGN jets. PoS(HEASA2017)012 pdf |
Studies of optical/gamma-ray flares of blazar 4C+01.02: recent updates from the 2016-2017 observations PoS(HEASA2017)013 pdf |
Wednesday, 4 October: Session d: AGN II |
Searching for new TeV blazars in the 3rd Fermi-LAT catalogue of hard gamma-ray sources PoS(HEASA2017)014 pdf |
Investigating the long-term variability of blazars PoS(HEASA2017)015 |
Modelling the spectral energy distribution and polarization of Active Galactic Nuclei PoS(HEASA2017)016 |
Anisotropic particle acceleration in relativistic shear layers PoS(HEASA2017)017 |
Wednesday, 4 October: Session e: Pulsars I |
Assessment of a statistical approach towards constraining pulsar geometry via multiband light curve fitting PoS(HEASA2017)018 pdf |
The rich complexity of millisecond pulsar binaries PoS(HEASA2017)019 |
Thursday, 5 October: Session a: Pulsars II and Pulsar Wind Nebulae |
Resolved Millisecond Pulsars are Consistent with the Galactic Center Excess (Invited Talk) PoS(HEASA2017)020 pdf |
Observational developments in pulsar science PoS(HEASA2017)021 |
Modelling energy-dependent pulsar light curves due to curvature radiation PoS(HEASA2017)022 pdf |
Study of the Very High Energy emission of the Pulsar Wind Nebula in MSH 15-5 2 PoS(HEASA2017)023 pdf |
Simultaneous spectral and spatial modelling of young pulsar wind nebulae PoS(HEASA2017)024 pdf |
Friday, 6 October : Session a: Astroparticle Physics |
Antares & KM3Net (Invited talk) PoS(HEASA2017)025 |
One and two dimensional interpolation schemes of atmospheric muon neutrino flux models PoS(HEASA2017)026 pdf |
Using Gravitational Wave Observations to Probe Quantum Gravity PoS(HEASA2017)027 pdf |
Why the universe is unexpectedly transparent to very high energy gamma rays PoS(HEASA2017)028 pdf |
Astroparticle physics with liquid noble gas detectors (Invited Talk) PoS(HEASA2017)029 |
Gamma rays and the LHC inspired dark matter PoS(HEASA2017)030 pdf |
Friday, 6 October: Session b: Binary Systems I |
Gamma-ray binaries: binary systems dominated by their gamma-ray emission (Invited Talk) PoS(HEASA2017)031 pdf |
The orbit of 1FGL J1018.6-5856 PoS(HEASA2017)032 |
Discovery of VHE gamma-ray emission from the binary system LMC P3 PoS(HEASA2017)033 |
New BeXBs in the Large Magellanic Cloud PoS(HEASA2017)034 |
Re-awakening of GRS 1716-249 after 23 years, observed by Swif / XRT and NuSTAR PoS(HEASA2017)035 |
Friday, 6 October: Session c: Binary Systems II |
Investigating the circumstellar disk of the companion to GX 304-1 PoS(HEASA2017)036 |
A new intermediate mass X-ray binary PoS(HEASA2017)037 |
Eta Carinae: A multi-messenger source PoS(HEASA2017)039 pdf |
Magnetic white dwarfs in close binaries as potential gamma-ray sources in the CTA era PoS(HEASA2017)038 |
Multi-wavelength follow-up studies of eruptive cataclysmic variables in the MeerKAT and CTA era PoS(HEASA2017)040 pdf |