MODE-SNR-PWN 2019

Presentation

The workshop "Neutron stars and their environments" (MODE-SNR-PWN) brings together several communities interested in the physics of neutron stars and their environmnents: theoreticians and observers of neutron stars, supernova remnants (SNRs), and pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe). 

Scientific summary

Neutron stars and their environments are extremely complex astrophysical sources. Therefore, multi-wavelength and multi-messenger observations, together with macroscopic and microscopic modelling of these sources, are essential to understand the underlying physical mechanisms.

Over the last decade an enormous amount of new information about neutron stars, pulsars and their wind nebulae, and supernova remnants, has been accumulated by different radiotelescopes, by satellites like XMM-Newton, Chandra, Suzaku, RXTE, INTEGRAL and Fermi, and by ground-based instruments in the very high energy gamma-ray domain like HESS and VERITAS.

Moreover, new very interesting information from gravitational wave detectors like VIRGO and LIGO has begun to shed light on compact stars, and is expected to develop greatly in the near future.  Various new phenomena related for instance to the enormous magnetic fields (flares and QPOs), to the reheating of the crust or to particle acceleration in PWNe and in SNRs have been observed.  Recent very-high-energy gamma-ray observations shed light on PWNe as sources of cosmic-ray positrons and electrons, improving our understanding of the origin and propagation of Galactic cosmic rays.  A thorough understanding of all these phenomena requires to bring together researchers from the different fields. Important issues to address include: What can we learn from these new observations about neutron-star structure and composition, and the radiation mechanism? Which models shall be developed to analyse the new data? What would be key observations for the future?

 Meeting program

The workshop will help the different communities exchange ideas as well as discuss internal advanced issues. To that end, the program will be organised in plenary sessions with reviews, parallel specialised sessions, and a round table to help the discussion between the communities. The sessions will be arranged in such a way to create "focus sessions" around certain topics, among them:

  • Radio timing,
  • Rotating neutron stars,
  • General relativity and neutron-star modelling,
  • Equation of state and nuclear processes,
  • Observation at different wavelengths,
  • Emission processes,
  • Pulsar magnetospheres,
  • Supernovae, Supernova remnants, Pulsar wind nebulae.

The 2019 edition will also focus on two topics :  our understanding of the population of pulsars and of binary pulsars, and fundamental physics with pulsars in the SKA era.  Keynote speakers will highlight recent developments in these subfields.

Preliminary list of invited speakers

  • René Breton
  • Sébastien Guillot
  • Fabrice Mottez
  • Pierre Maggi
  • Francesco Coti Zelati

Meeting place and dates

The workshop will take place from Monday, April 8th to Wednesday, April 10, 2019 at the Hôtel Dupanloup, Orléans, France

The registration deadline is April 1st, 2019.
The deadline for financial support request is February  18th, 2019 (notification for the support: March 18th).

We are able to partially subsidize the travel or accommodation of a number of students or post-docs.
We expect participants requesting such support to either submit an abstract, or send the organizers a letter of support from their thesis supervisor, by the February 18th deadline
 
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Scientific Organizing committee

Fabio Acero (Laboratoire AIM, Gif sur Yvette), Anthea F. Fantina (GANIL, Caen), Marianne Lemoine-Goumard (CENBG, Bordeaux), Fabrice Mottez (LUTH, Observatoire de Paris), Jérôme Novak (LUTH, Observatoire de Paris), Gilles Theureau (LUTH, Observatoire de Paris/LPC2E/OSUC).
 
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