LOFAR Magnetism KSP meeting


            May 13: General meeting

 

09:55 Welcome - Emanuela Orru'

Session 1: LOFAR updates

10:00 - 10:25 - Roberto Pizzo LOFAR: status updates 

10:25 - 10:50 - George Heald MSSS updates

10:50 - 11:10 - Rainer Beck Status of the MKSP

11:10 - 11:25 - Coffee break  

Session 2: Progresses on MKSP datasets

11:25 - 11:45 - Andreas Horneffer Status of the Polarization Commissioning

11:45 - 12:05 - David Mulcahy  Current progress in HBA Observations of M51 and NGC891

12:05 - 13:00 - Discussion I (Reports from Working Groups - Cycle 0 observations

                       - Exploitation of MSSS data)



13:10 - Lunch

14:30 - 14:45 - Vibor Jelic Galactic diffuse polarized emission seen with LOFAR

14:45 - 15:20 - Tobia Carrozzi Sensitivity of LOFAR antenna elements

15:20 - 16.00 - Discussion II (Status of commissioning and future commissioning needs)

16:00 - 16:15 - Coffee break

16:15 - 16:35 - Emanuela Orru'  Last beats of B1834+620

16:35 - 16:55 - Bjorn Adebahr The M81/M82 Group at low frequencies 

16:55 - 17:15 - Rosita Paladino  LOFAR observations of the Leo Triplet

17:15 - 18.00 - Discussion III (MKSP Project Plan and Cycle 1 observations)


            May 14: General meeting

 

Session 3: Galaxy clusters science

09:00 - 09:20 - Federica Govoni  Polarization of cluster radio halos with upcoming radio

                       interferometers  

09:20 - 09:40 - Marcus Brueggen Magnetic fields in cluster outskirts

09:40 - 10:00 - Annalisa Bonafede Radio relics and magnetic field: a high resolution view

10:00 - 10:20 - Matthias Hoeft WSRT 350 MHz Legacy Survey: First results on cluster of

                       galaxies

10:20 - 10:40 - Christoph Pfrommer LOFAR's role in understanding galactic winds

                       and AGN feedback

Session 4: Algorithms and technical upgrades

10:40 - 11:00 - Torsten Ensslin Information field theory

11:00 - 11:15 - Coffee break

11:15 - 11:35 - Henrik Junklewitz High fidelity imaging and magnetic field inference

11:35 - 11:55 - Shinsuke Ideguchi Capability of wide-band polarimetry for probing the IGMF

11:55 - 12:15 - Alexander Drabent Clock/TEC separation on long baselines

Session 5: Galactic Science

12:15 - 12:40 - Andrea Possenti   Pulsar experiments at SRT

12:40 - 13:00 - Aris Noustos  First results from pulsar observations with the full LOFAR

                      and the pulsar polarization calibration pipeline

13:00 - Lunch

14:30 - 14:50 - Charlotte Sobey Exploring the galactic magnetic field with LOFAR

14:50 - 15:10 - Masaya Kuniyoshi Pulsar polarization calibration with the Effelsberg station

15:10 - 15:30 - David Jones The elephant in the galaxy: the Fermi bubbles/S-PASS lobes

15:30 - 15:50 - Maksim Greiner Reconstructing the galactic free electron density

15:50 - 16:10 - Oliver Gressel Dynamic dynamo simulations

16:10 - 16:25 - Coffee break

16:25 - 18.00 - Business meeting


20:00 Social dinner at the restaurant "Da Achille" (35 euros)



            May 15: Visit to SRT


Group pictures at SRT (taken by Gianluigi Deiana): 1  2  3  4  5 

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08:30 ~ 11:00 - Travel from Sant'Antioco to SRT site

11:00 ~ 12:00 - Talks about SRT and OAC

12:00 ~ 13:00 - Visit to the antenna

13:00 ~ 15:00 - Lunch at the restaurant "Su Nuraxi" (15 euros)

~ 15:00 ~ 17:00 Travel back to Sant'Antioco

       


          May 16: Busy day


10:00 - 17:00

Commissioning status and future (Andreas: extended version)

Discussion about Tobia's results and possible tests

RM software



            May 17: Busy day

9:30 - 13:00

Reports on datasets: sharing problems and solutions