European Astronomical Society

JENAM 2007

Armenian Astronomical Society

Joint European and National Astronomy Meeting

20-25 August 2007

 

"Our non-stable Universe"

 

 

Yerevan, Armenia

 

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EAS SYMPOSIUM 6: Dynamics of Galaxies and Galactic Nuclei

23-24 August 2007

Contact: Rainer Spurzem (Germany)

Link to EAS S6 webpage in Heidelberg

This Meeting is also a satellite meeting of the international collaboration MODEST (Modelling of Dense Stellar Systems), denoted as MODEST-7e. Please watch the MODEST sites and contact the responsible people of workgroups for questions.

The program consists of invited talks (40+5, I), contributed talks (20+5), and posters. Click on the author name to get the abstract (in a temporary format, just to see quickly the raw information).

This meeting will cover the progress in understanding the formation and evolution of stellar systems, collisionless galaxies as a whole, stellar disks, spiral waves, bulges and bars, dynamical interactions between all constituents of a galaxy, including dark matter, gas, and the central massive black hole. Dense collisional stellar systems, such as galactic and extragalactic star clusters, their formation and evolution, observational constraints, exotic objects in star clusters will be another topic of this meeting. Gravitational Waves are becoming a new branch of astrophysics. Star Clusters and Galactic Nuclei are prominent sources, due to black holes and other compact remnants forming and evolving in them. Efforts to detect gravitational waves are ongoing in Europe at present (ground-based Virgo, Geo600) as well as in the future (space based LISA). In this meeting there will be the opportunity to present and discuss the astrophysics of gravitational wave sources from dense stellar systems. Advances in computing hardware and software are fertilizing the field. In this EAS symposium new computing techniques, software and special hardware, as well as new approaches to cope with the increasing amounts of data and with code implementation and deployment via grid technologies can be discussed.

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Rainer Spurzem (Germany, Chair), E. Athanassoula (France), Christian Boily (France), Panos Patsis (Greece), Simon Portegies Zwart (Netherlands), Chingis Omarov (Kazakhstan), Victor Orlov (Russia).

Topics:

- Formation and Evolution of Galactic and Extragalactic Star Clusters
- Gravitational Waves from Dense Star Clusters and Black Holes in Galaxies
- Numerical Modeling and Computing of galaxies and star clusters
- Interaction between new astrophysical data Management and theory/modeling
 

Program of EAS Symposium S6


August 23, Thursday

Session A: Galactic and Stellar Dynamics

11:00         Rainer Spurzem            Opening
11:05 - 11:50 Michael Fellhauer (I)     The origin of the bifurcation of the Sagittarius stream or why the MW halo is spherical
11:50 - 12:15 Antonios Karampelas       Large scale stellar structures in the NGC 6822 galaxy
12:15 - 12:40 Maarten Baes              Realistic analytical dynamical models for galaxies and dark matter haloes
12:40 - 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 - 14:25 Derek Groen               Distributed N-body Simulation on the Grid Using Dedicated Hardware
14:25 - 14:50 Kambiz Fathi              Evolution of Structure in Spiral Galaxies with GHAFAS
14:50 - 15:15 Stuart Gill               Simulating star cluster formation within galactic disk models
15:15 - 15:30 Rainer Spurzem            Presentation of the MODEST Initiative
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break - with Poster Session I: Poster authors P1-P4 at their posters
16:00 - 16:25 Pavel Jachym              Galaxy evolution in clusters and groups - numerical simulations
16:25 - 16:50 Evgenij Kurbatov          The new code for simulation of evolution of galaxies
16:50 - 17:15 Salakhutdin Nuritdinov    Ring mode instability on the background of non-stationary galaxy model
17:15 - 17:40 Rafik Andrasyan           3-Dimensional Distribution of Galactic Magnetic Field
17:40 - 18:05 Igor Chilingarian         Embedded Structures and Young Nuclei in dE Galaxies: 3D Spectroscopic View

August 24, Friday

Session B: Galactic Nuclei, AGN, Black Holes, Galactic Centre

09:00 - 09:45 Massimo Dotti (I)         Simulating the Dynamics of Binary Black Holes in Nuclear Gaseous Discs
09:45 - 10:30 Alberto Sesana (I)        Unequal massive black hole binaries in galactic stellar cusps: orbital decay and ejection of hyper-velocity stars
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:45 Holger Baumgardt (I)      Creation of hypervelocity stars in the galactic centre by inspiraling intermediate-mass black holes
11:45 - 12:30 Tal Alexander   (I)       The Galactic Center as a laboratory for stellar relaxation processes near a massive black hole
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 - 14:45 Arman Khalatyan (I)       AGN influence on galaxy type and morphology
14:45 - 15:10 Leonid Matveenko          Fine structure of AGN jets
15:10 - 15:35 Danielle Alloin           Dust and Molecular Content of the Lensed Quasar, MG0751+2716 at z=3.2
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break - with Poster Session II: Poster authors P5-P8 at their posters
16:00 - 16:45 Ladislav Subr  (I)        Axisymmetric structures in galactic nuclei -- theoretical consequences

Session C: Astrophysical Sources of Gravitational Waves

16:45 - 17:30 Pau Amaro-Seoane (I)      Coalescence of IMBHs: Dynamics and emission of gravitational waves
17:30 - 17:55 Jonathan Downing          A Post-Newtonian Treatment of Relativistic Binaries in Star Clusters
17:55 - 18:20 Rainer Spurzem            Post-Newtonian Dynamics in Dense Stellar Systems
18:20         Rainer Spurzem            Closing

Poster List:

P1: Elizabeth Akinbebije                Two-fluid Dynamics in Clusters of Galaxies Pairwise Velocity Statistics of Dark Halos
P2: Oluwasegun Davies                   Evidences for the presence of an intermediate mass black holes in Omega Centauri
P3: Kambiz Fathi                        Gas Dynamics in Spiral Galaxies
P4: Charles Isichei                     The Relation between the Inclinations of Broad Line Regions and the Accretion Disk
P5: Alexei Kisselev                     Determination of the Physical Parameters of the Supermassive Black Hole at the Center of our Galaxy
P6: Gabor Kupi                          Resonant relaxation around massive black holes
P7: Karamat Mirtadjieva                 On a possible formation mechanism of galactic nuclei
P8: Chingis Omarov                      Direct Star Collisions in Active Galactic Nuclei