Evolution and Explosion of Massive Stars
Armagh Meeting at AOP, 10-11 August 2017
Meetings funded by the Irish Research Council's New Foundations programme to promote research on massive stars and supernovae in Ireland, North and South.
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Key Information
Location Armagh Observatory and Planetarium, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, Northern Ireland. Dates 10-11 August 2017. Registration is now open! SOC Morgan Fraser, Jose Groh, Rubina Kotak, Jonathan Mackey, John Regan, Jorick Vink Contact eestars@cp.dias.ie
Participants
Name Affiliation Joachim Bestenlehner University of Sheffield Ioana Boian Trinity College Dublin Emma Callis University College Dublin Peter Clark Queen's University Belfast Nancy Elias de la Rosa Istituto Nazionale di Astorfisica (INAF) Morgan Fraser University College Dublin Sam Green Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies Jose Groh Trinity College Dublin Thomas Haworth Imperial College London Erin Higgins Armagh Observatory and Planetarium Raphael Hirschi Keele University Simon Jeffery Armagh Observatory and Planetarium Robert Kavanagh Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies Alexandra Kozyreva Tel Aviv University, Israel Jonathan Mackey Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies Shane Moran University College Dublin Takashi Moriya National Astronomical Observatory of Japan David O'Neill Queen's University Belfast Sam Patrick University of Portsmouth Oscar Ramirez-Agudelo UKATC, STFC, Royal Observatory Edinburgh Gemma Rate University of Sheffield John Regan Dublin City University Tom Reynolds University of Turku, Finland Eliceth Rojas Montes Armagh Observatory and Planetarium Elena Maria Rossi Leiden Observatory, Leiden Toma Ruxandra Armagh Observatory and Planetarium Nir Shaviv Hebrew University of Jerusalem Mike Simms National Museums Northern Ireland Stephen Smartt Queen's University Belfast Allard Jan van Marle Laboratoire Astroparticule et Cosmologie, Paris Jorick Vink Armagh Observatory and Planetarium Daniel Whalen University of Portsmouth
Schedule
- The meeting will take place 10-11 August at AOP.
- Meeting dinner at Uluru Bar and Grill on Market St. in the centre of Armagh, at 7pm on Thursday.
- The format will be oriented towards discussion of open problems and how to make progress; i.e., fewer formal talks than at the Dublin meeting.
- There will be a Public Open Night about Massive Stars at the Armagh Planetarium in the evening of 16th August.
Meeting Programme
Thursday August 10th
Session 1: Evolution of very massive stars into Black Holes
10:15-10:45 Coffee 10:45-11:00 Michael Burton Welcome from the Director 11:00-11:10 Jorick Vink Intro 11:10-11:40 Nir Shaviv (invited) "From the super-Eddington state of very massive stars to predicting SN precursors" 11:40-12:00 Raphael Hirschi "Evolution of VMS" 12:00-12:20 Gemma Rate "Wolf-Rayet surveys: Past, present and future" 12:20-12:30 Eliceth Rojas-Montes "Wolf-Rayet stars in the low Z environment of the SMC" 12:30-12:40 Erin Higgins "Stellar models as a function of Z" 12:40-13:15 Discussion Question How to make "heavy" Black Holes? 13:15-14:00 Lunch Session 2: the low Z Universe
14:00-14:10 John Regan Introduction 14:10-14:40 Dan Whalen (invited) "The Evolution of Supermassive Primordial Stars and the Birth of the First Quasars" 14:40-15:05 Elena Rossi "Black Holes, supermassive stars, and the early Universe" 15:05-15:30 Alexandra Kozyreva "Pair instability SNe in early Universe" 15:30-16:00 Coffee 16:00-17:00 Discussion "No one believes in Super Massive Stars - why are we even discussing them?" 17:00 Planetarium Show Dark Matter 19:00 Workshop Dinner Uluru Bar and Grill on Market St. Friday August 11th
Session 3: Supernova Progenitors
9:00-9:10 Morgan Fraser Introduction 9:10-9:40 Nancy Elias Rosa (invited) "Interacting SNe and impostors" 9:40-10:05 Stephen Smartt "Superluminous SNe & e-Pessto" 10:05-10:15 Tom Reynolds "The Type II SN 2016gsd and the NUTS survey" 10:15-10:25 David O'Neill "Sub-luminous IIP supernovae and SN2014bi" 10:25-11:00 Discussion Do LBVs explode? 11:00-11:30 Coffee Session 4: Hydrodynamical interaction & Radiative Transfer
11:30-11:40 Jonathan Mackey Introduction 11:40-12:10 Allard-Jan van Marle "Interaction, non-thermal particles & astrophysical shocks" 12:10-12:30 Takashi Moriya "Interaction" 12:30-13:30 Lunch 13:30-13:50 Jose Groh "non-LTE modelling of interacting SNe" 13:50-14:15 Thomas Haworth "TORUS radiative transfer modelling" 14:15-14:45 Discussion What can we definitively conclude from comparing pre-SN mass loss & evolution with post-SN observations? 14:45-15:15 Coffee Session 5: concluding discussions
15:15-16:00 Discussion General discussion on Massive Stars 16:00 Finish
Travelling to Northern Ireland
Belfast has two airports, Belfast International Airport and Belfast City Airport, both are about 40 miles (70 km) from Armagh. EasyJet and Ryanair operate a range of scheduled services to Belfast International Airport, and flybe, Aer Lingus and British Airways operate scheduled services to Belfast City Airport.
It is also possible to fly to Dublin Airport in the Republic of Ireland, which is about 80 miles (125 km) from Armagh. Dublin Airport offers a good choice of connections, airlines and frequency of services. Note, however, that a separate visa may be required for certain nationals.
Getting to Armagh
Once people have booked their flights and communicated their flight details, we can help with local transport, later. For now: try to get to (in this order):
- Belfast City
- Belfast International
- Dublin Airport
Accommodation
There are two hotels in the centre of Armagh; a modern hotel called the Armagh City Hotel (http://www.armaghcityhotel.com) and a smaller family hotel called the Charlemont Arms Hotel (http://www.charlemontarmshotel.com).
The Charlemont is cheaper (about 50-60 GBP), slightly closer, and due to its more intimate character, it is preferred by most visitors to the Observatory.
For Armagh City Hotel email central reservations res@mooneyhotelgroup.com or phone +44(0)28 9038 5050; for Charlemont Arms Hotel email info@charlemontarmshotel.com or phone +44(0)28 3752 2028.
There are also a number of Bed & Breakfast accommodation in and around Armagh, their details can be obtained on the Visit Armagh website (http://www.armagh.co.uk/accommodation/).
NOTE that Aug 10-13 has the Armagh Blues Festival, http://www.armagh.co.uk/7hills/. This means that the hotels are expected to fill up quickly, and EEstars attendees are urged to book their accomodation ASAP!!
Contact
Email: eestars@cp.dias.ie
Phone: +353-1-4406656