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FERMI meets JANSKY - AGN in radio and gamma-rays
Event starts:
Mon, 21/06/2010 (All day)
Event ends:
Wed, 23/06/2010 (All day)
- A new era in high energy astrophysics
has been recently opened with the launch of the
 Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope and the AGILE satellite. Together with the latest
generation of ground-based atmospheric imaging Cherenkov telescopes these space missions are
revolutionising studies of the high energy Universe. The first year
results from the Fermi Large Area Telescope have confirmed the findings
of EGRET, showing that the extragalactic gamma-ray sky is dominated by
active galactic nuclei (AGN). At the other extreme of the spectrum,
radio and millimetre-wave astronomy and especially VLBI have long been
the key tools in studying the relativistic outflows that are the likely
sites of gamma-ray production in AGN.
The potential synergies
between high-resolution radio astronomy and gamma-ray observations of
AGN were discussed in a workshop at the Goddard Space Flight Center in
April 2007. After more than one year of Fermi science operations, it is
now a good time to review what we have learned from the first combined
radio and gamma-ray studies and to discuss how these first results
should shape future research programs.
A workshop addressing
these issues will be held at the Max-Planck-Institute for Radio
Astronomy in Bonn, Germany on 21.6.-23.6.2010. Different topics
will be addressed, such as the relationship of the radio properties to
gamma-ray brightness, localisation of the high energy emission site,
testing various gamma-ray production models, constraining the basic
intrinsic jet properties, understanding the duty cycle of the flares
etc. In addition to invited and contributed presentations, there will be
four working groups formed by the workshop participants which will
focus on particular aspects of the conference and outline
multi-wavelength observing programs of the future.
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- The registration and abstract submission will open on
March 1, 2010. The number of participants is limited to 60
and therefore we recommend an early registration. There will be
no conference fee. More information on the website
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