| This meeting is sponsored by the European Research Council ULTRAS - discussing how the ERC work influenced Europe's leading public survey for supernovae and how this will impact on the future 2 years of the extended project |
Queen's University Belfast Monday 6th March - Tuesday 7th March
Monday 6th March
For details of the meeting room location - see below
10.30 - 11.10 Coffee, registration and meet-up. This is on the top floor (2nd floor) of the Physics building, marked on the maps below. There will be a PESSTO sign on the front door of the building and signs inside to guide you to the Coffee areas and the meeting room.
11.10 - 13.00 Session I "PESSTO and related science talks " (Chair : Kate Maguire)
Skype participants : Joe Anderson (skype: joe.anderson82); Stefano Benetti (Skype: stebenetti), Pilar Ruiz-Lapuente (skype: pilar.ruiz.lapuente), Giuliano Pignata (Skype: pignago), Hanin Kuncarayakti (skype: kuncarayakti)
... add your name
S. Smartt Welcome and meeting overview
Each science talk 15min slot (including questions) - aim to talk for no more than 12 min.
G. Dimitriadis
PESSTOESO154-G10 (SN 2014eg, the only supernova discovered by PESSTO) (
slides)
C. Frohmaier
Thermonuclear Supernovae and their Rates in PTF (slides)S. Prentice
PESSTO observations of stripped-envelope SNe (slides)C. Gutierrez
SNe II in low luminosity host galaxies. (slides)O. Yaron
SN 2013fs Flash-Spectroscopy study (slides)R. Cartier 2015F/or Ia-CSM (slides)13.00 - 14.00 Lunch (Top floor)
14.00 - 15.30 Session II "PESSTO to ePESSTO transition" (Chair : A. Pastorello)
Skype participants : Lluís Galbany (skype: galbanio), Joe Anderson (skype: joe.anderson82); Stefano Benetti Skype: stebenetti), Pilar Ruiz-Lapuente (skype: pilar.ruiz.lapuente), Giuliano Pignata (Skype: pignago), Hanin Kuncarayakti (skype: kuncarayakti) ... add your name
Each science talk 15min slot (including questions) - aim to talk for no more than 12 min.
M. Fraser SN 2016jbu - PESSTO and ePESSTO transition (slides) J. Chen LSQ14mo/GROND SN followup in ePESSTO (slides) R. Firth Using Spectral Time-Series from (e)PESSTO for Next-Generation Sky Survey Simulation (slides) N. Elias-Rosa NUTS <-> ePESSTO interaction (slides)
16.00 - 17.30 : Session III "Outlook" (Chair : J. Sollerman)
Skype participants : Joe Anderson (skype: joe.anderson82); Stefano Benetti (Skype: stebenetti), Lluís Galbany (skype: galbanio), ... add your name
16.00 - 16.20 A. Horesh CSM shell structures around SN and radio follow-up of ePESSTO (slides) 16.20 - 16.40 Paolo D'Avanso : GRBs with ePESSTO (slides) 16.40 - 17.00 Jacob Nordin Kepler K2 C16 and C17 supernova experiment (slides) Dinner -in "Flame" restaurant at 7.30. Menu attached below. Email Emma your choices before Friday 3rd March
Tuesday 7th March
09.15 - 11.00: Session IV "Nuclear Transients with ePESSTO" : Chair R. Kotak
Skype participants : ... add your name (Peter Jonker on skype peter73jonker); Stefano Benetti (Skype: stebenetti), Hanin Kuncarayakti (skype: kuncarayakti)9.15 - 9.35 Leloudas
ASASSN-15lh and outlook for TDEs in ePESSTO (slides)9.35 - 9.55 Lawrence
Nuclear transients of some sort (TBD) (slides)9.55 - 10.10 Hamanowicz
Nuclear transients in OGLE and Gaia (slides)10.10 - 10.25 Onori
Spectroscopic follow-up of iPTF16fnl: a uniquely nearby tidal disruption event. (slides)10.25 - 10.45 Kankare
Extremely energetic narrow-line transients in the centres of galaxies (slides)
10.45 - 11.00 General discussion on nuclear transients with ePESSTO (major science theme)
Tea/Coffee break 11.00-11.30
11.30 - 13.00 Session V "Discussion - ePESSTO organisation" (Smartt/Sullivan) (slides)ePESSTO policy and operations Issues for discussion
Skype participants : Lluís Galbany (skype: galbanio), Santiago Gonzalez (skype: gongsale); Stefano Benetti (Skype: stebenetti), Giuliano Pignata (Skype: pignago), Hanin Kuncarayakti (skype: kuncarayakti), Stefano Valenti (skype: valenti_stefano) Maria Teresa Botticella (skype: mtbotticella) ... add your name
11.30 - 11.45 ATLAS update (S. Smartt) (slides) 11.45 - 12.00 Gaia update (Simon Hodgkin) (slides)
- Organisational structure (Smartt)
- ePESSTO Science projects - leadership roles and proposals (Mark Sullivan)
- ePESSTO operations - what is different to PESSTO. What can be done better
- Feeder surveys - ATLAS, Pan-STARRS, Gaia, OGLE, ASASSN, SkyMapper, ZTF, BlackGem
- Addition of GRBs - how to handle these
- TNS Issues (Ofer Yaron)
- Lightcurves - LCO and Grond (Smartt/Chen)
- ePESSTO use of SOFI
- VLT spin-off projects
- ePESSTO membership, adding members and Co-Is
- PESSTO - ePESSTO overlap objects
13.00 - 14.00 Lunch (Top floor)
14.00 - 15.15 "Discussion - ePESSTO organisation ... continued"
Skype participants: Lluís Galbany (skype: galbanio), Giuliano Pignata (Skype: pignago), Stefano Valenti (skype: valenti_stefano) ... add your name
Tea/Coffee break
Including Update from Stefano Valenti on "Global SN project" (slides)
Register here : please add your name and institution here for registration. Also add a talk title if you are requesting a talk. This is both a policy setting and science meeting and we will accommodate all those who want to give a presentation. Postdocs and students are especially encouraged to talk about their recent results.
- S. Smartt (QUB)
- D. Young (QUB)
- K. Smith (QUB)
- M. Fraser (UCD) Talk on SN 2016jbu - PESSTO and ePESSTO transition
- E. Kankare (QUB) - Extremely energetic narrow-line transients in the centres of galaxies
- K. Maguire (QUB)
- P. Clark (QUB)
- J. Chen (MPE) Talk on LSQ14mo/GROND SN followup in ePESSTO
- Aleksandra Hamanowicz (Warsaw) : talk "Nuclear transients in OGLE and Gaia"
- Mariusz Gromadski (Warsaw)
- Assaf Horesh (HUJI) - Talk on CSM shell structures around SNe
- Giorgos Leloudas - Arrive monday ~14h30, leave tuesday after lunch - talk ASASSN-15lh and outlook for TDEs in ePESSTO
- Stefan Taubenberger (Garching) - arrival on Mon at noon, departure on Wed
- Claudia Gutiérrez (Soton): Talk on SNe II in low luminosity host galaxies.
- Mark Sullivan (Soton) / Monday morning - Tuesday afternoon
- Giacomo Terreran (Padova/QUB)
- Georgios Dimitriadis (Soton) - Talk on PESSTOESO154-G10 (SN 2014eg, the only supernova discovered by PESSTO)
- Simon Prentice (LJMU) Arrive Mon/depart Wed - Talk on PESSTO observations of stripped-envelope SNe
- Chris Frohmaier (Soton) / Monday am to Wednesday am - Talk: Thermonuclear Supernovae and their Rates in PTF
- Cosimo Inserra (Soton) - SLSNe in ePESSTO
- Nancy Elias-Rosa (INAF-Padova) - arrival: Sun afternoon - departure Tues (early) afternoon Talk : NUTS <-> ePESSTO interaction
- Andrea Pastorello (INAF-Padova) - arrival: Sun (late) afternoon - departure Wed (early) morning
- D. O'Neill (QUB)
- Francesca Onori (SRON) - Spectroscopic follow-up of iPTF16fnl: a uniquely nearby tidal disruption event.
- Sergio Campana (INAF Brera) 6th - 7th
- Andy Lawrence (Edinburgh) 7th-8th
- Joe Lyman (Warwick)
- Michel Dennefeld (IAP) Monday 2pm - Wednesday morning.
- Rob Firth (Soton) - Using Spectral Time-Series from (e)PESSTO for Next-Generation Sky Survey Simulations arrive: Sun - depart: Tues (am)
- Giacomo Cannizzaro (SRON)
- Ofer Yaron (WIS) - Short talk clarifying TNS issues - and/or - SN 2013fs Flash-Spectroscopy study?
- M. Magee (QUB)
- Silvia Piranmonte (INAF-Rome) : 6th of march at 2 pm, and I leave the 7th at 3pm.
- Paolo D'Avanzo (INAF Brera)
- Massimo Dall'Ora (INAF-Naples)
- Regis Cartier
- Rubina Kotak (QUB)
- Jesper Sollerman (Stockholm), Arrive 5:th - Fly out at 17. on 7:th
- Charlotte Angus (Southampton)
- Luke Shingles (QUB)
- Simon Hodgkin (Cambridge), Mon a.m.->tue p.m., Happy to show you where we are with Gaia Alerts if time in schedule
Southampton - flight leaves at 16:50 on Tuesday 7th
Also note your arrival and departure date and time (so we can arrange social events etc).