Detailed Conference Program

(Time zone: Europe/Berlin, CEST/UTC+2)


Thursday, 24. September 2020

09:00-13:00 Splinter Sessions (in parallel)

ISM - Confronting simulations of the interstellar medium with observations and measurements (virtual room F)

09:00  V. Ossenkopf-Okada:
Interpreting line emission in unresolved observations

09:17  Daniel Seifried:
Synthetic dust polarisation observations of molecular clouds: What can we learn?

09:34  Stefano Ebagezio:
Tracing phases: Synthetic observations of CO, C, and C+ in molecular clouds

09:51  Marco Panessa:
Investigating HCO+ and OH in 3D-MHD simulations of molecular cloud evolution

10:08  Thomas Bisbas:
PDR diagnostics across galactic environments

10:25  Discussion

10:45  Break

11:15  Huirong Yan:
Compressible turbulence: simulations and observational detection

11:32  Hamid Hassani:
Role of Thermal and Non-thermal Processes in the ISM of Magellanic Clouds

11:49  J.-M. Teissier:
Inverse transfer of magnetic helicity in supersonic isothermal MHD turbulence

12:06  Jane Pratt:
Diffusion and dispersion in anisotropic magnetohydrodynamic turbulence

12:23  Shyam Harimohan Menon:
Compressive nature of turbulence driven by ionising radiation

12:40  Christine Koepferl:
Insights from Synthetic Star forming regions: Testing measuring techniques of SF properties

Exoplanets - Exploring the diversity of extrasolar planets (virtual room D)

09:30  Sandra Jeffers:
RedDots: detecting terrestrial planets within 5pc

09:45  Sascha Grziwa:
EXOTRANS for the advanced detection and evaluation of transiting planets

10:00  Martin Schlecker:
a compositional link between
 warm super-Earths and cold Jupiters

10:15  Paola Pinilla:
Mdust-Mstar & Rdust-Mstar Relations in Protoplanetary Disks: Models vs. Observations

10:30  Sareh Ataiee:
Can planets be pushed into a disc inner cavity by a resonant chain?

10:45  Anna Penzlin:
Parking planets in circumbinary discs

11:00  Break

11:30  Gabriel-Dominique Marleau:
Hydrogen-line emission from accreting planets: fluxes, line shapes, and a new correlation

11:45  J. D. Melon Fuksman:
Radiative modelling of young accreting planets

12:00  Philipp Baumeister:
Shaping atmospheres of terrestrial exoplanets with interior-atmosphere feedback processes

12:15  Tobias Moldenhauer:
The Recycling of Planetary Proto-Atmospheres

Magnetic - Cosmic Magnetic Fields (virtual room H)

Cosmological magnetic fields: observations and theory

09:00  Franco Vazza:
Investigating the seeds of cosmic magnetic fields with radio observations

09:25  Alvina On:
Diagnosing large-scale magnetic fields using rotation measure fluctuations

09:37  Denis Wittor:
Unveiling large-scale magnetic fields using radio observations (insights from simulations)

09:49  Dominik Bomans:
Compact Starburst Dwarf Galaxies at 150 MHz: Strong Magnetic fields in Proxies for Proto-Galaxies

10:01  Enrico Garaldi:
Seeding of magnetic fields around the first galaxies: numerical investigation and comparison with tr

10:13  Heshou Zhang:
Measurement of 3D magnetic field with atomic alignment

10:25  Jennifer Schober:
New insights on the origin and evolution of cosmic magnetic fields

10:37  Klaus Dolag:
Turbulence and Magnetic Fields in Cosmological Simulations

10:49  Paola Dominguez Fernandez:
The role of turbulence in radio relics

11:00  Break

Accretion disks and galactic dynamos: observations and theory

11:25  Volker Heesen:
The cosmic ray-driven wind in the starburst galaxy NGC 5775

11:50  Marcelo Rubio:
Remarks on the magneric dynamo equation and the cosmic magnetic field

12:02  Mohamad Shalaby:
Magnetic fields in the intergalactic medium

12:14  Sharanya Sur:
Properties of polarized synchrotron emission from fluctuation dynamo action in galaxy clusters

12:26  Simon Selg:
Studying Magnetic Field Amplification in Interacting Galaxies Using Numerical Simulations

12:50  Yelena Stein:
Magnetic fields in edge-on CHANG-ES galaxies

Computation - Computational Astrophysics (virtual room B)

09:02  Robert John James Grand:
Pushing to cosmological zoom simulations to new limits: exquisitely resolved galactic dynamics

09:28  Marta Reina-Campos:
Formation and evolution of stellar clusters in a cosmological context

09:54  Diego Sotillo Ramos:
The diverse evolutionary pathways of Milky Way-like galaxies with TNG50

10:20  Md Rasel Hossen:
Influence of local environment on weak lensing statistics

10:45  Break

11:17  Shashwata Ganguly:
SILCC-zoom: gravo-turbulence or global hierarchical collapse?

11:43  Asmita Bhandare:
Zooming in on star and disk formation

12:09  Sambaran Banerjee:
Stellar-mass black holes in young and open clusters and their role in gravitational-wave generation

12:35  G. André Oliva:
Effects of resolution on disk fragmentation in the context of massive star formation

14:00-18:00 Splinter Sessions (in parallel)

Stellar - Stellar Interactions (virtual room M)

14:00  Welcome

Wide Binaries

14:05  Koushik Sen:
Case A mass transfer: A comprehensive study of their observable stellar properties

14:23  Ingrid Pelisoli:
Observational evidence that binary interaction is always required to form hot subdwarf stars

14:41  Joris Vos:
The impact of Galactic evolution on binary interactions, as shown in hot subdwarf binaries.

14:59  Olga Lebiga:
Investigating the effect of a circumbinary disk on Main Sequence star abundance patterns

15:17  Mathieu Renzo:
Kinematic and cosmetic consequences of (massive) binary interactions

15:35  Javier Alcolea:
The new orbital paramaters of the R Aqr symbiotic system

15:53  Break

16:23  Jane Pratt:
Convective overshooting in hydrodynamic simulations of the F-type eclipsing binary BW Aquarii

Surveys/Catalogs

16:41  Thomas Kupfer:
Treasures from the Zwicky Transient Facility Galactic Plane observations

16:59  Harry Dawson:
The First Volume-Limited Complete Catalogue of Hot Subdwarf Stars

17:17  Jaroslav Merc:
Characterizing the symbiotic population using the Gaia data

17:35  Richard Culpan:
A Catalogue of Blue Horizontal Branch Stars from Gaia DR2

17:53  End

Magnetic - Cosmic Magnetic Fields (virtual room H)

Magnetic reconnection, turbulence and acceleration of energetic particles

14:00  Neeraj Jain:
Free energy sources in current sheets formed in collisionless plasma turbulence

14:25  Xin Yao:
Radioastronomical diagnostics of magnetic reconnection via electron velocity distribution function

14:37  Jan Benáček:
Growth-rates of electrostatic waves in double plasma resonance model of solar radio zebras

14:49  Philipp Grete:
As a matter of tension -- kinetic energy spectra in MHD turbulence

Dynamo of the Sun and stars I

15:05  Sandra Jeffers:
Magnetic cycles of stars

15:30  Stefanie Raetz:
Relation between stellar rotation and magnetic activity of M dwarfs with K2 long- and short-cadence

15:45  Break

Dynamo of the Sun and stars II

16:15  Axel Brandenburg:
Dynamos of the Sun and stars

16:40  Jörn Warnecke:
Small-scale dynamo action at small magnetic Prandtl numbers in the Sun

16:52  Tanayveer Bhatia:
Effects of inclusion of small-scale dynamo in near-surface structure of F-stars

Stellar and solar magnetic field observations and extrapolations

17:10  Thomas Neukirch:
Modelling Magnetic Fields in the Solar Corona Using Magnetohydrostatic Equilibria

17:35  Julián D. Alvarado-Gómez:
Far Beyond the Sun: The First Stellar Magnetic Butterfly Diagram

17:47  M. Coffaro:
The case of Epsilon Eridani: reproducing its X-ray activity cycle with solar magnetic structures

ISM - Confronting simulations of the interstellar medium with observations and measurements (virtual room F)

14:00  Michael Schulreich:
Rayleigh-Taylor-unstable astrophysical fluid flows

14:17  Ekaterina I. Makarenko:
Emission from cooling supernova shocks in MHD simulations

14:34  D. Breitschwerdt:
Terrestrial 60Fe deposition and the implication for Near-Earth Supernovae

14:51  Victoria Herpel:
Analysis of nearby young stellar associations using Gaia DR2 for detecting past supernovae

15:08  Maurice Künicke:
Calculating stellar trajectories: A comparison between epicycles and numerical integrator in Galpy

15:25  Discussion

15:45  Break

16:15  Elena Hoemann:
Merging filaments: A race against the collapse

16:32  P.Knospe:
The blunt body problem in the context of stellar bow shocks

16:49  Wladimir E. Banda-Barragán:
Dense cloud survival in radiative multi-phase outflows

17:06  Ulrich Steinwandel:
Resolving the multiphase ISM in galaxy-scale simulations

17:23  Milena Valentini:
How stellar and AGN feedback shape the physical properties of a multiphase ISM across cosmic time

17:40  Concluding remarks

Exoplanets - Exploring the diversity of extrasolar planets (virtual room D)

14:00  Laura Kreidberg:
Big Steps Toward Small Worlds: Atmosphere Characterization of Sub-Neptunes and Super-Earths

14:35  Engin Keles:
Probing the atmosphere of HD189733b with the alkali lines

14:50  Laura Ketzer:
Estimating the atmospheric mass loss of V1298 Tau's four young planets

15:05  Mahmoudreza Oshagh:
The widest broadband transmission spectra of HD189733b obtained from ground-based observation

15:20  Eike Wolf Gunether:
Flares and CMEs on cool stars

15:35  Break

16:05  K. Poppenhaeger:
Connecting helium ionisation in exoplanet atmospheres with stellar X-ray flux

16:20  Konstantin Herbst:
INCREASE - A model suite to study the INflucence of Cosmic Rays on Exoplanetary AtmoSpherEs

16:35  Jiri Zak:
High-resolution Transmission Spectroscopy of Four Hot Inflated Gas Giant Exoplanets

16:50  Miriam Rengel:
Key physico-chemical mechanisms in (exo)planetary atmospheres and their impacts on the observables



Virtual coffee-talk meeting rooms are open 7 AM to 7 PM
Coffee-Talk Meeting Room A
Coffee-Talk Meeting Room B