<p>THE X-RAY UNIVERSE 2011 </p><p>27 - 30 June 2011 Berlin, Germany </p><p>A conference organised by the <br>XMM-Newton Science Operations Centre, <br>European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC), European Space Agency (ESA) </p><p>ABSTRACT BOOK </p><p>Oral Communications and Posters </p><p>Edited by </p><p>Andy Pollock </p><p>with the help of </p><p>Matthias Ehle, Cristina Hernandez, Jan-Uwe Ness, <br>Norbert Schartel and Martin Stuhlinger </p><p>Organising Committees </p><p>Scientific Organising Committee </p><p>Giorgio Matt (Universit`a degli Studi Roma Tre, Italy) Chair Norbert Schartel (XMM-Newton SOC, Madrid, ESA) Co-Chair M. Ali Alpar (Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey) Didier Barret (Centre d’Etude Spatiale des Rayonnements, Toulouse, France) Ehud Behar (Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel) Hans B¨ohringer (MPE, Garching, Germany) Graziella Branduardi-Raymont (University College London-MSSL, Dorking, UK) Francisco J. Carrera (Instituto de F´ısica de Cantabria, Santander, Spain) Finn E. Christensen (Danmarks Tekniske Universitet, Copenhagen, Denmark) Anne Decourchelle (Commissariat `a l’´energie atomique et aux ´energies alternatives, Saclay, France) Jan-Willem den Herder (SRON, Utrecht, The Netherlands) Rosario Gonzalez-Riestra (XMM-Newton SOC, Madrid, ESA) Coel Hellier (Keele University, UK) Stefanie Komossa (MPE, Garching, Germany) Chryssa Kouveliotou (NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Alabama, USA) Kazuo Makishima (University of Tokyo, Japan) Sera Markoff (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Brian McBreen (University College Dublin, Ireland) Brian McNamara (University of Waterloo, Canada) Giuseppina Micela (Osservatorio Astronomico G.S. Vaiana, Palermo, Italy) Giovanni Miniutti (Centro de Astrobiolog´ıa (CSIC/INTA), Madrid, Spain) Ya¨el Naz´e (University of Li`ege, Belgium) Takaya Ohashi (Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan) Feryal Ozel (University of Arizona, Tucson, USA) Andreas Zezas (University of Crete, Greece) </p><p>Local Organising Committee </p><p>Matthias Ehle (Co-Chair) Jan-Uwe Ness (Co-Chair) Michelle Arpizou Carlos Gabriel Aitor Ibarra Alvaro Labiano Georg Lamer (Potsdam) Nora Loiseau Lida Oskinova (Potsdam) Andy Pollock Mar´ıa Santos-Lle´o Richard Saxton Gabriele Sch¨onherr (Potsdam) Axel Schwope (Potsdam) Martin Stuhlinger </p><p>Contents </p><p></p><ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">1</li><li style="flex:1">Invited Speakers </li><li style="flex:1">3</li></ul><p></p><p>44<br>The role of X-ray astronomy in the era of the big observatories <br>Xavier Barcons&nbsp;. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . <br>Black hole spin in X-ray binaries and AGN <br>Laura Brenneman&nbsp;. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . <br>The deep sky under the X-ray limelight <br>Andrea Comastri, Piero Ranalli, Cristian Vignali, Nico Cappelluti, Roberto Gilli, Ioannis Georgantopoulos, Marcella Brusa, Xavier Barcons, Niel Brandt&nbsp;. . . . . . <br>Winds and jets in X-ray binaries <br>5<br>Maria Diaz Trigo, James Miller-Jones, Simone Migliari, Arvind Parmar, Laurence Boirin .&nbsp;. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . <br>Accreting Galactic black-hole systems <br>Chris Done&nbsp;. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . <br>Cooling cores and AGN feedback <br>Andy Fabian&nbsp;. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . <br>Young neutron stars and the role of magnetic fields in their evolution <br>Eric Gotthelf&nbsp;. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . <br>X-ray population studies of AGN <br>Matteo Guainazzi&nbsp;. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . <br>Explosion, turn-off and recovery of accretion in novae revealed by X-rays <br>Margarita Hernanz&nbsp;. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . <br>Studying AGN with high resolution spectroscopy <br>Jelle Kaastra&nbsp;. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . <br>The flaring X-ray sky: synergies between e.m. and gravitational wave astronomy <br>Stefanie Komossa&nbsp;. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . <br>The X-ray emission of magnetic cataclysmic variables <br>56677889</p><ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">9</li><li style="flex:1">Koji Mukai&nbsp;. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . </li></ul><p>Search for WHIM in X-rays <br>Takaya Ohashi&nbsp;. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .&nbsp;10 <br>Clusters of galaxies in the Planck survey <br>Etienne Pointecouteau&nbsp;. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .&nbsp;10 <br>Magnetar candidates: new discoveries open new questions <br>Nanda Rea&nbsp;. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .&nbsp;11 </p><p>3<br>The population of the Galactic Ridge <br>Mikhail Revnivtsev&nbsp;. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .&nbsp;11 <br>The high energy environment of extrasolar planets <br>Ju¨rgen Schmitt&nbsp;. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .&nbsp;12 <br>X-ray emission from stars: recent advances and future prospects <br>Beate Stelzer&nbsp;. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .&nbsp;12 <br>From abundance studies to cosmic ray physics: the impact of imaging spectroscopy <br>Jacco Vink&nbsp;. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .&nbsp;13 <br>Accreting binary populations in nearby galaxies <br>Andreas Zezas&nbsp;. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .&nbsp;13 </p><p></p><ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">2</li><li style="flex:1">Solicited Speakers </li><li style="flex:1">15 </li></ul><p></p><p>The future Sino-French SVOM gamma-ray burst mission <br>Didier Barret, Jacques Paul, Janyan Wei, Shuang-Nan Zhan, St´ephane Basa, Pierre Mandrou, Bertrand Cordier, Olivier Godet, St´ephane Schanne&nbsp;. . . . . . . . . . .&nbsp;16 <br>LOFT - Large area Observatory For x-ray Timing <br>Marco Feroci&nbsp;. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .&nbsp;16 <br>The Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) <br>Fiona Harrison&nbsp;. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .&nbsp;17 <br>The Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope mission <br>Tipei Li, Shuangnan Zhang, Fangjun Lu&nbsp;. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .&nbsp;17 <br>Advanced Telescope for High Energy Astrophysics (Athena) - study status <br>David Lumb&nbsp;. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .&nbsp;18 eROSITA: a new X-ray all-sky survey <br>Peter Predehl&nbsp;. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .&nbsp;18 <br>Astrosat <br>Gordon Stewart&nbsp;. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .&nbsp;19 <br>X-ray polarimetry with GEMS <br>Tod Strohmayer&nbsp;. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .&nbsp;19 <br>The ASTRO-H mission <br>Tadayuki Takahashi&nbsp;. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .&nbsp;20 </p><p></p><ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">3</li><li style="flex:1">Stars, Star-forming Regions, Planetary and Cometary Studies </li><li style="flex:1">21 </li></ul><p></p><p>Young stars around the Horsehead nebula <br>Juan Facundo Albacete Colombo, Javier Lopez-Santiago, Miguel Angel Lopez-Garcia&nbsp;22 <br>A very deep X-ray look into the young stellar cluster IC348 <br>Frauke Alexander, Thomas Preibisch&nbsp;. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .&nbsp;22 <br>Rotationally modulated X-ray emission from the accretion shock in CTTS <br>Costanza Argiroffi&nbsp;. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .&nbsp;23 <br>X-ray emission from protostellar jet HH 154: first evidence of a diamond shock? <br>Rosaria Bonito, Salvatore Orlando, Marco Miceli, Giovanni Peres, Giusi Micela, Fabio Favata&nbsp;. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .&nbsp;23 <br>Search for serendipitous TNO occultation in X-rays <br>Hsiang-Kuang Chang, Chih-Yuan Liu, Kuan-Ting Chen&nbsp;. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .&nbsp;24 <br>The nature and importance of the large spread in T Tauri X-ray luminosities <br>Jeremy Drake, Nicholas Wright, Mario Guarcello, Ettore Flaccomio&nbsp;. . . . . . . .&nbsp;24 Fermi detections in the vicinity of the star forming regions W43 &amp; Westerlund 2 <br>Elizabeth Ferrara, Marianne Lemoine-Goumard, Marie-Helene Grondin, Pierrick Martin, Matthieu Renaud&nbsp;. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .&nbsp;25 <br>The young open cluster around 25 Ori <br>Elena Franciosini, Giuseppe Germano Sacco, Sofia Randich&nbsp;. . . . . . . . . . . . .&nbsp;25 <br>Chandra/ACIS-I study of the young stellar population of the Eagle Nebula <br>Mario Guarcello, Marilena Caramazza, Jeremy Drake, Giuseppina Micela, Salvatore Sciortino .&nbsp;. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .&nbsp;26 <br>Cluster members and disk fraction of Cygnus OB2 <br>Mario Guarcello, Jeremy Drake, Nicholas Wright&nbsp;. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .&nbsp;26 <br>Constraining the ages of X-ray sources in NGC 922 <br>Floyd Jackson, Andrea Prestwich, Rupali Chandar, Blagoy Rangelov&nbsp;. . . . . . .&nbsp;27 <br>An XMM-Newton vision of the NGC 2023 cluster and its surroundings <br>Miguel Angel Lopez-Garcia, Javier Lopez-Santiago, Juan Facundo Albacete Colombo, Elisa de Castro&nbsp;. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .&nbsp;27 <br>Optical follow-up of the stellar content of the XBSS <br>Javier Lopez-Santiago, Giusi Micela, Laura Affer&nbsp;. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .&nbsp;28 <br>Quantifying the relation between UV and X-ray flux in nearby M stars <br>Antonietta Marino, Beate Stelzer, Giusi Micela&nbsp;. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .&nbsp;28 <br>X-ray emission from brown dwarf candidates in Cha I <br>Raquel Mercedes Martinez-Arnaiz, Javier Lopez-Santiago, Juan Facundo Albacete Colombo, Beate Stelzer, Elisa de Castro, Manuel Cornide&nbsp;. . . . . . . . . . . . . .&nbsp;29 <br>Revealing the young stellar population in the S254-258 region with X-rays <br>Paola Mucciarelli, Thomas Preibisch, Hans Zinnecker&nbsp;. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .&nbsp;29 <br>A Holy Grail for stellar wind analysis: zeta Puppis seen by XMM <br>Yael Naze, Gregor Rauw, Anthony Herve, Lida Oskinova&nbsp;. . . . . . . . . . . . . .&nbsp;30 <br>Early magnetic B-type stars: X-ray emission and wind properties <br>Lidia Oskinova, Helge Todt, Richard Ignace, John Brown, Joseph Cassinelli, WolfRainer Hamann&nbsp;. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .&nbsp;30 <br>Star-planet interactions in X-rays - mimicked by selection effects? <br>Katja Poppenhaeger&nbsp;. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .&nbsp;31 <br>Detection of 14368 X-ray sources in the Carina Nebula star forming region <br>Thomas Preibisch&nbsp;. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .&nbsp;31 <br>The LETG spectrum of delta Ori <br>Ton Raassen, Andy Pollock&nbsp;. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .&nbsp;32 <br>A look at the high Galactic latitude O-type star HD93521 with XMM-Newton <br>Gregor Rauw, Thierry Morel&nbsp;. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .&nbsp;32 <br>X-ray emission from Ap/Bp stars - bridging cool and hot stars <br>Jan Robrade, Ju¨rgen Schmitt&nbsp;. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .&nbsp;33 <br>X-ray emission from protostellar jets <br>Christian Schneider, Ju¨rgen Schmitt&nbsp;. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .&nbsp;33 <br>Giant HII Regions in M 101: Hα-line spectra and X-ray property <br>Wei Sun, Li Feng, Yang Chen, C.-H. Rosie Chen, You-Hua Chu&nbsp;. . . . . . . . . .&nbsp;34 <br>X-ray observations of hot Jupiters <br>Scott Wolk, Ignazio Pillitteri, Vinay Kashyap, Ofer Cohen, Carey Lisse, Jeremy Drake .&nbsp;. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .&nbsp;34 <br>The Chandra Cygnus OB2 Legacy Survey <br>Nicholas Wright, Jeremy Drake, Mario Guarcello, Tom Aldcroft, Vinay Kashyap, Antonella Fruscione, Francesco Damiani, Ettore Flaccomio, Erik van der Veen&nbsp;. .&nbsp;35 <br>The decay of stellar dynamo activity and the rotation-activity relation <br>Nicholas Wright, Jeremy Drake&nbsp;. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .&nbsp;35 </p><p></p><ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">4</li><li style="flex:1">Interacting Binary Systems, Galactic Black Holes and Micro-quasars </li><li style="flex:1">37 </li></ul><p></p><p>The paucity of accreting millisecond X-ray pulsars <br>Stratos Boutloukos, Fred Lamb, Ka Ho Lo, Cole Miller&nbsp;. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .&nbsp;38 <br>XMM-Newton observations of IGRJ18410-0535: the ingestion of a massive clump <br>Enrico Bozzo, Alessio Giunta, Giancarlo Cusumano, Carlo Ferrigno, Roland Walter, Sergio Campana, Maurizio Falanga, Gianluca Israel, Luigi Stella&nbsp;. . . . . . . . . .&nbsp;38 <br>Multiwavelength studies of the microquasar GX 339-4 in its 2010 outburst <br>Marion Cadolle Bel, Jerome Rodriguez, Stephane Corbel, Paolo D’Avanzo, Dave Russell, John Tomsick, Erik Kuulkers, Maria Diaz Trigo, Phil Uttley&nbsp;. . . . . . .&nbsp;39 <br>2011 outburst of IGR J17091-3624 as seen by INTEGRAL and Swift <br>Fiamma Capitanio, Melania Del Santo, Enrico Bozzo, Carlo Ferrigno, Giovanni De Cesare, Erik Kuulkers&nbsp;. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .&nbsp;39 <br>Time lags and reflection in black hole X-ray binaries <br>Pablo Cassatella, Phil Uttley, Joern Wilms, Juri Poutanen&nbsp;. . . . . . . . . . . . .&nbsp;40 <br>Two spectral substates within low/hard States of NS-LMXBs <br>Massimo Cocchi&nbsp;. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .&nbsp;40 <br>Discovery of the new gamma-ray binary 1FGL J1018.6-5856 <br>Robin Corbet, M.J. Coe, P.G. Edwards, M.D. Filipovic, J.L. Payne, J. Stevens, M.A.P. Torres&nbsp;. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .&nbsp;41 <br>A new view of accretion disk corona X-ray sources <br>Antonino D’A`ı, Rosario Iaria, Luciano Burderi, Tiziana Di Salvo, Alessandro Papitto, Alessandro Riggio, Natale Renato Robba, Teresa Mineo&nbsp;. . . . . . . . . . .&nbsp;41 <br>Analyzing relativistic effects around black holes: XMM observations of Cygnus X-1 <br>Thomas Dauser, Refiz Duro, J¨orn Wilms, Sonja Fritz, Katja Pottschmidt, Michael Nowak, Eckhard Kendziorra, Christopher Reynolds, Ru¨diger Staubert&nbsp;. . . . . . .&nbsp;42 <br>Observations of X-ray binaries with very-faint accretion luminosities <br>Melania Del Santo, Lara Sidoli, Patrizia Romano&nbsp;. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .&nbsp;42 <br>XSSJ1227.0-4859: a mysterious LMXB with gamma-ray association to 1FGLJ1227.9-485 <br>Domitilla de Martino, Tomaso Belloni, Maurizio Falanga, Jean-Marc Bonnet-Bidaud, </p><ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">Martine Mouchet, Alberto Pellizzoni, Nicola Masetti, Koji Mukai, Giorgio Matt </li><li style="flex:1">.</li><li style="flex:1">43 </li></ul><p>XMM/HESS observations of SNR G284.3-1.8 and the binary system 1FGLJ1018.6-5857 <br>Emma de Ona Wilhelmi, Regis Terrier, Francois Brun, Ryan Chaves, Arache DjannatiAtai .&nbsp;. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .&nbsp;43 <br>X-ray spectroscopy of MXB 1728-34 with XMM-Newton <br>Elise Egron, Tiziana Di Salvo, Luciano Burderi, Alessandro Papitto, Laura Barrag´an, Thomas Dauser, Joern Wilms, Antonino D’A`ı, Alessandro Riggio&nbsp;. . . . .&nbsp;44 Evidence for intermediate mass black holes: the case of ESO 243-49 HLX-1 <br>Sean Farrell, Didier Barret, Olivier Godet, Mathieu Servillat, Natalie Webb&nbsp;. . . .&nbsp;44 <br>XMM-Newton’s view of the multiple fluorescence lines of GX 301−2 <br>Felix Fu¨rst, Ingo Kreykenbohm, J¨orn Wilms, Slawomir Suchy, Richard Rothschild, Katja Pottschmidt, Laura Barrag´an, Jos´e Miguel Torrej´on, Manfred Hanke&nbsp;. . . .&nbsp;45 <br>4U 0115+63: phase lags and cyclotron resonant scattering <br>Carlo Ferrigno, Maurizio Falanga, Enrico Bozzo, Peter A. Becker, Dmitry Klochkov, Andrea Santangelo&nbsp;. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .&nbsp;45 <br>Multiwavelength rapid timing &amp; broad-band spectroscopy of X-ray binaries <br>Poshak Gandhi&nbsp;. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .&nbsp;46 <br>Resolving the nature of the dipping/flaring branch in Cygnus X-2 <br>Andrzej Gibiec, Monika Balucinska-Church, Michael Church&nbsp;. . . . . . . . . . . .&nbsp;46 <br>Optical counterparts to ultraluminous X-ray sources <br>Jeanette Claire Gladstone, Chris Copperwheat, Taylor Cartwright, Timothy Roberts, Craig Heinke, Andrew Levan&nbsp;. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .&nbsp;47 <br>Cyg X-1: shedding light on the spectral variability of black holes <br>Victoria Grinberg, Marion Cadolle Bel, Katja Pottschmidt, Joern Wilms, Jerome Rodriguez, John A. Tomsick, Arash Bodaghee, Michael A. Nowak, Sera Markoff, Guy Pooley&nbsp;. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .&nbsp;47 <br>XMM-Newton observations of the shortest orbital period black-hole candidate MAXI <br>J1659-152 Aitor Ibarra, Erik Kuulkers, Maria Diaz Trigo, Jan-Uwe Ness, Andy Pollock, Arvind Parmar, Chryssa Kouveliotou, Alexander van der Horst&nbsp;. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .&nbsp;48 <br>GRO J1008−57: high precision timing and spectral evolution <br>Matthias Ku¨hnel, Sebastian Mu¨ller, Ingo Kreykenbohm, J¨orn Wilms, Katja Pottschmidt, Felix Fu¨rst, Slawomir Suchy, Richard E. Rothschild, Isabel Caballero&nbsp;. . . . . . .&nbsp;48 <br>High mass accretion rate spectra of GX 339-4: black hole spin from reflection? <br>Mari Kolehmainen, Chris Done, Maria Diaz Trigo&nbsp;. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .&nbsp;49 <br>Pulse profile variations in GX 1+4 <br>Peter Kretschmar, Roque Ruiz-Carmona, Erik Kuulkers, Ana Gonz´alez-Gal´an, Carlo Ferrigno . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .&nbsp;49 <br>Long-term spectral changes in GX 1+4 <br>Peter Kretschmar, Ana Gonz´alez-Gal´an, Erik Kuulkers, Konstantin Postnov, Mark Finger, Stefan Larsson&nbsp;. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .&nbsp;50 <br>Observation of blackbody excess in persistent Be/NS binary pulsars <br>Nicola La Palombara, Lara Sidoli, Andrea Tiengo, Sandro Mereghetti, Paolo Esposito .&nbsp;. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .&nbsp;50 <br>Chandra and theoretical insight into the evolution of accreting binary populations <br>Bret Lehmer, Ann Hornschemeier, Tassos Fragos, Leigh Jenkins, Vicky Kalogera, Andy Ptak, Michael Tremmel, Tzanavaris Panayiotis, Andreas Zezas&nbsp;. . . . . . .&nbsp;51 <br>On the cooling tails of thermonuclear X-ray bursts: news from Terzan 5 <br>Manuel Linares, Deepto Chakrabarty, Michiel van der Klis&nbsp;. . . . . . . . . . . . .&nbsp;51 <br>Constraining the black hole mass for an ultraluminous X-ray source NGC1313 X-2 <br>Jifeng Liu&nbsp;. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .&nbsp;52 <br>Simultaneous X-ray timing and spectroscopy observations of the UCXB 4U 0614+091 <br>Oliwia Madej, Peter Jonker&nbsp;. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .&nbsp;52 <br>An X-ray ionized nebula around the eclipsing black hole binary M33 X-7 <br>Pierre Maggi, Xian Hou, Manfred Pakull&nbsp;. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .&nbsp;53 <br>On the variability of the Si complex in the enigmatic Cygnus X-3 <br>Silvia Mart´ınez-Nu´n˜ez, Jos´e M. Torrejo´n, Jos´e J. Rodes-Roca, Andy Pollock, Peter Kretschmar .&nbsp;. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .&nbsp;53 <br>4U 0115+63: a bonanza of cyclotron resonance scattering features <br>Sebastian Mu¨ller, Maria Obst, Ingo Kreykenbohm, Felix Fu¨rst, Matthias Ku¨hnel, Katja Pottschmidt, J¨orn Wilms, Richard E. Rothschild, Ru¨diger Staubert&nbsp;. . . . .&nbsp;54 <br>Characterising the timing and spectral properties of ULXs <br>Matthew Middleton, Timothy Roberts, Andrew Sutton, Chris Done, Floyd Jackson&nbsp;54 <br>Spectroscopy of the stellar wind in the Cyg X-1 system <br>Ivica Miskovicova, Manfred Hanke, Joern Wilms, Michael A. Nowak, Katja Pottschmidt, Norbert S. Schulz&nbsp;. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .&nbsp;55 <br>The low mass X-ray binary system 4U 1735-44 <br>Benjamin Mueck, Santina Piraino, Andrea Santangelo, Gerd Puehlhofer, Jan-Christoph Tenzer .&nbsp;. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .&nbsp;55 <br>RXTE monitoring of GRS1758-258 <br>Maria Obst, Katja Pottschmidt, Anne M. Lohfink, J¨orn Wilms, David M. Smith, John A. Tomsick, Ingo Kreykenbohm&nbsp;. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .&nbsp;56 <br>Unveiling the nature of IGRJ17177-3656 with X-ray, NIR and radio observations <br>Adamantia Paizis, Mike Nowak, Joern Wilms, Sylvain Chaty, Rolf Chini, Jerome Rodriguez, Stephane Corbel, Melania Del Santo, Pietro Ubertini, Ken Ebisawa&nbsp;. .&nbsp;56 <br>ULX NGC 5408 X-1: a deep search for correlated timing &amp; spectral behavior <br>Dheeraj Pasham, Tod Strohmayer&nbsp;. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .&nbsp;57 <br>X-ray spectral variability in ultraluminous X-ray sources <br>Fabio Pintore, Luca Zampieri&nbsp;. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .&nbsp;57 <br>The most luminous ULXs: evidence for IMBHs? <br>Timothy Roberts, Andrew Sutton, Jeanette Gladstone, Dominic Walton, Amy Scott&nbsp;58 <br>Resolving iron emission lines in 4U 1538−52 with XMM-Newton <br>Jos´e Joaqu´ın Rodes-Roca, Jos´e Miguel Torrej´on V´azquez, Silvia Mart´ınez-Nu´n˜ez, Guillermo Bernab´eu Pastor, Kim L. Page, Julian P. Osborne&nbsp;. . . . . . . . . . . .&nbsp;58 <br>The enigma of Supergiant Fast X-ray Transients: Swift broad-band results <br>Patrizia Romano, Paolo Esposito, Stefano Vercellone, Hans A. Krimm, Giancarlo Cusumano, Valentina La Parola, Vanessa Mangano, Jamie A. Kennea, David N. Burrows, Claudio Pagani&nbsp;. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .&nbsp;59 <br>Spectral analysis of LMXB Aql X-1 in soft and hard states with Suzaku <br>Soki Sakurai, Shinya Yamada, Kazuhiro Nakazawa, Kazuo Makishima&nbsp;. . . . . . .&nbsp;59 <br>Kilohertz QPOs and broad iron emission lines as a probe of strong-field gravity <br>Andrea Sanna, Beike Hiemstra, Mariano Mendez, Diego Altamirano, Tomaso Belloni&nbsp;60 <br>Suzaku studies of SFXTs <br>Makoto Sasano, Kenta Nakajima, Shinya Yamada, Takayuki Yuasa, Kazuhiro Nakazawa, Kazuo Makishima&nbsp;. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .&nbsp;60 Magnetospheric accretion shocks in the X-ray spectrum of 4U 1626-67 <br>Norbert S. Schulz, Herman L. Marshall, Deepto Chakrabarty&nbsp;. . . . . . . . . . . .&nbsp;61 <br>The spectral state transitions of ESO 243-49 HLX-1 <br>Mathieu Servillat, Sean Farrell, Dacheng Lin, Olivier Godet, Didier Barret, Natalie Webb .&nbsp;. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .&nbsp;61 <br>Long term spectral variation in the neutron star X-ray binary, 4U 1636-536 <br>I Chun Shih, Phil Charles, Remon Cornelisse&nbsp;. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .&nbsp;62 <br>The XMM-Newton view of SFXTs: the case of IGRJ16418-4532 <br>Lara Sidoli, Sandro Mereghetti, Vito Sguera&nbsp;. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .&nbsp;62 <br>Spectral properties of the transition between soft and hard state in GX 339-4 <br>Holger Stiele, Tomaso Belloni, Sara Motta, Teo Mun˜oz-Darias&nbsp;. . . . . . . . . . .&nbsp;63 <br>A detailed X-ray characterisation of ULXs <br>Andrew Sutton, Matthew Middleton, Timothy Roberts&nbsp;. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .&nbsp;63 <br>Revealing the stellar wind and the accretion flow of Vela X-1 using XMM-Newton <br>Jos´e M. Torrej´on, Silvia Mart´ınez-Nu´n˜ez, Peter Kretschmar, Jos´e J. Rodes-Roca, Martin Stuhlinger, Andy Pollock, Ingo Kreykenbohm&nbsp;. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .&nbsp;64 <br>Suzaku Observations of GX 339-4 in the Low/Hard State <br>Yoshihiro Ueda, Megumi Shidatsu&nbsp;. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .&nbsp;64 <br>Decoding the time-lags in accreting black holes with XMM-Newton <br>Philip Uttley, Pablo Cassatella, Tony Wilkinson, Joern Wilms, Katja Pottschmidt, Manfred Hanke, Moritz Boeck&nbsp;. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .&nbsp;65 <br>A ULX in a young massive stellar cluster <br>Rasmus Voss, Gijs Nelemans&nbsp;. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .&nbsp;65 <br>The broad iron emission line profile of XTE J1650-500 <br>Dominic Walton, Rubens Reis, Ed Cackett, Jon Miller, Andy Fabian&nbsp;. . . . . . .&nbsp;66 <br>A jet ejection event from the intermediate mass black hole HLX-1 in ESO 243-49 <br>Natalie Webb, Emil Lenc, David Cseh, Olivier Godet, Didier Barret, Stephane Corbel, Sean Farrell, Rob Fender, Neil Gehrels, Ian Heywood&nbsp;. . . . . . . . . . . . . .&nbsp;66 <br>Suzaku wide-band spectral analysis on short/long time scales of Cygnus X-1 <br>Shinya Yamada, Kazuo Makishima, Shunnsuke Torii, Chris Done&nbsp;. . . . . . . . .&nbsp;67 <br>Challenging ultraluminous X-ray sources <br>Luca Zampieri, Michela Mapelli, Emanuele Ripamonti, Monica Colpi, Fabio Pintore&nbsp;67 <br>Analysis of high energy data from LS I +61 303 based on its 4.6 yr periodicity <br>Lisa Zimmermann, Victoria Grinberg, Maria Massi, J¨orn Wilms&nbsp;. . . . . . . . . .&nbsp;68 </p>