Program & Abstracts T. MACCARONE Black Hole Universe Program and Abstracts Monday, 18 June 2012 6 10:00–10:20: Jörn Wilms: Welcome . 6 10:20–11:00: Chris Fryer: Supernovae, GRBs and the formation of Black Holes . 6 11:00–11:20: Michela Mapelli (presenter: E. Ripamonti): Massive stellar black holes from stellar evolution and dynamics . 6 11:20–11:40: Coffee 11:40–12:00: Jonathan C. McKinney: Simulating Extreme Black Hole Engines . 6 12:20–12:40: Renaud Belmont: Stochastic acceleration in accreting black holes. 7 12:40–13:00: Christiaan Brinkerink: Jet launching at small radii: results from 2d axisymmetric simulation 7 13:00–14:35: Lunch 14:35–14:55: Himadri Ghosh: Numerical Studies of the Hydrodynamic, Spectral and Timing Properties of a Two-Component Accretion Flow around a Black Hole . 8 14:55–15:15: Viacheslav Zhuravlev: Relativistic twisted accretion disc around a Kerr black hole . 8 15:15–15:35: Stéphane Corbel: On the formation and destruction of self-absorbed compact jets in accreting binary black holes . 9 15:35–15:55: Arman Tursunov: Acceleration of particles by black hole with gravitomagnetic charge immersed in magnetic field . 9 15:55–16:25: Coffee 16:25–17:05: Michael Nowak: Spins and Winds: A Modern (and not so Modern) History of Black Hole X-ray Binaries . 10 17:05–17:25: Victoria Grinberg: Every second week for fourteen years: RXTE observations of Cyg X-1 . 10 17:25–17:45: Elise Egron: Self-consistent study of the reflection component in 4U 1705−44 with XMM- Newton, BeppoSAX and RXTE in the hard and soft state . 11 Tuesday, 19 June 2012 12 09:40–10:20: Joey Neilsen: New Results on Massive Winds in Black Hole X-ray Binaries . 12 10:20–10:40: Ivica Miskovicova: Feeding the monster: Wind accretion in Cygnus X-1 . 12 10:40–11:00: Diego Altamirano: IGR J17091−3624: learning from the little sister of GRS 1915+105 . 12 11:00–11:40: Coffee 11:40–12:00: Tolga Dincer: X-ray, optical and infrared observations of GX 339-4 in 2011 decay . 13 12:00–12:20: Pierre-Olivier Petrucci: Disc apparent recession and jet reappearance: the turning back of GX 339−4 in the hard state at the end of its 2010–2011 outburst . 13 12:20–12:40: Arash Bodaghee: Fermi-LAT observations of microquasars . 14 12:40–13:00: Henric Krawczynski: The X-ray Polarimetry Mission GEMS and Tests of Accretion Disk Models and Strong Gravity General Relativity . 14 13:00–14:35: Lunch 14:35–14:55: Sebastian Heinz: Inflow, outflow, all about flow . 15 14:55–15:15: Tomaso Belloni: High-frequency Quasi-Periodic Oscillations from Black Hole Binaries: the RossiXTE Legacy . 15 15:15–15:35: Teo Muñoz-Darias: A new look at the outburst evolution of black hole X-ray binaries . 16 15:35–15:55: Adam Ingram: A unique test for a relativistic precession origin of the low frequency QPO in X-ray binaries . 16 15:55–16:25: Coffee 16:25–16:45: Maithili Kalamkar: X-ray variability studies of the black hole binary Swift J1753.5−012 in soft band: Is there contribution from the disk? . 17 3 4 Black Hole Universe 2012 16:45–17:05: Holger Stiele: Correlations between timing features and spectral parameters during rise and decay in black hole X-ray binary outbursts . 17 17:05–17:25: Alexandra Veledina: Non-thermal particles in hot accretion flow: unification of spectral and timing properties . 18 17:25–17:45: David Meier: Highly Super-Eddington Accreting Black holes: Cygnus X-1s on Steroids . 18 Wednesday, 20 June 2012 20 09:40–10:00: David Cseh: Jet ejection events of the intermediate mass black hole HLX-1 . 20 10:00–10:20: Manfred W. Pakull: Photon luminosity and mechanical power of accreting black holes . 20 10:20–10:40: Fabio Pintore: X-ray spectral states and temporal properties of Ultraluminous X-ray Sources 20 10:40–11:00: Emanuele Ripamonti: Investigating the relation between ULXs and metallicity . 21 11:00–11:40: Coffee 11:40–12:20: Jason Dexter: Extremely Faint and Incredibly Close: the Physics of Accretion onto Sagit- tarius A∗ ...........................................21 12:20–12:40: Alexander Zakharov: Black hole at the Galactic Center . 22 12:40–13:00: Samia Drappeau: New predictions for X-ray binaries as Galactic gamma-ray and cosmic-ray sources . 22 13:00–13:20: Farruh Atamurotov: The shadow of black hole in Kerr-Taub-NUT spacetime . 23 13:20–19:00: Free Afternoon 14:30–16:30: Guided Tour of Bamberg 19:00–24:00: Conference Dinner, Welcome Hotel Thursday, 21 June 2012 24 09:40–10:20: Ryan Hickox: AGN evolution and the growth of supermassive black holes . 24 10:20–10:40: Andrea Merloni: AGN feedback in clusters of galaxies: M87 under the LOFAR microscope 24 10:40–11:20: Tamara Bogdanovic: Gravitational and electromagnetic signatures from merging black holes 24 11:20–11:40: Coffee 10:40–12:00: Viktoriya Giryanskaya (Morozova): Mass formula for the remnant of black hole binary merger 25 12:00–12:20: Nick Tacik: Parameter Space Dependence of Junk Radiation in Binary Black Hole Simulations 25 12:20–13:00: Francesca Panessa: AGN from low to high accretion rates . 26 13:00–14:35: Lunch 14:35–14:55: Richard Plotkin: Weakly Accreting AGN and their Receding Tori: an Infrared View of Unification . 26 14:55–15:15: Sibasish Laha: The Warm absorbers and the Soft-excess continuum in Seyfert1 galaxies 27 15:15–15:35: Jacobo Ebrero: The X-ray/UV absorber in NGC 4593 . 27 15:35–15:55: Minfeng Gu: The optical variability of radio-loud quasars . 28 15:55–16:25: Coffee 16:25–16:45: Alex Markowitz: Multi-Time Scale X-ray Spectral Variability in Seyferts . 28 16:45–17:05: Sunil Chandra: Multi-wavelength Variability in Blazars . 29 17:05–17:25: Shuang-Liang Li: Constraints on jet formation mechanisms with the most energetic giant outbursts in MS 0735+7421 . 29 17:25–17:45: Beatriz Mingo: An X-ray survey of the 2 Jy sample: implications for identification and accretion in LERGs. 30 Friday, 22 June 2012 31 09:40–10:00: Pieter van Oers: Median stacking of serendipitous radio observations of Sloan Digital Sky Survey active galactic nuclei . 31 10:00–10:40: Laura Brenneman: Probing the Inner Accretion Disk in AGN Using X-ray Spectra . 31 Black Hole Universe 2012 5 10:40–11:00: Refiz Duro: Broad Iron Kα line in Cygnus X-1 with XMM-Newton . 31 11:00–11:20: Coffee 11:20–11:40: Jiri Svoboda: Modelling the steep radial emissivity in relativistic iron lines . 32 11:40–12:00: Alessandra De Rosa: Measuring strong gravity effects in AGN observed with LOFT . 32 12:00–12:20: Anna Chashkina: Black hole spin-up by magnetized disk accretion . 33 12:20–12:40: Pavel Abolmasov: Resolving the Structure of QSO Disks by Microlensing Effects . 33 12:40–13:00: Good Bye . 34 13:00: End of Conference .....................................34 Posters 35 P1: Elif Beklen: A View to Black Holes Using the Earth Occultation Data of the Fermi-GBM . 35 P2: Yoon Young Chun: Jet signature and contribution in XTE J1752−223 via multiwavelength observations . 35 P3: Salomé Dibi: GRMHD simulations of accretion onto Sgr A∗: How important are radiative losses? . 35 P4: Laura Di Gesu: X-ray/UV observation of the Seyfert-1 galaxy 1H0419−577 . 36 P5: Abdullo Hakimov: Particle Motion Around Black Hole in Horava-Lifshitz Gravity . 36 P6: Yi Liu: Multi-frequency VLBA Polarimetry of GPS Quasar OQ172 . 37 P7: Semyeong Oh: Spatially-resolved narrow-line region of two type-I QSOs . 37 P8: Serguei Ossokine: Rotationally invariant approach to simulation of precessing binary black holes . 38 P9: Montserrat Armas Padilla: The very faint X-ray binary black hole candidate Swift J1357.2−0933: Swift/XRT and UVOT analysis of its 2011 outburst. 38 P10: Serena Repetto: Stellar-mass black hole kicks . 39 P11: Jérôme Rodriguez: IGR J17091−3624: the farthest Galactic black hole binary? . 39 P12: Zhaoyu Zuo: Simulating the X-ray evolution of late-type galaxies with evolutionary popula- tion synthesis . 40 6 Black Hole Universe 2012 Monday Monday – 10:20–11:00 Chris Fryer Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA Supernovae, GRBs and the formation of Black Holes The nature of black hole formation is closely linked with explosions from stellar collapse. I will review the current explosion mechanisms for supernovae and gamma-ray bursts and describe how we use our understanding of these mechanisms to determine the formation processes behind black hole formation. Understanding the black hole formation process allows us to predict black hole mass and kick distributions and I will present the latest work in these studies. Monday – 11:00–11:20 Michela Mapelli (presenter: E. Ripamonti) INAF-Padova Astronomical Observatory, Italy Massive stellar black holes from stellar evolution and dynamics Stellar black holes (SBHs) form from the collapse of massive stars. The mass of SBHs is currently thought to be in the 3–20 solar mass (M ) range, but this is highly uncertain: recent observations indicate the existence of at least one SBH with mass > 20 M . Stellar metallicity and dynamical processes are two key ingredients to shape the mass spectrum of SBHs. Dynamical interactions influence the mass of SBHs, as they trigger mass transfer and mergers between stars and between stars and SBHs. The metallicity of the progenitor star strongly influences the mass of the remnant, as only metal-poor stars can have final masses larger than ∼40M and are expected to directly collapse into SBHs with mass >25 M .