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1st FERO Meeting European Space Astronomy Center Villafranca del Castillo, Spain 4–6 February 2008

Program

• 4 February

  14:00–18:00, Status of ongoing projects
  Review the results published on FERO so far. Results from other, similar on-going projects undertaken with XMM-Newton and Suzaku. Speakers will introduce the discussion (each presentation should last no longer than 25 minutes, with free time available for a question and answer session after each talk):

  • V. Karas, Relativistic effects in radiation from black-hole sources (a.k.a. `Why we are here')
  • I. de la Calle, Statistics of relativistic iron K-alpha lines in FERO
  • A. Longinotti, Relativistic iron lines in FERO stacked spectra
  • A. Corral, Spectral stacking analysis of AXIS and XWAS AGN
  • M. Guainazzi: ESO511-G030 and IRAS05078+1626: two X-ray FERO novelties during the XMM-Newton AO6
  • F. Tombesi, Narrow emission/absorption Fe K lines in bright AGNs

• 5 February

  10:00–13:00, What have we learned?
  Moderated discussion on the main results presented during the first session. Which solid conclusions can be drawn from these studies, which issues still need to be addressed. No formal presentations will be held during this session. G. Matt will summarize the main conclusions of the discussion.

  14:00–18:00, Fitting tools (status, problems, perspectives)
  Review of the status of our theoretical work on the relativistic iron line modeling, as well as the current issues with models. Systematic comparisons with observations carried on within the framework of the FERO project. Speakers will introduce the discussion:

  • G. Matt, Review of fitting tools available in XSPEC
  • M. Dovciak, Status of the ky models
  • R. Goossmann, Relativistic models for the X-ray variability of AGN
  • K. Murphy, An X-ray spectral fitting tool for toroidal reprocessors in AGN
  • G. Ponti, Variability in the iron K-alpha fluorescent line regime
  • M. Dadina, M. Cappi, What is the broad-band observational framework of FEROs?

• 6 February

  10:00–13:00, Future perspectives
  Future observations we may need to address the still pending issues as discussed during the previous sessions. Plans for proposals with Chandra, Suzaku and XMM-Newton. M. Guainazzi will summarize the main conclusions.

  14:00–17:00, Splinter sessions for data analysis
  Splinter sessions will be organized on Wednesday afternoon to do some real work on data. We encourage people to arrange their flights home as late as possible in order to leave ESAC not before 5 pm (it takes about 40 min to reach the airport from ESAC by taxi).