The XMM-Newton Science Operations Centre is organising a major astrophysical symposium from Monday 16th to Thursday 19th of June 2014 in Dublin, Ireland. The symposium is the fourth international meeting in the series “The X-ray Universe”. The intention is to gather a general collection of research in high energy astrophysics. The symposium will provide a showcase for results, discoveries and expectations from current and future X-ray missions.More information, including details on the key dates for registration and abstract submission will be announced in an XMM Newsletter.
Key Topics of the meeting will cover:
- Stars and Star-forming Regions, Solar System Studies
- Interacting Binary Systems, Galactic Black Holes, Micro-quasars
- Cataclysmic Variables and Novae
- Isolated Neutron Stars and Pulsars
- Planetary Nebulae, SN, SNR, PWN, Gamma-ray Bursts and Afterglows
- Galaxies, Galaxy Surveys, Population Studies, ISM and Diffuse Galactic Emission
- Active Galactic Nuclei
- Clusters of Galaxies
- Extragalactic Surveys and Population Studies, the CXB, WHIM and Cosmology
- Future of X-ray Astronomy
Hot Topics
- Accretion Physics
- Physics of Magnetised Objects
- General Relativity: Compact Objects & Reverberation
- Extrasolar Planets and their Hosts
- Galactic Centre
- Transients of the Multi-Band Sky
- Sunyaev-Zel’dovich Effect: Recent Results
- The Sky at High Energies
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