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TeV Unidentified Sources Workshop
June 4-5, 2008
102 Chemistry Building
Workshop Program
| Wednesday, June 4 | ||
| 8:30 - 9:00 | Registration/Refreshments | |
| 9:00 - 9:10 | Welcoming Remarks - Peter Mészáros and Abe Falcone | |
| Morning Session Chair: Abe Falcone | ||
| 9:10 - 10:00 | Reshmi Mukherjee - "Overview of the Observational Properties of UnID TeV Sources" | |
| 10:00 - 10:20 | Soeb Razzaque - "A Model of the Extragalactic Background Light" | |
| 10:20 - 10:45 | Coffee | |
| 10:45 - 11:35 | Jules Halpern - "Overview of Pulsars and Pulsar-Wind Nebulae Associated with TeV UnIDs" | |
| 11:35 - 12:00 | Oleg Kargaltsev/George Pavlov - "Pulars and Pulsar-Wind Nebulae: TeV to X-Ray Connection" | |
| 12:00 - 12:15 | Discussion [What are likely counterpart classes? Where should we put modeling and observing | |
| resources? Other related questions?] | ||
| 12:15 - 2:00 | Lunch Break | |
| Afternoon Session Chair: Tyce DeYoung | ||
| 2:00 - 2:20 | Abe Falcone - "X-Ray Follow-Up of TeV UnID Objects with Swift" | |
| 2:20 - 2:45 | Eric Gotthelf - "X-Ray Studies of UnID Galactic TeV Sources" | |
| 2:45 - 3:00 | Discussion [Multi-wavelength follow-up strategies? GLAST impact? Other?] | |
| 3:00 - 3:25 | Coffee | |
| 3:25 - 4:15 | Petra Huentemeyer/Brenda Dingus - "Milagro's TeV Galactic UnID Sources" | |
| 4:15 - 4:45 | Kunihito Ioka - "Gamma Ray Burst Remnants as TeV UnID Objects" | |
| 4:45 - 5:00 | Discussion [Diffuse TeV UnID sources from multiple point sources or instrinsically diffuse? | |
| Shell SNRs, GRB remnants, variable point sources,...?] | ||
| Thursday, June 5 | ||
| 8:30 - 9:00 | Coffee and Refreshments | |
| Morning Session Chair: Peter Meszaros | ||
| 9:00 - 9:40 | Markus Boettcher - "Very High Energy Emission from Quasars and LBLs" | |
| 9:45 - 10:15 | Justin Finke - "The 2006 Giant Flare in PKS 2155-304 and UnID TeV Sources" | |
| 10:15 - 10:35 | Coffee | |
| 10:35 - 11:15 | Chuck Dermer - "Microquasars and UnID TeV Sources" | |
| 11:15 - 11:40 | Tyce DeYoung - "Neutrino Observations of TeV Sources" | |
| 11:40 - 12:05 | Jamie Holder - "Searching for Gamma-Rays from the Arrival Directions of the Highest | |
| Energy Cosmic Rays" | ||
| 12:05 - 12:15 | Discussion [Could some of the TeV UnIDs be AGN or microquasars? Variability of blazars and | |
| microquasars impact on TeV UnID studies? Neutrino observatory impact? ...?] | ||
| 12:15 - 2:00 | Lunch Break | |
| Afternoon Session Chair: Jamie Holder | ||
| 2:00 - 2:45 | Pat Slane - "Shell-Type Supernova Remnants" | |
| 2:45 - 3:05 | Abe Falcone - "TeV White Paper and Future TeV Detector Strategies (brief overview)" | |
| 3:05 - 3:20 | Discussion [SNRs vs PWNe? Suggestions/insights for future TeV strategies and predictions? ...? | |
| 3:20 - 3:45 | Coffee | |
| 3:45 - .... | Open floor for any "spur of the moment" short presentations | |
| .... - 4:30 | Open Discussion | |