The First Informal Zwicky SN Workshop, Pasadena 2004




SN 2003ja in NGC 846, as imaged by the robotic Palomar 60"
Image credit: B. Cenko and the robotic P60 team

MOTIVATION: Several astronomers at Caltech and Carnegie are currently interested in supernovae: as cosmic explosions, as the death of massive stars, nucleosynthesis, and as cosmic yardsticks. Observers at Carnegie are mounting a major campaign using C40, C100 and Magellan. The venerable P48 telescope is being pressed again onto SN science but with CCDs -- the Quest project. The newly roboticized P60 is being dedicated to transient astronomy research. Swift, a hard X-ray MIDEX, is expected to launch in June 2004. Swift may identify many examples of the much sought after nearby supernovae with high energy emission (SN 1998bw/GRB 980425) and argued to be engine driven explosions (as opposed to hydrodynamic explosions). Finally, NUSTAR, a SMEX mission with gamma ray nucleosynthesis as one of its three main goals, has just entered Phase A studies (PI, Fiona Harrison). Given the disparate interests but common objects of interest we are organizing a meeting to bring astronomers at Carnegie & Caltech together.


Organizers:

Dr. Avishay Gal-Yam, Postdoctoral Scholar, avishay@astro.caltech.edu
Dr. Derek Fox, Postdoctoral Fellow, derekfox@astro.caltech.edu


Date and location: Saturday, January 17, 2004, Carnegie Auditorium, OCIW, 813 Santa Barbara St', Pasadena.


PROGRAM:

FIRST SESSION (Chair: A. Gal-Yam)

09:00 Welcome (S. Kulkarni & W. Freedman) Presentation (PPT)
09:10 Overview of the Carnegie SN program (W. Freedman, OCIW) Presentation (PPT)
09:40 Lick Observatory Supernova Search (W. Li, UCB) Presentation (PPT)

10:10 Coffee Break

SECOND SESSION (Chair: M. Phillips, OCIW)

10:40 SN Factory (M. Wood-Vasey, LBL) Presentation (PDF)
11:10 NUSTAR -- A Hard X-ray/Nuclear Line SMEX (F. Harrison, Caltech) Presentation (PPT)
11:30 The Newly Roboticized P60 (D. Fox, Caltech) Presentation (PDF)
11:50 Super-LOTIS (H. Park, LLNL) Presentation (PPT)

12:10 Lunch

THIRD SESSION (Chair: E. Berger, Caltech)

13:40 The QUEST Supernova Program (C. Baltay, Yale) Presentation (PPT)
14:10 ESSENCE and the CfA SN program (R. Kirshner, CfA) Presentation (PPT)
14:40 NIR Diagnostics for SNe (M. Phillips, OCIW) Presentation (PPT)
15:10 Where Next with SN Cosmology ? (R. Ellis, Caltech) Presentation (PPT)

15:40 Break (Lemonade)

FOURTH SESSION (Chair: D. Frail)

16:10 Search for Engine-Driven SNe (A. Soderberg, Caltech) Presentation (PPT)
16:40 Beyond Mere Collapses: The Collapsar Model (A. MacFadyen, Caltech) Presentation (PPT)
17:00 Pan-STARRS (P. Price, IfA) Presentation (PPT) (PDF)
17:20 Real-Time Optical Transient Detection with RAPTOR (W.T. Vestrand, LANL) Presentation (PPT)
17:40 Open Discussion (A. Gal-Yam, D. Fox & W. Freedman)

18:10 Closing of Meeting

Wine & Cheese



Logistics: Parking will be available at the OCIW parking lot. We will be attempting to supply wireless web access; if you wish to have a backup option available, you may email dhcp@ociw.edu to register your ethernet card "MAC" address in advance, and you will then be able to plug directly into the Carnegie network (for the day).

Proceedings: No proceedings. We would like to collect .ppt files at the meeting website (with the permission of the speakers).

Registration: No formal registration, and no fees. But we do need to know the number of people attending this meeting, in order to choose the location and prepare refreshments, etc. So: if you think you plan to arrive YOU MUST SEND AN EMAIL ASAP to avishay@astro.caltech.edu People that arrive without prior notice may find themselves without a chair.

Constructed: January 2004, by Avishay Gal-Yam, E-Mail: avishay@astro.caltech.edu