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EUVE End-of-mission conference
From: Jennifer Cullison <jennifer@cea.berkeley.edu>
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 17:51:04 -0800 (PST)
Conference Announcement
"Continuing the Challenge of EUV Astronomy: Current Analysis and
Prospects for the Future"
22-24 July 2001, Jenner Inn, Jenner, California
All those interested in EUV astronomy including former and current
Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer (EUVE) Guest Observers and users of
the EUVE archive are invited to a three-day conference to
celebrate the many accomplishments of the EUVE mission. The
conference will be held 22-24 July 2001 in Jenner, CA.
The complete announcement and call for papers can be found on the
conference web page at: http://ssl.berkeley.edu/~euve/conference
This conference will include presentations of a number of new
research results as well as review papers. We encourage papers
specifically addressing EUVE science results as well as papers
relating EUVE science to the rest of astrophysics. We will have
invited speakers give talks on the main areas of EUV astrophysics,
highlights of which will be in response to the conference theme
"continuing the challenge of EUV astronomy: current analysis and
prospects for the future."
The EUVE satellite was launched in 1992 and carried out the first
comprehensive all sky EUV survey. Staff The EUVE team, including
its base of Guest Observers, accomplished all of the EUVE
scientific, technological, and outreach goals and has paved the
way for follow up missions. A catalogue of over 1500 point
sources was produced as were diffuse sky maps. Results from
the brightest EUV sources, observed spectroscopically through a
Guest Observer Program, will be summarized and reviewed in this
conference. The EUVE mission pioneered a number of approaches to
reduce dramatically the cost of observatory operations including
transition to automated "lights out" operation and outsourcing of
the mission by NASA to a University run operations center. The
EUVE Project also forged strong national partnerships in the
process of implementing long-term interface between the scientific
and educational communities in its Public Outreach Program (E/PO).
Presentations at the conference may address the technological as
well as E/PO achievements of EUVE and their relationship to the
future of EUV astronomy.
The meeting will provide an opportunity to summarize the greater
impact of the eight-year mission. Most sessions will include
reviews of the scientific achievements of the EUVE mission as
other missions including the ROSAT WFC, and results from the
Chandra mission. It is expected that talks will address
new discoveries made by EUVE, continuing work on EUVE
observations, multi-wavelength results in which EUVE played a role
with other satellites, and the outgrowth of EUVE discoveries in
the life of other missions. Thematic sessions will address the
legacy of EUVE in key science areas including cool star physics
from EUV observations, accretion physics in cataclysmic variables,
processes and conditions in the local interstellar medium,
extragalactic observations in clusters and AGN, observations of
solar system objects, EUV emission from compact objects including
hot white dwarfs and neutron stars. In addition a session will
address motivation for future scheduled and planned EUV missions,
currently approved EUVE-related missions, as well as new
technologies that are becoming available.
The invited review papers will be submitted for publication in the
refereed literature.
Confirmed invited speakers include:
Martin Barstow, University of Leicester
Stu Bowyer, University of California, Berkeley
Nancy Brickhouse, Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Matt Burleigh, University of Leicester
Jerry Edelstein, University of California, Berkeley
Randy Gladstone, Southwest Research Institute
Aaron Golden, The National University of Ireland at Galway
Ed Guinan, Villanova University
Suzanne Hawley, University of Washington
Mike Lampton, University of California, Berkeley
Chris Mauche, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Warren Moos, The Johns Hopkins University
Paula Szkody, University of Washington
The Scientific Organizing Committee is:
Steve Howell (Chair), Planetary Science Institute
Andrea Dupree, Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Dan Golombek, NASA Headquarters
Jay Holberg, University of Arizona
Roger Malina, Laboratoire d'Astronomie Spatiale
John Vallerga, University of California, Berkeley
Fred Walter, SUNY, Stony Brook
A service of the
High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center (HEASARC)
NASA/GSFC
Questions or comments should go to request@athena.gsfc.nasa.gov