X-ray Diagnostics for Astrophysical
Plasmas:
Theory, Experiment, and Observation
(Joint workshop sponsored by
ITAMP, the CXC, the Con-X mission, and the Astro-E2 mission at
NASA/Goddard)
Held 2004 November 15-17
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Scientific Organizing Committee:
Randall Smith (NASA/GSFC and
JHU), Jay Bookbinder (CfA), Nancy Brickhouse (CfA), Claude Canizares
(MIT), Jelle Kaastra (SRON), Tim Kallman (NASA/GSFC), Kate Kirby
(CfA), Duane Liedahl (LLNL), John Raymond (CfA), Claude Canizares,
(MIT)
Understanding High-Resolution
X-ray Spectra from Current and Future X-ray Satellites
The meeting focused on approaches and issues in understanding
X-ray emitting plasmas using high-resolution spectral diagnostics.
The meeting brought ideas that have been percolating the X-ray
spectroscopy community to a larger audience, especially useful
in light of the imminent Astro-E2 launch. Atomic theorists, experimentalists
as well as X-ray spectroscopists and experiment builders gave
both invited and contributed talks; see the schedule
for talk titles and viewgraphs.
A secondary goal of the conference was to increase contacts
between the atomic and astrophysical community and to make both
sides aware of current and imminent needs. The conference proceedings
will be published through the American Institute of Physics; information
for contributors can be found on the AIP
website.
Sponsors
We gratefully acknowledge the conference sponsors: the Institute
for Atomic and Molecular Physics at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center
for Astrophysics, the Astro-E2 Guest Observer Facility, the Chandra
X-ray Center, and the Constellation-X Mission.
