Facility Science Team
Constellation-X Science Panels - 2008
Missing Baryons/WHIM and synergy with UV spectroscopy (11 members)
[Includes, synergy with HST COS]
- Con-X Facilitator/Contact: Randall Smith
- Chair: Mike Shull (U. Colorado)
- Jill Bechtold (Arizona)
- Joel Bregman (U. Michigan)
- Claude Canizares (MIT)
- Jan-Willem den Herder (SRON)
- Taotao Fang (UC Irvine)
- Massimiliano Galeazzi (Univ. of Miami)
- Li Ji (MIT)
- Smita Mathur (OSU)
- Fabrizio Nicastro (SAO)
- Noriko Yamasaki (ISAS, Japan)
Extreme States of Matter in Neutron Stars (14 members)
[NS EOS, Magnetars, NS frame dragging]
- Con-X Facilitator/Contact: Michael Garcia
- Chair: Frits Paerels (Columbia)
- Sudip Bhattacharyya (Tata Institute)
- Ed Cackett (U. Michigan)
- Jean Cottam (GSFC)
- Derek Fox (PSU)
- Wynn Ho (Harvard)
- Peter Jonker (SRON)
- Adrienne Juett (NPP/GSFC)
- Oleg Kargaltsev (PSU)
- Mariano Mendez (Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, Netherlands)
- Feryal Ozel (Arizona)
- George Pavlov (PSU)
- Bob Rutledge (McGill)
- Tod Strohmayer (GSFC)
Accretion Physics in Stellar Systems (13 members)
[NS and BH binaries in the Galaxy, IMBHs, CVs, ULXs]
- Con-X Facilitator/Contact: Michael Garcia
- Chair: Jon Miller (Michigan)
- Reba Bandyopadhyay (Univ. of Florida)
- Hua Feng (U. of Iowa)
- Phil Kaaret (U. Iowa, ULX sources)
- Margarita Karovska (SAO)
- Li-Xin Li (MPA)
- Koji Mukai (GSFC)
- Marina Orio (Univ. of Wisconsin)
- Rick Rothschild (UC SD)
- Norbert Schulz (MIT)
- Sumner Starrfield (Arizona State)
- Lev Titarchuk (NRL)
- Saku Vrtilek (SAO)
Census of Black Hole Accretion in the Universe (7 members)
[CXRB, highly obscured AGN, tie-in to BH spin evolution]
- Con-X Facilitator/Contact: Ann Hornschemeier
- Chair: Nancy Levenson (Univ. of Kentucky)
- David Alexander (Durham)
- David Ballantyne (Arizona)
- Franz Bauer (Columbia)
- Paul Nandra (Imperial College)
- Daniel Stern (JPL/Caltech)
- Ezequiel Triester (ESO)
Evolution of Large Scale Structure in the Universe (11 members)
[Formation/evolution of clusters and groups of galaxies, including
cosmology: G(z), Omega_M, sigma_8, dark energy and dark matter,
synergies with JDEM/Planck]
- Con-X Facilitator/Contact: Ann Hornschemeier
- Chair: Steve Allen (KITP/Stanford)
- Mark Bautz (MIT, Kavli)
- Max Bonamente (UAH)
- Jack Burns (Colorado U)
- Eugene Churazov (MPA Garching)
- Joe Mohr (UIUC)
- Daisuke Nagai (Caltech)
- Richard Mushotzky (GSFC)
- David Rapetti (KIPAC/Stanford)
- Adam Stanford (LLNL)
- Alexey Vikhlinin (SAO)
Hot Baryons in Deep Potential Wells (9 members)
[Clusters, Groups and Elliptical Galaxies: Cooling Flows, Entropy
Problem, Nucleosynthesis Constraints from ICM, Turbulence and
Mergers in Clusters]
- Con-X Facilitator/Contact: Ann Hornschemeier
- Chair:Christine Jones (SAO)
- Keith Arnaud (GSFC)
- Megan Donahue (Michigan State University)
- Andi Mahdavi (UVIC)
- Kazuhiro Nakazawa (University of Tokyo)
- Paul Nulsen (SAO)
- Scott Randall (SAO)
- Mateusz Ruszkowski (U. of Michigan)
- Jan Vrtilek (SAO)
Testing General Relativity and Measuring Black Hole Spin (6 members)
[Broad Fe K line measurements in AGN]
- Con-X Facilitator/Contact: Michael Garcia
- Chair: Chris Reynolds (UMd)
- Fred Baganoff (MIT)
- Laura Brenneman (ORAU)
- Giorgio Matt (Rome)
- James Reeves (Keele University, UK)
- Kim Weaver (GSFC)
- Andy Young (Bristol)
Supernova/Stellar Feedback (7 members)
[Galactic Superwinds & Halos, ISM, starburst galaxies, tie-in to ICM, tie-in to WHIM]
- Con-X Facilitator/Contact: Ann Hornschemeier
- Chair: David Strickland (JHU)
- James Bullock (UC Irvine)
- Tim Heckman (JHU)
- Crystal Martin (UC Santa Barbara)
- Andrew Ptak (JHU)
- Eric Schlegel (UT San Antonio)
- Daniel Wang (Univ. Of Massachussetts)
Production and Distribution of the Elements (13 members)
[Supernovae and their remnants, heavy metal/dust production,
includees shock physics and non-thermal processes]
- Con-X Facilitator/Contact: Randall Smith
- Chair: Jack Hughes (Rutgers University)
- Carlos Badenes (Princeton)
- David Burrows (PSU)
- Tracey Delaney (MIT)
- Fiona Harrison (Caltech)
- Martin Laming (NRL)
- Julia Lee (Harvard)
- Sangwook Park (PSU)
- Dan Patnaude (SAO)
- Dave Pooley (Wisconsin)
- Stephen Reynolds (NCSU)
- Pat Slane (SAO)
- Alicia Soderberg (Princeton)
AGN Feedback: Outflows and Jets (11 members)
[AGN jet sources in clusters of galaxies, BAL QSOs, plus some
'mid-scale' feedback: warm absorbers, etc.]
- Con-X Facilitator/Contact: Michael Garcia
- Chair: Andy Fabian (Cambridge)
- George Chartas (PSU)
- Larry David (SAO)
- Sarah Gallagher (UWO/UCLA)
- Sebastian Heinz (Wisconsin)
- Brian MacNamara (U Waterloo)
- Patrick Ogle (IPAC)
- Eric Perlman (Florida Institute of Technology)
- Daniel Proga (UNLV)
- Gordon Richards (Drexel University)
- Diana Worrall (Bristol)
MHD Physics in Stellar Environments (16 members)
[stellar coronae, stellar flares, stellar accretion and winds,
impact on stars of interaction between forming stars and their
environment]
- Con-X Facilitator/Contact: Randall Smith
- Chair: Rachel Osten (UMd, Hubble Fellow)
- Marc Audard (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
- Tom Ayres (U. Colorado)
- Alex Brown (U. of Colorado)
- Joe Cassinelli (U. of Wisconsin)
- Mike Corcoran (GSFC)
- Jeremy Drake (SAO)
- Steve Drake (GSFC)
- Marc Gagne (Westchester U., PA)
- David Huenemoerder (MIT)
- Maurice Leutenegger (GSFC)
- Jeff Linsky (JILA/Colorado)
- Lidia Oskinova (Universitaet Potsdam)
- Paola Testa (MIT)
- Masahiro Tsujimoto (PSU)
- Wayne Waldron (Eureka Scientific)
Solar System, planet formation and evolution (7 members)
[Includes Magnetopheres, comets, planets, protoplanetary disks,
solar wind exchange]
- Con-X Facilitator/Contact: Randall Smith
- Chair: Eric Feigelson (PSU)
- Anil Bhardwaj (VSSC)
- Ron Elsner (MSFC)
- Manuel Guedel (PSI/ETH, Zurich, Switzerland)
- Kristen Menou (Columbia U.)
- Brad Wargelin (SAO)
- Scott Wolk (SAO)
The high-z universe, Re-ionization and Synergy with JWST "First
Light" Science (9 members)
[z>6 objects and simulations of re-ionization, including some JWST
SWG members?]
- Con-X Contact/Facilitator: Ann Hornschemeier (GSFC)
- Chair: Niel Brandt (PSU)
- Kathy Flanagan (STScI)
- Neil Gehrels (GSFC)
- George Ricker (MIT)
- Elena Rossi (Colorado)
- Ohad Shemmer (PSU)
- Rachel Somerville (STScI)
- Massimo Stiavelli (STScI)
- Cristian Vignali (Univ. of Bologna)
Plasma diagnostics and atomic astrophysics study group (10 members)
[Works across panels on diagnostics, will include members of the
laboratory atomic astrophysics community]
- Con-X Facilitator/Contact: Randall Smith
- Chair: Nancy Brickhouse (SAO)
- Greg Brown (LLNL)
- Li Ji (MIT)
- Vinay Kashap (SAO)
- Masao Sako (U Penn)
- Wilt Sanders (Wisconsin)
- Daniel Savin (Columbia U.)
- David Schultz (ORNL)
- Wayne Waldron (Eureka Scientific)
- Brad Wargelin (SAO)
