YERAC 2010 Scientific Program



Monday July 5


13:30 - 15:00: Lunch / Registration (cont)

15:00 - 15:20: Welcome and introduction to YERAC



Scientific session I: Solar System

15:20 - 15:40: D. Bezrukov: The recovering procedures for radio maps of the sun (PDF)

15:40 - 16:00: J. Girard: Planetary studies with LOFAR and contribution to the development of a LOFAR Super-station (PDF)

16:00 - 16:20: T. Bocanegra Bahamon: Geodynamical studies of planetary moons with PRIDE (Planetary Radio Interferometry and Doppler Experiment) (PDF)

16:20 - 16:40: K. Mylostna: Identification of Saturn lightnings registrated by UTR-2 radio telescope and spacecraft Cassini (PDF)

16:40 - 17:00: Coffee break



Scientific session II: Star Formation and ISM

17:00 - 17:20: M.A. Canay: Chemical evolution in low-mass prestellar dense cores (PDF)

17:20 - 17:40: S. Zahorecz: The temperature of dense and cold cloud cores (PDF)

17:40 - 18:00: P. Bjerkeli: Observations and analysis of molecular outflows and shocks (PDF)

18:00 - 18:20: A. Lopez-Sepulcre: A minimum surface density for OB star formation: An observational test (PDF)

18:20 - 18:40: J. M. Mayen Gijon: High Angular Resolution Observations of Ammonia Lines toward the Hot Molecular Core near G31.41+0.31 (PDF)

Tuesday July 6

Scientific session II (Cont.): Star Formation and ISM

09:00 - 09:20: F. Trotta: Using mm observation to constrain variations of dust properties in circumstellar disks (PDF)

09:20 - 09:40: I.D. Litovchenko: 44 GHz methanol maser emission around SNR G27.4-0.16 and new detections of class I methanol masers in the direction of high-mass protostellar candidates (PDF)

09:40 - 10:00: T. Hassall: Low Frequency Pulse Scattering with LOFAR (PDF)



Scientific session III : Pulsars

10:00 - 10:20: E. Keane: Transient Radio Neutron Stars (PDF)

10:20 - 10:40: E. Barr: The Effelsberg Northern Sky Pulsar Survey (PDF)

10:40 - 11:00: T. Coenen: Single pulse search with LOFAR (PDF)

11:00 - 11:40: Coffee break



Scientific session IV : AGNs, High-z and Cosmology

11:40 - 12:00: F. Schinzel: The quasar 3C 345 -- an archetypical Active Galactic Nuclei (PDF)

12:00 - 12:20: H. Denes: A radio interferometric study of the high-redshift quasar J1715+2147 (PDF)

12:20 - 12:40: H. Rampadarath: Hanny's Voorwerp: evidence for AGN activity and a nuclear starburst in the central regions of IC 2497 (PDF)

12:40 - 13:00: J. Rawlings: Coeval Star Formation and Black Hole Growth in the Most Massive Galaxies (PDF)

13:00 - 15:00: Lunch



Scientific session IV (cont) : AGNs, High-z and Cosmology

15:00 - 15:20: K. Sokolovsky: Estimating the magnetic field strength in AGN jets with multi-frequency VLBI (PDF)

15:20 - 15:40: V. Vitrishchak: Circular polarization studies of AGNs on the parsec VLBI scales (PDF)

15:40 - 16:00: M. Mahmud: Surprising evolution of Faraday rotation gradients in the jets of Active Galactic Nuclei (PDF)

16:00 - 16:20: T. Pijloo, The quest for peaked spectrum sources with LOFAR (PDF)

16:20 - 16:40: R. van Loo: Hunting for High redshift Radio Galaxies using LOFAR data (PDF)

16:40 - 17:00: Coffee break

17:00 - 17:20: E. Murphy: Gleaning secrets from the transverse profiles of AGN jets (PDF)

17:20 - 17:40: E. Kravchenko: Ultra high energy neutrinos and its registration (PDF)

17:40 - 18:00: K. Gereb: WMAP point sources as space-VLBI calibrators (PDF)

18:00 - 18:20: G. Gurkan: A new path to time delays? (PDF)



21:00 - 23:00: YERAC 2010 Conference dinner.


Wednesday July 7



9:00: Busses leave Alcala de Henares towards Yebes Observatory

10:00 - 12:00: Visit to the Yebes Observatory (40-m radiotelescope, laboratories, etc).

12:00: Group photo

12:30 - 14:00: Lunch



Scientific session V: Instrumentation and software

14:00 - 14:20: J. M. Bergano: Instrumentation Development for a 5GHz Receiver for a Radioastronomy experiment (PDF)

14:20 - 14:40: B. Billade: Heterodyne detection at millimeter wavelengths (PDF)

14:40 - 15:00: B. Lew: All Purpose Radio Imaging Cameras On Telescopes - software and simulations (PDF)

15:00 - 15:20: D. Rossoni Mattos: Design and fabrication of a fast, multi-bits analog-to- digital converter for astrophysics and cosmology applications (PDF)

15:20 - 15:40: S. Kazemi: Statistical algorithms in radio interferometric calibration (PDF)

15:40 - 16:00: R. McFadden: A New Method to Calibrate Ionospheric Pulse Dispersion for UHE Cosmic Ray and Neutrino Detection using the Lunar Cerenkov Technique (PDF)

16:00 - 16:40: Coffee break

16:40 - 17:00: B. Frank: MeerKAT: Design, Simulation and HI Science (PDF)

17:00 - 17:20: N. Lavonen: Observation software development in Metsähovi Radio Observatory (PDF)

17:20 - 17:40: V. Bezrukovs: Preparing VIRAC Radiotelescope RT-32 for receiving and processing signals related to Artificial Earth Satellites (PDF)



18:00 - 21:00: Social event + dinner

21:00: Return to Alcalá de Henares


Thurday July 8

Scientific session VI : Galaxies and Clusters

10:00 - 10:20: A. S. Abdullah: Measuring HI content in six Lyman Break Analog Galaxies (PDF)

10:20 - 10:40: R. Ianjamasimanana: The HI super profiles of the THINGS galaxies (withdrawn)

10:40 - 11:00: S. Bryan: Luminous satellites in lenses (PDF)

11:00 - 11:20: F. Costagliola: Observing Molecules in Luminous Infrared Galaxies (PDF)

11:20 - 12:00: Coffee break

12:00 - 12:20: M. Rodriguez: Global correlations in Galaxies (PDF)

12:20 - 12:40: F. Lelli: Structure and Dynamics of Giant Low Surface Brightness Galaxies (PDF)

12:40 - 13:00: G. Macario: Low frequency observations of diffuse radio emission in galaxy clusters (PDF)

13:00 - 13:10: Closure of YERAC 2010

13:10 - 15:00: Lunch



Abstracts of the talks can be found here:


http://www.oan.es/yerac2010/show_contribution_by_type_and_cathegory_num.php?id=oral