IX Serbian Conference on Spectral Line Shapes in Astrophysics

May 13 - 17, 2013, Banja Koviljača, Serbia

        

         

  

            

    

PROGRAMME OF THE CONFERENCE

    

    

Sunday, May 12, 2013

Arrival of participants

   

20:00 – 22:00 Registration and Welcome Cocktail

       

        

Monday, May 13, 2013

        

 

      

Chairs: L. Č. Popović & M. S. Dimitrijević

      

9:00 – 9:30

Opening ceremony

 

 

      

Chair: M. S. Dimitrijević

       

9:30 – 10:00

Sylvie Sahal-Bréchot

Stark-B database as a resource for "Stark" widths and shifts data: state of advancement and program of development

10:00 – 10:30

Jack Sulentic

Comparing Hbeta and MgII 2798 as Virial Estimators of Black Hole Mass in Quasars

10:30 – 11:00

Coffee break

 

      

Chair: G. Peach

      

11:00 – 11:30

Alexander Z. Devdariani

Radiative transitions in few electron quasymolecules

11:30 – 12:00

Evgeny Stambulchik

Review of the Spectral Line Shapes in Plasma code comparison workshop

12:00 – 12:20

Nelly Bonifaci

Cryoplasma in Helium induced by corona discharge

12:20 – 12:40

Magdalena Christova

Stark broadening of B IV lines for astrophysical and laboratory plasma research

12:40 – 13:00

Med Tayeb Meftah

Spectral line broadening by relativistic electrons in plasmas: collision operator

13:00 – 15:00

Lunch time

 

     

Chair: R. Goosmann

      

15:00 – 15:30

Emmanuel Danezis

Some new ideas to study the complex BAL profiles in the spectra of AGNs

15:30 – 15:50

Thomas Hughes

New results from integrated spectroscopy of nearby galaxies in the Herschel reference survey

15:50 – 16:10

Nataša Bon

Differences of the Stellar Population Between the HII galaxies and Active galaxies

16:10 – 16:30

Dimitris Stathopoulos

Studying the complex BAL profiles of C IV in 30 BALQSO spectra

16:30 – 17:00

Coffee break

 

     

Chair: J.-H. Woo

      

17:00 – 17:30

Martin Gaskell (cancelled)

Putting together line and continuum observations of thermal active galactic nuclei: a unified picture of the accretion disc and broad-line region

17:30 – 17:50

Marko Stalevski

Infrared emission of the AGN dusty torus: radiative transfer modeling with SKIRT

17:50 – 18:05

Francesco Saturni

Multi-epoch absorption line variability of APM 08279+5255

18:05 – 18:15

Nemanja Rakić

The intrinsic Baldwin effect in a sample of AGNs with broad lines

18:15 – 18:25

Michele Perna

Reverberation mapping of the high luminosity quasar PG 1247+268

18:30 – 20:00

Walking tour in Banja Koviljača

20:00

Dinner

      

     
Tuesday, May 14, 2013

     

 

     

Chair: J. Sulentic

      

09:30 – 10:00

Dominique Sluse

New lights on the structure of the broad line region with quasar microlensing

10:00 – 10:30

Dawei Xu

On the role of density and Eddington ratio in the correlation space of NLS1 galaxies

10:30 – 11:00

Coffee break

 

      

Chair: S. Sahal-Bréchot

    

11:00 – 11:30

Gillian Peach

The radio lines of hydrogen

11:30 – 12:00

Roland Stamm

Line shapes and intensities in fluctuating plasmas

12:00 – 12:20

Vladimir Srećković

Absorption quasi-molecular bands as factors of the solar photosphere opacity above sunspots

12:20 – 12:40

Aleksandra Nina

Photo-ionization in the ionospheric D region induced by the solar Ly-alpha line emission

12:40 – 13:00

Sonja Vidojević

Shape modelling with family of Pearson distributions

13:00 – 15:00

Lunch time

 

      

Chair: P. Jovanović

      

15:00 – 15:30

Kelly Denney

Using AGN Broad Emission Lines to Measure Black Hole Masses

15:30 – 16:00

Jong-Hak Woo

Probing the connection between black holes and galaxies

16:00 – 16:30

Paola Marziani

Quasars and their Emission Lines as Cosmological Probes

16:30 – 16:50

Edi Bon

Spectroscopic Detection of Supermassive Binary Black Hole Systems in AGN

16:50 – 17:10

Jelena Kovačević

The relationships between spectral properties of Active Galactic Nuclei Type 1

17:10 – 17:30

Coffee break

 

      

Chair: E. Danezis

       

17:30 – 19:00

Poster presentations

19:00

Dinner

   

    

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

     

 

      

Excursion

       

10:00

Departure

11:00

Visit of the Fortress "Soko grad" and monastery

13:00

Visit of the underground Royal almshouse and church

14:30

Lunch in the resort "Sunčana Reka" (http://www.suncanareka.rs)

16:30

Free time in the resort "Sunčana Reka"

18:00

Arrival

20:00

Dinner

    

   

Thursday, May 16, 2013

     

 

      

Chair: D. Jevremović

       

09:30 – 10:00

Friedrich Kupka

Radiation Hydrodynamical Simulations of Cepheids

10:00 – 10:20

Dejan Vinković (cancelled)

Utilizing graphic processing units for large scale simulations: example of dust dynamics in AGB binary winds

10:20 – 10:40

Derek Homeier (cancelled)

 

10:40 – 11:00

Olga Atanacković, Ivan Milić

Accelerating multidimensional NLTE radiative transfer using forth-and-back implicit lambda iteration

11:00 – 11:30

Coffee break

 

     

Chair: D. Ilić

      

11:30 – 11:50

Piero Rafanelli, Giovanni La Mura

Are Boltzmann plots of Hydrogen Balmer lines a tool for identifying a subclass of S1 AGN?

11:50 – 12:10

Claudio Ricci

Probing the evolution of Active Galactic Nuclei using the iron Kα line

12:10 – 12:30

Predrag Jovanović

Composite profile of the Fe Kα spectral line emitted from a binary system of supermassive black holes

12:30 – 12:50

Giovanni La Mura

The optical emission lines of type 1 X-ray bright active galactic nuclei

12:50 – 13:10

Saša Simić

Relative deviation of QSO spectra induced by the microlensing on diffusive massive substructure

13:10 – 15:00

Lunch time

 

     

Chair: A. F. Zakharov

      

15:00 – 15:20

Evaggelia Lyratzi

Studying the complex BAL profiles of SIV in 30 BALQSOs spectra

15:20 – 15:40

Antonios Antoniou

A statistical study of C IV regions in 20 Oe-type stars

15:40 – 15:50

Rostyslav Semenyshyn

Spectroscopy peculiarities of thermal electric arc discharge plasma between composite electrodes Ag-SnO2-ZnO

15:50 – 16:20

Coffee break

    

Special session

“Spectral Lines and Polarization”

in the frame of COST action MP1104

“Polarisation as a tool to study the Solar System and beyond”

      

 

     

Chair: L. Č. Popović

      

16:20 – 16:30

Opening ceremony – Radomir Žikić, Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development

16:30 – 16:40

Hervé Lamy (cancelled)

COST Action MP1104 "Polarization as a tool to study the Solar System and beyond"

16:40 – 17:10

René Goosmann

Interpreting spectropolarimetric results across a broad spectral range – 3D radiative transfer with the STOKES code

17:10 – 17:30

Jiri Stepan

Self-consistent polarized radiative transfer: Connecting theory and observations

17:30 – 17:50

Hervé Lamy (cancelled)

Polarisation of auroral red line in the Earth’s upper atmosphere: a review

17:50 – 18:10

Alexander Zakharov

Exoplanetary searches with gravitational microlensing: polarization issues

18:10 – 18:25

Nikola Vitas

Method for solar oxygen abundance determinations from Stokes-V observations of the quiet sun magnetic elements

18:25 – 18:40

Ivan Milić

Scattering line polarization from illuminated disk-like objects

20:00

Conference Dinner

      
    

Friday, May 17, 2013

      

 

     

Chair: D. Ilić

      

09:00 – 09:30

Egidio Landi

Polarimetric shapes of spectral lines in solar observations

09:30 – 09:50

Sylvie Sahal-Bréchot

Collisional line broadening versus collisional depolarization: similarities and differences

09:50 – 10:10

Véronique Bommier

Role of the collisions in the radiation redistribution polarization far wings of lines formed by scattering

10:10 – 10:30

Victor Afanasiev (cancelled)

Spectropolarimetric monitoring of the Seyfert galaxy 3C 390.3 on 6m telescope SAO RAS

10:30 – 10:50

René Goosmann

Spectropolarimetric monitoring of the Seyfert galaxy 3C 390.3 on 6m telescope SAO RAS

10:50 – 11:05

Frederic Marin

On the importance of X-ray polarimetry in the diagnosis of the iron Kalpha apparent broadening

mechanism in AGN and BHXRB

11:05 – 11:20

Francesco Tamborra

MoCA: a Monte Carlo code for accretion in Astrophysics - The Iron line polarization case

11:20 – 11:30

Closing ceremony

12:00 – 14:00

Lunch time

14:00

Departure to Belgrade

    

    

List of posters

            

1.

Shape of Atomic Lines Emitted by positive corona discharge

F. Aitken, N. Bonifaci , V. M. Atrazhev, V. A. Shakhatov, K. von Haeften, J. Eloranta, G. Vermeulen

2.

Line profiles of Li-H2

N. F. Allard, V. A. Alekseev

3.

Collisional profiles of ionized Calcium perturbed by Helium

N. F. Allard, V. A. Alekseev

4.

LiHe spectra from brown dwarfs to helium clusters

N. F. Allard, A. Nakayama, F. Stienkemeier, J. F. Kielkopf

5.

Low Ionization Lines in High Luminosity Quasars

M. L. Martinez-Aldama, D. Dultzin, P. Marziani, J. W. Sulentic, A. Bressan

6.

Detecting Outflows in Super Massive Binary Black Hole Systems

E. Bon, P. Jovanović, P. Marziani, A. I. Shapovalova, L. Č. Popović, V. Borka Jovanović, D. Borka, J. Sulentic, N. Bon

7.

On the Stark broadening parameters of neutral Neon

M. S. Dimitrijević, Z. Simić, A. Kovačević, S. Sahal-Bréchot

8.

Structural and collisional data for Mg III and Al IV

H. Elabidi

9.

Quantum Stark broadening of Ar XV lines

H. Elabidi, S. Sahal-Bréchot, M. S. Dimitrijević

10.

Relativistic shock parameters in the first phase of GRB event: The case of single and double peaked light curves

L. Grassitelli, S. Simić, L. Č. Popović

11.

Semiclassical perturbation Stark widths for doubly charged Argon spectral lines

R. Hamdi, N. Ben Nessib, S. Sahal-Bréchot, M. S. Dimitrijević

12.

On the Stark broadening of Pb IV spectral lines within the 3000-7000 AA spectral range

R. Hamdi, N. Ben Nessib, M. S. Dimitrijević, S. Sahal-Bréchot

13.

Sensing the Earth`s low ionosphere during solar flares using VLF signals and GOES solar X-ray data

A. Kolarski, D. Grubor

14.

Probability of finding close binary massive black holes with orbital period less than 15.6 years

A. Kovačević, L. Č. Popović, A. I. Shapovalova, E. Bon, P. Jovanović, D. Ilić

15.

Time series analysis of active galactic nuclei Arp102B

A. Kovačević, L. Č. Popović, A. I. Shapovalova, D. Ilić

16.

Databases in Astrophysics: Challenges and Opportunities

A. Kovačević, M. S. Dimitrijević, L. Č. Popović

17.

Photoionization estimates of Broad Line Region Size in Active Galactic Nuclei

A. Negrete, P. Marziani, D. Dultzin, J. W. Sulentic

18.

Possible detection of the GRBs and gama-ray echo by analyzing the ionospheric perturbations

A. Nina, L. Č. Popović, V. A. Srećković, S. Simić

19.

The Titans of the Universe: Reconstructing the history of accretion of the supermassive black holes

E. Santos Pereira, O. D. Miranda

20.

Atomic data and Stark broadening of CuI and AgI spectral lines: selection and analysis

R. V. Semenyshyn, I. L. Babich, V. F. Boretskij, A. N. Veklich

21.

Stark broadening data for spectral lines of rare-earth elements: Nb III

Z. Simić, M. Dimitrijević, L. Č. Popović

22.

On the Stark broadening of Cr II spectral lines in atmospheres of DB white dwarfs and A type stars

Z. Simić, M. S. Dimitrijević, A. Kovačević, S. Sahal-Brechot

23.

Lyman-alpha blobs number density and cold accretion mode

M. Smailagić, M. Bogosavljević, M. Micić

24.

Perturbations of the lower ionosphere due to the gama, X and UV stellar radiation

V. A. Srećković, A. Nina, D. Sulić, A. A. Mihajlov

25.

Stark-width regularities within spectral series of neutral atoms

I. Tapalaga, I. P. Dojčinović, J. Purić