General Information

The workshop " The Transient Milky Way: A Perspective for MIRAX" will be held at the LIT Main Auditorium at the National Institute of Space Research (INPE), in São José dos Campos, SP, Brazil, from December 7th to 9th, 2005.

The workshop will consist of invited oral presentations and contributed oral and poster presentations. If you wish to submit a presentation, please write the title and abstract in the appropriate field in the registration form. The authors of the abstracts submitted for presentation will be notified by the organizers at the end of October whether their presentations have been accepted, and in what format (a submission for an oral presentation might be accepted only as a poster).

Unfortunately, we will not be able to provide funds to assist in the travel and lodging expenses of the participants. However, we will provide lunch at INPE and transportation to and from the main hotels (see Accommodations for a hotel list). Also, coffee and refreshments will be served in the morning and afternoon breaks.

Aims & Scope of the meeting

The main objective of this meeting is to present and discuss the relevant science to be investigated with the launch of the MIRAX satellite mission - probably in 2009 -, as well as discuss technical aspects of the scientific payload and the satellite platform in special sessions.

The main scientific topics will be transient X-ray sources in general, black hole and neutron star systems, X-ray bursts, superbursts, burst oscillations, hard X-ray emission from accreting neutron star systems, appearance and evolution of spectral states in accreting black holes, microquasar jets, and fast X-ray novae. MIRAX will be capable to make a very significant contribution to the field of X-ray variability by virtue of its unprecedented strategy of prolonged, continuous monitoring and imaging of a large source sample.

MIRAX specific topics will include mission instrumentation, detector development, image simulations, software for data acquisition, processing, analysis and distribution, mission analysis, satellite architecture and mission operations.

For more information contact:
J. Braga at phone 55-12-39456013
Address: Av. dos Astronautas,1.758 - Jd. Granja - CEP 12227-010
São José dos Campos - SP - Brasil
http://www.das.inpe.br/workshop_mirax
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