The Deep and Transient Universe in the SVOM Era: New Challenges and Opportunities.

10 avr. 2016, 08:00 → 15 avr. 2016, 18:00 Europe/Paris

Les Houches

 

Dear colleagues,

We successfully completed the SVOM System Requirements Review at the end of June. It was an important milestone for the project, where we started to introduce the idea of an evolution of the mission over its lifetime.

Following the Swift example, the time devoted for the Targets of Opportunity observations will increase and SVOM will now be presented as a multi-wavelength mission devoted to the transient sky. This will be done, of course, preserving all the GRB related goals of SVOM.

In order to promote the mission and to inform the scientific community we plan to write a SVOM white paper. This paper should be ready for the SVOM Preliminary Design Review to be held in June next year. With the goal to prepare the first draft of this paper we plan to organize a workshop at Chamonix Mont-Blanc (Ecole des Houches; http://houches.ujf-grenoble.fr) next year from April 10 to April 15. The title of the workshop is: The Deep and Transient Universe in the SVOM Era: New Challenges and Opportunities. This workshop will also be a great opportunity to gather the SVOM science community for the first time.

NEWS

Thanks again for your participation in this successful workshop.

All presentations are now on line and available for consultation here

The pictures of the workshop are available here

The first version of the White Paper is available here

lundi 11 avril

10:00 → 12:30 Introduction

10:00 Welcome

Orateur: Dr JACQUES PAUL (CEA)

Transparents 160411_Houches_Introduction.pdf Practical_Information.pdf

10:20 Overview od the Swift results, advises for SVOM

Orateur: Dr Neil Gehrels (GSFC)

Slides Gehrels_SVOM_workshop.pdf

11:00 LSST, strategies for transients

Orateur: Pierre Antilogus (LPNHE)

Transparents LSST_SVOM.pdf

11:50 GW detection and alerts dissemination

Orateur: Dr Nicolas Leroy (LAL IN2P3/CNRS)

Transparents SVOM_GW_leroy.pdf

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:10 Context of the SVOM mission

14:00 The time domain astrophysics: the discovery space after Swift

Orateurs: Prof. Bing Zhang (University of Nevada, Las Vegas), Prof. PAUL O'BRIEN (UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER)

Slides obrien-discovery-space_SVOM_Workshop.pdf

14:40 The astronomical panorama in 2020

Orateurs: Jean-Luc ATTEIA (IRAP - CNRS/UPS), Prof. Shuang-Nan Zhang (Institute of High Energy Physics)

Transparents AstroPanorama_SNZ_JLA.pdf

15:10 → 15:50 Coffee Break

15:50 → 18:45 SVOM Mission

Président de session: Dr Stéphane Schanne (CEA Saclay)

15:50 SVOM mission profile

Orateur: Dr Bertrand Cordier (CEA-Irfu/Service d'astrophysique)

Transparents SVOM_mission_profile_.pdf

Video videoB1.mpg

16:25 Instrument characteristics : ECLAIRS

Orateur: Jean-Luc ATTEIA (IRAP - CNRS/UPS)

Transparents ECLAIRs_JLA_H2016.pdf

16:40 Instrument characteristics : GRM

Orateur: Prof. Shuang-Nan Zhang (Institute of High Energy Physics)

Transparents Instr-03-ShuangNanZhang_GRM_brief_intro.160316.ppt

17:00 Instrument characteristics : GWACS

Orateur: Dr Jianyan Wei (NAOC)

Transparents Instr-04-JanyanWei_GWAC-160411.ppt

17:15 Instrument characteristics : MXT

Orateur: Dr Diego Gotz (CEA Saclay)

Slides MXT_Houches_11042016.pdf

17:30 Instrument characteristics : VT

Orateur: Dr Yulei Qiu (NAOC)

Transparents Instr-06-YuleiQui_VT_LesHouches_Qiu.pdf

17:45 Instruments characteristics : F-GFT

Orateur: Dr Stephane Basa (Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille)

Transparents Instr-07-Basa_F-GFT.pdf

18:00 Instrument characteristics : C-GFT

Orateur: Dr Liping Xin (NAOC, CAS)

Transparents Instr-08-LipingXin_CGFT_20160410_France.pdf

18:15 ECLAIRs-GRM system

Orateur: Dr Maria Grazia Bernardini (LUPM - Université Montpellier)

Transparents GRB_sim_ECLAIRs_up2.pdf

18:30 The SVOM scientific ground segment

Orateur: Prof. Maohai Huang (National Astronomical Observatories, CAS)

Slides SVOM_science__ground_segment_20160411.pdf

19:00 → 19:30 Welcome Cocktail

Président de session: Dr Bertrand Cordier (CEA-Irfu/Service d'astrophysique)

21:30 → 22:30 Dinner

Président de session: Dr Stéphane Schanne (CEA Saclay)

mardi 12 avril

09:00 → 18:00 SVOM advances on GRB science: Core Program

Président de session: Dr Diego Gotz (CEA Saclay)

09:00 The population of classical long GRBs: physical mechanisms & The diversity of stellar explosions

Orateurs: Prof. Bing Zhang (University of Nevada, Las Vegas), Frédéric Daigne (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris - Université Pierre et Marie Curie), Dr Robert Mochkovitch (IAP), Dr Yong-Feng Huang (NJU)

Slides SVOM-WP-Daigne-Huang-Mochkovitch-Zhang.pdf

10:10 Coffee Break

10:30 The population of short GRBs

Orateurs: Dr He Gao (BNU), Prof. Julian Osborne (University of Leicester), Dr Li-Xin Li (PKU)

Slides Short_GRBs_Osborne.pdf

11:15 The population of classical long GRBs: characterization of the population

Orateurs: Prof. En-Wei Liang (GXU), Susanna Vergani (CNRS-Observatoire de Paris), Dr Yun-Wei YU (CCNU)

Slides Vergani.pdf

11:50 GRBs as particle accelerator

Orateurs: M. Damien Dornic (CPPM), Dr Xiang-Yu Wang (NJU), Dr Zhuo Li (PKU)

Transparents Grb-05-DamienDornic-SVOM_GRB_particle_accelerator.pdf

12:15 Workshop Photo

Orateur: Dr Volker Beckmann (APC, FACe)

Photo Photo

12:30 Lunch

14:00 GRBs at high redshift

Orateurs: Prof. En-Wei Liang (GXU), Dr Stephane Basa (Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille), Dr Xue-Feng Wu (PMO)

Transparents High_z_GRBs-1.pdf

14:40 GRBs to study the evolution of star formation

Orateurs: Dr Fa-Yin Wang (NJU), Dr Samuel Boissier (Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille)

Transparents grbsfr_Boissier_Wang_2.pdf

15:20 GRBs to study galaxies

Orateur: M. EMERIC LE FLOC'H (CEA)

Transparents SVOM_LEFLOCH.pdf

16:00 Coffee Break

16:20 Absorption spectroscopy on the line of sight of GRBs

Orateurs: Dr Jing wang (NAOC), M. Patrick Petitjean (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris)

Transparents LEsHouches2016_Petitjean-Wang.pdf

17:00 GRB as standard rulers

Orateurs: Dr Stephane Basa (Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille), Dr Zi-Gao Dai (NJU)

Transparents High_z_GRBs_part2.pdf

mercredi 13 avril

09:00 → 10:40 SVOM advances on rapid follow-up observations: ToO Program

09:00 Search for SVOM counterparts on multi-wavelength triggers

Orateurs: Dr Dong Xu (NAOC), Dr Li-Ping Xin (NAOC), Prof. PAUL O'BRIEN (UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER)

Slides obrien-multi-wavelength.pdf

09:35 Search for SVOM counterparts on multi-messenger triggers

Orateurs: Dr Cyril Lachaud (APC / Univ. Paris Diderot), Dr Xiang-Gao Wang (GXU)

Slides MultiMessenger_LesHouches_-_Light.pdf

10:40 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 14:30 SVOM advances on observatory science: General Program

11:00 Active Galactic Nuclei

Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) appear as bright, persistent and variable, hard X-ray emitters. They are important for our understanding of the evolution of structures in the Universe and to study the accretion history of the cosmos. ECLAIRs will observe ~50% of the sky, far away from the Galactic Plane 0.5 mCrab flux limit at 4-150 keV after one year, 100-200 AGN expected (~400 AGN after 5 years, 0.2 mCrab flux limit). This will be the first all (half)-sky survey in the 10-20 keV domain, important for continuum studies and Cosmic X-ray Background modeling. The 4-150 keV band ideal to study effects of Compton reflection on the AGN continuum, with little influence by absorption in the line of sight. In terms of beamed AGN, sources like Mrk 501, Mrk 421, 3C 454.3 and potentially new flaring blazars will be prominent SVOM targets, providing rich X-ray and optical data. MXT and VT will be important for AGN target of opportunity studies, allowing to further constrain the spectral energy distribution. Important synergy with simultaneous LSST and Euclid large scale surveys, i.e. to follow-up on AGN in outburst, and the hunt for electromagnetic counter parts of gravitational wave sources and neutrino emitters will present another important domain of research. Finally, MXT and VT can observe infall of matter onto AGN cores in the case of tidal disruption events, e.g. triggered by flux increase observed in ECLAIRs.

Orateurs: Dr Volker Beckmann (APC, FACe), Dr Xin-Lin Zhou (NAOC)

Slides AGN_SVOM_Beckmann_20160413_handout.pdf

summary SVOM_WhitePaper_AGN.pdf

11:40 Other extragalactic sources

Orateurs: Dr Fabien Grise (Observatoire de Strasbourg), Dr Hua Feng (Tsinghua), Dr Natalie Webb (IRAP), Dr Xin-Lin Zhou (NAOC)

Transparents grise_ulxs_tdes.pdf

12:05 Galactic sources

Orateurs: Dr Jerome Rodriguez (CEA - Service d'Astrophysique), Prof. Shuang-Nan Zhang (Institute of High Energy Physics), Dr Wen-Fei Yu (SHAO)

Transparents SVOM_Galactic_JR.pdf

14:00 Miscellaneous topics

Orateur: Dr Andrea Goldwurm (CEA/IRFU/SAp-Saclay & APC-Paris)

Transparents SVOM_LesHouches-CXB-AG-V1-slides.pdf

13:00 → 14:00 Lunch

14:20 → 23:35 Writing Workshop

14:30 Wriying workshop organization

Orateur: Dr Bertrand Cordier (CEA-Irfu/Service d'astrophysique)

Transparents workshop_organization1.pdf

14:45 GRB

Orateur: Frédéric Daigne (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris - Université Pierre et Marie Curie)

14:45 GRBs and the high-redshift Universe

Orateur: M. Patrick Petitjean (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris)

14:45 Observatory Science

Orateurs: Dr Andrea Goldwurm (CEA/IRFU/SAp-Saclay & APC-Paris), Dr Jerome Rodriguez (CEA - Service d'Astrophysique), Dr Volker Beckmann (APC, FACe)

14:45 ToO

Orateur: Dr Cyril Lachaud (APC / Univ. Paris Diderot)

jeudi 14 avril

09:00 → 12:30 Writing Workshop

12:55 → 19:00 Excursion: Mer de Glace / Snowshoe hike

12:55 Snowshoe hike (some pictures)

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13:00 Mer de Glace (some pictures)

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vendredi 15 avril

10:00 → 13:20 Wrap-Up: First draft of the white paper

10:00 Conclusion

Orateur: Dr JACQUES PAUL (CEA)

Transparents 160415_Houches_Conclusion.pdf

10:30 SVOM instrumentation

Orateur: Dr Stéphane Schanne (CEA Saclay)

Transparents 160415_Schanne_SummaryInstrSection.pdf

10:40 GRB phenomenon

Orateur: Prof. Julian Osborne (University of Leicester)

Transparents SVOM-White-Paper-GRB-Physics.pdf

10:50 GRB and High redshift universe

Orateur: Prof. Nial Tanvir (University of Leicester)

Transparents NRT_high_redshift_probes.pdf

11:00 ToOs

Orateur: Dr Cyril Lachaud (APC / Univ. Paris Diderot)

Transparents Summary_MultiWavelenth-MultiMessenger.pdf

11:10 Observatory science

Orateur: Dr Jerome Rodriguez (CEA - Service d'Astrophysique)

Transparents White_Paper_Wrapup_JR.pdf

11:20 Next SVOM workshop

Orateur: Dr Jianyan Wei (National Astronomical Observatories, CAS, China)

Transparents NextWorkshop-2017.pdf

13:30 → 15:00 Bus to Geneva Airport