New Results on the Galactic Centre
This is a full day meeting at the XXVI General Assembly which will include the business session of Division VII, but the emphasis will be on the science, and this year on the Galactic Centre. The programme will include about 8 half-hour presentations covering broad topics relating to Sgr A* and star formation in the surrounding environment.
The centre of our Galaxy will also be contrasted with those of similar galaxies, and plenty of time will be allowed for discussion. One of the primary objectives of the meeting is to gauge the community interest in setting up an IAU Working Group on the Galactic Centre. This will be discussed and if appropriate an organizing committee nominated at the end of the science session.
| 09:00 | The Supermassive Black Hole at the Centre of Our Galaxy | Andrea Ghez (Invited) |
| 09:30 | Radio Imaging of Sgr A* | Avery Broderick (Invited) |
| 10:00 | Recent Near-IR/X-ray Measurements, and the First Time Resolved AO Near-IR Polarization Measurements, of Sgr A* | Andreas Eckart |
| 10:20 | coffee | |
| 10:50 | The Sgr B2 Region in H13CO+ and SiO Lines | Masato Tsuboi |
| 11:10 | The Galactic Centre Region as Seen by H.E.S.S. in Very High Energy gamma-rays | Loic Rolland (Invited) |
| 11:30 | Theory of Accretion and Flares | Sera Markoff (Invited) |
| 12:00 | Division VII and Commission 33 business meeting | |
| 12:30 | lunch |
| 14:00 | The Young Stellar Disks in the Central Parsec | Thibaut Paumard (Invited) |
| 14:30 | The Origin of Young Stars in the Central Parsec | Simon Portegies Zwart (Invited) |
| 15:00 | The Spitzer Mid-infrared Survey of the Inner 2 x 1.5 degrees of the Galaxy | Howard Smith |
| 15:20 | coffee | |
| 15:50 | Star Clusters and Star Formation in the Galactic Centre | Angela Cotera (Invited) |
| 16:20 | The Centres of Disk-Dominated Galaxies | Marcella Carollo (Invited) |
| 16:50 | Proposed formation of a Working Group on the Galactic Centre | Joseph Lazio and Patricia Whitelock |
| Orbital Decay of Evolving Young Star Clusters in Galactic Nuclei | A. Ernst et al. |
| Gravity, Probing Space-Time and Faint Objects in the Infrared | X. Haubois et al. |
| Radio Pulsars in the Galactic Centre | J. Lazio et al. |
| Recent Analysis of the Stellar Distribution in the Central Parsec | R. Schoedel |
Club B
2006 August 21
Science Meeting for Division VII: Galactic System
P. Whitelock (chair)
R. Genzel
O. Gerhard
C. Lang
J. Lazio