Deep Impact as a World Observatory Event - Synergies in Space, Time, and Wavelength

joint workshop organized and sponsored by the astronomy group of the VUBand ESO

NEW: 

1) get pdfLATEX abstract kit from here

2) get  instructions for proceedings from here

date: 

Monday-Thursday August, 7-10, 2006

venue: 

Brussels, Belgium, Palace of the Royal Academy for Science and the Arts (RASAB) 

general:

the number of participants has to be limited to 120
there will be a conference fee of approx. òÂì 250 (to be defined)

deadlines:

April 3^rd, final call for papers 
June 15^th, abstracts due for programme / registration dead-line
July 28^th, abstracts, due, final in LATEX for booklet
Oct. 30^th, papers due for proceedings

scientific organizing committee

Chris Sterken (chair), Ulli Käufl (co-chair), Mike A'Hearn, Hermann Boehnhardt, Michael Combi, Yan Fernandez, Marco Fulle, Luisa Lara, Casey Lisse, Jean Manfroid, Karen Meech, Javier Licandro, Heike Rauer, Rita Schulz, Gerhardt Schwehm, Diane Wooden

local organizing committee

Chris Sterken, Michael Weiler, Taavi Tuvikene, Yacine Bouzid

contact:

Ulli Käufl or Chris Sterken

proceedings:

there will be proceedings in the ESO / SPRINGER series (eds. Ulli Käufl & Chris Sterken); link to retrievelatex-kit

Purpose of workshop: 

In the context of NASA's Deep Impact space mission comet 9P/Tempel1 has been at the focus of an un-precendented worldwide long-term multi-wavelength observation campaign. The comet has been studied through its perihelion passage by various spacecraft including the Deep Impact mission itself, HST, Spitzer, Rosetta, XMM and all major ground-based observatories in a wavelength band from the cm-wave radio astronomy to x-rays. For some òÀÜglossy-printòÀÝ information please have a look to e.g. ESO's dedicated web-pages. 

The ground-based observing campaign has been also described in a recent Sciencepublication by 208 authors from 85 academic institutions around the world (link to pdf). 

To make full use of this data set a workshop bringing together observers across the electromagnetic spectrum and from different sites and projects is considered of great importance. Synergy between the different data sets can only be achieved, if observers share their data and arrive at a coherent interpretation. A coherent presentation of all data sets will allow the theoreticians to fully appreciate all observational constraints. 

Specific topics of this workshop: 

General Cometary Topics From Space & Ground: 

• the cometary nucleus 

• the cometary gas 

• the cometary plasma 

• the cometary dust 
   

   

  the cometary surface and its activity

Deep Impact Specific Questions

• release of unprocessed primordial material from the formation period of the comet 

• long-term effects from the impact 

• understanding of global properties of the nucleus 

• surface layering of the 9P/Tempel1 nucleus 

• impact cratering 

• understanding of cometary dust after deep impact 

• understanding the processes in the gas coma 

• ground support of space missions: complementarity and needs 

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Registration, Registration Form 

You are urgently requested to fill in this form to allow us to plan for transport, food, drinks, coffee etc.

Registered Participants

see this page for information

Programme

preliminary draft for information 

Audio-visual equipment

There is a dedicated PC with the latest XP/windows and Open-Office versions connected to high quality projection;
you are invited to bring your contribution on CD or USB-memstick

Internet etc.

We will set up a few PCs with connections speaking LINUX and other more traditional OS;
there will be WLAN as well

Travel-Agency

tbc? (see local info)

Secreterial support 

to be completed

Infrared Instrumentation Department 

Astronomy Group

European Southern Observatory

Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Karl Schwarzschildstr. 2 

Pleinlaan 2

D-85748 Garching b. München

B-1050 Brussels, Belgium

Tel: + 49 89 3200 6414

Tel +32 2 629 3469

Fax: + 49 89 320 2362

Fax +32 2 629 3174