The Physics of Supermassive Black Hole Formation and Feedback
October 12 - 14, 2015
Annapolis, Maryland
- Andrew Fabian (University of Cambridge) - Aspects of AGN Feedback
SESSION I: SMBH FORMATION, GROWTH, AND FEEDBACK ACROSS COSMIC TIME
- Marta Volonteri (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris) - The Cosmic Evolution of Massive Black Holes
- Aycin Aykutalp (Georgia Institute of Technology) - Effects of X-Rays on Black Hole Growth and Stellar Populations
- John Wise (Georgia Institute of Technology) - The First Black Holes and their Host Galaxies
- Amy Reines (NOAO) - The Origin of Supermassive Black Hole Seeds: Insights from Dwarf Galaxies
- Vivienne Baldassare (University of Michigan) - Optical Spectroscopic Observations of Candidate AGN in Dwarf Galaxies
- Suvi Gezari (University of Maryland) - Probing the Demographics of Supermassive Black Holes with Time Domain Observations
- Glenna Dunn (Vanderbilt University) - Sowing Black Hole Seeds: Forming Direct Collapse Black Holes with Realistic Lyman-Werner Radiation Fields in Cosmological Simulations
- KwangHo Park (Georgia Institute of Technology) - Radiation-regulated Growth of Supermassive Black Hole Seeds Embedded in Bulge Component
SESSION II: THE PHYSICS OF BLACK HOLE ACCRETION AND JETS
- Jon Miller (University of Michigan) - Black Hole Accretion: Stellar-mass versus Super-Massive
- Shane Davis (University of Virginia) - The Role of Ultraviolet Line Opacity in Determining the Structure and Dynamics of AGN Accretion Flows
- Abderahmen Zoghbi (University of Michigan) - Disk-wind Geometry in the Microquasar GRS 1915+105 Using NuSTAR/Chandra Observations
- Alexander Tchekhovskoy (University of California-Berkeley) - Simulations of Low-Luminosity Black Hole Accretion, Jets, and Their Emission
- Mark Avara (University of Maryland-College Park) - Thin Disk Accretion in the Magnetically-Arrested State
- Dominic Walton (JPL/Caltech) - Recent NuSTAR Highlights in Accretion, AGN and Jets
- Erin Kara (University of Maryland-College Park) - A Global Look at X-ray Reverberation in AGN
- Anne Lohfink (Institute of Astronomy, Cambridege) - AGN Coronae in the NuSTAR Era
SESSION III: LUMINOUS AGN AND QUASAR-MODE FEEDBACK
- Francesco Tombesi (University of Maryland-College Park) - AGN Feedback from Accretion Disk Winds
- Claude-Andre Faucher-Giguere (Northwestern / CIERA) - The Physics, Observational Signatures, and Consequences of AGN-Driven Galactic Winds
- Alison Coil (University of California-Berkeley) - AGN Feedback at z~2 in the Keck/MOSDEF Survey
- Travis Fischer (NASA / GSFC) - Do Narrow-Line Region Outflows Exist in QS02s?
- Thomas Shimizu (University of Maryland) - The Star-Forming Properties of an Ultra-Hard X-ray Selected Sample of AGN
- Julie Hlavacek-Larrondo (University of Montreal) - Quasar Feedback in Brightest Cluster Galaxies
- David Rupke (Rhodes College) - 3D Observations of Quasar-Mode Feedback in Nearby Galaxies
- Ai-Lei Sun (Princeton University) - Molecular and Ionized Outflows in Luminous Obscured QSOs
- Julie Comerford (University of Colorado-Boulder) - AGN Fueling and Feedback as Traced by Double-peaked Narrow Emission Lines
- Laura Blecha (University of Maryland-College Park) - Prospects for Detection of Recoiling BHs as Offset Quasars
- James Reeves (University of Maryland-Baltimore County) - Energetic Accretion Disk Winds and Black Hole Feedback in AGN
- William Brandt (Penn State University) - Exceptional X-ray Weak Quasars and Their Implications for Accretion Flows, Winds, and Broad Line Regions
SESSION IV: ICM PHYSICS AND AGN FEEDBACK IN GALAXY CLUSTERS
- Brian McNamara (University of Waterloo) - ALMA's View of AGN Feedback
- Gregory Meece (Michigan State University) - Precipitation Triggered AGN Feedback in Cool-Core Clusters
- Michael McDonald (MIT) - The Evolution of the Cooling-Feedback Balance in Galaxy Cluster Cores Over the Past 10 Gyr
- Elana Rasia (INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico Trieste) - Cool Core Clusters from Cosmological Simulations
- Ruth Daly (Penn State University) - Studies of the Relationship Between Outflow Power, Accretion Disk Luminosity, and Other Parameters of Powerful Radio Sources and Their Implications
- Eugene Churazov (Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics) - AGN Feedback: What We Can Learn from X-ray Images
- Marie-Lou Gendron-Marsolais (University of Montreal) - AGN Feedback in the Perseus Cluster
- Hsiang-Yi Karen Yang (University of Maryland-College Park) - Interplay Among Cooling, AGN Feedback and Anisotropic Conduction in the Cool Cores of Galaxy Clusters
- Yuan Li (University of Michigan) - Heating in Simulated Galaxy Clusters with Momentum-driven AGN Feedback
- Simona Giacintucci (University of Maryland) - Where Does the Relativistic Matter Ejected by the Central AGN End Up?
- Ashley King (Stanford University / KIPAC) - Radio AGN Evolution in Massive Galaxy Clusters
- Brian Morsony (University of Maryland-College Park) - Jet-driven Redistribution of Metal in Galaxy Clusters
- Mateusz Ruszkowski (University of Michigan) - Simulations of Black Hole Feedback and Star Formation in Cool Core Clusters
- Ke Fang (University of Maryland-College Park) - High-energy Neutrinos from Cluster Accretion Shocks
- Richard Mushotzky (University of Maryland-College Park) - Wrap-Up
POSTERS
- Migration Traps in AGN disks: Sites for IMBH Growth - Jillian Bellovary, et al.
- Two New Candidates for Powerful Winds Detected in Bright IR Galaxies - Valentina Braito, et al.
- Broadband Spectral Energy Distributions and the Classification of Gamma-ray Flaring States in Active Galactic Nuclei - Bryce Carpenter
- Radio Loud AGN are Mergers - Marco Chiaberge
- The Physics of AGN Jets from 3D Simulations - Salvatore Cielo
- Deep Observations of the Spectacular Sources in the 3C129 Cluster - Tracy Clarke, et al.
- Feeding and Feedback in Nearby AGN based on IFU Observations - D. Michael Crenshaw, et al.
- The Interaction Between Powerful Radio Jets and the Cold Inter-galactic Medium in Proto-clusters at z~2 - Bjorn Emonts
- Disk-Wind View of the Ultra-Fast Outflows in PG1211+143 - Keigo Fukumura, et al.
- Observing the Strong-field Region of the AGN in MRK 509 - Javier Garcia
- The Large Scale Quasar Jets: Accelerating Electrons up to ~100 TeV and Competing in Radiative Output with the Blazar Core - Markos Georganopoulos, et al.
- The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Reverberation Mapping Project: Quasar Reverberation Mapping and BAL Variability Studies - Catherine Grier, et al.
- Supermassive Black Hole Formation in Cosmological Simulations - Melanie Habouzit, et al.
- Testing General Relativity in the Strong Gravity Regime using Spectral, Timing, and Polarization Observations of Black Holes - Janie Hoormann, et al.
- Rest-frame Optical Spectra and Black Hole Masses for Quasars at z=1-6 - Hyunsung Jun
- Studying the Jets from Supermassive Black Holes with X-Ray Polarimetric Observations - Henric Krawczynski, et al.
- The MOSDEF Survey: Outflows from AGN at z~2.3 - Gene Leung, et al.
- The Growth and Enrichment of the Intra-group Medium - Lichen Liang, et al.
- Angular Momentum Transport in Magnetically-Arrested Disk Simulations - Megan Marshall, et al.
- HST Observations of an Internal Shock Collision in the Jet of 3C 264 - Eileen Meyer, et al.
- Three LINERs Under the Hubble Spectral Microscope - Mallory Molina, et al.
- Disentangling the Quasars’ X-ray Emission Regions with Microlensing - Ana Mosquera, et al.
- Black Hole Growth: is the Bondi-Hoyle Approximation a Good Proxy for Accretion? - Andrea Negri, et al.
- The NuSTAR View of Reflecting and Absorbing Circumnuclear Material in AGN - Elizabeth Rivers
- Heat-flux Driven Instabilities in High-beta Plasmas and Their Relevance for AGN Feedback - Gareth Roberg-Clark
- Searching for Outflows from the Central kpc of Nearby ULIRGs with OSIRIS - Alexander Rudy, et al.
- The Ongoing Hunt for Supermassive Black Hole Binaries - Jessie Runnoe
- Constraining AGN Feedback in Massive Ellipticals with South Pole Telescope Measurements of the Thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect - Alexander Spacek
- Thar's 'Flows In Them Thar ULIRGs - Srikar Srinath, et al.
- Probing the Gaseous Halo of Galaxies Through Non-thermal Emission from AGN-driven Outflows - Xiawei Wang, et al.
- Sloshing Cold Front of Galaxy Cluster Abell 2142 - Qian Wang, et al.
- Dynamics of Thermally Unstable Gas in the AGN Environment - Tim Waters, et al.
- Long-Term X-ray Variability of Bright AGNs in the Chandra Deep Field-South (CDF-S) - Guang Yang, et al.