Overview
We will hold the ULTRASAT collaboration workshop on Tuesday-Thursday, July 11-13, 2023.
The meeting is for the ULTRASAT collaboration members only (i.e., WG members and associates), including the participation of the new US WG members, which are expected to be selected in time for the workshop (in the coming 1-2 months).
The goal of the workshop is to continue developing the ULTRASAT science program: Elaborate the definitions of key science questions and key observations (including observing strategy), discuss possible new science questions, WG reports on progress on preparatory work, plan the continuation of preparatory work.
We highly encourage all members of the collaboration to register for giving talks related to their ULTRASAT work.
The workshop will be held at the Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS).
Please register for the workshop using the link below, by June 18, 2023 (Extended for the US participants)
Postdocs and students of WG members that work on ULTRASAT-related science are also welcome to register.
- An excursion day is planned for July 10th for non-Israeli participants.
We will hold the ULTRASAT collaboration workshop on Tuesday-Thursday, July 11-13, 2023.
The meeting is for the ULTRASAT collaboration members only (i.e., WG members and associates), including the participation of the new US WG members, which are expected to be selected in time for the workshop (in the coming 1-2 months).
The goal of the workshop is to continue developing the ULTRASAT science program: Elaborate the definitions of key science questions and key observations (including observing strategy), discuss possible new science questions, WG reports on progress on preparatory work, plan the continuation of preparatory work.
We highly encourage all members of the collaboration to register for giving talks related to their ULTRASAT work.
The workshop will be held at the Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS).
Please register for the workshop using the link below, by June 18, 2023 (Extended for the US participants).
Postdocs and students of WG members that work on ULTRASAT-related science are also welcome to register.
- An excursion day is planned for July 10th for non-Israeli participants.
Program
Excursion day to Jerusalem
Israel time |
Topic |
Speaker |
| 9:00-10:00 | Welcome coffee | |
| 10:00-10:25 | ULTRASAT mission overview and workshop goals [presentation] | E. Waxman |
| 10:25-10:50 | ULTRASAT capabilities and project status [presentation] | Y. Shvartzvald |
| 10:50-11:10 | WG1: Transient Stellar Explosions [presentation] | A. Gal-Yam |
| 11:10-11:25 |
Early Time Observations of Nearby Supernovae, and Looking Ahead Towards ULTRASAT [presentation] |
D. Sand |
| 11:25-11:40 |
Constraining the CSM of interacting SNe with early UV observations [presentation] |
M. Soumagnac |
| 11:40-11:55 | Shock cooling and Ibc early UV with Ultrasat [presentation] | I. Irani |
| 11:55-13:15 |
Lunch break |
|
| 13:15-13:35 | WG2: Gravitational Wave Sources [presentation] | E. Ofek |
| 13:35-13:50 |
H0 Calibration Precision through Joint ULTRASAT-GW Kilonova Detections [presentation] |
D. Kushnir |
| 13:50-14:05 | UV signal from shock breakout in CCSN with magnetars and implication on GW signals [presentation] | D. Guetta |
| 14:05-14:20 |
Non-thermal emission from mildly relativistic ejecta of BNS merger [presentation] |
G. Sadeh |
| 14:20-14:35 |
Analytic Description of Beta Decay Electron Thermalization in Kilonovae Ejecta [presentation] |
B. Shenhar |
| 14:35-14:50 | Thermalization of gamma-rays in kilonovae [presentation] | O. Guttman |
| 14:50-15:05 |
A technical ecosystem to enable multi-messenger astrophysics [presentation] |
M. Coughlin |
| 15:05-15:40 | Coffee break |
|
| 15:40-16:00 | WG10: GRBs [presentation] | J. Rhoads |
| 16:00-16:15 | The Landscape of Relativistic Stellar Explosions [presentation] | A. Ho |
| 16:15-16:30 | The Diversity and Ubiquity of Relativistic Jets [presentation] | B. Cenko |
| 16:30-18:00 | WGs meeting session | |
| 18:00-20:00 | Dinner @ WIS |
Israel time |
Topic |
Speaker |
| 9:30-10:00 | Morning Coffee | |
| 10:00-10:20 | WG13: Follow-up [presentation] | A. Gal-Yam |
| 10:20-10:40 | WG7: AGN [presentation] | B. Trakhtenbrot |
| 10:40-11:00 | WG8: TDEs [presentation] | N. Stone |
| 11:00-11:15 |
Harnessing the Power of the High-Cadence UV Time Domain to Identify Tidal Disruption Events from Intermediate Mass Black Holes [presentation] |
S. Gezari |
| 11:15-11:30 | Loss cone shielding [presentation] | O. Teboul |
| 11:30-11:50 | WG9: Solar system [presentation] | D. Polishook |
| 11:50-12:05 |
Mapping Cometary Water Production Rates Throughout the Solar System [presentation] |
D. Bodewits |
| 12:05-13:30 | Lunch break | |
| 13:30-13:50 | WG3: Exoplanets [presentation] |
S. Ben-Ami |
| 13:50-14:10 | WG5: Stars [presentation] |
D. Maoz |
| 14:10-14:25 | Stellar Astrophysics with Ultrasat [presentation] | M. Kilic |
| 14:25-14:40 | NUV flare rates of M-dwarfs with GALEX [presentation] | P. Rekhi |
| 14:40-14:55 |
Introducing TACHELES: A chromospheric transit model for transmission spectroscopy [presentation] |
V. Perdelwitz |
| 14:55-15:10 | Investigating the Impact of Stellar Activity on Exoplanets using Data from TESS and ULTRASAT [presentation] | E. Gilbert |
| 15:10-15:45 |
Coffee break |
|
| 15:45-16:00 | AGN and TDE variability in the ULTRASAT era [presentation] |
E. Kara (R) |
| 16:00-16:15 |
A multi-wavelength survey of space weather beyond the solar system [presentation] |
T. Dylan |
| 16:15-16:30 | Stellar activity, accretion, and chronometry in the UV [presentation] | K. Stassun |
| 16:30-18:00 | WGs meeting session | |
| 18:30-20:30 | Dinner at a Restaurant (Non-Israelis + SB+WG-leads) | |
Israel time |
Topic |
Speaker |
| 9:30-10:00 | Morning Coffee | |
| 10:00-10:20 | WG11: Data analysis [presentation] | E. Ofek |
| 10:20-10:35 |
ULTRASAT Data Processing and Analysis with ALICE (Adaptive LIght Curve Extractor) [presentation] |
T. Ramiaramanantsoa |
| 10:35-10:50 |
Addition and Subtraction of undersampled images and ULTRASAT [presentation] |
B. Zackay |
| 10:50-11:05 |
Rapid Classification and Follow-up of ULTRASAT Extragalactic Transients [presentation] |
A. Zalbudoff |
| 11:05-11:25 | WG4: Cosmology [presentation] | M. Kowalski |
| 11:25-11:45 | WG6: Galaxies [presentation] |
J. Rhoads |
| 11:45-12:00 | ULTRASAT as a powerful cosmological probe [presentation] | E. Kovets |
| 12:00-13:30 |
Lunch break |
|
| 13:30-15:00 |
WG reports (WGs 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9) |
|
| 15:00-15:30 | Coffee break | |
| 15:30-17:00 | Open discussion |
Venue
The Event will be held at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Weissman Physics Building, Physics Library.