Life Cycles of Radio Galaxies

Mini-Workshop
July 15 - 17, 1999

Space Telescope Science institute
Baltimore, Maryland USA


FINAL PROGRAM

* = Invited Talks;
 1 hr  talks will include 10 minutes question time;
30 min talks will include  5 minutes question time;
15 min talks will include  3 minutes question time.


WEDNESDAY, JULY 14
18:15-18:45        -- VAN SERVICE FROM HOTELS TO STSCI --

* * *
RECEPTION
7:00 P.M. - 9:00 P.M. AT STScI
FOR WORKSHOP PARTICIPANTS
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20:30-21:15        -- VAN SERVICE FROM STSCI TO HOTELS --

THURSDAY, JULY 15

07:30-08:45        -- VAN SERVICE FROM HOTELS TO STSCI --
07:30-09:00        -- BREAKFAST / REGISTRATION AT STSCI --
09:00-09:05John BirettaWelcome / Announcements
09:05-09:30Chris O'DeaIntroductory Remarks
Session I.   Global Models    (Chair: Ann Wehrle)
09:30-10:30  *Ruth Daly Models of Radio Source Development
10:30-11:00        -- BREAK / POSTERS --
11:00-11:30  *Ignas Snellen On the Morphological and Luminosity Evolution of Young Radio Sources
11:30-12:00Christian Kaiser Spectral Index Maps as a Key to Source and Environment Properties of FR II Objects
12:00-12:30Paddy Leahy Spectral Mapping of Classical Double Radio Sources
12:30-13:00Larry Rudnick The Problems of Aging
13:00-14:30        -- LUNCH / POSTERS --
Session II.   Evolutionary Endpoints    (Chair: Jasper Wall)
14:30-15:30  *Katherine Blundell Radio Galaxy Evolution: What We can Learn from a Brief Encounter
15:30-15:45Dave De Young Magnetic Field Amplification in FR II Hotspots
15:45-16:30        -- BREAK / POSTERS --
Session III.   Radio Galaxy Environments    (Chair: Jasper Wall)
16:30-17:30  *Diana Worrall The Gaseous Environments of Radio Galaxies
17:30-18:00Jack Burns Stormy Weather and Cluster Radio Galaxies
18:00-18:30Brian McNamara Interactions between FR I Radio Sources and the Intracluster Medium in Cooling Flow Clusters
18:30-19:00        -- VAN SERVICE FROM STSCI TO HOTELS --

FRIDAY, JULY 16

07:45-08:45        -- VAN SERVICE FROM HOTELS TO STSCI --
08:00-09:00        -- BREAKFAST / REGISTRATION AT STSCI --
09:00-09:05John BirettaAnnouncements / Banquet Plans
Session IV.   The Central Regions    (Chair: Peter Barthel)
09:05-10:00  *Doug Richstone Black Holes in Active and Inactive Galaxies
10:00-10:30Rita Sambruna Constraining the Structure of the Central Engine in Radio-Loud AGN
10:30-11:00        -- BREAK / POSTERS --
11:00-11:15Mark Lacy The Importance of Radio Sources in Accounting for the Most Massive Black Holes
11:15-11:45Dave Meier Grand Unification and the Spin Paradigm
11:45-12:00Wolfgang Kundt Radio Galaxies Powered by Burning Disks
Session V.   AGN Host Galaxies    (Chair: Eric Smith)
12:00-13:00  *Matt Lehnert Host Galaxies of AGN
13:00-14:30        -- LUNCH / POSTERS --
14:30-15:00Wim de Vries Host Galaxies of Powerful Radio Sources
15:00-15:15Marek Kukula The R-Band Properties of Radio Galaxies at z=0.2: A Comparison with Quasar Hosts and Inactive Ellipticals using HST
15:15-15:30John Biretta An HST Emission-Line Imaging Survey of 3CR Galaxies
15:30-15:45Susan Ridgway Radio-Loud and Radio-Quiet Quasar Hosts with HST
15:45-16:45        -- BREAK / POSTERS --
Session VI.   Compact Radio Galaxies    (Chair: Eric Smith)
16:45-17:45  *John Conway Compact Symmetric Objects: Baby Radio Galaxies?
17:45-18:00Alison Peck Imaging HI Absorption toward Symmetric Radio Galaxies - Evidence for a Circumnuclear Torus
18:00-18:15Shinji Horiuchi VSOP Observations of the Gigahertz-Peaked Spectrum Source OQ 208
18:15-19:00        -- BREAK / VAN SERVICE --
19:00-22:00        -- BANQUET --
21:30-22:00        -- VAN SERVICE TO HOTELS --

SATURDAY, JULY 17

07:45-08:45        -- VAN SERVICE FROM HOTELS TO STSCI --
08:00-09:00        -- BREAKFAST / REGISTRATION AT STSCI --
09:00-09:05John BirettaAnnouncements / Proceedings Plan
Session VII.   FR I vs. FR II Radio Galaxies    (Chair: Mark Birkinshaw)
09:05-10:00  *Stefi Baum The Fanaroff-Riley Division: Optical Perspective
10:00-10:15Michael Ledlow Rich Cluster vs. Non-Rich Cluster Radio Galaxies: Optical and Radio Properties and the Power-Size Diagram for Large Samples of FR I and FR II Sources
10:15-10:30Anton Koekemoer Probing Host Environments of Different Classes of Radio Galaxies using Emission-Line Diagnostics
10:30-11:00        -- BREAK / POSTERS --
Session VIII.   Jet Physics    (Chair: Mark Birkinshaw)
11:00-12:00  *Geoff Bicknell Connections between Jet Physics and the Properties of Radio-Loud and Radio-Quiet Galaxies
12:00-12:15Tom Jones Simulations of Nonthermal Electron Transport in Multidimensional Flows: Application to Radio Galaxies
12:15-12:30Ian Tregillis Simulations of Nonthermal Electron Transport in Multidimensional Flows: Synthetic Observations of Radio Galaxies
12:30-12:45Phil Hardee 3D Structures on Relativistic Jets
12:45-14:15        -- LUNCH / POSTERS --
Session IX.   The Lives of FR I Radio Galaxies    (Chair: Meg Urry)
14:15-15:15  *Paola Parma The Lives of FR I Radio Galaxies
15:15-15:45Jean Eilek Are There Two Types of Type I Radio Galaxies?
15:45-16:00Eric Perlman The Synchrotron Spectrum of the M87 Jet
16:00-16:15Everton Lüdke Can Depolarization in FR II Radio Sources be due to Invisible Haloes?
16:15-17:15        -- BREAK / POSTERS --
17:15-18:30        -- DISCUSSION --
18:30-19:00        -- VAN SERVICE FROM STSCI TO HOTELS --


POSTERS
Dimensions for each poster are:
Height: 64 inches (163 cm)
Width:  23 inches  (58 cm)
Push pins are provided

Mark Allen Energetics of the Radio Emitting Plasma in the Seyfert Galaxy NGC 2992
John Biretta Structure of the M87 Nuclear Jet on Light-Week Scales
John Biretta HST Observations of Superluminal Motion in the M87 Jet
Mark Birkinshaw Radio Source Stability
Allesandro Capetti Spectral Energy Distribution (SED) of Five FR I Radio Galaxies
Joel Carvalho A Model for Radio Source Expansion
M. Chiaberge Evidence for Optical Non-Thermal Nuclear Emission in FR I Radio Galaxies
D. Dallacasa The High Frequency Peakers
Megan Donahue HST NICMOS Images of Warm Molecular Hydrogen in Cluster Cooling Flows
Johan Fynbo The Host Galaxy of the Radio Quiet Q0151+048A
Gopal-Krishna Hybrid Morphology Radio Sources and the Fanaroff-Riley Dichotomy
Paola Grandi BeppoSAX Observations of Radio-Loud AGN
Eddie Guerra VLA-FIRST/GB6 Inverted-Spectrum Radio Sources at 20 GHz
C. H. Ishwara-Chandra Evolution of Giant Radio Sources
S. Jeyakumar Collimation of Radio Jets from parsec to kiloparsec Scales
Anton Koekemoer Shock Ionization of Line-Emitting Gas in the Radio Galaxy PKS 0349-27
Anton Koekemoer Interactions Between the Abell 2597 Central Radio Source and Dense Ambient Gas in its Host Galaxy
Mark Lacy HST Imaging of Two z>4 Radio Galaxies
Mark Lacy The Fraction of Dead Radio Sources in a Complete Sample Selected at 38 MHz
Lucas Lara Restarting Activity in Radio Galaxies
Paddy Leahy Testing Minimum Energy with Powerful Radio Sources in Clusters of Galaxies
Everton Lüdke Spectral Aging in Compact Steep-Spectrum Sources: New Constraints in Source Evolution
Everton Lüdke A Survey of HI Properties in Southern Radio Galaxies: The Emission Properties
Everton Lüdke Measuring Faraday Depths in High-Redshift Quasar Cores
Everton Lüdke High Resolution Investigation of Radio Asymmetries in Radio Galaxies and Quasars
André Martel The Nuclear Dust Disks and Rings of Five Nearby 3CR Elliptical Galaxies
Emmanuel Moy Modelling of Ionizing Process in Radiosources
Matteo Murgia Synchrotron Spectra and Ages of Compact Steep Spectrum Radio Sources
Neil Nagar "Radio-Loud" Low-Luminosity AGN: Implications for the Radio-Loud / Radio-Quiet Division
Alison Peck New VLBA Identifications of Compact Symmetric Objects
Eric Perlman HST Imaging of Nearby CSOs: Obscuration and Nuclear Structures
Joe Pesce Hubble Space Telescope Observations of BL Lacertae Environments: The GO Targets
Alex Rosen Effect of Expansion and Magnetic Field Configuration on Mass Entrainment of Jets
Larry Rudnick Multiresolution Filtering and Spectra of Radio Galaxies
Mike Sandell Morphological Data from the Atlas of DRAGNs
Satoko Satoh Free-Free Absorber Surrounding GHz-Peaked Spectrum Sources
Riccardo Scarpa On the Physical Conditions in AGN Optical Jets
Riccardo Scarpa The Optical Properties of Low z Radio Galaxies
Henrique Schmitt The Relative Orientation of the Accretion Disk and Host Galaxy Disk in Seyferts
Susan Simkin Optical Emission-Line Spectra from Jet-Cloud Collisions?
Carlo Stanghellini A Complete Sample of Young Radio Sources
Carlo Stanghellini Is OQ208 Expanding?
Wolfgang Tschager A Population Study of Faint Compact Steep Spectrum Sources
Meg Urry Host Galaxies and the Unification of Radio-Loud AGN
Ann Wehrle The Parsec-Scale Accretion Disk and Radio Jets in NGC 4261
Paul Wiita Radio Jets Interactions with Massive Clouds
J. Wiseman What Can We Learn from Galactic Jets?
Andrew Young Electron Population Aging Models On Wide-Angle-Tails


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