Conveners
Day 1 / Session 2
- Noriyuki Narukage (NAOJ)
In 1979, while the Voyager spacecraft were undertaking their paradigm-shifting explorations of the Jovian system, the Earth-orbiting Einstein X-ray observatory was also taking the first X-ray images of the planet (Metzger et al. 1983). Through the 1990s, ROSAT further evolved our understanding of planetary X-rays, differentiating Jupiter’s X-ray aurorae from the scattered solar photons...
The release of magnetic energy through magnetic reconnection is a major process invoked to model the activity of magnetars, black holes, gamma-ray bursts, and precursors of neutron star mergers. Energy dissipation in these compact objects occurs in a dense radiation field, which impacts the dissipation mechanism and generates copious electron-positron pairs. Radiation spectrum emitted by...
Nature has presented us with a very powerful “instrument” that we are yet to explore and put to use. This instrument is the Solar Gravitational Lens (SGL), which results from the ability of the gravitational field of the Sun to focus light from faint, distant targets. In the near future, a modest telescope with a coronagraph could operate in the focal region of the SGL and, using enormous...
