Events for Proposed STAR-X Mission

Future events are pending the selection decision by NASA HQ (anticipated for March 2024). Note that the STAR-X team plans open community workshops in Phase B, so stay tuned!

Feb 2, 2024

Ann Hornschemeier (DPI): "The Proposed STAR-X MIDEX Mission: Studying the Fast, Furious and Forming Universe"
Royal Astronomical Society of Canada (RASC), Regina Centre, Saskatchewan, Canada (via Zoom)

Past Events

May 3, 2023

Ann Hornschemeier (DPI): "The Proposed STAR-X MIDEX Mission: Studying the Fast, Furious and Forming Universe"
Center for Astrophysics (CfA) High Energy Seminar

April 14, 2023

Ann Hornschemeier (DPI): "The Proposed STAR-X MIDEX Mission: Studying the Fast, Furious and Forming Universe"
Colloquium at University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

March 26-30, 2023:

STAR-X presentations made at the HEAD meeting in Hawaii.

"The Proposed STAR-X Explorer Mission: Opportunities for the HEAD Community to Explore the Fast, Furious and Forming Universe with Simultaneous UV and X-ray Observations".

Special Session (208; 90 minutes). Tuesday, March 28, 2023; 5:00 - 6:30 PM HT; Queen's Ballroom.

• Recording of the session (~ 290 MB,mp4)
• Transcript of the session (Auto-generated so may contain errors.)

Note: Niel Brandt's slides were not recorded on the Zoom recording. They were presented in the room, but there was an operational issue in the room which didn't broadcast via Zoom. Niel Brandt's slides are available from the link below.

Oral Presentations (Session 208):

• 208.02, Ann Hornschemeier (NASA GSFC): "The STAR-X science case: Studying the Fast, Furious and Forming Universe in the X-ray and UV" (25 min)
• 208.03, Edmund Hodges-Kluck (NASA GSFC): "The STAR-X Observing Plan: Building up Rich Surveys and Other Key Datasets in the X-ray and UV" (15 min)
• 208.04, Daryl Haggard (McGill University): "Multimessenger opportunities with the X-ray and UV Capabilities of STAR-X" (15 min)
• 208.05, Niel Brandt (Penn State University): "STAR-X X-ray and UV Survey Design" (15 min)
• 208.06, Mike McDonald (MIT): "Next Generation Observations of Clusters of Galaxies with STAR-X" (15 min)

Poster Presentations (Session 112):

• 112.01, Eric Miller: "Studying 'the Forming' Clusters of Galaxies over Cosmic time in the X-ray and UV with STAR-X"
• 112.02, C. Norseth: "Gas Clumping in the Outskirts of Galaxy Clusters as seen by STAR-X"
• 112.04, Brian Fleming: "Transient Imaging with the STAR-X Ultraviolet Telescope (UVT)"
• 112.05, Catherine Grant: "The X-ray Telescope Focal Plane Assembly for the STAR-X Mission"
• 112.06, Antara Basu-Zych: "The STAR-X Observing Plan: Surveying the Fast, Furious and Forming Universe in X-rays and UV"
• 112.07, J. Sebastian Pineda: "Stellar and Exoplanet Science with a Targeted STAR-X Survey"
• 112.08, Mihoko Yukita: "Studying 'the Fast': Transients and Explosions in the X-ray and UV with STAR-X"

February 15, 2023

"The Proposed STAR-X MIDEX Mission: Studying the Fast, Furious and Forming Universe" (Recording, ~110 MB, mp4)
Colloquium, Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, The Pennsylvania State University

January 23-27, 2023:

Stefano Marchesi: "Simulating Surveys with STAR-X, AXIS, and the Athena Wide-Field Imager: A Window on a Whole New Population of X-ray Emitting Extragalactic Sources"
Getting Ready To Descend The Slippery Slope Of Multi-Messenger Cosmological Black Holes Data Workshop, Sexten, Italy

January 8-10, 2023:

STAR-X presence at the Ball Aerospace booth at the Seattle American Astronomical Society meeting.

Oral Presentations

• 120.05, 10:40 AM Monday January 9th, "The Proposed STAR-X MIDEX Mission: Studying The Fast, Furious and Forming Universe in the X-ray and UV", Erin Kara et al.
• 120.06, 10:50 AM Monday January 9th, "The STAR-X Observing Plan: Studying the Fast, Furious and Forming Universe in X-rays and UV", Antara Basu-Zych et al.
• 111.04, 10:00 AM Monday January 9th, "X-ray Coverage of the LSST Deep-Drilling Fields: Current XMM-Newton Results and STAR-X Future Prospects", W.N. Brandt
• 2:05 PM Tuesday January 10th in room 303, XRSIG session,, "The Proposed STAR-X MIDEX Mission: Studying The Fast, Furious and Forming Universe in the X-ray and UV", Ann Hornschemeier et al.

iPosters

Times and dates are for the oral presentation of the iPoster, the iPosters will be available throughout the meeting at kiosks and online:

• 107.05, 9-10 AM Monday January 9th, "The Fast:" Discovering and Characterizing Transients in the X-ray and UV with STAR-X, Daryl Haggard et al.
• 360.13, 5.30-6.30 PM, Wed January 11th, Studying "the Furious", Growing Black Holes with STAR-X in the X-ray and UV, Francesca Civano et al.
• 461.01, 1-2 PM Thursday, January 12th, The Proposed STAR-X MIDEX Mission: Studying The Fast, Furious and Forming Universe in the X-ray and UV, William Zhang
• 461.02, 1-2 PM Thursday, January 12th, The STAR-X Science Case: Exploring the Fast, Furious and Forming Universe in X-rays and UV, Edmund Hodges-Kluck et al.
• 460.25, 1-2 PM Thursday, January 12th, Studying "the Forming" Clusters of Galaxies over Cosmic time in the X-ray and UV with STAR-X, Eric Miller et al.

October 18, 2022:

Ann Hornschemeier (DPI): "The Proposed STAR-X MIDEX Mission: Studying the Fast, Furious and Forming Universe"
Talk at University of Colorado/LASP, Boulder, CO

October 11, 2022:

Ann Hornschemeier (DPI): "The Proposed STAR-X MIDEX Mission: Studying the Fast, Furious and Forming Universe"
Invited presentation at the Athena WFI Consortium meeting; Garching, Germany

September 20, 2022

3:45 PM - Ann Hornschemeier (DPI): "The Proposed STAR-X MIDEX Mission: Studying The Fast, Furious and Forming Universe"
NASA GSFC Astrophysics Division Colloquium

September 12, 2022:

3:30 PM - Ann Hornschemeier (DPI): "The STAR-X Mission"
JHU Wine and Cheese Talk, JHU Homewood Campus, Baltimore