Supercritical phenomena in relativistic flows

Wednesday 27 May 2009, 10:00 → 13:30 Europe/Stockholm

Nordita seminar room (132:028)

Felix Ryde (KTH, Stockholm), Juri Poutanen (Astronomy Division, University of Oulu, Finland)

A mini-workshop on the supercritical phenomena in relativistic flows: proton-, neutron- induced cascades, super-critical pile, photon breeding and other electromagnetic cascades, etc.

Streaming video (Part 1)

Streaming video (Part 2)

10:00 → 10:30 Supercritical pile GRB model

Speaker: Apostolos Mastichiadis

10:30 → 11:00 On the role of neutral particles in generation of cosmic rays

Speaker: Evgeny Derishev

11:30 → 12:00 Photon breeding in relativistic flows

Speaker: Boris Stern

12:00 → 12:30 Astrophysical implications of photon breeding mechanism

Speaker: Juri Poutanen

12:30 → 12:45 Automatic quenching of high energy gamma--ray sources by synchrotron photons

Speaker: Lukasz Stawarz