Meeting on Perspectives of Space Submillimeter Astronomy
St. Petersburg, Russia, 30 September - 2 October, 2002

Program

30 September, Monday. 1-st day. Opening. Experimental technique
1 October, Tuesday.
2-d day, Astrophysics and cosmology.
Discussion.
2 October, Wednesday. 3-d day

Topics for discussion


30 September, Monday. Ioffe Institute (PhTI)

9:30 - 10:00 Registration

10:00 Opening. Main building. Conference hall.

Yu.N. Parijskij - Chairman.

D.A.Varshalovich, PhTI. Greeting

10:10
V.G. Kurt, ASC. Status of the Submillimetron Project.

10:50
V.D. Gromov, ASC/CTH. Submillimetron project. Cryogenic space telescope with cold electron nanobolometers array for submillimeter-wave astronomy.

11:30 Coffee Break

12:00
A. Luukanen, Metorex, Finland Hot-ring and Hot-spot microcalorimeters and microbolometers for X-ray and FIR applications

12:40
A.B. Goldin, JPL-Caltech, USA Design of broadband filters and antennas for antenna-coupled arrays.

13:20 Lunch

Yu.N Gnedin - Chairman

14:30
Yu.N. Parijskij (SAO, St.Petersburg) On the problems of realisation "1 micro-K Window into the Early Universe"

15:20
A.T. Bajkova (IAA, St.Petersbug) The Methods of the CMB power angular spectrum reconstruction

16:00 Coffee Break

16:30 Discussion

1 October, Tuesday. Ioffe Institute

D.A.Varshalovich - Chairman

10:00
Yu.N. Gnedin (GAO, St.Petersburg) The Submillimeter Stellar Astronomy: Science Objectives

10:30
N.V. Voshchinnikov (Sobolev Astronomical Institute, St. Petersburg University) Dust grains: what can be learned in the far-infrared?

11:00
I.I. Zinchenko (IPF, N.Novgorod) Submillimeter research of star formation regions

11:30 Coffee Break

12:00
V.K.Dubrovich (SAO, St.Petersburg) Protoobjects before and after recombination

13:20 Lunch

14:30 General Discussion
V.K. Dubrovich - Chairman

2 October, Wednesday.

10:00. S.I.Vavilov State Optical Institute (GOI)
Submillimetron design discussion

15:00. Institute of Applied Astronomy (IAA)
V.D. Gromov Submillimetron project (invited talk)


Topics for discussion

Cosmological and exragalactic objects for observation

  • Cosmological background radiation (CMB). Anisotropy and foreground objects. Polarization
  • Clusters of galaxies: dust, SZ effect and corrections for internal galaxies radiation
  • IR galaxies: dust, cosmological evolution
  • AGN: active galactic nuclei, spectrum, variability, age
  • VLBI, microarcsecond angular resolution

    Objects of our Galaxy, stars and Solar system

  • Center of Galaxy Sgr A*
  • Milky Way: interstellar dust spectrum, polarization, mapping, temperatures
  • Molecular clouds, star-forming regions
  • Stars: Cocoons, young stars, stars with envelopes, protoplanets
          Cold stars, pecular and variable stars
          Neutron stars and galactic black holes, remnants of supernovae
  • Interplanetary dust - belts, temperatures
  • Kuiper belt objects, asteroid hazard

    Experimental aspect

  • Spectral bands optimisation for measurements of redshift (z<1), pecular velocities (SZ effect), for comparability to other measurements (space and ground-based);
  • Preferrable bands for measurements of polarization, spectral features of CMB and dust, for narrow band survey of spectral lines;
  • Optimum spatial sampling for maximum angular resolution, point sources extractions, CMB anisotropy measurement, evaluation of unresolved sources contribution;
  • Limits of detectivity of anisotropy, polarization, shallow spectral features. Requirements for instrument's dynamical range, stability and calibrarion.


    Last updated: 2002, Oct.14
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