Program
Tuesday, January 28, 2020 |
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| 7:30 AM | 9:00 AM | Registration | 1:00 | |
| 8:45 AM | 9:00 AM | Welcome | 0:15 | |
| Science Motivation | Session Chair: Anton Zensus |
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| 9:00 AM | 9:40 AM | The Future of High-Resolution Radio Interferometry in Space |
L. Gurvits & V. Fish | 0:40 |
| 9:40 AM | 10:00 AM | Mapping Spacetimes with Horizon-scale Imaging | A. Broderick | 0:20 |
| 10:00 AM | 10:20 AM | The Sharpest View of Blazar Jets with Space VLBI | J. Gomez | 0:20 |
| 10:20 AM | 10:50 AM | Break | 0:30 | |
| 10:50 AM | 11:30 AM | Ergomagnetospheres, Ejection Disks and Relativistic Jets |
R. Blandford | 0:40 |
| 11:30 AM | 11:50 AM | Black Hole Science with Extremely Long Baseline Interferometry | D. Pesce | 0:20 |
| 11:50 AM | 12:10 PM | Measuring Black Hole Spin with Time-domain VLBI Observations of Infalling Gas Clouds | K. Moriyama | 0:20 |
| 12:10 PM | 12:30 PM | Multi-messenger Astronomy with Space mm VLBI | V. Ravi | 0:20 |
| 12:30 PM | 2:00 PM | Lunch (90 min) | 1:30 | |
| Science Motivation con't | Session Chair: Shep Doeleman |
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| 2:00 PM | 2:20 PM | Simulations of VLBI Observations of Black Holes and Jets from Space | F. Roelofs | 0:20 |
| 2:20 PM | 2:40 PM | Polarization Imaging of M87 Jets by General Relativistic Radiative Transfer Calculation Based On GRMHD Simulations | Y. Tsunetoe | 0:20 |
| 2:40 PM | 3:00 PM | The Need of Space VLBI for the Space Geodesy Program | L. Petrov | 0:20 |
| 3:00 PM | 3:40 PM | Discussion Topic: Space vs. Ground | 0:40 | |
| 3:40 PM | 4:10 PM | Break | 0:30 | |
| 4:10 PM | 4:50 PM | VSOP-1 (HALCA) Project | Y. Murata | 0:40 |
| 4:50 PM | 5:30 PM | The Space VLBI Mission RadioAstron: Overview and Results | Y. Kovalev | 0:40 |
| 5:30 PM | 5:35 PM | Poster Flash (5 min) | 0:05 | |
| 5:35 PM | 6:35 PM | Reception | 1:00 | |
| Wednesday, January 29, 2020 | ||||
| Session: Technology Drivers | Session Chair: Katie Bouman |
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| 9:00 AM | 9:40 AM | Technical Developments for Millimetron Space Observatory |
A. Baryshev | 0:40 |
| 9:40 AM | 10:20 AM | Instrumentation Status for Space VLBI with the Event Horizon Telescope | K. Haworth & A. Raymond |
0:40 |
| 10:20 AM | 10:50 AM | Break | 0:30 | |
| 10:50 AM | 11:10 AM | Recent Results in Millimeter (mmW) Performance of Mesh for Space Reflectors | S. Ortiz | 0:20 |
| 11:10 AM | 11:30 AM | Wideband Superconducting Parametric Amplifiers for Microwave and Millimeter Wavelengths | P. Day | 0:20 |
| 11:30 AM | 11:50 AM | APEX SEPIA345: a New Generation Receiver for EHT | V. Belitsky | 0:20 |
| 11:50 AM | 12:10 PM | Interferometric Imaging at Extreme Baselines and Spatial Frequencies |
A. Zensus |
0:20 |
| 12:10 PM | 12:20 PM | Conference Photo | 0:10 | |
| 12:20 PM | 1:50 PM | Lunch (90 min) | 1:30 | |
| Session: Technology Drivers con't | Session Chair: Walter Brisken |
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| 1:50 PM | 2:20 PM | Fundamental Physics of Moving Clock Time Synchronization in a Weak Gravitational Field | S. Wilkinson | 0:30 |
| 2:20 PM | 3:00 PM | Precise Satellite Orbit and Baseline Determination: Status and Outlook | P. Visser |
0:40 |
| 3:00 PM | 3:30 PM | Break | 0:30 | |
| 3:30 PM | 3:50 PM | Mission Optimization: From Science Goals to Orbit Selection | D. Palumbo | 0:20 |
| 3:50 PM | 4:10 PM | Incoherent Clocking and Potential Applicability to Space VLBI |
B. Carlson |
0:20 |
| 4:10 PM | 5:10 PM | Discussion Topic: Common Requirements and Technology Developments? | 1:00 | |
| 6:00 PM | 9:00 PM | Conference Dinner | 3:00 | |
| Thursday, January 30, 2020 | ||||
| Session: Technology Drivers and Mission Concepts | Session Chair: Joseph Lazio |
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| 9:00 AM | 9:40 AM | The Future of ALMA | I. Cleeves | 0:40 |
| 9:40 AM | 10:00 AM |
Progress in the Event Horizon Imager Mission Concept |
M. Martin-Neira |
0:20 |
| 10:00 AM | 10:20 AM | MicroArc Second Astrometry with Multi-Beam Space VLBI | M. Eubanks | 0:20 |
| 10:20 AM | 10:50 AM | Break | 0:30 | |
| 10:50 AM | 11:10 AM | The U.S. Space VLBI Program | D. Murphy | 0:20 |
| 11:10 AM | 11:30 AM | Expanding the Event Horizon Telescope into a MEO/GEO-sized Imaging Array |
K. Akiyama |
0:20 |
| 11:30 AM | 11:50 AM | Two Options for Space VLBI Telescope Orbit: LEO and GEO | Y. Asaki | 0:20 |
| 11:50 AM | 12:10 PM | A Proposal of Space Terahertz Intensity Interferometry |
H. Matsuo | 0:20 |
| 12:10 PM | 1:40 PM | Lunch (90 min) | 1:40 | |
| Session: Technology Drivers and Mission Concepts, con't | Session Chair: Tony Beasley |
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| 1:40 PM |
2:20 PM | Space VLBI in the ngVLA Era |
E. Murphy |
0:40 |
| 2:20 PM | 3:20 PM | Discussion Topic: Mission Architecture - One Big Space Antenna vs. Many Small Antennas? | 1:00 | |
| 3:20 PM | 3:30 PM | Concluding Remarks | 0:10 | |
Posters
P1:
Bjorn Emonts, National Radio Astronomy Observatory
ALMA Zooming in on the Dragonfly Galaxy
P2:
Taehyun Jung, Korean Astronomy and Space Science Institute
Korean VLBI Network (KVN) and E-KVN: Simultaneous Multi-frequency System for mm-VLBI
P3:
Glen Langston, National Science Foundation
The Best Time in Space
P4:
Matthew Lister, Purdue University
AGN Jets at High Resolution: The MOJAVE VLBA Program
P5:
George Moellenbrock, National Radio Astronomy Observatory
Calibration of Space VLBI Orbit Position Errors Using Multiple Calibrators
