Agenda
- Welcome and choice of the next meeting organiser (5min)
- Discussion on the possible topics for students thesis (3 and 5 years) (25min)
- Conferences and meetings (10min)
- Discussion on the 1215 paper (40 min)
Partecipants: Simona, Villi, Saverio, Julien, Elisa, Cornelia and Abelardo, our "special guest".
Chairman: Simona
Minutes: Villi
Minutes
- Welcome & choice of the next meeting organiser
- New students in our group: we made a long discussion, especially about the possibility to accept young students (3 years diploma thesis). The idea is that it is quite time consuming to have a student for few weeks. Nevertheless we think we benefit about the better formation of 5-years students asking for a thesis, thanks also to the experience they had in their diploma thesis period, they passed in another experiment. So we admit this formation is a duty we must accomplish. We found these main topics:
- Diploma thesis (3 years):
- Review theses: DM or Blazars in the TeV regime, Modeling TeV Blazars, MWL approach to the DM gammas search (SIMONA)
- Application to the redshift estimation by the Elisa's method on new sources (ELISA)
2. Master thesis (5 years):
- Data analysis and tests/work on the new multi-level image cleaning analysis (JULIEN)
- Real PSF in analysis (VILLI)
- Study on QG effects visible in the last flares (PKS 1222 and 0806) (VILLI)
[people mentioned at the end of these topics are asked to send here: scalz8@pd.infn.it a more precise subject/title for preparing a dedicated webpage]
- The most important incoming conferences are:
- Planck in Bologna, February 13-17 ----> Elisa is attending. Her rehearsal is foreseen in one of the next Padua group meeting.
- Positrons in Astrophysics in Switzerland, March 19-24 ----> Villi is attending.
- AGN meeting in Brera, end of March ----> Elisa is attending.
- SciNeGHE in Lecce, June 20-22
- MAGIC Collaboration Meeting in Udine, June 11-15
- GAMMA, in July
- CTA Meetings
- CR 100th anniversary conference in Denver, - June 26
- Finally we commented and widely discussed the paper: "Discovery of the VHE gamma rays from the blazar 1ES 1215+303 with the MAGIC telescopes and simltaneous MWL observations". The comments have been sent to the collaboration on January, 31st.
- Next meeting has been scheduled on Tuesday, February 7th. Simona will give us her contribute on SSC modeling.
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*A brief review about:
"Metsahovi Radio telescopie... this unknown!!! ;-)":
The Metsähovi Radio Observatory is an astronomical observatory affiliated with the Aalto University. Its main premises are in Metsähovi, Kylmälä, 35 km west of the campus of the Helsinki University of Technology.
The observatory currently operates one 13.7 m diameter radio telescope, staffed by some 20 researchers, engineers, research assistants, undergraduate and postgraduate students, and supporting personnel. Operational since 1974, the observatory is active in the fields of
- Fundamental research in radio astronomy
- Development of instruments needed in radio astronomy
- Development of methods for radio astronomical measurements
- Applied scientific computing
- Space research
- Education
The equipment at the observatory is focused primarily on extrasolar radio signals between 2 to 150 GHz. The primary subjects of the research are variable quasars, active galaxies, molecular line radiation, geodetic and astronomic very long baseline interferometry as a member of the European VLBI Network. Secondary subjects are solar observations, solar system 22 GHz water maser and spacecraft related analysis.