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Escape of Lyman radiation from galactic labyrinths


Monday, 10 September
20:00 Welcome reception & dinner
Tuesday, 11 September 2018
Session I: Production, transport and escape of Lyman radiation
Chair: José Manuel Vílchez
10:00 - 10:15 Welcome by Dr. K. Zorbas (Director of OAC)
10:15 - 10:45 Matt Lehnert: Introductory Remarks
10:45 - 11:20 Wolf-Rainer Hamann: Ionizing radiation from massive stars [R]
11:20 - 11:50 Coffee break
11:50 - 12:25 Elizabeth Stanway: Interpreting the Properties of Starbursts with Improved Models [R]
12:25 - 12:50 Monica Relano Pastor: Escape of ionising photons from star-forming regions in nearby galaxies [KP]
12:50 - 13:05 Angela Adamo: Paving the way for UV photons to escape, young star clusters in galaxies near and far
13:30 Lunch
Session I: Production, transport and escape of Lyman radiation (continued)
Chair: Lutz Wisotzki
16:00 - 16:35 Anne Verhamme: Using Lyα to probe LyC escape from galaxies [R]
16:35 - 16:50 Axel Runnholm: Predicting Lyman α Emission from starbursting galaxies
16:50 - 17:05 Max Gronke: The struggle of cold gas in the hot breath of Aeolus
17:05 - 17:20 Lidia Oskinova: Escape of Ly radiation from stochastic medium
17:20 - 17:40 Marius Berge Eide: Uncovering the Unknown with Polarised Spatially extended Lyman alpha
17:40 - 18:10 Coffee break
18:10 - 18:35 Peter Weilbacher: Evidence for Lyman-alpha escape from HII regions in the Antennae Galaxy [KP]
18:35 - 15:50 J. Miguel Mas-Hesse: On the use of star formation rate tracers in mixed star formation scenarios
18:50 - 19:20 Poster session
19:20 - 19:50 Discussion
20:30 Dinner
Wednesday, 12 September
Session II: Lyman photon escape in star-forming galaxies
Chair: Daniel Kunth
9:00 - 9:35 Daniel Schaerer: Lyman continuum escape from the epoch of reionisation to now [R]
9:35 - 10:10 Dawn Erb: Lya Emission and the Circumgalactic Medium in Low Mass Galaxies [R]
10:10 - 10:25 Göran Östlin: Lyman radiation from Tol 1214-277 and ionised halos
10:25 - 10:40 Jens Melinder: Lyman alpha imaging of 45 star-forming galaxies - The Lyman alpha Reference Sample
10:40 - 11:10 Coffee break
11:40 - 11:25 Joanna Bridge: The Super Eight Galaxies:Very Bright Galaxies at z ~ 8
11:25 - 11:40 Matthew Hayes: The Lyman alpha Spectral Database
11:40 - 11:55 Arjan Bik: Stellar Feedback In Bcg Eso338-ig04
11:55 - 12:10 José M. Vílchez: Nebular HeII emission in extremely metal-poor star-forming galaxies: IZw18 and SBS0335-052E
13:30 Lunch
Session II: Lyman photon escape in star-forming galaxies (continued)
Chair: Nils Bergvall
16:00 - 16:15 Matteo Messa: Young Massive Star Clumps In Local High-redshift Galaxies Analogues
16:15 - 16:30 Veronica Menacho Menacho: The escape of LyC radiation through galactic labyrinths in Haro 11
16:30 - 16:45 Lorenza Della Bruna: The emerging phase of YSCs: constraints for LyC photon leakage from HII regions in NGC7793
16:45 - 17:00 Armin Rasekh: Studying Lyman alpha halo of LARS+eLARS galaxies
17:00 - 17:30 Coffee break
17:30 - 17:45 Genoveva Micheva: Kinematics of the nearest Green Pea analog
17:45 - 18:00 Alaina Henry: A Close Relationship Between Lyman Alpha and Mg II in Green Pea Galaxies
18:00 - 18:15 Jed McKinney: Neutral Gas Properties and Lya Escape in Highly Ionized Green Peas
18:15 - 18:30 Mieke Paalvast: A statistical study of galaxies with extreme [OIII]/[OII] ratios that are potential LyC leakers
18:30 - 19:00 Discussion
19:30 Bus excursion to Chania & dinner in its old Venetian harbor
Thursday, 13 September
Session III: Lyman photon escape in the presence of accretion-powered nuclear activity in galaxies
Chair: Dawn Erb
9:30 - 10:05 Timothy Heckman: The Metagalactic Ionizing Background: Stars vs Black Holes [R]
10:05 - 10:20 Andrew Humphrey: Photoionization models for extreme Lya and HeII ratios in quasar halos
10:20 - 10:35 Konstantina Boutsia: Contribution of faint AGN to the reionization process
10:35 - 10:50 Maxime Trebitsch: Escape of ionizing radiation from high redshift dwarf galaxies: role of massive black holes
10:50 - 11:05 Polychronis Papaderos: LI(N)ERS and Lyman continuum photon escape
11:05 - 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 - 12:00 Discussion
13:30 Lunch
Session IV: The evolution of the Lyman photon escape fraction across cosmic time
Chair: Akio Inoue
16:00 - 16:35 Lutz Wisotzki: The MUSE view on extended Lyman-α emission from high-redshit galaxies  [R]
16:35 - 16:50 Jeremy Blaizot: Lya production and escape from high-redshift (simulated) galaxies and their CGM
16:50 - 17:05 Francesca Marchi: What's regulating the escape of Lya photons in high-redshift star-forming galaxies? A view from the VANDELS survey
17:05 - 17:20 Ryan Trainor: Decoupling the Production and Escape of Lyman Photons
17:20 - 17:35 Edmund Christian Herenz: The Lyman α Emitter Luminosity Function at 3 < z < 6 from MUSE-Wide
17:35 - 18:00 Coffee break
Session IV: The evolution of the Lyman photon escape fraction across cosmic time
Chair: Angela Adamo
18:00 - 18:15 Floriane Leclercq: Spectral analysis of Lya haloes observed by MUSE around individual high-z star-forming galaxies
18:15 - 18:30 Ana Paulino-Afonso: From the end of the reionization to the peak of the star formation: what are the LAEs structures telling us?
18:30 - 18:45 Janine Pforr: The VIMOS Ultra Deep Survey: The Lyman-alpha escape fraction up to z~5
18:45 - 19:00 Susanna Vergani: Probing Ly-alpha emission and models with GRBs
19:00 - 19:15 Marco Castellano: High Ly-a visibility from a reionized overdensity at z~7
19:15 - 19:30 Jose Miguel Rodriguez Espinosa: A re-ionised bubble containing a proto-cluster at z=6.5
20:00 Conference dinner & concert
Friday, 14 September
Session IV: The evolution of the Lyman photon escape fraction across cosmic time (continued)
Chair: Monica Relano
9:15 - 9:30 John Chisholm: The escape mechanism and escape fractions of ionizing photons from star-forming galaxies
9:30 - 9:45 Rohan Naidu: Constraints on the escape of Lyman Continuum from Star-Forming Galaxies at z~2-4 from the Hubble Deep UV Legacy Survey
9:45 - 10:00 Mohammadtaher Safarzadeh: The Impact of Unresolved Turbulence on the Escape Fraction of Lyman Continuum Photons
10:00 - 10:15 Kimihiko Nakajima: A Hard Ionising Spectrum in z~3 Lyman Alpha Emitters
10:15 - 10:40 Céline Peroux: Physical Properties of the Circumgalactic Medium [KP]
10:40 - 11:00 Coffee break
Session IV: The evolution of the Lyman photon escape fraction across cosmic time (continued)
Chair: Anne Verhamme
11:00 - 11:15 Akio Inoue: The FIR [OIII]-to-[CII] line ratio of galaxies in the reionization epoch and their escape fraction
11:15 - 11:30 Danielle Berg: Double-Peaked Lya and Extreme High-Ionization UV Emission Lines in a z~2 Lensed Galaxy
11:30 - 11:45 Emil Rivera-Thorsen: Multiple images of direct Lyman-Continuum escape in a gravtitationally lensed galaxy at redshift 2.4
11:45 - 12:00 Kanak Saha: Deep UV observation of galaxies in the GOODS-South field by AstroSat
12:00 - 12:30 Discussion
13:30 Lunch
Session V: Challenges and opportunities: observational and theoretical input towards a better understanding of Lyman photon production and escape along the galaxy assembly history
Chair: Matt Lehnert
15:00 - 15:35 Matthew Hayes: Stellar feedback in starburst galaxies: recent star-formation histories and the availability of mechanical energy [R]
15:35 - 15:50 Stephane De Barros: Emission Line Diagnostics to Identify Lyman Continuum Emitters
15:50 - 16:05 Gerhard Hensler: The Lyman-Continuum Photon Escape studied by Photoionization Calculations of Chemo-dynamical Dwarf-Galaxy Models
16:05 - 16:40 Joakim Rosdahl: The escape of Lyman-continuum in high-z cosmological simulations [R]
16:40 - 17:00 Discussion



Poster Presentations

Lyman continuum escape from AGN at the EoR: model predictions and observational diagnostics
Stergios Amarantidis

Lyman continuum photon production in galaxy bulges
Iris Breda

The Dual-channel Extreme Ultraviolet Continuum Experiment: Sounding Rocket EUV Observations of Local B Stars to Determine Their Potential for Supplying Intergalactic Ionizing Radiation
Nicholas Erickson

Understanding how ionizing photons escape from galaxies using their neutral gas properties
Simon Gazagnes

Possible Channels for Lyman Continuum Escape in the Halo of SBS 0335-52E revealed with VLT/MUSE
Edmund Christian Herenz

Notes
R: Review; KP: Keynote presentation




Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra
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