| BART & D50: recent status and events | Jan Štrobl | We will briefly introduce the actual configuration and recent status of two robotic telescopes - BART and D50, both operated, maintained and developed by HEA group in Ondřejov. Both telescopes ... |
| COLORES: an imaging spectrograph for BOOTES-2 | Martin Jelinek | COmpact LOw REsolution Spectrograph is an imaging spectrograph for BOOTES. It is designed to provide low resolution, photon-counting spectroscopy of faint objects. |
| Composition Effects on Glass Shaping for X-Ray Space Telescopes | Martin Mika | |
| Cosmology and the subgroups of gamma-ray bursts | Attila Meszaros | There are three subgroups of the gamma-ray bursts (Horvath et al. astro-ph/1003.0632; ApJ, in press). They are defined with respect to the duration as short, intermediate and long ones. The ... |
| Cosmology with GRBs | András Kovács | In the case of gamma-ray bursts with measured redshift one can calculate k-correction. This method products some valueable data for cosmological probes using L. Amati's relation [Amati et al. arXiv:0805.0377v2 ... |
| Cyclotron lines | Joern Wilms | TBD |
| Czech Participation in INTEGRAL | Rene Hudec | The Czech participation in ESA INTEGRAL satellite (with emphasis of ISDC and onboard OMC experiment) will be briefly introduced and presented, including historical background. |
| Czech Participation in IXO | Rene Hudec | We will review the Czech participation in the IXO project considered by ESA/NASA/JAXA, with emphasis on development of alternative (back-up) technologies for X-ray optics for this mission. |
| Data Mining for Faint Triggers in INTEGRAL IBIS | Martin Blažek | We report on our efforts and developed methods for data mining for faint triggers in INTEGRAL IBIS data. Some examples will be also given and discussed. |
| Detections of solar flares, GRBs and terrestrial gamma ray flares by SID monitor | Matus Kocka | SID monitor (Sudden ionospheric disturbance) is a very powerful method for detecting events like Solar flares, terrestrial gamma rays and even GRBs. This method is based on detection scattered waves ... |
| Glass response to the electron and proton irradiations | Ondrej Gedeon | The contribution reviews the irradiation experiments performed on various glasses. The glass response, especially the changes on surface, to irradiation is elucidated on both atomic and macroscopic level. |
| Hot News: The Puzzle of V407 Cygni | Rene Hudec | I will briefly review and discuss the recent results on V407 Cygni, a strange symbiotic star with Mira companion and recent nova outburst in March 2010 with probable gamma-ray emission ... |
| Improving photometry of the Pi of the Sky | Aleksander Filip Zarnecki | After brief introduction to the Pi of the Sky project standard photometry method used in the data reduction will be described. After data quality cuts uncertainty of the single measurement ... |
| JULO1 small stratospheric balloon platform for students` near-space experiments | Matus Kocka | JULO1 is small platform for near-space (stratospheric) experiments for students and inexpensive atmospheric science. It is custom made small probe with ordinary weather helium baloon designed to be capable of ... |
| Jost Buergi | Claudia Wigger | Jost Buergi (born 1552 Switzerland - 1632) was a clockmaker, a maker of astronomical instruments and a mathematician. During his time in Praha, he worked closely with Johannes Kepler. |
| Lessons Learned from INTEGRAL: Cataclysmic Variables | Rene Hudec | We will review and discuss the INTEGRAL observations of cataclysmic variables (32 objects detected and investigated in hard X-rays) with emphasis on IBIS data. |
| MASTER ROBOTIC NET | Vladimir Lipunov | The main goal of the MASTER-Net project is to produce a unique fast sky survey with all sky observed over a single night down to a limiting magnitude of 21. ... |
| Metal enrichment of the intra-cluster medium | Sabine Schindler | We present X-ray observations of the metal distribution in clusters of galaxies. The metal distribution is very clumpy and inhomogeneous. With numerical simulations we study what processes are efficient to ... |
| On the intrinsic simplicity of spectral variability of GRBs | Anton Chernenko | Relativistically expanding sources produce radiation that manifest rich spectral evolution and diverse light curve structures. Even if individual emitting regions have similar and simple geometry and rest frame spectra, spectral ... |
| Potential for Science on Satellites of 1 kg | Klaus Schilling | The in orbit experiences of the two ico-satellite missions UWE-1 and -2 will be reported. The missions UWE-3 and -4 in implemetation stage will be outlined as well as planned ... |
| Search for TGF in INTEGRAL observations | Alexei Pozanenko | During CXB measurement by Earth occultation technique in early 2006 INTEGRAL observed the Earth in FOV of SPI and IBIS/ISGRI. Despite of high altitude elliptical orbit the INTEGRAL observatory could ... |
| Searching for space debris elements with the “Pi of the Sky” system | Marcin Sokolowski | The main purpose of the “Pi of the Sky” system is an investigation of short timescale astrophysical phenomena ( particularly gamma-ray bursts, optical transients and variable stars ). However, the ... |
| Silicon wafer shaping for Astronomical X-ray Optics: plastic vs. elastic deformation | Rene Hudec | Polished wafer from monocrystalline silicon available in semiconductor industry has thickness homogeneity of tenths of micrometer and surface roughness of tenths of nanometer. The possible utilization of silicon wafers for ... |
| Small LE X-ray Telescopes as possible Payload for a Picosatellite | Rene Hudec | We will refer on small and light Lobster-Eye X-ray telescopes as potential payload for a Pico-satellite mission. |
| Spectroscopy of the stellar wind in the Cygnus X-1 system | Ivica Miskovicova | The luminosity of black holes is produced through the accretion of material from their companion stars. Depending on the mass of the donor star, accretion of the material falling onto ... |
| The BOOTES worldwide network of Robotic Telescopes | Alberto Castro-Tirado | I will show the motivation for a world-wide network of fast-reacting robotic telescopes and the achievements obtained so far. |
| The Lessons Learned from INTEGRAL: Blazars | Rene Hudec | We will give a short summary and discussion of INTEGRAL observations of blazars (21 objects detected and observed), with emphasis on hard X-ray and gamma-ray data (IBIS) |
| The scarcely known X-ray pulsar 4U1909+07 - an overlooked pearl | Ingo Kreykenbohm | We present a detailed spectral and temporal analysis of the accreting High Mass X-ray Binary (HMXB) pulsar 4U 1909+07 with INTEGRAL and RXTE which was only in the last years ... |
| Where is the third mode of bi-modal duration distribution? | Alexei Pozanenko | Based on T_90 distributions of Gamma-ray bursts detected in different experiments (BAT/Swift, GRBM/BeppoSAX, BATSE/CGRO, SPI-ACS/INTEGRAL, PHEBUS/Granat and APEX/Phobos) we discuss the feasibility of a third mode of well known bi-modal ... |
| White dwarfs masses estimation in IP from INTEGRAL/IBIS | Matus Kocka | INTEGRAL/IBIS is a very powerful instrument for high energy astrophysics. One of the most interesting high energy sources from the Galaxy are intermediate polars and polars. By using spectra from ... |
| Wide-Field Low Resolution Spectrometry | Rene Hudec | One of the outcome of the ESA Gaia Mision will be Wide-Field Low Resolution Spectrometry (BP/RP photometers). We will review the instrument performance and compare with nearest analogy, i.e. wide-field ... |
| Work on broad-band black holes spectra | Joern Wilms | TBD |
| X-ray Transient Sources: Multifrequency Laboratories | Franco Giovannelli | We will discuss in general the multifrequency behaviour of X-ray transient sources with particular emphasis about the interactions between the two components of the systems. Low energy processes mainly occurring ... |
| XMM observations of metal abundances in galaxy clusters | Lorenzo Lovisari | Because of their deep gravitational wells, galaxy clusters retain all the metals produced by the stellar populations of the member galaxies. Most of these metals reside in the hot plasma ... |
| keV-TeV connection in spectra of blazars | Filip Munz | Updated look on VHE sources (measured by ground-based Cerenkov observatories and recently by Fermi satellite) that might also be reasonably exposed by INTEGRAL through its lifetime. |
