VSOP SYMPOSIUM "High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Revealed by Space VLBI" Institute of Space and Astronautical Science 19 - 21 January, 2000 PROGRAM (v1.4 -- 18jan2000) ======================================================================================= Wednesday, January 19 Session chair: DAVE JAUNCEY *************************************************************************************** 08:30 Registration 09:00 General Announcements 09:05 Hirosawa Welcome 09:10 Hirabayashi VSOP current status 09:25 Murata HALCA operating efficiency and lifetime KEY SOURCES =========== 09:40 Junor Jet collimation and evolution in Virgo A 09:55 Bartel VSOP Observations of the Core-Jet in M81 10:10 Klare First VSOP Observations of the Quasar 3C345 10:25 Coffee 10:45 Hirabayashi 3C279 Results derived from Two-Frequency VSOP Observations ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI ====================== 11:00 Shibata MHD Simulations of Jets from Magnetized Accretion Disks (invited) 11:30 Meier Magnetohydrodynamic Production of Highly Relativistic Jets 11:45 Lunch 13:00 VSOP Movie Wednesday, January 19 cont'd Session chair: BOB PRESTON *************************************************************************************** 13:30 Marscher Evolution of the Polarized Intensity of AGNs (invited) 14:00 Murphy VSOP Monitoring of the Quasar 1928+738 14:15 Asada The VSOP observation of 3C 84 14:30 Piner Monitoring 3C 279 with the VLBA at 22 and 43 GHz 14:45 Frey VSOP observation of 3C216 at 5 GHz 15:00 Kameno Multi-Frequency VSOP observations of 3C 380 15:15 Coffee Wednesday, January 19 cont'd Session chair: MAKOTO INOUE *************************************************************************************** 15:45 Fujisawa VSOP Observations of Cen A 16:00 Jones VSOP Observations of a Sub-Parsec Accretion Disk 16:15 Sudou Detection of VLBI-scale Counter-jet in NGC 6251 16:30 Snellen Gigahertz Peaked Spectrum sources and VSOP (invited) 17:00 Kameno Pentachromatic VSOP and VLBA survey for GPS sources 17:15 Marr Free-Free Absorption in the GPS Radio Galaxy 0108+388 17:30 Adjourn Thursday, January 20 Session chair: BERNIE BURKE *************************************************************************************** MASERS & PULSARS ================ 09:00 Diamond A review and preview of space VLBI observations of masers (invited) 09:30 Horiuchi Polarization structure of Orion-KL water masers 09:45 Kobayashi Results of Orion bursted water maser monitoring 10:00 Minter VSOP Observations of PSR B0329+54 10:15 Gwinn Structure of the Vela Pulsar from VSOP 10:30 Coffee POLARIZATION ============ 11:00 Inoue VSOP Polarization Observations (invited) 11:30 Moellenbrock Polarization Observations of Bright Quasars with HALCA 11:45 Lunch 13:00 Group Photo Thursday, January 20 cont'd Session chair: ANTON ZENSUS *************************************************************************************** IDV and HIGH-Tb =============== 13:15 Krichbaum Observations of Intraday Variable Radio Sources (invited) 13:45 Kedziora-C. The linear and circular polarization of IDV sources 14:00 Jauncey Origin of Intra-Day Variability 14:15 Gurvits High brightness temperatures at high redshifts 14:30 Shen VSOP Studies of PKS 1921-293 SURVEYS ======= 14:45 Kellermann Kinematics of Quasars and AGN, and Limitations to the T_b of Synchrotron Sources (invited) 15:15 Coffee Thursday, January 20 cont'd Session chair: KEN KELLERMANN *************************************************************************************** 15:45 Fomalont The VSOP Continuum Survey I 16:00 Lovell The VSOP Continuum Survey II 16:15 Lister The Impact of Minimal Ground Antenna Coverage 16:30 Kovalev RATAN-600 1--22 GHz Spectral Observations of VSOP Survey Sources 16:45 Preston The Pearson-Readhead Survey from Space 17:00 Lister 43 GHz Polarization Observations of PR AGNs observed by VSOP 17:15 Adjourn 18:00 Conference Dinner Friday, January 21 Session chair: JOEL SMITH *************************************************************************************** 09:00 IACG Panel-3 Meeting 10:00 Coffee Friday, January 21 cont'd Session chair: ALAN MARSCHER *************************************************************************************** THE HIGH ENERGY CONNECTION ========================== 10:30 Marshall Chandra X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy of Quasars (invited) 11:00 Lovell VSOP and ATCA observations of PKS 0637-752 11:15 Murphy Coordinated VSOP and Chandra Observations 11:30 Dougherty VSOP observations of the massive X-ray binary LSI +61o303 11:45 Lunch 13:30 Sambruna The inner regions of blazars' jets from multiwavelength observations (invited) 14:00 Edwards VSOP observations of TeV Gamma Ray sources 14:15 Takahashi ASTRO-E observations of AGN 14:30 Lobanov Results on the VSOP Key Science target 3C273 14:45 Lobanov Space VLBI of parsec--scale jets: impact of the VSOP 15:00 Coffee Friday, January 21 cont'd Session chair: RICHARD SCHILIZZI *************************************************************************************** THE FUTURE ========== 15:30 Porcas Phase-reference observations with VSOP (invited) 16:00 Valtaoja The geometry of the Universe from VLBI data of AGN shocks 16:15 Gurvits A next-generation Space VLBI mission assembled in orbit 16:30 Marscher ARISE: A Proposed US Space_VLBI Mission 16:45 Jones Space VLBI at Low Frequencies 17:00 Garrett Deep, Wide-Field, High Resolution VLBI Imaging 17:15 Kimura 1-Gbit VLBI ground evaluation and wide-band space VLBI 17:30 Hirabayashi Possible Directions for VSOP-2 17:45 Final Announcements and farewells POSTERS Asaki A 22 GHz line radiometer for the Usuda Tracking Station Frey Experiences with the space VLBI geodesy experiment Gwinn Noise Reduction in the Presence of Strong Spectrally-Isolated Signals Kiuchi Connected VLBI via the 2.4-Gbps ATM network Kobayashi Discovery of new VLBI sources at Galactic HII regions Langston The Green Bank Telescope: An Overview Lovell Difwrap: A Graphical User Interface for Difmap Marchenko Relation between Gamma-Ray Flares and SL Components in Blazars Suzuki Up-Link Frequency Control Using Closed Loop Mode Survey Team Results from the VSOP Survey Tingay VSOP observations of Southern Hemisphere AGN VERA Team VERA Approved! Wiik VLBI Properties of a Sample of 15 AGN