Topic: first in-person scientific meeting of the SEAWIND community (Poster)
Dates: 20-23 January 2026
Location: CNR Palermo, Via Ugo La Malfa 153, Auletta Convegni
Host Institute: INAF – IASF Palermo
Chair: Ciro Pinto
SOC: Ciro Pinto, Melania Del Santo (INAF – IASF Palermo), Stefano Bianchi, Federica Ricci (Università Roma 3), Paolo Esposito and Andrea Tiengo (IUSS Pavia).
LOC: Ciro Pinto, Melania Del Santo, Francesca Mangano, Giuseppe Fiasconaro, Francesco Barra, Simona Caserta and Antonio Pagliaro
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Preliminary programme
– Tuesday 20 (afternoon): registration, welcoming & WP summaries
Structure: welcoming, introduction to the project and reports from WP leaders.
Chair of the 15:00-17:05 block: Signorini
12:30-15:00 Welcome cocktail / light lunch
15:00-15.25 Welcome remarks, logistics & intro to SEAWIND (Pinto)
15:25-15:50 Accretion in stellar-mass compact objects (Tiengo – WP1)
15:50-16:15 Outflows in stellar-mass compact objects (Pinto / MDS – WP2)
16:15-16:40 Accretion in supermassive black holes (Ricci – WP1,3)
16:40-17:05 Outflows in supermassive black holes (Bianchi – WP2,3)
– Wednesday 21 (morning & afternoon): Session on Galactic XRBs & ULXs
Structure: 4 blocks of 75 min each (2 morning, 2 afternoon).
Each talk will last 25 min in total (including Q&A session).
Chair of the 09:30-12:30 block: Rodriguez-Castillo
Chair of the 14:00-17:00 block: Del Santo
09:30-09:55 Caserta (High-resolution X-ray spectroscopy of ULXs: a wind study in NGC 5204 X-1)
09:55-10:20 Pinto (Wind of change: disc-wind connection in NGC 55 ULX-1)
10:20-10:45 Barra (Probing the nature of ULX accretors through X-ray spectral variability)
10:45-11:15 Coffee break
11:15-11.40 D’Aì (Pulsed fraction as diagnostic tool)
11.40-12:05 Tiengo (QPEs from an IMBH in an extragalactic globular cluster?)
12:05-12:30 Del Santo (BH-XRB: MAXI J1810-222 UFO)
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-14.25 Iaria (XRISM observation of 4U 1624-490 “the Big Dipper”)
14:25-14:50 Nicastro (Chandra-HETG and future XRISM observation of 4U 1746-37)
14:50-15:15 Banerjee (Hard state accretion geometry of GX 339-4: insights from multi-wavelength observations)
15:15-15:45 Coffee break
15:45-16:10 Ferretti (BH-XRB: QPO and flip-flop in GX 339-4)
16:10-16:35 Mastroserio (BH-XRB: Swift J1727.8-1613)
16:35-17:00 Ferec (BH-XRB: Optical and X-ray fast timing correlation in GX 339-4)
– Thursday 22 (morning & afternoon): Session on AGN & other SMBHs
Structure: 4 blocks of 75 min each (2 morning, 2 afternoon).
Each talk will last 25 min in total (including Q&A session).
Chair of the 09:30-12:30 block: Ricci
Chair of the 14:00-17:00 block: Sacchi
09:30-09:55 Kumari (A Broadband X-ray Study of a Sample of Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 Galaxies)
09:55-10:20 Signorini (Connecting X-ray Variability with AGN physical properties and a new path to Cosmological distances)
10:20-10:45 Sacchi (Are Little Red Dots Super-Eddington-Accreting AGN?)
10:45-11:15 Coffee break
11:15-11.40 Villani (A deep X-ray look to the most obscured quasar at z ∼ 3.6 and its environment)
11.40-12:05 Lai (A Two-Corona Model for Two High-Luminosity Quasars: RBS 229 and PG 1407+265)
12:05-12:30 Tortosa (Though Miles Apart, One in Heart: X-ray Insights into Super-Eddington AGN Across Cosmic Times)
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-14.25 Lanzuisi (WISSHFUL QSO UFO, from remote)
14:25-14:50 Vietri (Extremely High-Velocity UV Outflows in the most luminous QSOs at Cosmic Noon)
14:50-15:15 Xu (Clumpy UFOs in PDS 456: XRISM Observations and the Critical Role of the SED in Photoionization Modeling)
15:15-15:45 Coffee break
15:45-16:10 Bianchi (A XRISM View of NGC 1068: Rethinking a Prototypical Compton-Thick Seyfert)
16:10-16:35 Serafinelli (Time-evolving diagnostic of the ionized absorbers in NGC 4051, from remote)
16:35-17:00 Discussion / free time.
– Friday 23 (morning): round table on project status and future prospects
Round table on overall project status, further requirements and members’ task, other ongoing or parallel projects (e.g. G. Israel’s Tulip project), observational proposals, proposals for grants.
Chair of the 09:30-12:30 block: Vietri
09:30-09:50 Israel (Tulip project)
09:50-10:45 Discussion on accretion / ejection coupling (Barra/Mastroserio/Signorini/Xu)
10:45-11:15 Coffee break
11:15-11.45 Future steps (a): observational proposals
11:45-12.15 Future steps (a): proposals for grants
12.15-12.30 Farewell
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Funding Institutions: INAF & MUR.
INAF funds for conference, INAF RF 2023 BLOSSOM F.O. 1.05.23.01.13 and PRIN MUR 2022 SEAWIND 2022Y2T94C, supported by European Union – Next Generation EU, Mission 4 Component 1 CUP C53D23001330006.
