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 e Melania Del Santo (INAF – IASF Palermo), Stefano Bianchi e Federica Ricci (Università Roma 3), Paolo Esposito e Andrea Tiengo (IUSS Pavia).
LOC: Ciro Pinto, Melania Del Santo, Francesca Mangano, Giuseppe Fiasconaro, Francesco Barra, Simona Caserta
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Preliminary programme
– Tuesday 20 (afternoon): registration, welcoming & introductory session
Structure: welcoming, introduction to the project and reports from WP leaders.
Welcoming Lunch and cocktail at 12:30-14:00.
Coffee break at 15:15-15:45.
Welcome, intro to SEAWIND (history, goals, current status) by C. Pinto
Introductory reports by Working Group leaders:
Accretion properties in stellar-mass compact objects by A. Tiengo (WP1)
Outflow properties in stellar-mass compact objects by TBD (WP2)
Accretion properties in supermassive black holes by F. Ricci (WP1-3)
Outflow properties in supermassive black holes by TBD (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).
Coffee breaks at 10:45-11.15 and 15:15-15:45
Lunch breaks at 12:30-14:00
Session 1 09:30-10.45
Caserta (ULX winds: NGC 5204 ULX-1)
Pinto (ULX winds: NGC 55 ULX-1)
Barra (ULX Luminosity-Temperature trends)
D’Aì (Pulsed fraction as a diagnostic tool)
Session 2 11:15-12.30
Tiengo (Flares in NGC 4472)
Del Santo (BH-XRB: MAXI J1810-222 UFO)
Iaria (XRISM observation of the “Big Dipper” 4U 1624-490)
Nicastro (XRISM observation of 4U 1746-37, to be confirmed)
Session 3 14:00-15.15
Banerjee (BH-XRB: Probing the soft-state accretion geometry of MAXI J1820+070)
Ferretti (BH-XRB: QPO and flip-flop in GX 339-4)
Mastroserio (BH-XRB: Swift J1727.8-1613)
Ferec (BH-XRB: Optical and X-ray fast timing correlation in GX 339-4)
Session 4 15:45-17:00
Discussion on accretion / ejection coupling in XRBs & ULXs
– 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).
Coffee breaks at 10:45-11.15 and 15:15-15:45
Lunch breaks at 12:30-14:00
Session 1 09:30-10.45
Kumari (AGN gamma-Mdot trends)
Signorini (AGN variability)
Sacchi (Red little dot)
Villani (HOTDOG)
Session 2 11:15-12.30
Lai (QSO coronae)
Tortosa (TBC: AGN, from remote)
Lanzuisi (WISSHFUL QSO UFO, from remote)
Vietri (BAL-QSO)
Session 3 14:00-15.15
Xu (PDS 456: XRISM, XMM and NUSTAR observations)
Bianchi (TBC, XRISM observations of XRB / AGN within the SEAWIND project)
Serafinelli (Time-evolving diagnostic of the ionized absorbers in NGC 4051, from remote)
TBD
Session 4 15:45-17:00
Discussion on accretion / ejection coupling in AGN & other SMBHs
– Friday 23 (morning): future prospects for the project
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.
Coffee break at 10:45-11.15.
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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.
