Observations and physics of accreting neutron stars
3rd meeting 

Bern, Switzerland, February 9-13, 2009


Participants:
M. Annala, M. Falanga, A. Ibragimov, N. Ikhsanov, T. Larchenkova, A. Lutovinov, J. Poutanen, V. Suleimanov, S. Tsygankov


Presentations:

Juri Poutanen: Introduction

Tuesday
14.30 - Maurizio Falanga:  CVs at high energies
15.10 - Nazar Ikhsanov: On the origin and present state of long-period X-ray pulsars

Wednesday

14.30 - Valery Suleimanov: Modeling of atmospheres of magnetars 
 
Thursday

11.00 - Alexander Lutovinov:  X-ray pulsars as seen by INTEGRAL
14.30 - Marja Annala: Modeling pulse profiles from accretion columns in X-ray pulsars
15.00 - Askar Ibragimov:  On the nature of pulse profile variations and timing noise in accreting X-ray millisecond pulsars
15.30 - Juri Poutanen: Properties of accretion disk around accreting millisecond pulsars


Project activities:

Light bending in X-ray pulsars (Annala, Falanga, Poutanen)
RXTE, XMM-Newton observations of accreting millisecond pulsars (Ibragimov, Poutanen)
Influence of accretion disk on pulse profiles of accreting millisecond pulsars (Annala, Ibragimov, Poutanen)
INTEGRAL observations of accreting millisecond pulsars (Falanga, Poutanen)
Accretion in millisecond pulsars (Suleimanov, Poutanen)
Boundary layers in neutron stars (Poutanen, Suleimanov)
Modelling pulse profiles of X-ray pulsars (Lutovinov, Tsygankov, Annala)
White dwarfs as pulsars (Ikhsanov, Poutanen, Suleimanov, Falanga)

Group photo in February 2009