Radio Stars: From kHz to THz (2017)

May 1, 2017: Registration and abstract submission open
July 14, 2017: Deadline for submission of abstracts for contributed talks
August 23, 2017: Full meeting program, including oral contributions announced
August 31, 2017: Deadline to apply for financial aid
October 2, 2017: Registration closes. Last day to secure special hotel rates. Deadline to sign up for workshop banquet.
October 15, 2017: Deadline for submission of poster abstracts.
November 1-3, 2017: The workshop.

Scientific Organizing Committee

• Lynn Matthews (MIT Haystack Observatory, Chair)
• Greg Hallinan (Caltech, USA)
• Richard Ignace (East Tennessee State University, USA)
• Karl Menten (MPIfR, Germany)
• Michael Rupen (NRC, Canada)
• Loránt Sjouwerman (NRAO, USA)
• Stephan White (Air Force Research Laboratory, USA)

Local Organizing Committee

• Heidi Johnson (MIT Haystack Observatory)
• Nancy Wolfe Kotary (MIT Haystack Observatory)
• Lynn Matthews (MIT Haystack Observatory)
• Mary Reynolds (MIT Haystack Observatory)
• Jason SooHoo (MIT Haystack Observatory)

Links to slides and audio from many of the Haystack “Radio Stars: from kHz to THz” workshop presentations (including posters) are available below.

Wednesday, November 1

I. Setting the Stage
Chair: Lynn Matthews
9:00-9:05 Welcome remarks – Colin Lonsdale
9:05-9:15 Opening remarks/logistics – Lynn Matthews
9:15-10:00 “An Overview of Stellar Radio Astronomy” (Invited) – Jeffrey Linsky (pdf)

II. Radio Emission from Young Stars
Chair: Peter Williams
10:00-10:30 “Radio Emission from Pre-Main Sequence Stars” (Invited) – Laurent Loinard (pdf) (audio)
10:50-11:10 “Update on the JVLA-Chandra Orion Project” – Scott Wolk (pdf)
11:10-11:30 “VLBI Astrometry on Binary Systems in the AB Doradus Moving Group” – Rebecca Azulay (pdf)
11:30-11:50 “Low Mass Young Stars at Metre Wavelengths” – Rachael Ainsworth (pdf) (audio)
11:50-12:10 “Unique Radio Stars: MWC 349A” – Vladimir Strelnitski (pdf)

III. Radio Emission from Hot Stars
Chair: Danielle Fenech
1:10-1:50 “Radio Emission from Massive Stars” (Invited) – Ian Stevens (pdf)
1:50-2:10 “Modeling the Radio Continuum Emissions of Massive Star Winds” – Richard Ignace (audio)
2:10-2:30 “Revealing the Structure of the Outer Disks of Be Stars” – Robert Klement (pdf) (audio)

IV. The Sun as a Radio Star
Chair: Rachel Osten
2:30-3:00 “Solar Radio Emission at High Frequencies” (Invited) – Bin Chen (pdf) (audio)
3:25-3:45 “Circular Polarization in Radio Emission from the Sun” – Stephen White (pdf)
3:45-4:05 “High Fidelity Solar Imaging with the Murchison Widefield Array” – Colin Lonsdale

V. Active Stars
Chair: Corrado Trigilio
4:05-4:25 “A Search for Thermal Gyrosynchrotron Emission from Hot Stellar Coronae” – Robert Mutel (pdf)
4:25-4:45 “Radio Emission Signatures from Next Generation Stellar Activity Simulations” – Sofia Paraskevi Moschou (pdf)
4:45-5:05 “Chasing Low Frequency Radio Bursts from Magnetically Active Stars” – Christene Lynch (pdf) (audio)

IV. Poster Previews
Chair: Richard Ignace
5:05-5:08 “Asymmetric Ejecta of Cool Hypergiants in the Massive Cluster Westerlund 1” – Holly Andrews (pdf) (audio)
5:08-5:11 “Should Radio Observations Detect Cepheids?” – Nancy Evans (pdf) (audio)
5:11-5:14 “The eMERLIN Legacy L-Band Cyg OB2 Radio Survey (COBRaS)” – Danielle Fenech (pdf) (audio)
5:14-5:17 “An ALMA 3mm Continuum Census of Westerlund 1” – Danielle Fenech (pdf)
5:17-5:20 “Simultaneity and Flux Bias between 43 and 86 GHz SiO Masers” – Lorant Sjouwerman (pdf)
5:20-5:23 “How Do Transiting Exoplanets Affect Observed Stellar Radio Emissions?” – Paul Withers (pdf) (audio)
5:23-5:28 “Studies of Bursty and Quiescent Emission of Two Ultra-Cool Dwarfs with the GMRT” – Andrew Zic (pdf)

Thursday, November 2

VI. Cool and Ultracool Dwarfs
Chair: Stephen White
9:00-9:30 “Radio Emission from Cool and Ultracool Dwarfs” (Invited) – Gregg Hallinan
9:30-9:50 “Spectroscopy and Imaging of Radio Bursts on Active M Dwarfs” – Jackie Villadsen (pdf)
9:50-10:10 “Jovian Magnetospheres Beyond the Solar System” – Peter Williams (pdf) (audio)
10:10-10:30 “Constraining Fully Convective Magnetic Dynamos Using Brown Dwarf Auroral Radio Emission” – Melodie Kao
10:30-11:00 “Extrasolar Space Weather” (Invited) – Rachel Osten (pdf) (audio)
11:30-11:50 “Monitoring Nearly 4000 Nearby Stellar Systems with the OVRO-LWA for Extrasolar Space Weather” – Marin Anderson

VII. Radio Stars as Denizens of the Galaxy
Chair: Loránt Sjouwerman
11:50-12:10 “High-Frequency Radio Emission from Stars within 2 pc of Sgr A*” – Farhad Yusef-Zadeh (pdf) (audio)
1:10-1:40 “Stellar Masers as Probes of the Galaxy” (Invited) – Ylva Pihlström (pdf) (audio)
1:40-2:00 “Characterizing Evolved Stars in the Inner Galaxy Using Radio and Optical Astrometric Measurements” – Luis Henry Quiroga-Nuñez

VIII. Radio Astrophysics Across the H-R Diagram
Chair: Loránt Sjouwerman
2:00-2:40 “Stellar Winds Across the H-R Diagram” (Invited) – Ken Gayley (pdf)
3:10-3:40 “The Role of VLBI in Stellar Radio Astronomy” (Invited) – Amy Mioduszewski (pdf) (audio)

IX. Radio Emission from Cool Evolved Stars
Chair: Tomasz Kamiński
3:40-4:00 “Super-Detailed Observations of Mass Loss from Red Supergiants and AGB Stars” – Anita Richards (pdf) (audio)
4:00-4:40 “Radio Observations of AGB Stars” (Invited) – Hans Olofsson (pdf) (audio)
4:40-5:00 “IRC+10216 in 3-D: Morphology of a TP-AGB Star Envelope” – Michel Guélin (pdf)

Friday, November 3

X. Radio Emission Beyond the Main Sequence
Chair: Amy Mioduszewski
9:00-9:40 “Post-AGB Stars and Planetary Nebulae” (Invited) – Albert Zijlstra (pdf) (audio)
9:40-10:00 “Spectral Line Surveys of Pre-Planetary and Planetary Nebulae with the Submillimeter Array” – Nimesh Patel
10:00-10:40 “White Dwarf Binaries” (Invited) – Deanne Coppejans (pdf) (audio)
11:10-11:30 “Tracing Rare Isotopes in Eruptive Stars” – Tomasz Kamiński
11:30-11:50 “New Developments in Radio Studies of Novae” – Michael Rupen (pdf)

XI. The Future of Stellar Radio Science
Chair: Michael Rupen
11:50-12:10 “The SCORPIO Project: Stellar Radio Emission in the SKA Era” – Grazia Umana
1:15-2:00 Discussion Forum – Moderators: Mark Reid, Michael Rupen, Anita Richards (pdf)