VEGA 2027 - Program
Lecturers: (sorted alphabetical by surname)
Thilo Bauer Germany |
Dr. David Boyd British Astronomical Association, UK |
Joan Guarro Fló Catalonia / Spain The-Giver a Low-Resolution Spectropolarimeter |
Prof Dr. Anatoly Miroschnichenko University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA |
Ernst Pollmann Bundesdeutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Veränderliche Sterne e.V. (BAV), Germany |
Herbert Pühringer VEGA Observatory - Haus der Natur, Austria |
Prof. Dr. Gregor Rauw Space Technology and Astrophysics Research Institute, University of Liège, Belgium |
Hans Martin Schmid |
Manfred Schwarz Chairman of the Vega Symposium, Austria |
Kenneth Whight British Astronomical Association, UK |
Karlheinz Wolf Vereinigung der Sternfreunde, Fachgruppe Spektroskopie, Germany |
A sufficient number of presentation proposals has already been received. Additional submissions are welcome to serve as backups in case of cancellations. Please submit your proposal to: vega@astrophoto.at |
Thursday May 6, 2027
9:30 Manfred Schwarz - Conference opening
11:00 David Boyd - The enigmatic eclipsing Be binary EE Cephei
12:30 Lunch (Restaurant Kaiserbuche)
14:15 Kenneth Whight - A Single Layer Thermal Equilibrium Stellar Photosphere Model for Analysing Spectral Absorption Line Profiles
15:45 Ernst Pollmann - Evidence for Harmonic Orbital Modulation in Pleione and Implications for the Circumstellar Disk
16:45 End of conference day 1, you are welcome to meet for dinner at the Hotel Ammerhauser (Anthering)
Friday May 7, 2027
12:30 Lunch (Restaurant Kaiserbuche)
14:15 Joan Guarro Fló - The-Giver a Low-Resolution Spectropolarimeter15:45 Thilo Bauer - WL-SPICA - Novel Speckle Interferometry Camera for White Light, Photometry and Spectroscopy with Small Telescopes
16:45 Ernst Pollmann - The Hα V/R Variability of ζ Tauri – From Spectral Line Profiles to Long-Term Disk Evolution
17:30 End of conference day 2, you are welcome to meet for dinner at the Hotel Ammerhauser (Anthering)
Saturday May 8, 2027
9:30 Herbert Pühringer - Dark Mattern in our Milkyway? (Indirect confirmation with spectroscopy in 21 cm wavelength)
11:00 Hans Martin Schmid - System properties of the eccentric symbiotic binary BX Mon, based on ARAS spectroscopy and AAVSO photometry
12:30 Lunch (Restaurant Kaiserbuche)
14:15 Manfred Schwarz - Workshop: High Resolution DIY Spectrograph VegaSpec III
17:00 You are welcome to meet for a trip through Salzburg city and a dinner
After each talk, there will be enough time for questions and discussions.
Night visits of the observatory are possible. Participants' own instruments may also be used in the facility.
Conference language: English