Xavier Barcons

Instituto de Física de Cantabria, Santander
Madrid, 20 de octubre de 2009 Energetic phenomena have been shown by past and current high-energy observational facilities not to be rare events, but to develop in almost every single location in the Universe. Accreting black holes in galaxy centres, hot gas trapped in the potential wells of galaxies and clusters, exploding stars polluting the interstellar medium and releasing high energy photons and particles apear to be among the most common phenomena in the Universe. The limitations of the current space-borne X-ray and gamma-ray observatories as well as the pioneering Cerenkov ground-based gamma-ray experiments will need to be overcome for the next generation of high-energy observatories, able to reveal and study these and other ubiquitous energetic phenomena. Challenges like light-weight X-ray focussing optics, deployable optical benches, cryogenic imaging spectrometers capable of delivering spatially resolved X-ray spectroscopy, polarimeters, Laue lenses and Compton gamma-ray telescopes and decreasing the energy threshold in Cerenkov telescope arrays appear to be amongst the most demanding for the future. In this talk I will motivate the use and discuss the current status of some of these critical technologies, which need to be nailed down to bring projects like IXO, GRI and CTA to reality.

Vídeos
Ciencias de la vida y de la materia Herederos de Galileo

Michel Mayor 28/10/2009

Acto de Clausura

Brian Schmidt 19/10/2009

Roger Chevalier 21/10/2009

Peter Schneider 21/10/2009

Reinhardt Genzel 20/10/2009

Luis Felipe Rodríguez 20/10/2009

Esteban Domingo 20/10/2009

Jose María Torrelles 20/10/2009

Eduard Salvador 20/10/2009

Xavier Barcons

Rafael Rebollo López 19/10/2009

Michel Mayor 19/10/2009

Mike Brown 19/10/2009

Roberto Gilmozzi 19/10/2009

William Shea 19/10/2009

Inauguración Herederos de Galileo 19/10/2009