The 239th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society
CANCELLED
The in-person 239th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society was cancelled. Some scheduled sessions were postponed and/or converted to virtual only.
Location
Salt Lake City, Utah
Virtual
In-person Cancelled
Dates
9-13 January 2022
Community
Physics of the Cosmos
Type
Meeting
Cancelled Sessions
| Session | Status |
|---|---|
| Joint PAG Meeting (Hybrid) | Postponed Indefinitely |
| Decadal Survey on Astronomy and Astrophysics (Astro2020) | Cancelled |
| PhysPAG | Postponed |
| X-ray SIG | Cancelled |
| Gravitational Wave SIG | Postponed |
Virtual Sessions
Monday, 10 January 2022
Astrophysics Science Smallsat Studies, Results
| Time | Presentation | Presenter |
|---|---|---|
| 2:30 PM – 2:55 PM | MISE, The Mid-Infrared Sky Explorer | Asantha Cooray |
| 2:55 PM – 3:20 PM | MAGIC, The Massive star AsteroseismoloGy Instrument Cubesat | Derek Buzasi |
| 3:20 PM – 3:45 PM | NExtUP, The Normal-incidence Extreme Ultraviolet Photometer | Jeremy Drake |
| 3:45 PM – 4:10 PM | BHAGERA, The Black Hole Accretion and Growth Experiment with Reverberation Analysis | Baroujan Gorjian |
| 4:10 PM – 4:20 PM | 10 min Break | |
| 4:20 PM – 4:45 PM | MoonBEAM, A Beyond Earth-orbit Gamma-ray Burst Detector for Multi-Messenger Astronomy | Michelle Hui |
| 4:45 PM – 5:10 PM | ORCAS, The Orbiting Configurable Artificial Star | Eliad Peretz |
| 5:10 PM – 5:35 PM | GOSoX, The Globe Orbiting Soft X-ray Polarimeter | Herman Marshall |
| 5:35 PM – 6:00 PM | A Constellation of Small Satellites to Search for a Transiting Earth-Size Planet in an Earth-like Orbit about a Bright Sun-Like Star | Sara Seager |
Tuesday, 11 January 2022
NASA Town Hall
| Time | Topic | Presenter | Presentation |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2:45PM – 3:45PM | Keynote presentation from NASA Astrophysics Division Director. This presentation will feature an update on the status of NASA Astrophysics in light of the release of the Astro2020 Pathways to Discovery Decadal Survey. | Paul Hertz Presentation | [PDF] |
NASA APD Town Hall Session Video
Postponed Sessions
Tuesday, 18 January 2022
Cosmic Ray SIG Session
| Session Time | Topic | Presenter | Presentation |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM | Multi-Messenger probes of UHECR source environments & their connection to astrophysical neutrinos | Marco Muzio | [PDF] |
| Pulsars as cosmic-ray sources | Claire Guepin | [PDF] | |
| GeV Cosmic Ray Transport: Confronting Simulations with Observations | Chad Bustard | [PDF] | |
| A Long Wavelength View of Cosmic Rays: Cosmic Rays in the Context of Multi-Messenger Astronomy | Joseph Lazio | [PDF] | |
| Statistical Inference for Multi-Messenger Astrophysics | Zsuzsa Marka | [PDF] |
Cosmic Ray SIG Session Video
Friday, 28 January 2022
Gamma Ray SIG Session
| Time | Topic | Presenter | Presentation |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2:00 PM – 2:10 PM | Gamma-ray Science Interest Group | Justin Finke | [PDF] |
| 2:10 PM – 2:30 PM | Space-based Gamma-ray Missions and the Decadal Review | Judy Racusin | [PDF] |
| 2:30 PM – 2:50 PM | Ground-based Gamma-ray Missions and the Decadal Review | Reshmi Mukherjee | [PDF] |
| 2:50 PM – 3:10 PM | Compton Spectrometer and Imager | Jacqueline Beechert | [PDF] |
| 3:10 PM – 3:30 PM | Starburst | Daniel Kocevski |
Gamma Ray SIG Session Video
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