STARS (Across the Universe)

16 Oct 2023, 08:00 → 20 Oct 2023, 21:30 Europe/Rome

Auditorium Nazionale INAF (Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte (Napoli))

Monday 16 October

12:00 → 14:00 Registration

12:30 → 14:00 Light lunch

14:00 → 14:20 Welcome + Infos

Convener: Marcella Marconi & Michele Bellazzini

14:20 → 16:00 Stellar Astrophysics: Session I

Convener: Oscar Straniero

14:20 PARSEC: Stellar Evolution Model with Rotation and Thermohaline Mixing

Speaker: Chi Thanh Nguyen

14:40 Improving stellar age estimates using star clusters, binary stars and asteroseismology

Speaker: Karsten Brogaard

15:00 A bridge to the end of the life of a star

Speaker: Silvia Tosi

15:20 Core overshooting calibration with eclipsing binaries: statistical errors and systematic biases

Speaker: Pier Giorgio Prada Moroni

15:40 A study of primordial very massive star evolution

Speaker: Guglielmo Volpato

16:00 → 16:30 Coffe Break

16:30 → 17:50 The Galaxy & Galactic Archeology: Session I

Convener: Michele Bellazzini

16:30 Tidying-up the retrograde Halo with high-resolution spectroscopy

Speaker: Edoardo Ceccarelli

16:50 Milky Way helium enrichment constrained by red clump stars

Speaker: Emma Willett

17:10 The old spheroid at the center of the Milky Way as traced by RR Lyrae variables

Speaker: Manuela Zoccali

17:30 Fossil fragments tracing the formation process of the Galactic Bulge

Speaker: Francesco Ferraro

17:50 → 18:30 Discussion

Tuesday 17 October

09:00 → 10:00 Variable Stars: Session I

Convener: Marcella Marconi

09:00 Pushing accuracy and precision of pulsating stars as distance indicators at NIR wavelengths

Speaker: Anupam Bhardwaj

09:20 Light Curve’s Recovery with the Rubin Observatory’s (LSST)

Speaker: Marcella Di Criscienzo

09:40 An updated theoretical scenario for Anomalous Cepheids

Speaker: Giulia De Somma

10:00 → 10:40 Globular Clusters: Session I

Convener: Sara Lucatello

10:00 The extreme MgAl chain as a probe for the Multiple Populations in Omega Centauri

Speaker: Deimer Antonio Alvarez Garay

10:20 The young LMC double cluster NGC 1850: a progenitor of a typical multiple populations in GC?

Speaker: Roberta Carini

10:40 → 11:10 Coffe Break

11:10 → 12:10 Globular Clusters: Session I (continue)

11:10 Dynamical evolution of Multiple Populations in Globular Clusters

Speaker: Matteo Teodori

11:30 The JWST view on multiple populations in bulge globular clusters

Speaker: Mario Cadelano

11:50 Modelling the formation of multiple stellar population in globular clusters

Speaker: Elena Lacchin

12:10 → 12:50 The Galaxy & Galactic Archeology: Session II

Convener: Andrea Miglio

12:10 "Young” alpha-rich stars in the Galaxy

Speaker: Valeria Grisoni

12:30 Abundance analysis of nearby red giants and red clump stars: combining high resolution spectroscopy and asteroseismology

Speaker: Nagaraj Vernekar

12:50 → 14:30 Lunch

14:30 → 15:40 The Galaxy & Galactic Archeology: Session II (continue)

14:30 First results of the MINCE survey (chemical tagging of MP stars in the MW)

Speaker: Gabriele Cescutti

14:50 Exploiting the orthogonal constraints offered by high-precision age and chemistry

Speaker: Giada Casali

15:10 The age of the Galactic Bulge

Speaker: Elena Valenti

15:40 → 16:20 Stellar Astrophysics: Session II - Massive stars and SNe

Convener: Marco Limongi

15:40 Pair Instability Supernovae and their progenitors across the Universe

Speaker: Francesco Gabrielli

16:00 Evolutionary stellar populations synthesis analysis of relativistic stellar explosions

Speaker: Luca Izzo

16:20 → 16:50 Coffe Break

16:50 → 17:50 Stellar Astrophysics: Session II - Massive stars and SNe (continue)

16:50 Rotating CO WDs with sdB companions: potential candidate of thermonuclear events?

Speaker: Luciano Piersanti

17:10 The initial mass – remnant mass relation for core-collapse supernovae

Speaker: Cristiano Ugolini

17:30 Formation of massive binary black holes from Population II and III stars

Speaker: Guglielmo Costa

17:50 → 18:30 Discussion

Wednesday 18 October

09:00 → 10:40 Local Group & Nearby Universe

Convener: Manuela Zoccali

09:00 Stars as peering tools of the spacetime fabric

Speaker: Maria Teresa Crosta

09:20 LEO I, the dwarf galaxy with a super-massive black hole (?)

Speaker: Raffaele Pascale

09:40 The chemical DNA of the Magellanic Clouds

Speaker: Alessio Mucciarelli

10:00 Star-forming regions in the tails of jellyfish galaxies

Speaker: Ariel Werle

10:20 Evolved stars in metal-poor dwarf galaxies: calibration of asymptotic giant branch and core-Helium burning models

Speaker: Giada Pastorelli

10:40 → 11:10 Coffe Break

11:10 → 12:50 Star forming regions and open clusters

Convener: Sofia Randich

11:10 Multi-Burst Star Formation in the Orion Nebula Cluster: Insights from the ADHOC Survey and Gaia DR3

Speaker: Giacomo Beccari

11:30 Spectroscopy of young red supergiants in the Galactic disc (in young clusters and associations)

Speaker: Cristiano Fanelli

11:50 High resolution spectroscopy of open clusters: results from the SPA LP @TNG

Speaker: Angela Bragaglia

12:10 Studies of young open clusters with high-resolution spectroscopy and high-precision photometry

Speaker: Antonio Frasca

12:30 The Extended Westerlund One Chandra, and JWST, Survey (EWOCS): project status and preliminary results

Speaker: Mario Guarcello

12:50 → 14:10 Lunch

14:10 → 15:30 Globular Clusters: Session II

Convener: Angela Bragaglia

14:10 RGB mass loss from multiple populations in Globular clusters

Speaker: Marco Tailo

14:30 Exploring the internal kinematics of Galactic Globular Clusters

Speaker: Silvia Leanza

14:50 Constraining Globular Cluster properties and studying their stellar population using IR Photometry: from HST to JWST

Speaker: Matteo Correnti

15:10 Globular clusters: equally old, but dynamically different

Speaker: Barbara Lanzoni

15:30 → 16:00 Coffe Break

16:00 → 17:00 Variable Stars: Session II

Convener: Giovanni Catanzaro

16:00 Comparing BL Her models and observations at multiple wavelengths

Speaker: Susmita Das

16:20 Gaia DR3 metallicity of RR Lyrae stars: tips, pitfalls and comparisons

Speaker: Alessia Garofalo

16:40 Cepheid Metallicity in the Leavitt Law (C- MetaLL). The metallicity dependence of Cepheid Period-Luminosity relations

Speaker: Erasmo Trentin

17:00 → 17:40 Discussion

20:30 → 22:30 Social Dinner

Thursday 19 October

09:00 → 10:40 Stellar Astrophysics: Session III - the role of magnetic fields

Convener: Sergio Cristallo

09:00 Magnetic mixing and s-processing in AGB stars

Speaker: Diego Vescovi

09:20 The plague of magnetic spots among the hot stars in globular clusters: a bridge between MS and WD stars

Speaker: Simone Zaggia

09:40 Fundamental parameters of magnetically active solar-like stars observed by TESS

Speaker: Maria Pia Di Mauro

10:00 The future of open clusters

Speaker: Antonella Vallenari

10:20 MAUVE : A UV-Vis spectroscopy facility dedicated to studying the magnetic activity of active stars

Speaker: Fatemeh Zahra Majidi

10:40 → 11:10 Coffe Break

11:10 → 12:10 Chemical evolution and nucleosynthesis

Convener: Laura Magrini

11:10 Impact of newly measured 26Al(n, p)26Mg and 26Al(n, α)23Na reaction rates on the nucleosynthesis of 26Al in stars

Speaker: Umberto Battino

11:30 Observational study of Li-rich giants in open clusters with high resolution spectroscopy

Speaker: Maria Tsantaki

11:50 Is the riddle of the Li origin solved?

Speaker: Paolo Molaro

12:10 → 13:00 Poster Session

13:00 → 14:30 Lunch

14:30 → 15:30 Chemical evolution and nucleosynthesis: (continue)

14:30 Super Stars: Extreme Life and Death of Very Massive Stars

Speaker: Kendall Shepherd

14:50 Numerical estimation of early-stage Kilonova ejecta opacity reproducible in laboratory plasmas

Speaker: Matteo Bezmalinovich

15:10 The p-process nucleosynthesis in core-collapse supernovae

Speaker: Lorenzo Roberti

15:30 → 16:10 Discussion

17:00 → 19:30 Excursion to Catacombs

Friday 20 October

09:00 → 10:40 Galactic Disk

Convener: Antonella Vallenari

09:00 Probing our Solar Neighbourhood: Stellar Yields, Formation Scenarios, and Stellar Radial Migration

Speaker: Marco Palla

09:20 The star formation history of the Milky Way disk

Speaker: Michele Cignoni

09:40 The Milky Way spiral structure & Outer disc kinematics with Cepheids

Speaker: Shourya Khanna

10:00 The chemical enrichment history of the Galactic thin disk traced by Classical Cepheids

Speaker: Giuseppe Bono

10:20 The Galactic halo told by RR Lyrae stars

Speaker: Giuliana Fiorentino

10:40 → 11:10 Coffe Break

11:10 → 12:10 Surveys, Instruments & tools

Convener: Massimo Dall'Ora

11:10 HRMOS A high-resolution multi-object spectrograph for the VLT

Speaker: Sofia Randich

11:30 How to handle future instrumentation’s large images with a variable and structured PSF using Starfinder2

Speaker: Laura Schreiber

11:50 The Gaia Mission: a focus on where we are for better positioning our community in post operations (DR4 and 5) and beyond.

Speaker: Beatrice Bucciarelli

12:10 → 13:10 Final discussion and Actions to promote the activities of our community

Speaker: Marcella Marconi & Michele Bellazzini

20:30 → 21:30 Public Conference: Un problema di estrema gravità: i buchi neri...non sono buchi e non sono neri!

Speaker: Flavio Fusi Pecci