STARS (Across the Universe)

Oct 16, 2023, 8:00 AM → Oct 20, 2023, 9:30 PM Europe/Rome

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

Monday, October 16

12:00 PM → 2:00 PM Registration

12:30 PM → 2:00 PM Light lunch

2:00 PM → 2:20 PM Welcome + Infos

Convener: Marcella Marconi & Michele Bellazzini

2:20 PM → 4:00 PM Stellar Astrophysics: Session I

Convener: Oscar Straniero

2:20 PM PARSEC: Stellar Evolution Model with Rotation and Thermohaline Mixing

Speaker: Chi Thanh Nguyen

2:40 PM Improving stellar age estimates using star clusters, binary stars and asteroseismology

Speaker: Karsten Brogaard

3:00 PM A bridge to the end of the life of a star

Speaker: Silvia Tosi

3:20 PM Core overshooting calibration with eclipsing binaries: statistical errors and systematic biases

Speaker: Pier Giorgio Prada Moroni

3:40 PM A study of primordial very massive star evolution

Speaker: Guglielmo Volpato

4:00 PM → 4:30 PM Coffe Break

4:30 PM → 5:50 PM The Galaxy & Galactic Archeology: Session I

Convener: Michele Bellazzini

4:30 PM Tidying-up the retrograde Halo with high-resolution spectroscopy

Speaker: Edoardo Ceccarelli

4:50 PM Milky Way helium enrichment constrained by red clump stars

Speaker: Emma Willett

5:10 PM The old spheroid at the center of the Milky Way as traced by RR Lyrae variables

Speaker: Manuela Zoccali

5:30 PM Fossil fragments tracing the formation process of the Galactic Bulge

Speaker: Francesco Ferraro

5:50 PM → 6:30 PM Discussion

Tuesday, October 17

9:00 AM → 10:00 AM Variable Stars: Session I

Convener: Marcella Marconi

9:00 AM Pushing accuracy and precision of pulsating stars as distance indicators at NIR wavelengths

Speaker: Anupam Bhardwaj

9:20 AM Light Curve’s Recovery with the Rubin Observatory’s (LSST)

Speaker: Marcella Di Criscienzo

9:40 AM An updated theoretical scenario for Anomalous Cepheids

Speaker: Giulia De Somma

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

Convener: Sara Lucatello

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

Speaker: Deimer Antonio Alvarez Garay

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

Speaker: Roberta Carini

10:40 AM → 11:10 AM Coffe Break

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

11:10 AM Dynamical evolution of Multiple Populations in Globular Clusters

Speaker: Matteo Teodori

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

Speaker: Mario Cadelano

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

Speaker: Elena Lacchin

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

Convener: Andrea Miglio

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

Speaker: Valeria Grisoni

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

Speaker: Nagaraj Vernekar

12:50 PM → 2:30 PM Lunch

2:30 PM → 3:40 PM The Galaxy & Galactic Archeology: Session II (continue)

2:30 PM First results of the MINCE survey (chemical tagging of MP stars in the MW)

Speaker: Gabriele Cescutti

2:50 PM Exploiting the orthogonal constraints offered by high-precision age and chemistry

Speaker: Giada Casali

3:10 PM The age of the Galactic Bulge

Speaker: Elena Valenti

3:40 PM → 4:20 PM Stellar Astrophysics: Session II - Massive stars and SNe

Convener: Marco Limongi

3:40 PM Pair Instability Supernovae and their progenitors across the Universe

Speaker: Francesco Gabrielli

4:00 PM Evolutionary stellar populations synthesis analysis of relativistic stellar explosions

Speaker: Luca Izzo

4:20 PM → 4:50 PM Coffe Break

4:50 PM → 5:50 PM Stellar Astrophysics: Session II - Massive stars and SNe (continue)

4:50 PM Rotating CO WDs with sdB companions: potential candidate of thermonuclear events?

Speaker: Luciano Piersanti

5:10 PM The initial mass – remnant mass relation for core-collapse supernovae

Speaker: Cristiano Ugolini

5:30 PM Formation of massive binary black holes from Population II and III stars

Speaker: Guglielmo Costa

5:50 PM → 6:30 PM Discussion

Wednesday, October 18

9:00 AM → 10:40 AM Local Group & Nearby Universe

Convener: Manuela Zoccali

9:00 AM Stars as peering tools of the spacetime fabric

Speaker: Maria Teresa Crosta

9:20 AM LEO I, the dwarf galaxy with a super-massive black hole (?)

Speaker: Raffaele Pascale

9:40 AM The chemical DNA of the Magellanic Clouds

Speaker: Alessio Mucciarelli

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

Speaker: Ariel Werle

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

Speaker: Giada Pastorelli

10:40 AM → 11:10 AM Coffe Break

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

Convener: Sofia Randich

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

Speaker: Giacomo Beccari

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

Speaker: Cristiano Fanelli

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

Speaker: Angela Bragaglia

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

Speaker: Antonio Frasca

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

Speaker: Mario Guarcello

12:50 PM → 2:10 PM Lunch

2:10 PM → 3:30 PM Globular Clusters: Session II

Convener: Angela Bragaglia

2:10 PM RGB mass loss from multiple populations in Globular clusters

Speaker: Marco Tailo

2:30 PM Exploring the internal kinematics of Galactic Globular Clusters

Speaker: Silvia Leanza

2:50 PM Constraining Globular Cluster properties and studying their stellar population using IR Photometry: from HST to JWST

Speaker: Matteo Correnti

3:10 PM Globular clusters: equally old, but dynamically different

Speaker: Barbara Lanzoni

3:30 PM → 4:00 PM Coffe Break

4:00 PM → 5:00 PM Variable Stars: Session II

Convener: Giovanni Catanzaro

4:00 PM Comparing BL Her models and observations at multiple wavelengths

Speaker: Susmita Das

4:20 PM Gaia DR3 metallicity of RR Lyrae stars: tips, pitfalls and comparisons

Speaker: Alessia Garofalo

4:40 PM Cepheid Metallicity in the Leavitt Law (C- MetaLL). The metallicity dependence of Cepheid Period-Luminosity relations

Speaker: Erasmo Trentin

5:00 PM → 5:40 PM Discussion

8:30 PM → 10:30 PM Social Dinner

Thursday, October 19

9:00 AM → 10:40 AM Stellar Astrophysics: Session III - the role of magnetic fields

Convener: Sergio Cristallo

9:00 AM Magnetic mixing and s-processing in AGB stars

Speaker: Diego Vescovi

9:20 AM The plague of magnetic spots among the hot stars in globular clusters: a bridge between MS and WD stars

Speaker: Simone Zaggia

9:40 AM Fundamental parameters of magnetically active solar-like stars observed by TESS

Speaker: Maria Pia Di Mauro

10:00 AM The future of open clusters

Speaker: Antonella Vallenari

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

Speaker: Fatemeh Zahra Majidi

10:40 AM → 11:10 AM Coffe Break

11:10 AM → 12:10 PM Chemical evolution and nucleosynthesis

Convener: Laura Magrini

11:10 AM 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 AM Observational study of Li-rich giants in open clusters with high resolution spectroscopy

Speaker: Maria Tsantaki

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

Speaker: Paolo Molaro

12:10 PM → 1:00 PM Poster Session

1:00 PM → 2:30 PM Lunch

2:30 PM → 3:30 PM Chemical evolution and nucleosynthesis: (continue)

2:30 PM Super Stars: Extreme Life and Death of Very Massive Stars

Speaker: Kendall Shepherd

2:50 PM Numerical estimation of early-stage Kilonova ejecta opacity reproducible in laboratory plasmas

Speaker: Matteo Bezmalinovich

3:10 PM The p-process nucleosynthesis in core-collapse supernovae

Speaker: Lorenzo Roberti

3:30 PM → 4:10 PM Discussion

5:00 PM → 7:30 PM Excursion to Catacombs

Friday, October 20

9:00 AM → 10:40 AM Galactic Disk

Convener: Antonella Vallenari

9:00 AM Probing our Solar Neighbourhood: Stellar Yields, Formation Scenarios, and Stellar Radial Migration

Speaker: Marco Palla

9:20 AM The star formation history of the Milky Way disk

Speaker: Michele Cignoni

9:40 AM The Milky Way spiral structure & Outer disc kinematics with Cepheids

Speaker: Shourya Khanna

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

Speaker: Giuseppe Bono

10:20 AM The Galactic halo told by RR Lyrae stars

Speaker: Giuliana Fiorentino

10:40 AM → 11:10 AM Coffe Break

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

Convener: Massimo Dall'Ora

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

Speaker: Sofia Randich

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

Speaker: Laura Schreiber

11:50 AM 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 PM → 1:10 PM Final discussion and Actions to promote the activities of our community

Speaker: Marcella Marconi & Michele Bellazzini

8:30 PM → 9:30 PM Public Conference: Un problema di estrema gravità: i buchi neri...non sono buchi e non sono neri!

Speaker: Flavio Fusi Pecci