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 Registration

12:30 PM Light lunch

Welcome + Infos

Convener: Marcella Marconi & Michele Bellazzini

Stellar Astrophysics: Session I

Convener: Oscar Straniero

1 PARSEC: Stellar Evolution Model with Rotation and Thermohaline Mixing

Speaker: Chi Thanh Nguyen

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

Speaker: Karsten Brogaard

3 A bridge to the end of the life of a star

Speaker: Silvia Tosi

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

Speaker: Pier Giorgio Prada Moroni

5 A study of primordial very massive star evolution

Speaker: Guglielmo Volpato

4:00 PM Coffe Break

The Galaxy & Galactic Archeology: Session I

Convener: Michele Bellazzini

6 Tidying-up the retrograde Halo with high-resolution spectroscopy

Speaker: Edoardo Ceccarelli

7 Milky Way helium enrichment constrained by red clump stars

Speaker: Emma Willett

8 The old spheroid at the center of the Milky Way as traced by RR Lyrae variables

Speaker: Manuela Zoccali

9 Fossil fragments tracing the formation process of the Galactic Bulge

Speaker: Francesco Ferraro

10 Discussion

Tuesday, October 17

Variable Stars: Session I

Convener: Marcella Marconi

11 Pushing accuracy and precision of pulsating stars as distance indicators at NIR wavelengths

Speaker: Anupam Bhardwaj

12 Light Curve’s Recovery with the Rubin Observatory’s (LSST)

Speaker: Marcella Di Criscienzo

13 An updated theoretical scenario for Anomalous Cepheids

Speaker: Giulia De Somma

Globular Clusters: Session I

Convener: Sara Lucatello

14 The extreme MgAl chain as a probe for the Multiple Populations in Omega Centauri

Speaker: Deimer Antonio Alvarez Garay

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

Speaker: Roberta Carini

10:40 AM Coffe Break

Globular Clusters: Session I (continue)

16 Dynamical evolution of Multiple Populations in Globular Clusters

Speaker: Matteo Teodori

17 The JWST view on multiple populations in bulge globular clusters

Speaker: Mario Cadelano

18 Modelling the formation of multiple stellar population in globular clusters

Speaker: Elena Lacchin

The Galaxy & Galactic Archeology: Session II

Convener: Andrea Miglio

19 "Young” alpha-rich stars in the Galaxy

Speaker: Valeria Grisoni

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

Speaker: Nagaraj Vernekar

12:50 PM Lunch

The Galaxy & Galactic Archeology: Session II (continue)

21 First results of the MINCE survey (chemical tagging of MP stars in the MW)

Speaker: Gabriele Cescutti

22 Exploiting the orthogonal constraints offered by high-precision age and chemistry

Speaker: Giada Casali

23 The age of the Galactic Bulge

Speaker: Elena Valenti

Stellar Astrophysics: Session II - Massive stars and SNe

Convener: Marco Limongi

24 Pair Instability Supernovae and their progenitors across the Universe

Speaker: Francesco Gabrielli

25 Evolutionary stellar populations synthesis analysis of relativistic stellar explosions

Speaker: Luca Izzo

4:20 PM Coffe Break

Stellar Astrophysics: Session II - Massive stars and SNe (continue)

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

Speaker: Luciano Piersanti

27 The initial mass – remnant mass relation for core-collapse supernovae

Speaker: Cristiano Ugolini

28 Formation of massive binary black holes from Population II and III stars

Speaker: Guglielmo Costa

29 Discussion

Wednesday, October 18

Local Group & Nearby Universe

Convener: Manuela Zoccali

30 Stars as peering tools of the spacetime fabric

Speaker: Maria Teresa Crosta

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

Speaker: Raffaele Pascale

32 The chemical DNA of the Magellanic Clouds

Speaker: Alessio Mucciarelli

33 Star-forming regions in the tails of jellyfish galaxies

Speaker: Ariel Werle

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

Speaker: Giada Pastorelli

10:40 AM Coffe Break

Star forming regions and open clusters

Convener: Sofia Randich

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

Speaker: Giacomo Beccari

36 Spectroscopy of young red supergiants in the Galactic disc (in young clusters and associations)

Speaker: Cristiano Fanelli

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

Speaker: Angela Bragaglia

38 Studies of young open clusters with high-resolution spectroscopy and high-precision photometry

Speaker: Antonio Frasca

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

Speaker: Mario Guarcello

12:50 PM Lunch

Globular Clusters: Session II

Convener: Angela Bragaglia

40 RGB mass loss from multiple populations in Globular clusters

Speaker: Marco Tailo

41 Exploring the internal kinematics of Galactic Globular Clusters

Speaker: Silvia Leanza

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

Speaker: Matteo Correnti

43 Globular clusters: equally old, but dynamically different

Speaker: Barbara Lanzoni

3:30 PM Coffe Break

Variable Stars: Session II

Convener: Giovanni Catanzaro

44 Comparing BL Her models and observations at multiple wavelengths

Speaker: Susmita Das

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

Speaker: Alessia Garofalo

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

Speaker: Erasmo Trentin

47 Discussion

8:30 PM Social Dinner

Thursday, October 19

Stellar Astrophysics: Session III - the role of magnetic fields

Convener: Sergio Cristallo

48 Magnetic mixing and s-processing in AGB stars

Speaker: Diego Vescovi

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

Speaker: Simone Zaggia

50 Fundamental parameters of magnetically active solar-like stars observed by TESS

Speaker: Maria Pia Di Mauro

51 The future of open clusters

Speaker: Antonella Vallenari

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

Speaker: Fatemeh Zahra Majidi

10:40 AM Coffe Break

Chemical evolution and nucleosynthesis

Convener: Laura Magrini

53 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

54 Observational study of Li-rich giants in open clusters with high resolution spectroscopy

Speaker: Maria Tsantaki

55 Is the riddle of the Li origin solved?

Speaker: Paolo Molaro

Poster Session

1:00 PM Lunch

Chemical evolution and nucleosynthesis: (continue)

56 Super Stars: Extreme Life and Death of Very Massive Stars

Speaker: Kendall Shepherd

57 Numerical estimation of early-stage Kilonova ejecta opacity reproducible in laboratory plasmas

Speaker: Matteo Bezmalinovich

58 The p-process nucleosynthesis in core-collapse supernovae

Speaker: Lorenzo Roberti

59 Discussion

5:00 PM Excursion to Catacombs

Friday, October 20

Galactic Disk

Convener: Antonella Vallenari

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

Speaker: Marco Palla

61 The star formation history of the Milky Way disk

Speaker: Michele Cignoni

62 The Milky Way spiral structure & Outer disc kinematics with Cepheids

Speaker: Shourya Khanna

63 The chemical enrichment history of the Galactic thin disk traced by Classical Cepheids

Speaker: Giuseppe Bono

64 The Galactic halo told by RR Lyrae stars

Speaker: Giuliana Fiorentino

10:40 AM Coffe Break

Surveys, Instruments & tools

Convener: Massimo Dall'Ora

65 HRMOS A high-resolution multi-object spectrograph for the VLT

Speaker: Sofia Randich

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

Speaker: Laura Schreiber

67 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

68 Final discussion and Actions to promote the activities of our community

Speaker: Marcella Marconi & Michele Bellazzini

69 Public Conference: Un problema di estrema gravità: i buchi neri...non sono buchi e non sono neri!

Speaker: Flavio Fusi Pecci