The many tones of accretion - to the memory of Tomaso Belloni

Session

Memorial talk

8 Sept 2026, 11:45

Cefalù

117. On Tomaso and maurizio - memorialtalk

Prof. Luigi Stella (INAF Rome Astronomical Observatory)

08/09/2026, 11:45

TBD

127. ROSAT years at the C3 container

Andrea Comastri (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

08/09/2026, 12:00

Talk

In the early 90s, right after the ROSAT launch, MPE was a busy place visited by many scientists, young postdocs, and students. Too many to be accommodated in the offices of the X-ray group in the main building. Temporary containers with small offices were installed, and the fraction of Italians was particularly high in one of them.
We will make an effort to remember a few significant...

83. Tomaso, dips, Cygnus X-1

Erik Kuulkers (ESA/ESTEC)

08/09/2026, 17:15

Talk

Tomaso and I were the first post-doc and PhD student, respectively, of Michiel van der Klis when he became professor at the API in Amsterdam. Afterwards, in time at various meetings we interacted and even combined our research interests, especially related to (absorption) dips in the light curves of black-hole X-ray binaries.
In a paper in 1996, Tomaso with colleagues reported on an...