October 17 - 20, 2016
Asilomar Conference Grounds, Pacific Grove, CA, USA
This conference focused on the current understanding of star-formation and the impact of feedback processes in Galactic molecular clouds and nearby galaxies. High angular resolution and high spectral resolution observations in the mid- and far-infrared, as provided by SOFIA, are critical for a detailed understanding of the key physical processes involved. Such "local truth" is necessary for correctly interpreting observations of star formation tracers in distant galaxies.
Confirmed Invited Speakers
- John Bally (Univ. of Colorado)
- Eric Becklin (SOFIA)
- Ed Erickson (NASA Ames, retired)
- Edith Falgarone (ENS, Paris)
- Uma Gorti (NASA Ames/SETI)
- Ralf Klessen (Univ. of Heidelberg)
- Charlie Lada (Harvard-Smithsonian, CfA)
- Karl Menten (MPIfR, Bonn)
- Mark Morris (UCLA)
- David Neufeld (Johns Hopkins Univ.)
- Julia Roman-Duval (STScI)
- Gordon Stacey (Cornell Univ.)
- Jonathan Tan (Univ. of Florida)
- Xander Tielens (Leiden Univ.)
- Michael Werner (JPL)
- Erick Young (SOFIA)
Topics
Theory of Star Formation
Star Formation Regions
Feedback
Interstellar Medium & Clouds
Chemistry of the ISM
Heating, Cooling and Cloud Support
Galactic Center
Magellanic Clouds
External Galaxies
Facilities and Instrumentation
History of Airborne Astronomy
Other Topics (based on contributed presentations)
Participants
The current list of attendees includes:
| NAME | AFFILIATION |
|---|---|
| Ali, Zaheer Abbas | USRA |
| Andersson, B-G | USRA / SOFIA |
| Bally, John | Univ. of Colorado, Boulder |
| Becklin, Eric | USRA / SOFIA |
| Bigiel, Frank | University of Heidelberg |
| Bisbas, Thomas | Univ. of Florida & Max Planck Institute |
| Boogert, Adwin | USRA |
| Bryant, Aaron | Universität Stuttgart |
| Chambers, Edward | USRA/SOFIA |
| Colditz, Sebastian | Universität Stuttgart |
| Cormier, Diane | University of Heidelberg |
| De Buizer, James | USRA / SOFIA |
| Dosaj, Anil | USRA / SOFIA |
| Dowell, Darren | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| Falgarone, Edith | Ecole Normale Supérieure |
| Fischer, Christian | Universität Stuttgart |
| Ginsburg, Adam G | |
| Goldsmith, Paul | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| Gorti, Uma | NASA Ames/SETI |
| Greenhouse, Matthew | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| Guevara, Cristian | University of Cologne |
| Hankins, Matthew | Cornell University |
| Helmich, Frank Paul | SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research |
| Helton, Andrew | USRA / SOFIA |
| Hodapp, Klaus Werner | University of Hawaii |
| Hollenbach, David | SETI Institute |
| Huetwohl, Michael | Universität Stuttgart |
| Jakob, Holger | Universität Stuttgart |
| Johnstone, Doug | National Research Council Canada |
| Khan, Adil Hakeem | Nation College of Engineering & Tech. Guna MP India |
| Klein, Randolf | USRA / SOFIA |
| Klessen, Ralf S | Heidelberg University |
| Krabbe, Alfred | Universität Stuttgart |
| Lada, Charles | Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics |
| Latter, William | USRA/SOFIA |
| Lau, Ryan M | Caltech/JPL |
| Lazarian, Alex | University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| Lebouteiller, Vianney | CEA Saclay |
| Le, Jeanette H. | NASA |
| Levine, Deborah Anne | Glendale Community College |
| Liu, Mengyao | University of Florida |
| Lopez Rodriguez, Enrique | USRA / SOFIA |
| Madden, Suzanne | CEA, Saclay |
| Marcum, Pamela | NASA Ames Research Center |
| McClure, Melissa | European Southern Observatory |
| McKelvey, Mark Edward | NASA Ames Research Center |
| Megeath, Thomas | University of Toledo |
| Menten, Karl | Max-Planck-Institute for Radio Astronomy |
| Meyer, Allan | USRA / SOFIA |
| Montiel, Edward | UC-Davis |
| Morris, Mark R | UCLA |
| Nayak, Omnarayani | Johns Hopkins University |
| Neeleman, Marel | UC Santa Cruz |
| Neufeld, David | Johns Hopkins University |
| Ochsendorf, Bram | Johns Hopkins University |
| Orr, Matthew Edward | California Institute of Technology |
| Pabst, Cornelia | Leiden University |
| Pineda, Jorge | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| Prochaska, Xavier | UC Santa Cruz |
| Radomski, James | USRA / SOFIA |
| Ragan, Sarah | Cardiff University |
| Rangwala, Naseem | NASA Ames Research Center |
| Reinacher, Andreas | Universität Stuttgart |
| Rho, Jeonghee | SETI Institute & NASA Ames Research Center |
| Roellig, Thomas | NASA Ames Research Center |
| Roman-Duval, Julia | Space Telescope Science Institute |
| Salas, Pedro | |
| Sandell, Göran | USRA / SOFIA |
| Sankrit, Ravi | SOFIA Science Center/USRA |
| Saurage, Gabrelle | USRA / SOFIA |
| Savage, Maureen | University of California, Santa Cruz |
| Schneider, Nicola Maria | University of Cologne |
| Sheth, Kartik | NASA |
| Shuping, Ralph | Space Science Institute |
| Stacey, Gordon J | Cornell University |
| Stecklum, Bringfried | Thüringer Landessternwarte Tautenburg |
| Tan, Jonathan C. | University of Florida |
| Temi, Pasquale | NASA Ames Research Center |
| Tielens, Alexander | Leiden University |
| Towner, Allison | University of Virginia / NRAO |
| Werner, Michael | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| Werner, Norbert | Eotvos University |
| White, Nicholas | USRA |
| Wiesemeyer, Helmut | Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy |
| Wolfire, Mark | University of Maryland |
| Wyrowski, Friedrich | Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy |
| Yorke, Harold | NASA Ames Research Center |
| Young, Erick | USRA / SOFIA |
| Zavala, Eddie | NASA |
| Ziebart, Monika | Universität zu Köln, Germany |
| Zinnecker, Hans | Deutsches SOFIA Institut |
Program and Presentations
| Start |
Duration
Minutes |
Topic | Presenter | File |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8:30 | 15 | Welcome & Introduction | Hal Yorke, Erick Young, Pam Marcum, Kartik Sheth | -- |
| 8:45 | 45 | Theoretical Perspectives | Ralf Klessen | File |
| 9:30 | 20 | What FIREs Up Star Formation: the Emergence of the Kennicutt-Schmidt Law from Feedback | Matthew Orr | File |
| 9:50 | 20 | The Role of Cosmic Rays in Tracing Molecular Gas in Galaxies | Thomas Bisbas | File |
| 10:10 | 20 | Break | ||
| 10:30 | 45 | Observational Basis | Charlie Lada | File |
| 11:15 | 30 | Low Mass Star Formation in the Diverse Environments of Orion: Result from the Herschel Orion Protostar Survey | Tom Megeath | File |
| 11:45 | 20 | What Does Polarization Really Measure? | B-G Andersson | File |
| 12:05 | 120 | Lunch | ||
| 14:05 | 45 | ISM Phases: Heating and Cooling | Xander Tielens | File |
| 14:50 | 30 | Far-infrared fine structure cooling in dark molecular clouds | Sarah Ragan | File |
| 15:20 | 20 | [CII] 158 um self-absorption and optical depth effects: M17SW | Cristian Guevara | File |
| 15:40 | 30 | Break | ||
| 16:10 | 30 | What are we learning from Galactic Fine Structure Lines? | Paul Goldsmith | File |
| 16:40 | 30 | Tracing CO-dark Gas in Galaxies | Diane Cormier | File |
| 17:10 | 30 | SOFIA Capabilities | Erick Young | File |
| 18:00 | 60 | Dinner | ||
| 19:00 | 120 | Reception | ||
| Start |
Duration
Minutes |
Topic | Presenter | File |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8:30 | 45 | Chemistry of the Interstellar Medium | David Neufeld | File |
| 9:15 | 20 | EXES Observations of CH4 and SO2 toward Massive Young Stellar Objects | Adwin Boogert | File |
| 9:35 | 20 | The Cold Interstellar Medium Traced by the Largest Bound Atoms in Space | Pedro Salas | File |
| 9:55 | 20 | Break | ||
| 10:15 | 45 | Cloud and Filament Support | Edith Falgarone | File |
| 11:00 | 30 | SOFIA follow-ups of massive clumps from the ATLASGAL galactic plane survey | Friedrich Wyrowski | File |
| 11:30 | 30 | HAWC+ and Magnetic Fields | Darren Dowell | File |
| 12:00 | 120 | Lunch | ||
| 14:00 | 45 | Disks | Uma Gorti | File |
| 14:45 | 30 | A Far-IR Determination of Gas Mass and Carbon Depletion in Protoplanetaery Disks | Melissa McClure | File |
| 15:15 | 30 | Velocity resolved [OI] 63 micron Line Emission in Proto-planetary Disks | Göran Sandell | -- |
| 15:45 | 30 | Break | ||
| 16:15 | 30 | Variable Accretion in Protostars | Klaus Hodapp | File |
| 16:45 | 30 | Investigating Accretion Variability Onto Deeply Embedded Protostars: A Tool for Measuring Accretion Processes Within Protostellar Disks | Doug Johnstone | File |
| 17:15 | 30 | The unique outburst from S255IR-NIRS3 - clues for high-mass star formation | Bringfried Stecklum | File |
| 18:00 | 90 | Dinner | ||
| 19:30 | 45 | Historical Review of Airborne Astronomy |
Ed Erickson, Eric Becklin |
|
| Start |
Duration
Minutes |
Topic | Presenter | File |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8:30 | 45 | High Mass Star Formation | Jonathan Tan | File |
| 9:15 | 20 | The Location, Clustering, and Propagation of Massive Star Formation in Giant Molecular Clouds | Bram Ochsendorf | File |
| 9:35 | 30 | FORCAST Studies of High-Mass Star Formation on Small and Large Scales | Jim De Buizer | File |
| 10:05 | 20 | Break | ||
| 10:25 | 45 | Feedback | John Bally | File |
| 11:10 | 20 | Feedback and accretion toward proto-O-stars | Adam Ginsburg | File |
| 11:30 | 30 | Chemical Feedback | Helmut Wiesemeyer | -- |
| 12:00 | 120 | Lunch | ||
| 14:00 | 45 | Galactic Center | Mark Morris | File |
| 14:45 | 30 | The Circumnuclear Disk around Sgr A* -- Observations with FIFI-LS | Alfred Krabbe | -- |
| 15:15 | 30 | Investigating Dust Production and Survival with SOFIA and Beyond | Ryan Lau | -- |
| 15:45 | 30 | Break | ||
| 16:15 | 30 | FIR-line spectroscopy of S106 with GREAT/SOFIA as a versatile diagnostic tool for the evolution of massive stars | Nicola Schneider | File |
| 16:45 | 30 | Turbulence and Reconnection Diffusion | Alex Lazarian | File |
| 17:15 | 30 | SPICA and its Instruments in the ESA Cosmic Vision M5 Competition | Frank Helmich | File |
| 18:00 | 90 | Dinner | ||
| 19:30 | 45 | Synergies | Karl Menten | File |
| Start |
Duration
Minutes |
Topic | Presenter | File |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8:30 | 45 | Exploring ISM and Star Formation Physics in the LMC and SMC in the SOFIA Era | Julia Roman-Duval | File |
| 9:15 | 20 | Multi-Wavelength Analysis of the Most Luminous Young Stellar Object in the Large Magellanic Cloud | Omnarayani Nayak | File |
| 9:35 | 20 | SOFIA/GREAT observation of LMC-N11: does [CII] trace regions with a large molecular gas fraction? | Vianney Lebouteiller | File |
| 9:55 | 20 | Break | ||
| 10:15 | 30 | Probing the Large-Scale Multiphase ISM in an Extreme Star Forming Low-Metallicity Environment: 30 Doradus in the LMC | Sue Madden | File |
| 10:45 | 45 | External Galaxies | Gordon Stacey | -- |
| 11:30 | 20 | FIFI-LS Observations of M82 | Christian Fischer | -- |
| 12:00 | 120 | Lunch | ||
| 14:00 | 30 | Unraveling the evolution of the interstellar medium and star formation in the M51 grand-desing spiral galaxy with SOFIA. | Jorge Pineda | File |
| 14:30 | 20 | The origin of cold gas in giant elliptical galaxies and its role in fueling radio-mode AGN feedback | Norbert Werner | File |
| 14:50 | 30 | The High-Resolution Mid-Infrared Spectrometer (HIRMES): a third generation instrument for SOFIA | Gordon Stacey | -- |
| 15:20 | 30 | Break | ||
| 15:50 | 45 | Synthesis | Mike Werner, Hal Yorke | -- |
| 16:35 | 30 | Open Discussion Session: SOFIA 4th Generation Instrument | Erick Young | File |
| 18:00 | 90 | Dinner | ||
Poster Presentations
| Author | Title | File |
|---|---|---|
| A. Boogert | EXES Observations of CH4 and SO2 toward Massive Young Stellar Objects | -- |
| A. Bryant | Characterizing the Circumnuclear Disk around Sgr A* with Far Infrared FIFI-LS Observations | -- |
| A. Dosaj | SOFIA Science Flight Planning | -- |
| E.F. Erickson | Airborne Infrared Astronomical Telescopes | File |
| M.J. Hankins | Infrared Observations of the Arched Filaments in the Galactic Center using SOFIA/FORCAST | -- |
| R. Klein | How are molecular clouds eroded? | File |
| M. Liu | The SOFIA Massive (SOMA) Star Formation Survey - Peering to the Heart of Massive Star Birth | File |
| E.A.C. Mills | Feeding the Milky Way's Supermassive Black Hole | -- |
| E.J. Montiel | Science with the Echelon Cross Echelle Spectrograph | -- |
| C. Pabst | [CII] 158 um Emission from the Orion B Molecular Cloud | -- |
| J.L. Pineda | Characterizing the formation and evolution of molecular clouds in the Magellanic clouds with [CII], [CI] and CO | File |
| J. Radomski | UCHII Morphologies: A Multi-wavelength Re-classification | -- |
| N. Rangwala | SOFIA/EXES 13 micron high spectral resolution observations of Orion IRc2 | File |
| J. Rho | Discovery of Millimeter Shocked Molecular Gas and Molecular Hydrogen from the Supernova Remnant G357.7+0.3: HHSMT, APEX, Spitzer and SOFIA Observations | File |
| G. Sandell | The ionized Jet and Molecular Outflow from NGC7538 IRS1 | -- |
| G. Sandell | LkHa101, an extreme Emission Line Star with a Disk and illuminating an HII region | -- |
| G. Saurage | SOFIA Mission Operations: Behind the Scenes | -- |
| A. Tielens | Physics of the Interstellar Medium | -- |
| A.P.M. Towner | Resolving the Mid-Infrared Population in Massive Protoclusters | -- |
| M.G. Wolfire | [CII], [NII], and [OI] Emission From An Evolving HII Region/PDR | -- |