Plenary sessions: Belvedere Theater.
  
  
  
  
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    | Wednesday    May 20 | 
    
  
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    11:00  | 
    Opening | 
    van Leeuwen, Joeri | 
    Welcome to NAC 2015 | 
  
  
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    Supercomputing Session | 
  
  
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    11:05 | 
    Burkert, Andreas  | 
    Watching a Little Gas Cloud on its Way into the Galactic    Supermassive Black Hole | 
  
  
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    11:45 | 
    Vandenbroucke, Bert | 
    Advanced methods in Nbody/hydrodynamical simulations | 
  
  
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    12:05 | 
    van der Helm, Edwin | 
    Creating Arches | 
  
  
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    12:25 | 
    Portegies Zwart, Simon | 
    Simulating a disk galaxy on a star-by-star basis | 
  
  
    12:45  | 
    Lunch | 
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    Restaurant DayZZ/EveZZ and Grand Cafe | 
    
  
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    14:00 | 
    Ripperda, Bart | 
    Particle acceleration due to interacting tilt and kink instabilities in    repelling current channels | 
  
  
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    14:20 | 
    van der Hulst, Thijs | 
    Big Data Challenges for Future HI surveys | 
  
  
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    14:40 | 
    Liska, Matthew | 
    Using GPUs in 3D general relativistic MHD simulations on    workstations and on supercomputers | 
  
  
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    15:00 | 
    Alexander, Paul  | 
    The Square Kilometer Array | 
  
  
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    15:40 | 
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    End of Supercomputing Session | 
  
  
    15:40  | 
    Coffee | 
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    16:00  | 
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    16:00 | 
    Tolstoy, Eline | 
    MICADO – first light near-infrared imaging and spectroscopy at the E-ELT | 
  
  
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    16:20 | 
    Deller, Adam | 
    PSRPI: 50+ new distances to radio pulsars | 
  
  
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    16:40 | 
    Goddi, Ciriaco | 
    Imaging the event horizon of Sgr A* with BlackHoleCam | 
  
  
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    17:00 | 
    Rodenhuis, Michiel | 
    NOVA: A leading partner in E-ELT instrumentation | 
  
  
    17:20  | 
    Welcome Reception &    Town hall 1 -- NWO, NOVA in Patio | 
  
  
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    18:30  | 
    Dinner | 
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    Restaurant DayZZ/EveZZ and Grand Cafe | 
    
  
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    20:00  | 
    Evening Program | 
    Belvedere Theater | 
  
  
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    20:05 | 
    Bussemaker, Jet* | 
    Gender Diversity in Astronomy (remote) | 
  
  
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    * Netherlands  Minister for Education, Culture and Science  | 
  
  
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    20:10 | 
    Brage, Tomas | 
    Implicit bias and Gender issues in Physics | 
  
  
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    20:30 | 
    Rudolf, Petra | 
    Diversity in Dutch Physics | 
  
  
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    20:50 | 
    Jansen, Jim (moderator) 
      Bak Nielsen, Ann-Sofie 
      Brage, Tomas 
      Deller, Adam 
      Rudolf, Petra
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    Panel Discussion "Lessons learnt, paths forward" | 
  
  
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    21:20 | 
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    End of Evening Program | 
  
  
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    | Thursday    May 21 | 
    
  
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    09:00 | 
    Giese, Nadine | 
    3D characterization of neutral hydrogen in galaxies | 
  
  
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    09:20 | 
    Adams, Betsey | 
    Searching for gas-bearing dark matter halos in the Local Group | 
  
  
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    09:40 | 
    Vink, Jacco | 
    The exceptionally powerful TeV gamma-ray emitters in the Large Magellanic Cloud | 
  
  
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    10:00 | 
    de Boer, Jozua | 
    SPHERE/ZIMPOL imaging of the circumstellar disk of BP Psc | 
  
  
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    10:20 | 
    van der Marel, Nienke | 
    Mind the gap: gas and dust in planet forming disks with ALMA | 
  
  
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    10:40 | 
    Baan, Marieke | 
    8 tips to make media and outreach persons happy | 
  
  
    11:00  | 
    Coffee | 
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    3 Parallel Sessions, 4    15-min contributed talks each, program below  | 
  
  
    12:30  | 
    Lunch | 
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    Restaurant DayZZ/EveZZ and Grand Cafe | 
    
  
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    3 Parallel Sessions, 5    20-min contributed talks each, program below  | 
  
  
    15:30  | 
    Coffee | 
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    16:00 | 
    Heida, Marianne | 
    Dynamical Mass Measurements of ULXs in the Near-Infrared | 
  
  
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    16:20 | 
    Ribeiro, Valerio | 
    Some things Novae | 
  
  
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    16:40 | 
    Michilli, Daniele | 
    First Batch of Discoveries from the LOFAR High-Time-Resolution LOTAAS Survey | 
  
  
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    17:00 | 
    Wijers, Ralph | 
    Forbidden transients? | 
  
  
    17:20  | 
    Mid-conference Borrel    & Town hall 2 -- ASTRON, SRON  in Patio | 
  
  
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    18:30  | 
    Dinner | 
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    Restaurant DayZZ/EveZZ and terrace | 
    
  
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    20:00  | 
    Poster Prize Award | 
    Patio and Marilyns Bar | 
  
  
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    Darts Competition | 
    Patio and Marilyns Bar | 
  
  
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    | Friday  May 22 | 
    
  
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    09:00 | 
    Brinkerink, Christiaan | 
    What shape is Sgr A*? Constraining model predictions with VLBI closure    phases | 
  
  
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    09:20 | 
    Enriquez, J. Emilio | 
    Searching for Extraterrestrial Intelligence in the NL | 
  
  
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    09:40 | 
    Hessels, Jason | 
    New Kids on the Block: Meet the Transitional Millisecond Pulsars | 
  
  
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    10:00 | 
    Aghanim, Nabila | 
    Planck 
      latest results | 
  
  
    10:45  | 
    Coffee (and possible    check-out) | 
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    11:30 | 
    Moscibrodzka, Monika | 
    Particle accelerations and synchrotron emission from a relativistic jet | 
  
  
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    11:50 | 
    Janssen, Gemma | 
    Detecting gravitational waves with a pulsar timing array | 
  
  
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    12:10 | 
    Brentjens, Michiel | 
    The solar eclipse through radio eyes | 
  
  
    12:30  | 
    Lunch | 
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    Restaurant DayZZ/EveZZ and Grand Cafe | 
    
  
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    13:45 | 
    Uttley, Phil | 
    Why X-rays from black holes vary: the role of the accretion disc | 
  
  
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    14:05 | 
    Baneke, David | 
    Astronomy in the Netherlands: a history | 
  
  
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    14:25 | 
    Verdoes Kleijn, Gijs | 
    Treasure trove OmegaCAM for the Dutch community | 
  
  
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    14:45 | 
    Patruno, Alessandro | 
    The Reflares and Outburst Evolution in the Accreting Millisecond Pulsa r    SAX J1808.4--3658 | 
  
  
    15:05  | 
    Closing | 
    Waelkens, Christoffel | 
    Closing, announcing NAC2016. | 
  
  
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    | NOVA Network 1 -- Formation and evolution of galaxies: from high redshift to the    present  | 
  
  
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    in Grasuil 1 | 
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    11:30 | 
    Daprà, Mario | 
    Using molecular hydrogen to constrain a cosmological variation of the    proton-to-electron mass ratio | 
  
  
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    11:45 | 
    Santoro, Francesco | 
    The Outer Filament of Centaurus A as seen by MUSE | 
  
  
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    12:00 | 
    Podigachoski, Pece | 
    Star formation in z > 1 3CR host galaxies as seen by Herschel | 
  
  
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    12:15 | 
    Orru, Emanuela | 
    LOFAR results on a famous double-double radio galaxy | 
  
  
    12:30  | 
    Lunch | 
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    13:45 | 
    Hess, Kelley | 
    Cold gas, star formation, and substructure: Tracing the Mass Assembly of    the Antlia Cluster | 
  
  
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    14:05 | 
    Yoon, Ilsang | 
    Bound isothermal sphere reloaded: Implication to the distribution of    intracluster medium | 
  
  
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    14:25 | 
    Kokotanekov, Georgi | 
    Feedback galaxy clusters in MSSS | 
  
  
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    14:45 | 
    Maccagni, Filippo | 
    The triggering of radio AGN: the intriguing case of GPS source    PKS1718-649 | 
  
  
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    15:05 | 
    Martinez Barbosa, Carmen Adriana | 
    Solar siblings in the Gaia era | 
  
  
    15:25  | 
    Coffee | 
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    | NOVA    Network 2: Formation and evolution of stars and planetary systems  | 
  
  
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    11:30 | 
    Ramirez Agudelo, Oscar Hernan | 
    On the stellar and wind properties of massive stars in 30 Doradus | 
  
  
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    11:45 | 
    Menu, Jonathan | 
    Evolving evolutionary scenarios for disks around intermediate-mass young stars | 
  
  
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    12:00 | 
    Koumpia, Evgenia | 
    Thermal balance in S140: Mysterious fine structure lines as mapped with    GREAT/SOFIA | 
  
  
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    12:15 | 
    Schwarz, Henriette | 
    Spin measurement of the directly imaged extrasolar planet, GQ Lupi b | 
  
  
    12:30  | 
    Lunch | 
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    13:45 | 
    de Koter, Alex | 
    Are all massive stars part of multiple systems? | 
  
  
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    14:05 | 
    Pijloo, Janatie | 
    The EGAPS Open Cluster Catalogue | 
  
  
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    14:25 | 
    Wijnen, Thomas | 
    Accretion onto Protoplanetary Discs | 
  
  
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    14:45 | 
    Zapartas, Manos | 
    The impact of binarity of massive stars on the delay time distribution of    core-collapse supernovae | 
  
  
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    15:05 | 
    Kenworthy, Matthew | 
    METIS: detecting and characterising exoplanets in the thermal infrared | 
  
  
    15:25  | 
    Coffee | 
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    | NOVA Network 3: The astrophysics of black holes, neutron stars and white dwarfs | 
  
  
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    11:30 | 
    Jaodand, Amruta | 
    Is the missing link pulsar J1023 spinning up or down? | 
  
  
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    11:45 | 
    Lyu, Ming | 
    Investigating spectral and timing properties of the mHz QPOs in the    low-mass X-ray binary 4U 1636-53 | 
  
  
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    12:00 | 
    Smits, Roy | 
    ARTS: A new radio transient system at the WSRT | 
  
  
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    12:15 | 
    Rivera, Liliana | 
    Compact Binaries in the Globular Cluster 47 Tucanae | 
  
  
    12:30  | 
    Lunch | 
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    13:45 | 
    Bilous, Anna | 
    LOFAR Census of Non-Millisecond Pulsars | 
  
  
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    14:05 | 
    Kondratiev, Vlad | 
    LOFAR Census of Millisecond Pulsars | 
  
  
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    14:25 | 
    Aranzana, Ester | 
    The ubiquitous rms--flux relation: from CVs to AGNs | 
  
  
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    14:45 | 
    Borghese, Alice | 
    Discovery of a narrow phase-dependent spectral feature in the XDINS RX    J0720.4-3125 | 
  
  
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    15:05 | 
    Rapisarda, Stefano | 
    Testing propagating mass accretion rate fluctuations model PROPFLUC on    Black Hole X-ray Binaries | 
  
  
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    Albert, Joshua G. | 
    Future Detectability of Hyper Velocity Stars with Gaia | 
  
  
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    Allen, Veronica | 
    Small Scale Chemistry and    Kinematics of G35.20N with ALMA | 
  
  
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    Antonellini, Stefano | 
    Understanding water in protoplanetary disks | 
  
  
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    Bonnerot, Clément | 
    Disc formation from tidal    disruptions of stars on eccentric orbits | 
  
  
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    Cheng, Zheng | 
    The cooling of the neutron star    in EXO 0748-676 in quiescence with XMM-Newton | 
  
  
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    Franse, Jeroen | 
    Update on the 3.5 keV X-ray line    from galaxies and cluster | 
  
  
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    Frieswijk, Wilfred | 
    The LOFAR Long Term Archive | 
  
  
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    Gotberg, Ylva | 
    Binary products and their impact on the radiative feedback of massive stars populations | 
  
  
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    Grin, Nathan | 
    Testing rotational mixing in    O-type giants and supergiants in 30 Doradus | 
  
  
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    Guo, Difeng | 
    The Sco-Cen OB association and    the Gould Belt | 
  
  
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    Hagen, Jorrit | 
    Axisymmetric dynamical    orbit-based models of dwarf spheroidal galaxies | 
  
  
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    Hakim, Kaustubh | 
    High pressure-temperature    experiments to probe the interior of carbide exoplanets | 
  
  
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    Hartke, Johanna | 
    New optical spectroscopy of    Draco and Ursa Minor | 
  
  
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    Hutten, Marten | 
    Faint end photometry of the    Fornax Cluster with OmegaCAM on the VST | 
  
  
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    Jacobs, Bob | 
    Characterising the Galactic    Transient & Variable Optical Skies | 
  
  
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    Khanna, Shourya
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    Probing the photoionized outflows and variability in the NLS1 
      galaxy Arakelian 564: An XMM-Newton view | 
  
  
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    Lahuis, Fred | 
    Science Opportunities with the    James Webb Space Observatory | 
  
  
    09  | 
    Mernier, Francois | 
    Abundance distribution in the    hot intra-cluster gas of Abell 4059 | 
  
  
    22  | 
    Mikhailov, Klim | 
    Is SXT 1H 1905+000 a millisecond    pulsar now? | 
  
  
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    NWO and the PEPSci PhD students and postdocs
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    Introducing PEPSci - The Planetary and ExoPlanetary Science Programme | 
  
  
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    Oostrum, Leon | 
    The 2012 decline of the R    Coronae Borealis star V854 Cen | 
  
  
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    Ootes, Laura | 
    The accretion rate dependence of    burst oscillation amplitude | 
  
  
    28  | 
     Ramatsoku, Mpati | 
    Discovery of an obscured, nearby, rich cluster | 
  
  
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    Roelofs, Freek | 
    Observing time-variable black    holes with the Even Horizon Telescope | 
  
  
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    Saladino Rosas, Martha Irene | 
    Mass transfer in binary stars | 
  
  
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    Saxena, Aayush | 
    Estimating number counts of    steep-spectrum radio sources at high redshifts | 
  
  
    26  | 
    Schootemeijer, Abel | 
    The naked helium star in the    binary φ Persei – clue to missing type Ib/c supernovae progenitors? | 
  
  
    10  | 
    Shulevski, Aleksandar | 
    A low frequency look of two giant radio galaxies | 
  
  
    20  | 
    van Bemmel, Ilse | 
    BlackHoleCam activities in JIVE | 
  
  
    21  | 
    Verbeke, Robbert | 
    First stars shaping faint,    gas-rich dwarfs and the origin of the baryonic Tully-Fischer relation | 
  
  
    24  | 
    Wang, Yanan | 
    Modelling the X-ray spectra of    the black hole candidate 4U 1630-47 during its 2012 outburst | 
  
  
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    Zari, Eleonora | 
    Herschel-Planck dust optical    depth and column density maps |