Astronomy Journal Club / Fall 2007

We will meet on Fridays at 10:30 am, in 1402.

Organized by Joshua Schroeder

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Date		Presenter		Paper
Oct 04		Tony Mroczkowski		Joint Fitting of Cluster Profiles in SZ and X-rays
Joint with ISCAP		Wenjuan Fang		Preheating of Gas in Galaxy Clusters
Oct 12		Joshua Schroeder		​On cosmic acceleration without dark energy
		?		?
Oct 19		Joshua Schroeder		​Toward Empirical Constraints on the Global Redshifted 21 cm Brightness Temperature During the Epoch of Reionization
		Joshua Schroeder		​The Global 21 Centimeter Background from High Redshifts
Oct 26		Lia		​Stellar Rotation and variability in the Orion Nebula Cluster (Sections 5+ are the relevant ones)
		Lia		​A rotational and variability study of a large sample of PMS stars in NGC 2264
Nov 02		Kristen Menou		​Testing for Lorentz Violation: Constraints on Standard-Model Extension Parameters via Lunar Laser Ranging
		Lia		​Habitable planets around the star Gl 581?
Nov 09		Dave Spiegel		​Measure the CMB temperature more accurately?
		Emily		​Detection of strong activity in an eclipsing binary brown dwarf system
Nov 16		Ian		​Verifying the Identity of High-Redshift Massive Galaxies Through the Clustering of Lower Mass Galaxies Around Them
		Kyle		​The Polarization of Scattered Lyman Alpha Radiation Around High-Redshift Galaxies
Nov 30		Erika		​Dynamical Constraints on the Local Group from the CMB and 2MRS Dipoles
		?		?
Dec 07		Lia		Precision of Hubble constant derived using black hole binary absolute distances and statistical redshift information
		?		?
Dec 14		Lia		​Precision of Hubble constant derived using black hole binary absolute distances and statistical redshift information
		Erika		​Detection of primordial non-Gaussianity (fNL) in the WMAP 3-year data at above 99.5% confidence
		Mary		​A distant constraint to complex C
		Jacqueline		​disk assembly and scatter in the TF relation
		Jacqueline		​something outrageous