Astronomy Journal Club / Fall 2008

Journal club is held in the 14th floor library of Pupin, every Friday beginning at 1:00 pm. Desserts and coffee will be free for the taking.

Organized by Jacqueline

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Date		Presenter		Paper with link		Comments and annotations
Oct 10		Jacqueline		Are mergers responsible for universal halo properties ​http://arxiv.org/pdf/0809.1322
		Lia		Paper by Darwin about tidal torques ​http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1879Obs.....3...79D
				and Ringwood about moon formation ​http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v322/n6077/pdf/322323a0.pdf
Oct 17		Emily		STIS Imaging of the HR 4796A Circumstellar Debris Ring ​http://arxiv.org/abs/0810.0286
		David S.		SDSSJ092712.65+294344.0: NGC 1275 at z=0.7? ​http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/0810.1244
				A recoiling supermassive black hole in the quasar SDSSJ092712.65+294344.0? ​http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/0804.4585
Oct 24		Joe P.	Optical Observations of SAX J1808.4-3658 During Quiescence ​http://lanl.arxiv.org/abs/0810.0489
		Erika		Young Stars and their Relation to Halpha and UV Emission Timescales in the M81 Outer Disk ​http://arxiv.org/abs/0810.0266
Oct 31		Canceled due to Tri-State Astronomy meeting
Nov 7		Sarah		Mergers and disk survival in LCDM ​http://arxiv.org/abs/0811.0861
				The Science Impact of Astronomy PhD Granting Departments in the United States​http://arxiv.org/abs/0811.0311
		Jules		Very fast optical flaring from a possible new Galactic magnetar ​http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v455/n7212/full/nature07308.html
				Flares from a candidate Galactic magnetar suggest a missing link to dim isolated neutron stars ​http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v455/n7212/full/nature07328.html
Nov 14		Kristen		Star Formation Around Super-Massive Black Holes ​http://arxiv.org/abs/0810.2723
Nov 21		Mary
Dec 5
Dec 12

Please sign up with a link to the paper you would like to discuss, so that people can download a copy beforehand. It is encouraged for you to choose a paper outside of your research topics. Please sign-up WELL in advance and prepare a reasonable length presentation.