Astronomy Jorunal Club / Spring 2008

Journal club is held in the 14th floor library of Pupin, every Friday beginning at 10:30 am. Bagels and coffee are free for the taking.

Organized by Joshua Schroeder

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Date		Presenter		Paper with link		Comments and annotations
Jan 11		Jacqueline		​A minimum Column density of 1 gm cm^-2 for massive star formation
		Josh		​The Tully-Fisher Zero Point Problem		AKA: Why do we have the wrong y-intercept?
		Emily		​On Signatures of Atmospheric Features in Thermal Phase Curves of Hot Jupiters		Emily wrote this.
Jan 18		Lia		​Prompt Shocks in the Gas Disk Around a Recoiling Supermassive Black Hole Binary		Zoltan came and explained this one.
		Duane		​Downsizing by Shutdown in Red Galaxies		Inspiration for ​this
		Schiminovich		​A STIS Survey for OVI Absorption Systems at 0.12 < z < 0.5 II.: Physical Conditions of the Ionised Gas
Jan 25		Andreas		​Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe constraints on non-Gaussiantiy		Anyone know what a Minkowski functional is?
		Schiminovich		​Why are AGN found in High Mass Galaxies?		AKA: Dark matter major mergers are not galaxy major mergers.
		Erika		​Is Dark Energy an Effect of Averaging?		Answer: No, it's not.
Feb 1		Kyle		​Thermal X-rays from Millisecond Pulsars: Constraining the Fundamental Properties of Neutron Stars		Getting mass to radius relations for "Jack" and "Jill"
		Jim		​The Destruction of Cosmological Minihalos by Primordial Supernovae		Is this where globular clusters come from?
		Josh		​Was the Universe neutral beyond redshift six?		Maybe?
Feb 8		Ian		​The Third Image of the Large-Separation Lensed Quasar SDSS J1029+2623
		Kathryn J		​Dynamical Models of Disk Galaxies with Triaxial Halos
Feb 15		Erika		​Andromeda XVII: A New Low Luminosity Satellite of M31
				​Discovery of a Jupiter/Saturn Analog with Gravitational Microlensing		This is a pretty exciting lightcurve, check it out||
		Schiminovich		​The chemical evolution of a Milky Way-like galaxy: the importance of a cosmologically motivated infall law
Feb 22		Franz		​An Extremely Luminous X-ray Outburst Marking the Birth of a Normal Supernova		What are the odds?
		Josh		​Discovery of a Very Bright Strongly-Lensed Galaxy Candidate at z ~ 7.6
		Erika		​Magnetar-like Emission from the Young Pulsar in Kes 75		Stay tuned: more at pizza lunch.
Feb 29	Joe P.	TBA
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May 2

If you have a paper you would like to discuss, please add it to the wiki with a link so that people can download a copy beforehand. While reading the papers prior to the meeting is encouraged, many people find they enjoy coming even without doing so. We have in the past done as many as five papers in one meeting, but at least two per week is our goal. We also encourage exciting, late-breaking submissions from astro-ph. Bragging rights are given for the most interesting paper mentioned at each journal club.