Astronomy Journal Club / Spring 2009

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
Feb 13		Josh		​Implications of Recent Measurements of the Milky Way Rotation for the Orbit of the Large Magellanic Cloud
		Jacqueline		Trigonometric Parallaxes of Massive Star Forming Regions:VI. Galactic Structure and Non-circular motions. How big is the MW?		this is a draft by Reid et al. Mark Reid will talk at NYU on Feb 19
Feb 20		Bishop Lecture by Andy Gould				no journal club today
Feb 27		Erika		​HI Observations of the Supermassive Binary Black Hole System in 0402+379
		David S		​Physical Conditions in the ISM of Intensely Star-Forming Galaxies at Redshift ~2		Lehnert et al. 2009
Mar 6		Zoltan		​Accretion Onto Seed Black Holes in the First Galaxies		Milosavljevic et al. 2009
		Jim
Mar 13		Jen		​The HI content of early-type galaxies from the ALFALFA survey. II. The case of low density environments		Grossi et al 2009
		Greg		​Hot gas halos around disk galaxies: Confronting cosmological simulations with observations		Rasmussen et al 2009
Mar 27		Jules		​Ground based gamma-ray astronomy with Cherenkov Telescopes		Jim Hinton 2008
		Joo		​Molecular Hydrogen Deficiency In HI – Poor Galaxies and its Implications for Star Formation		Fumagalli et al. 2009
Apr 3		Christine		​On the origin of the 511-keV emission in the Galactic Centre		Bandyopadhyay et al. 2009
		Jules		​Ground based gamma-ray astronomy with Cherenkov Telescopes		Jim Hinton 2008
Apr 10		Cameron		​The Formation and Survival of Discs in a Lambda-CDM Universe		Scannapieco et al 2009
		Kathryn J		​Gas-Rich Mergers in LCDM: Disk Survivability and the Baryonic Assembly of Galaxies		Stewart et al 2009
Apr 17		Destry		​The Dynamic Radio Sky: An Opportunity for Discovery		Lazio et al 2009
		Mary		​The Cosmic Decline in the H2/HI-Ratio in Galaxies		D. Obreschkow, S. Rawlings
Apr 24				Town Hall meeting for decadal survey and Big Apple colloquium by Tim Heckman		no journal club today
May 1		Duane		​The metallicity gradient as a tracer of history and structure: the Magellanic Clouds and M33 galaxies		Maria-Rosa L. Cioni
		Stephanie		​Ram pressure histories of cluster galaxies		M. Brueggen (1), G. De Lucia (2)
May 8
May 15

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.