Astro-ph Club -- Summer 2010

In the spirit of journal club, and as a way to keep up with Astro-ph, the "Astro-ph Club" will meet in the library on Thursdays at 11:00 am (following coffee).

People are not required to sign up, but we encourage that everyone try to bring one paper they read from Astro-ph that week. There will be NO projector, so come ready to draw and explain your favorite graph, or bring an extra copy of the important pictures if necessary. People should provide a quick summary (~10 minutes) in order to stimulate conversation on the paper topic.

This page will serve as a reference for the papers we discussed at each session.

Organized by Lia

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Date	Presenter		Paper with link
June 10	Lia		​Cometary shaped sources at the Galactic Center - Evidence for a wind from the central 0.2 pc
	Josh		​The Deceptively Boring PSR J1738+0333
	Christine		​Exploring the Origin and Fate of the Magellanic Stream with Ultraviolet and Optical Absorption
June 17	Taka		​A large change in the predicted number of small halos due to a small amplitude oscillating inflaton potential
	Lia		​Metallicity and Far-Infrared Luminosity of High Redshift Quasars
	Yuan		​Detecting Star Formation in Brightest Cluster Galaxies with GALEX
	Jon		​The Directly Imaged Planet around the Young Solar Analog 1RXS J160929.1-210524
	Joe		​PS1 MDS Discovery of an Extragalactic Nova near NGC 4258
June 24	Neil		​The Discovery of the Most Metal-Rich White Dwarf: Composition of a Tidally Disrupted Extrasolar Dwarf Planet
	Yuan		​HST FUV Observations of Brightest Cluster Galaxies: The Role of Star Formation in Cooling Flows and BCG Evolution
			​The Host Galaxies of Gamma-Ray Bursts II: A Mass-Metallicity Relation for Long-Duration Gamma-Ray Burst Host Galaxies
July 1	Lia		​Future management needs of a "software-driven" science community
	Hsiao-Wen Chen		​http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2010ApJ...714.1521C
	Chris Thom		Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) hot and hot halo results
	David S.		​The GALEX Arecibo SDSS Survey II
	Jules		​Switched magnetospheric regulation of pulsar spin-down
July 8			Canceled due to seminar
July 22		Kathryn J		​http://lanl.arxiv.org/abs/1007.3493 Hyper-velocity star
		Josh		​The exotic fraction among unassociated Fermi sources
		Jacqueline		​Our Milky Way as a pure-disk galaxy-A challenge for galaxy formation
		Jacqueline		​Precise black hole masses from megamaser disks: black hole-bulge relations at low mass
July 29		Arlin		​The R136 star cluster hosts several stars whose individual masses greatly exceed the accepted 150 Msun stellar mass limit
		Lia		​A Variable Black Hole X-Ray Source in a NGC 1399 Globular Cluster
		Jules / Jeff		​Direct Observation of the Cooling of the Cassiopeia A Neutron Star
August 5		Josh P.		​Interactive Visualization of the Largest Radioastronomy Cubes
		Everyone		​Dimitar Sasselov: How we found hundreds of potential Earth-like planets
August 19		Jim		​An Emerging Class of Bright, Fast-evolving Supernovae with Low-mass Ejecta
August 26		Lia		​Dust grain growth in rho-Ophiuchi protoplanetary disks
		Jim		​The dark matter density at the Sun's location
		Kyle		​Three Mistakes in Pulsar Electrodynamics