UCL DEPT. OF SPACE & CLIMATE PHYSICS
MULLARD SPACE SCIENCE LABORATORY

Astronomy Journal Club


On Wednesday mornings, once a fortnight, we meet at 11:30 (unless otherwise stated) for a journal club. The location for each meeting will be announced beforehand.

Attendees bring interesting papers, and a brief introduction is given to the Journal Club. Each paper presentation is then followed by discussion. The entire event should take one hour. The papers could be anything published in the last year in astrophysics, related science and relevant to astronomy.

We encourage MSSL astronomers and astrophysicists to come to Journal Club for a discussion on recent research. Please contact Megan Whewell with suggested papers, or for other JC queries. Links to suggested and discussed papers will be added below.

Calendar 2015
Date Title
21 Jan
Common Room
A spin-down clock for cool stars from observations of a 2.5-billion-year-old cluster
(Meiborn et al, 2015, Nature accepted, doi:10.1038/nature14118)
The Rich Are Different: Evidence from the RAVE Survey for Stellar Radial Migration
(Kordopatis et al, 2014, MNRAS accepted, arxiv.org:1412.5649)
Searching for intermediate mass black holes: understanding the data first
(Bianchini et al, 2015, Proceedings IAU Symposium No. 312, arxiv.org:1501.04114)
4 Feb
Library
Integral manoeuvres for the future
(ESA news article)
Radio-far infrared correlation in "Blue Cloud" galaxies with 0 < Z < 1.2
(Basu et al, 2015, ApJ accepted, arxiv.org:1502.00330)
The companion candidate near Fomalhaut - a background neutron star?
(Neuhauser et al, 2015, MNRAS accepted, arxiv.org:1501.07083)
Characterizing the Star Formation of the Low-Mass SHIELD Galaxies from Hubble Space Telescope Imaging
(McQuinn et al, 2015, ApJ accepted, arxiv.org:1501.07313)
18 Feb
Library
25 year anniversary of Pale Blue Dot photo
Gravitational Lensing by Spinning Black Holes in Astrophysics, and in the Movie Interstellar
(James et al, 2015, Classical and Quantum Gravity accepted, arxiv.org:1502.03808)
A glitch and an anti-glitch in the anomalous X-ray pulsar 1E 1841-045
(Sasmaz Mus et al, 2014, MNRAS accepted, arxiv.org:1411.5274)
Looking for Population III stars with He II line intensity mapping
(Visbal et al, 2015, MNRAS submitted, arxiv.org:1501.03177)
Made-to-measure models of the Galactic box/peanut bulge: stellar and total mass in the bulge region
(Portail et al, 2015, MNRAS accepted, arxiv.org:1502.00633)
Far-infrared observations of an unbiased sample of gamma-ray burst host galaxies
(Kohn et al, 2015, MNRAS accepted, arxiv.org:1501.01004)
4 Mar
Stable Block, Room A
Observation of Comet Lovejoy by the Dark Energy Survey
BBC News story: Bright spotlight on Dawn mission to Ceres
BBC News story: Rosetta catches its own shadow
A dusty, normal galaxy in the epoch of reionization
(Watson et al, 2015, Nature accepted, arxiv.org:1503.00002)
"Spoon-feeding" an AGN
(Mainetti et al, 2015 "Swift:10 years of Discovery", arxiv.org:1502.07835)
Three-dimensional Tomography of the Galactic and Extragalactic Magnetoionic Medium with the SKA
(Han et al, 2015 "Advancing Astrophysics with the Square Kilometre Array", arxiv.org:1412.8749)
18 Mar
Library
1 Apr
NA

~~~~ Easter break ~~~~

15 Apr
Library
29 Apr
Library
13 May
Library
27 May
Library
10 June
Library
24 June
Library
8 July
Library
22 July
Library
5 Aug
NA

~~~~ Summer break ~~~~

19 Aug
NA

~~~~ Summer break ~~~~

2 Sept
NA

~~~~ Summer break ~~~~

16 Sept
Library
30 Sept
Library
14 Oct
Library
28 Oct
Library
11 Nov
Library
25 Nov
Library
9 Dec
Library

Journal club schedules in other years: 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015.


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