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	Recent solar storm and resulting Aurorae Space as never seen before - Space centres seen through the eyes of photographer Edgar Martins (partnered with ESA) Upcoming partial solar eclipse (from the UK) - MET Office news story Explosive lithium production in the classical nova V339 Del (Nova Delphini 2013) (Tajitsu et al, 2015, Nature accepted, arxiv.org:1502.05598) The Effects of Boxy/Peanut Bulges on Galaxy Models (Fragkoudi et al, 2015, MNRAS accepted, arxiv.org:1503.03068) A New Merging Double Degenerate Binary in the Solar Neighborhood (Debes et al, 2015, AJ accepted, arxiv.org:1503.00349) Mapping high-velocity H-alpha and Lyman-alpha emission from Supernova 1987A (France et al, 2015, ApJL accepted, arxiv.org:1502.05403)
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.