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Astronomy Journal Club
On Wednesday mornings, once a fortnight, we meet at 11:00 (unless otherwise stated) for a journal club. The location for each meeting will be announced beforehand.
Each paper presentation should be 30 minutes long,
followed by discussion.
The papers can be anything published in the last year
in astrophysics, related science and relevant to astronomy.
We encourage members of the astro group to join the rota for giving talks.
The current list includes:
Carlos Allende Prieto,
Graziella Branduardi-Raymont,
Ignacio Ferreras,
Daisuke Kawata,
Missagh Mehdipour,
Awat Rahimi,
Curtis Saxton,
Patricia Schady,
Nicholas Seymour,
Roberto Soria,
Myrto Symeonidis,
Dave Vande Putte,
Vladimir Yershov,
Kinwah Wu,
Ziri Younsi,
Silvia Zane,
Houri Ziaeepour.
Contact CJS2 if you would like to join the rota, or have any other queries.
| Calendar 2009 |
| Date |
Title |
Speaker |
14 Jan
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Interpretation of the Extragalactic Radio Background
(Seiffert et al. 2009; ApJ??
arXiv:0901.0559)
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Curtis Saxton
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28 Jan
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Dissecting galaxy formation: I- Comparison between pure dark matter and
baryonic models
(Emilio Romano-Dfaz et al. ApJ submitted,
arXiv:0901.1317)
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Houri Ziaeepour
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11 Feb
Ariel House |
The metallicity of the most distant quasars
(Juarez et al. 2009, A&AL arXiv:0901.0974)
The Evolution of the Broad-Line Region among SDSS Quasars
(Nagao et al. 2006, A&A 447, 157;
astro-ph/0510385)
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Missagh Mehdipour |
25 Feb
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The First Galaxies: Signature of the Initial Starburst
(Johnson et al. 2009, MNRAS submitted
arXiv:0902.3263)
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Patricia Schady
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11 Mar
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CO line emission in the halo of a radio galaxy at z=2.6
(Nesvadba et al. 2009, MNRAS Lett,
arXiv:0903.0862)
The growth and assembly of a massive galaxy at z ~ 2
(Hatch et al. 2009, MNRAS,
arXiv:0901.3353)
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Nick Seymour
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25 Mar
Ariel House |
The test for suppressed dynamical friction in a constant density core of dwarf galaxies
(Inoue 2009, MNRAS submitted,
arXiv:0901.4861)
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Curtis Saxton
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08 Apr
ν meet rm |
The 21 cm Signature of Early Relic HII Region
(Tokutani, M. et al., 2009, MNRAS accepted
arXiv:0902.1018)
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Kinwah Wu |
29 Apr
ν meet rm |
Environmental dependence of AGN activity. I.: the effects of host galaxy
(Choi et al. 2009, ApJ accepted,
arXiv:0904.2597)
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Missagh Mehdipour |
20 May
Common Rm |
New spectral state of supercritical accretion flow with
comptonizing outflow
(Kawashima et al. 2009, PASJ
arXiv:0904.4123)
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Ziri Younsi |
03 Jun
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The orbital velocity anisotropy of cluster galaxies: evolution
(Biviano & Poggianti 2009, A&A
arXiv:0905.2853)
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Ignacio Ferreras
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17 Jun
Cafeteria |
What is driving the HI velocity dispersion?
(Tamburro et al. 2009; AJ 137, 4424;
arXiv:0903.0183)
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Daisuke Kawata
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01 Jul
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Public perception of astronomers:revered, reviled, ridiculed
(West 2009, IAU Symp 260;
arXiv:0905.3956)
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Dave Vande Putte
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08 Jul
Ariel House |
First results from DAMA/LIBRA and the combined results with DAMA/NaI
(Bernabei et al. 2008 Eur.Phys.J.C56:333;
arXiv:0804.2741)
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Houri Ziaeepour
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30 Jul
2pm |
Lenticular Galaxies and Their Environments
(van den Bergh 2009, ApJ in press;
arXiv:0907.3715)
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Curtis Saxton
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12 Aug
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Resonant stripping as the origin of dwarf spheroidal galaxies
(D'Onghia et al. 2009, Nature, 460, 605;
arXiv:0907.2442)
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Kinwah Wu |
26 Aug
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Testing Einstein's special relativity with Fermi's short hard
gamma-ray burst GRB090510
(Fermi GBM/LAT collaborators
arXiv:0908.1832)
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Houri Ziaeepour
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23 Sep
Ariel House |
Why Socialism?
(Einstein 1949,
Monthly Review)
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Awat Rahimi
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07 Oct
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Evidence for Correlations Between Nuclear Decay Rates
and Earth-Sun Distance
(Jenkins et al. 2009, Astropart. Phys., 32:42-46;
arXiv:0808.3283)
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Vladimir Yershov
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21 Oct
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X-ray Astronomy in Laboratory with a Miniature
Compact Object Produced by Laser-Driven Implosion
(Fujioka et al. 2009, Nature Physics
arXiv:0909.0315)
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Roberto Soria
& Kinwah Wu |
04 Nov
Ariel House |
•How do galaxies populate Dark Matter halos?
•Constraints on the relationship between stellar mass and halo mass at low and high redshift
(Moster et al.
arXiv:0903.4682;
Guo et al.
arXiv:0909.4305)
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Ignacio Ferreras
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02 Dec
Library |
Radio Quiet AGNs as Possible Sources of Ultra-high Energy Cosmic Rays
(Pe'er et al. 2009, Phys.Rev.D,
arXiv:0911.1776)
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Missagh Mehdipour
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16 Dec
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The Submillimetre Properties of Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies
(Clements et al 2009, MNRAS
arXiv:0911.3593v1)
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Katherine Tugwell
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Journal club schedules in other years:
2007,
2008,
2009,
2010,
2011,
2012,
2013,
2014,
2015,
2016,
2017,
2018.
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