Astrophysics Journal Club Schedule
Spring 2001

The astrophysics journal club is held every Friday at 12:00 PM in room W112.

If you would like to see a list of papers which have been recommended for journal club, then click here.

Date
Speaker
Paper

February 2

Arend Sluis

Interferometric Observations of the Cepheid Zeta Geminorum

Lane et al., 2000, Nature, 407, 485

February 9

Cara Rakowski

Pinpointing the Massive Black Hole in the Galactic Center with Gravitationally Lensed Stars

Tal Alexander, submitted to ApJL (astro-ph/0102055)

February 16

Miguel Pretodasilva

Star Formation in a Crossing Time

B. Elmegreen ApJ 530, 277 (astro-ph/9911172)

February 23

Bingrong Xie

Correlation function of ultra-high energy cosmic rays favors point sources

Tinyakov & Tkachev (astro-ph/0102101)

March 2

Juntai Shen

What is the Cosmic-Ray Luminosity of Our Galaxy?

Dar & De Rjula 2001, ApJL, 547, 33 (link to ADS abstract)

March 9

Mingyan Poon

A Cepheid is No More: Hubble's Variable 19 in M33

L.M. Macri, D.D. Sasselov, & K.Z. Stanek (astro-ph/0102453)

March 16

Spring Break

March 23

Vince Jacobs

Comparison Between Extrasolar Planets and Low-Mass Secondaries

Tsevi Mazeh & Shay Zucker (astro-ph/0008087)

April 6

Jianxiang Wang

The Mbh-sigma relation as a constraint on the formation of elliptical galaxies

Ciotti & van Albada (astro-ph/0103336)

April 13

Milos Milosavljevic

Quasi-Stellar Objects, Ultraluminous IR Galaxies, and Mergers

Canalizo, G. & Stockton, A. 2001, ApJ, 555, in press (astro-ph0103332)

April 20

Andy Mack

Intermittent Jolts of Galactic UV Radiation: Mutagenetic Effects

J. Scalo, J.C. Wheeler, & P. Williams (astro-ph/0104209)

Revised April 19, 2001