Astrophysics Journal Club Schedule
Fall 2002

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

Previous journal clubs:Spring 2001 , Fall 2001, Spring 2002 -- Suggested papers
Date
Speaker
Topic, Readings, Links,...
September 27 Juntai Shen A 20,000 Msolar Black Hole in the Stellar Cluster G1
Gebhardt, Rich & Ho ( ApJ, 578, L41 )
October 4 Miguel Preto da Silva Structure in the Dusty Debris around Vega
Wilner et al.( ApJ, 569, L115)
October 11 Jianxian Wang On the central structure of M15
Baumgardt et al.(astro-ph/0210133)
Addendum: "Hubble Space Telescope Evidence for an Intermediate-Mass
Black Hole in the Globular Cluster M15: II. Kinematical Analysis
and Dynamical Modeling"

Gerssen et al. (astro-ph/0210158)
October 18 Monica Hasegan A candidate M31/M32 intergalactic microlensing event
Paulin-Henriksson et al. (astro-ph/0206387)
October 25 Cara Rakowski The Dark Matter Density Profile of the Lensing Cluster MS 2137-23: A Test of the Cold Dark Matter Paradigm
Sand, Treu and Ellis (ApJ, 574, L129)
November 1 Jessica Warren Population X: Are the super-Eddington X-ray sources beamed
jets in microblazars or intermediate mass black holes?

Koerding, Falcke & Markoff ( A&A, 382, L13 )
November 8 Jacqueline Kelly The Low-Mass X-ray Binary-Globular Cluster connection in NGC 4472
Kundu, Maccarone & Zepf (ApJ, 574, L5)
November 15 Maya Todua The Spectrum of Earthshine: A Pale Blue Dot Observed from the Ground
Woolf et al. (ApJ, 574, 430)
November 22 Ricardo Sanchez "A stellar relic from the early Milky Way"
Christlieb et al. (astro-ph/0211274)
November 29 ---- THANKSGIVING
December 6 Basil Mchunu TBA

Revised November 18, 2002