Astrophysics Journal Club Schedule
Spring 2002

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

Previous journal clubs:Spring 2001 , Fall 2001
Date
Speaker
Topic, Readings, Links,...
February 1 Milos Milosavljevic The Formation of the First Globular Clusters in Dwarf
Galaxies before the Epoch of Reionization
V. Bromm & C.J. Clarke (astro-ph/0201066)
February 8 Parviz Ghavamian Three-Dimensional Studies of the Warm Ionized Medium in the Milky Way using WHAM
Reynolds, Haffner & Madsen (astro-ph/0201392)

Wisconsin H-Alpha Mapper  (WHAM) webpage:
http://www.astro.wisc.edu/wham/.

February 15 Cara Rakowski Distance Scale I

Paper for discussion:
Calibration of the distance scale from galactic Cepheids: I Calibration based on the GFG sample
G. Paturel et al. (astro-ph/0201340)

Backgroung Reading:
Jacoby et al. , Section 3
February 22 Arend Sluis Distance Scale II

Paper for discussion:
Type II Supernovae as Standardized candles
Hamuy, M. & Pinto, P (astro-ph/0201279)
March 1 Miguel Preto da Silva Distance Scale III

Paper for discussion:
Reconciliation of the Surface Brightness Fluctuation and Type Ia Supernova Distance Scales
Ajhar, E.A. et al. (astro-ph/0105366)

Backgroung Reading:
Jacoby et al. , Sections 6 & 9
and/or Galactic Astronomy, Binney and Merrifield, Sec. 7.3.5
March 8 Andrés Jordán Distance Scale IV

Paper for Discussion:
H0 from an orientation-unbiased sample of SZ and X-ray clusters
Jones, M.E. et al. ( astro-ph/0103046 )

Backgroung Reading:
Galactic Astronomy, Binney and Merrifield, Secs. 7.2.2 & 7.2.3
March 15 Meng Li Antibias in Cluster: The Dependence of the Mass-to-Light Ratio on Cluster Temperature
N. Bahcall & J. Comerford (astro-ph/0109366)
March 22 ---- SPRING BREAK
March 29 Juntai Shen The evolution of the Tully-Fisher Relation of Spiral Galaxies
B.L. Ziegler et al. ( ApJ, 564, L69), (astro-ph/0111146)
April 5 Jianxian Wang The Giant X-Ray Flare of NGC 5905: Tidal Disruption of a Star, a Brown Dwarf, or a Planet?
L.-X. Li, R. Narayan, K. Menou (astro-ph/0203191)
April 12 Bingrong Xie Where are the massive close-in extrasolar planets?
Patzold & Rauer (ApJ, 568, L117)
April 19 Andrew Mack New Constraints on Neutron Star cooling from Chandra Observations of 3C58
P. Slane et al. (astro-ph/0204151)
April 26 Mingyan Poon Most Supermassive Black Holes Must Be Rapidly Rotating
M. Elvis, G. Risaliti  & G. Zamorani (astro-ph/0112413)

Revised March 6, 2002