The astrophysics journal club is held every Friday at 12:00 PM in room W112.Astrophysics Journal Club Schedule
Spring 2002
Previous journal clubs:Spring 2001 , Fall 2001
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| 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:
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| 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