Rutgers Astrophysics Journal Club
Fall 2003 ScheduleCoordinator: Juntai Shen |
The astrophysics journal club is held every WEDNESDAY at 12:00 PM in Rm. 112W, for the fall of 2003.
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| September 17 | Juntai Shen |
A Dearth of Dark Matter in Ordinary Elliptical Galaxies
Aaron J. Romanowsky et al. (astro-ph/0308518) |
| September 24 | Jianxiang Wang | The Race to Build Supermassive Black Holes
Craig Tyler, Brent Janus, Diego Santos-Noble (astro-ph/0309008) |
| October 1 | Jessica Warren | "Is RX J1856.5-3754 a Quark Star?"
Drake et al. (ApJ 2002, 572, 996) |
| October 8 |
No journal club; lunch |
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| October 15 | Monica Hasegan | "The puzzlingly large Ca II triplet absorption in dwarf elliptical galaxies" Michielsen et al. (astro-ph/0309311) |
| October 22 | Matthew Francis | "Is Cosmic Speed-Up Due to New Gravitational Physics?"
Sean M. Carroll et al. (astro-ph/0306438) |
| October 29 | No journal club | TBA
TBA |
| November 5 | Naseem Rangwala | "The Need for a Second Black Hole at the Galactic Center"
Brad Hansen & Milos Milosavljevic (ApJL 2003, 593, 77) |
| November 12 | No journal club | TBA
TBA |
| November 19 | Ricardo Sanchez | "Is the dark halo of our Galaxy spherical?"
Amina Helmi (astro-ph/0309579 ) |
| November 26 | Miguel Preto da Silva (cancelled) |
"Orbital In-spiral into a Massive Black Hole in a Galactic Center"
Alexander & Morris (ApJL 2003, 590, 29) |
| December 3 | Andres Jordan (cancelled) | "Cold Dark Matter's Small Scale Crisis Grows Up"
Elena D'Onghia & George Lake (astro-ph/0309735 ) |
| December 10 | Neelima Sehgal (cancelled) | "A Young White Dwarf
Companion to Pulsar B1620-26: Evidence for Early Planet Formation" Sigurdsson et al. ( Science 2003 301:193-196 ) |
Last updated on Sept. 11, 2003 by Juntai Shen
Previous journal clubs: Fall 2002, Spring 2002, Fall 2001, Spring 2001.