Rutgers Physics | Astro Group
The Astrophysics Journal Club is held on Thursdays from 12:00
to 1:00 pm in Serin Physics Room 112 for the Fall 2006 semester.


Date

Speaker

Topic, Readings, Links,...

Sept 7

 

Organizational Meeting

Sept 14

Naseem 

What is a planet? - Steven Soter
astro-ph/0608359 

Sept 21

 

No RC 

Sept 28

 

No JC 

Oct 5

Art 

A direct empirical proof of the existence of dark matter -Douglas Clowe et al.
astro-ph/0608407 

Oct 12

Gareth 

"Monocular Measurement of the Spectrum of UHE Cosmic Rays by the FADC Detector of the Hires Experiment" HiRes Collaboration, Astropart. Phys. 23 157-174, 2005
astro-ph/0208301 

Oct 19

Dusan 

Higher Order Contributions to the 21 cm Power Spectrum, Lidz et al. 2006
astro-ph/0610054  

Oct 26

Ross 

"Eavesdropping on radio broadcasts from galactic civilizations with upcoming observatories for redshifted 21 cm radiation" by Loeb & Zaldarriaga
astro-ph/0610377  

Nov 2

Kristine 

"An almost head-on collision as the origin of two off-centre rings in the Andromeda galaxy", by Block et al., Nature, 2006, 443, 832
astro-ph/0610543  

Nov 9

Everyone 

Current Research  

Nov 16

Ricardo 

The Origin of inner Rings in Barred Spiral Galaxies, Schwarz, 1984
ADS 

Nov 23

 

Thanksgiving Recess

Nov 30

Joe 

"Gravitational lensing of epoch-of-reionization gas" by Ue-Li Pen, 2004, New Astronomy 9, 417-424
see here  

Dec 7

Neelima 

"On the Law of Gravity, the Mass of Neutrinos and the Proof of Dark Matter" by Angus et al.
astro-ph/0609125  

Dec 14

Eric 

"The Relationship Between Infrared, Optical, and Ultraviolet Extinction", Cardelli, Clayton & Mathis, 1989, ApJ 345:245-256 ADS

"The Determination of Ultraviolet Extinction from the Optical and Near-Infrared", Cardelli, Clayton & Mathis 1988, ApJL 329:L33-L37 ADS  

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