Rutgers Astrophysics Journal Club

Date

Speaker

Topic, Readings, Links,...

Sept 29

Chelsea  

Empirical Constraints on the Evolution of the Relationship between Black Hole and Galaxy Mass: Scatter Matters
Rachel Somerville
arXiv:0901.2930
 

Oct 6

Bob  

The Least Luminous Galaxy: Spectroscopy of the Milky Way Satellite Segue 1
Marla Geha et al.
arXiv:0809.2781
 

Oct 13

John  

Plantesimal Disk Microlensing
Kevin Heng and Chuck Keeton
arXiv:0903.5304
 

Oct 20

Luke  

X-ray Evolution of SNR 1987A:
The Radial Expansion
Judith L. Racusin et al.
arXiv:0908.2097
 

Oct 27

Eve  

The Orbits of the Gamma-ray Binaries
LS I +61 303 and LS 5039
C. Aragona and M. V. McSwain et al.
arXiv:0902.4015
 

Nov 3

Curtis  

New constraints on the primordial black hole number density from Galactic gamma-ray astronomy
R. Lehoucq, M. Casse, J. M. Casandjian, and I. Grenier
arXiv:0906.1648
 

Nov 10

Michael  

Reaction of Accretion Disks to Abrupt Mass Loss During Binary Black Hole Merger
Sean M. O'Neill et al.
arXiv:0812.4874
 

Nov 17

Ross  

Dark Matter Halo Creation in Moving Barrier Models
Jorge Moreno et al.
arXiv:0712.4100
 

Nov 24

Jean  

Dec 1

Amruta