Meeting Time and Format
The Astrophysics Seminar/Journal Club meets in 328 Gallalee Hall on:
1. Wednesdays from 2:30 – 3:30p.m. and
2. Fridays from 2:00 – 3:00 p.m.
Anyone in the department may attend.
On Wednesday’s we participate in the live broadcast of colloquium talks hosted by NASA/AURA’s Space Telescope Science Institute. The schedule for the talks is available here.
The Friday meeting consists of two segments:
- 20-minute talk (+10 minute discussion)
- article summary and discussion (5-10 minutes)
Volunteering for Article Summaries
Please send your articles to Dean and Jimmy. If your article is too old to be interesting, replace it!
Please propose articles that are fairly recent (within a few months or so), are of interest to you, and you feel you can digest and summarize well. Check out the list of previously presented articles.
Where to Find Articles
- astro-ph on arXiv: “the firehose,” raw and unfettered
- The Astrophysical Journal: the main U.S. journal for astrophysics
- The Astrophysical Journal: Letters: short articles selected to highlight topics of broad interest
- The Astronomical Journal: complement of ApJ with slightly more observation-oriented content
- Astronomy and Astrophysics: main European journal, letters section at the beginning of each issue, each issue sectioned by topic (not all topics appear in each issue)
- Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: main British journal, also has a letters section.
- Astroparticle Physics: some IceCube results are published here, also a good place for dark matter and cosmic ray work
- Physical Review D: broader scope — this is the Physical Review section that includes particle astrophysics and cosmology
Schedule for Fall 2018
| Date | Talk (Speaker, Article) | Summary (Speaker, Article) |
|---|---|---|
| 8/31 | Organizational meeting
Ron Buta: update on SN2017eaw |
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| 9/14 | Colin Hancock
“Quantitative Analysis of Three-arm Spiral Galaxies” |
Dean Townsley “Three Hypervelocity White Dwarfs in Gaia DR2: Evidence for Dynamically Driven Double-Degenerate Double-Detonation Type Ia Supernovae” Shen et al (arXiv:1804.11163) |
| 9/21 | ||
| 9/28 | Shahram Talei | |
| 10/5 | (special 45-minute talk)
Amy Jones |
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| 10/12 | Wenhao Li | |
| 10/19 | Nirmal Baral | |
| 10/26 | Fall Break | |
| 11/2 | Sreetama Goswami | |
| 11/9 | Jacob Morgan | Marcos Santander “Multimessenger observations of a flaring blazar coincident with high-energy neutrino IceCube-170922A” 2018 Science eaat1378 “Neutrino emission from the direction of the blazar TXS 0506+056 prior to the IceCube-170922A alert” 2018 Science 361, 147 |
| 11/16 | Kavya Mukundan | |
| 11/23 | Thanksgiving Break | |
| 11/30 | Spencer Caldwell | |
| 12/7 |
Archive of previously presented articles.