Meeting Time and Format
The Astrophysics Seminar/Journal Club meets in 338 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 first talk this Fall is on September 6th, 2017.
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 Spring 2018
| Date | Talk (Speaker, Article) | Summary (Speaker, Article) |
|---|---|---|
| 1/19 | Organizational meeting | |
| 1/26 | ||
| 2/2 | Shahram Talei Two Recent Improvements in CoSANG |
Amy Jones Colormaps for data display Rainbows are bad Good color mapping Useful stuff for matplotlib |
| 2/9 | ||
| 2/16 | Career panel discussion (2:15-3:30, in GL 223) | |
| 2/23 | Colin Hancock “Quantitative Analysis of Three-armed Spiral Galaxies” |
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| 3/2 | Wenhao Li Poststarburst Galaxies based on IFU Observation |
Jeremy Bailin
An absorption profile centred at 78 megahertz in the sky-averaged spectrum Preethi Nair Update on portable planetarium. |
| 3/9 | Spencer Caldwell Population Synthesis of Cataclysmic Variables Goliasch and Nelson 2015, ApJ, 809, 80 |
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| 3/16 | No event (spring break) | |
| 3/23 | Kavya Mukundan Normal black holes in bulge-less galaxies: the largely quiescent, merger-free growth of black holes over cosmic time Martin et al. (arXiv:1801.09699) |
Shahram Talei
Self-consistent semi-analytic models of the first stars Visbal, Haiman, Bryan 2018MNRAS.475.5246V Lucas Johnson Little Blue Dots in the Hubble Space Telescope Frontier Fields: Precursors to Globular Clusters? Nirmal Baral |
| 3/30 | Brett Addison (Mississippi State) | |
| 4/6 | No event (honors day) | |
| 4/13 | Sreetama Goswami Evidence for High-Energy Extraterrestrial Neutrinos at the IceCube Detector IceCube Collaboration 2013Sci…342E…1I |
Colin Hancock
A density cusp of quiescent X-ray binaries in the central parsec of the Galaxy Wenhao Li A model for AGN variability on multiple timescales Spencer Caldwell Discovery of a new classical nova shell around a nova-like cataclysmic variable |
| 4/20 | Nirmal Baral
Identifying Mergers Using Quantitative Morphologies in Zoom Simulations of High Redshift Galaxies Jacob Morgan |
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| 4/27 | Ashok Timsina Simulating Dwarf-Dwarf Galaxy Flyby Interactions |
Sreetama Goswami
AGN Outflows as Neutrino Sources: An Observational Test Kavya Mukundan Massive, Absorption-selected Galaxies at Intermediate Redshifts Jacob Morgan |
Archive of previously presented articles.