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
“Dynamical tests of a new semi-analytic force in CoSANG” |
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| 10/5 | (special 45-minute talk)
Amy Jones “Studying extra-planar, diffuse ionized gas with stacked MaNGA galaxies” |
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| 10/12 | Wenhao Li
“The MOSDEF Survey: AGN Identification, Selection Biases and Host Galaxy Properties” |
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| 10/19 | Nirmal Baral
“Non-parametric morphological classification of galaxies and errors present” |
Wenhao Li
“The MURALES survey. I. A dual AGN in the radio galaxy 3C459?” Balmaverde et al (arXiv:1809.04083) |
| 10/26 | Fall Break | |
| 11/2 | Sreetama Goswami
“Dissecting the region around IceCube-170922A: the blazar TXS 0506+056 as the first cosmic neutrino source” Padovani et al (arXiv:1807.04461) |
Kavya Mukundan
“Spatially resolved star formation and metallicity profiles in post-merger galaxies from MaNGA” Thorp et al. (arXiv:1810.00897) |
| 11/9 | Jacob Morgan
“Figuring Out Gas and Galaxies in Enzo (FOGGIE). I. Resolving Simulated Circumgalactic Absorption at 2 < z < 2.5” Peeples et al. (arXiv:1810.06566) |
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| 11/16 | Kavya Mukundan
“The impact of bars and interactions on optically selected AGNs in spiral galaxies” Alonso et al. (arXiv:1808.05536) |
Nirmal Baral
“Mildly Suppressed Star Formation in Central Regions of MaNGA Seyfert Galaxies” Bing et al. (arXiv:1810.00365) Spencer Caldwell “Double-Degenerate Carbon-Oxygen and Oxygen-Neon White Dwarf Mergers: A New Mechanism for Faint and Rapid Type Ia Supernovae” Kashyap et al. (arXiv:1811.00013) |
| 11/23 | Thanksgiving Break | |
| 11/30 | Spencer Caldwell | Jacob Morgan
Sreetama Goswami |
| 12/7 | 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 |
Colin Hancock
Shahram Talei |
Archive of previously presented articles.