Meeting Time and Format
During Fall and Spring terms, the Astrophysics Seminar/Journal Club meets in 338 Gallalee Hall on
- Wednesdays from 2:00–3:00 p.m. and
- Fridays from 2:00–3:00 p.m.
Anyone in the department may attend.
During Summer, we are meeting via Zoom during our normal Friday time. Please contact one of the organizers for the Zoom meeting information and to be added to the notifications email list.
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 on the Space Telescope Science Institute website.
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 Townsley and Jimmy Irwin.
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
Topics for Spring 2021
| Date | Talk (Speaker, Article) | Summary (Speaker, Article) |
|---|---|---|
| 1/15 | Organizational | |
| 1/22 | Marko Micic
“Population of Intermediate Mass Black Holes in Dwarf Galaxies” (original research) |
Kavya Mukundan
“The Relative Role of Bars and Environments in AGN Triggering” Kim & Choi (arXiv:2008.13100) Praphull Kumar “Full compressible 3D magnetohydrodynamic simulation of solar wind” Matsumoto (arXiv:2009.03770) |
| 1/29 | Sreetama Goswami
“Common envelope jets supernovae with a black hole companion as possible high energy neutrino sources” Grichener, Soker (arXiv:2101.05118) |
Ava Ghadimi
“A bright millisecond-duration radio burst from a Galactic Magnetar” CHIME/FRB collaboration (2020 Nature 587, 54) Anna Parul “Using heritability of stellar chemistry to reveal the history of the Milky Way” Jackson et al. (arXiv:2011.06453) |
| 2/5 | Sam Boos:
“Exploring the diversity of double detonation explosions for type Ia supernovae: Effects of the post-explosion helium shell composition” Magee et al. (arXiv:2101.09792) |
Sreetama Goswami: “The Imprint of Large Scale Structure on the Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic Ray Sky” Ding et al. (arXiv:2101.04564)
Annelia Anderson: “The NANOGrav 12.5 yr Data Set: Search for an Isotropic Stochastic Gravitational-wave Background” Arzoumanian et al. (2020ApJ…905L..34A) Nilotpal Mukherjee: “The impact of asymmetric neutrino emissions on nucleosynthesis in core-collapse supernovae II — progenitor dependences” Fujimoto & Nagakuraa (arXiv:2101.09618) |
| 2/12 | Ava Ghadimi: “Precessing magnetars as central engines in short gamma-ray bursts” Suvorov & Kokkotas (arXiv:2101.06908)
Anna Parul: “How to tell when your galaxy had bursty star formation” (original research) |
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| 2/19 | Wei-dong Jin: “Searching for very-high-energy gamma-ray emission associated with IceCube astrophysical neutrinos” (original research)
Kavya Mukundan: “SDSS-IV MaNGA: Spatially resolved star formation in barred galaxies” Fraser-McKelvie et al. (arXiv:2005.08987) |
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| 2/26 | Wenhao Li: “X-ray detected AGN in SDSS dwarf galaxies” Birchall et al. (2020 MNRAS, 492, 2268) | Rebecca Brnich: “Experimental Evidence of Neutrinos Produced in the CNO Fusion Cycle in the Sun” Borexino Collaboration (2020 Nature 587, 577)
Marko Micic: “Chandra Observations of Abell 2261 Brightest Cluster Galaxy, a Candidate Host to a Recoiling Black Hole” Gultekin et al. (arXiv:2010.13980) Shahram Talei: “Measuring the Sun’s velocity using Gaia EDR3 observations of Stellar Streams” Malhan et al. (arXiv:2012.05271) |
| 3/05 | Nilotpal Mukherjee: “Stellar Mass Black Hole Formation and Multi-messenger Signals from Three Dimensional Rotating Core-Collapse Supernova Simulations” Pan et al. (arXiv:2010.02453)
Rebecca Brnich: “GRB 191016A: A Long Gamma-Ray Burst Detected by TESS” Smith et al. (arXiv:2102.11295) |
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| 3/12 | Shahram Talei: “Reconstructing the Last Major Merger of the Milky Way with the H3 Survey” Naidu et al. (arXiv:2103.03251) | Nirmal Baral
Wenhao Li: “SDSS-IV MaNGA: Blueberry Candidates Associated with LSB Galaxies − Merger or Tidal Dwarf Systems?” Paswan et al. (arXiv:2102.08240) Mason Footh: “The Diagnostic Potential of JWST in Characterizing Elusive AGNs” Satyapal et al. (arXiv:2009.05362) |
| 3/19 | Jacob Morgan: “Gaseous Galaxy Halos” Putman et al. (2012ARA&A..50..491P)
Annelia Anderson: “An Algorithm for Reconstructing the Orphan Stream Progenitor with MilkyWay@home Volunteer Computing” Shelton et al. (arXiv:2102.07257) |
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| 3/26 | Nirmal Baral: “Galaxy Zoo DECaLS: Detailed Visual Morphology Measurements from Volunteers and Deep Learning for 314,000 Galaxies” Walmsley et al. (arXiv:2102.08414)
Praphull Kumar: “Tidally excited oscillations in hot white dwarfs” Yu et al. (arXiv:2010.15279) |
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| 4/02 | RileyAnne Sharpe | Sam Boos, Jeremy Quijano,Nethra Rajavel |
| 4/09 | Honor’s Day | Honor’s Day |
| 4/16 | Jeremy Quijano, Nethra Rajavel | |
| 4/23 | Mason Footh | Jacob Morgan, RileyAnne Sharpe, Wei-dong Jin |