Meeting Time and Format
During Fall and Spring terms, the Astrophysics Seminar/Journal Club meets
- Wednesdays from 2:00–3:00 p.m. in 227 Gallalee Hall
- Fridays from 2:00–3:00 p.m. in 200 Gallalee Hall
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 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 Preethi Nair.
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 Fall 2022
| Date | Talk (Speaker, Article) | Summary (Speaker, Article) |
|---|---|---|
| 1/13 | Sreetama Goswami
“The TeV Sun Rises: Discovery of Gamma rays from the Quiescent Sun with HAWC” HAWC Collaboration (arXiv:2212.00815) |
Organizing schedule |
| 1/20 | Ava Ghadimi
“Probing magnetars as high-energy neutrino emitters with IceCube” (original research) |
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| 1/27 | RileyAnne Sharpe
“A multi-messenger study of the blazar PKS 0735+178: a new major neutrino source candidate” Sahakyan et al. (2023MNRAS.519.1396S) |
Anna Parul
“Distant Echoes of the Milky Way’s Last Major Merger” Chandra et al. (arXiv:2212.00806) Praphull Kumar “Evolution of AM CVn Binaries with White Dwarf Donors” Chen, Chen, & Han (2022ApJ…935….9C) |
| 2/3 | Mustafa Muhibullah | Sricharan Balaji
Shahram Talei Kavya Mukundan |
| 2/10 | Peter Gwartney | Ava Ghadimi
Jeremy Quijano |
| 2/17 | Luke Bloom
Jacob Morgan |
Sam Boos |
| 2/24 | Nethra Rajavel
Jeremy Quijano |
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| 3/3 | Annelia Anderson | Mason Footh
RileyAnne Sharpe Jacob Morgan |
| 3/10 | Anna Parul
Matthew Marsee |
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| 3/17 | Spring Break – no meeting | — |
| 3/24 | Praphull Kumar | Nethra Rajavel
Luke Bloom |
| 3/31 | Sam Boos
Sricharan Balaji |
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| 4/7 | Honors day – no meeting | — |
| 4/14 | Mason Footh | Mustafa Muhibullah
Matthew Marsee |
| 4/21 | Kavya Mukundan
Marko Micic |
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| 4/28 | Marko Micic
Annelia Anderson Peter Gwartney Wenhao Li |