Meeting Time and Format
During Fall and Spring terms, the Astrophysics Seminar/Journal Club meets in 200 Gallalee Hall on
- Wednesdays from 2:00–3:00 p.m. and
- Fridays from 1:00–2:00 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 for Fall 2022 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) |
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| 8/19 | Organizational Meeting | Bill Keel |
| 8/26 | Marko Micic
“Black-hole-triggered star formation in the dwarf galaxy Henize 2-10”, Schutte & Reines (2022Natur.601..329S)
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Hanna Parul
“The Identification of a Dusty Grand Design Spiral Galaxy at z=3.06 with JWST and ALMA” Wu et al. (arXiv:2208.08473) Dean Townsley – AY597 summary |
| 9/02 | Hanna Parul
“Binary parameters from astrometric and spectroscopic errors–candidate hierarchical triples and massive dark companions in Gaia DR3”, Andrew et al. (arXiv:2206.04392) |
Kavya Mukundan
“Revisiting the role of bars in AGN fuelling with propensity score sample matching”, Silva-Lima et al. (arXiv:2203.07794) |
| 9/09 | Sam Boos
“UV Spectra of Type Ia Supernovae” Foley et al. (2016MNRAS.461.1308F), Graham et al. (2015MNRAS.446.2073G), Foley et al. (2020MNRAS.491.5991F) |
Jacob Morgan
“The physics of gas phase metallicity gradients in galaxies” Sharda et al. (arXiv:2102.01234) |
| 9/16 | Praphull Kumar
“White Dwarf Cooling Delays” Garcia-Berro et al. (2010Natur.465..194G), Tremblay et al. (2019Natur.565..202T), Cheng et al. (2019ApJ…886..100C), Bauer et al. (2020ApJ…902…93B), Blouin et al. (2020A&A…640L..11B) |
Nethra Rajavel
“Chandrasekhar-mass white dwarfs are the progenitors of a small fraction of Type Ia supernovae according to nucleosythesis constraints” Bravo et al. (arXiv:2209.04020) Wenhao Li “On the HI Content of MaNGA Major Merger Pairs” Yu et al. (arXiv:2206.06330) |
| 9/23 | Mason Footh
“Potential Black Hole Seeding of the Spiral Galaxy NGC 4424 via an Infalling Star Cluster” Graham et al. (2021, ApJ, 923, 146)
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Annelia Anderson
“The Cosmic Ultraviolet Baryon Survey (CUBS) V: On the thermodynamic properties of the cool Circumgalactic Medium at z ≲ 1” Qu et al. (arXiv:2209.01228)
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| 9/30 | Shahram Talei
“Mass profile of Milky Way mass galaxies with spherical Jeans modeling” (original work)
RileyAnne Sharpe “NuSTAR observations of a heavily X-ray obscured AGN in the dwarf galaxy J144013+024744” Ansh et al. (arXiv:2209.09913)
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| 10/07 | Mustafa Muhibullah
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Jeremy Quijano
Sam Boos “Double detonations: variations in Type Ia supernovae due to different core and He shell masses — II: synthetic observables” Collins et al. (arXiv:2209.04305) |
| 10/14 | Wenhao Li
Matthew Marsee |
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| 10/21 | Ava Ghadimi
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RileyAnne Sharpe
Weidong Jin |
| 10/28 | Kavya Mukundan | Marko Micic
Praphull Kumar |
| 11/04 | Jacob Morgan
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Mustafa Muhibullah
Mason Footh |
| 11/11 | Annelia Anderson
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Shahram Talei
Matthew Marsee |
| 11/18 | Jeremy Quijano
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Ava Ghadimi
Sreetama Goswami |
| 11/25 | Thanksgiving Break | Thanksgiving Break |
| 12/02 | Nethra Rajavel
Sreetama Goswami
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