Meeting Time and Format
The Astrophysics Seminar/Journal Club meets in 338 Gallalee Hall on:
1. Wednesdays from 2:00 – 3:00p.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 2019
| Date | Talk (Speaker, Article) | Summary (Speaker, Article) |
|---|---|---|
| 08/23 | Organizational Meeting | |
| 08/30 | ||
| 09/06 | Sreetama Goswami
“Search for PeV Gamma-Ray Emission from the Southern Hemisphere with 5 Years of Data from the IceCube Observatory” Aartsen et al. (arXiv:1908.09918) |
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| 09/13 | Gallalee Hall rooftop telescope training (Keel) | |
| 09/20 | Wenhao Li “AGN Properties of Post Mergers in SDSS” |
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| 09/27 | Shahram Talei “From dark matter to stellar halo with CoSANG” |
Shahram Talei “Cosmological Simulations of Galaxy Formation” Vogelsberger et al. (arXiv:1909.07976) Kavya Mukundan “What Determines the Sizes of Bars in Spiral Galaxies?” Erwin (arXiv:1908.08423) |
| 10/04 | Kavya Mukundan “Understanding Barred galaxies in the local universe” |
Dean Townsley “The Progenitors of Calcium-Strong Transients” Shen et al. (arXiv:1908.08056) |
| 10/11 | Rebeca Batalha “Unveiling the Origin of Fossil Groups” |
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| 10/18 | Jacob Morgan “The Fates of the Circumgalactic Medium in the FIRE Simulations” Hafen et al. (arXiv:1910.01123) |
Jeremy Bailin “Dark matter halo shapes in the Auriga simulations” Prada et al. (arXiv:1910.04045) |
| 10/25 | Anna Parul
“On the origin of the chemical bimodality of disk stars: A tale of merger and migration” (https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.09162) |
Jacob Morgan “A New Class of Changing-look LiNERS” Frederick et al. (2019ApJ…883…31F)Wenhao Li “Two New “Turn-off” Changing-look Active Galactic nuclei and Implication on “Partially Obscured” AGNs” Wang et al. (arXiv:1910.02392) |
| 11/01 | (no meeting, mid-semester study break) | |
| 11/08 | Ava Ghadimi
“A New Population of Ultra-High-Energy Gamma-Ray Sources Detected by HAWC” (https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.08609) |
Sreetama Goswami
“The Size, Shape, and Scattering of Sagittarius A* at 86 GHz: First VLBI with ALMA” (https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.06226) |
| 11/15 | Nirmal Baral | Ava Ghadimi
Samuel Boos |
| 11/22 | Samuel Boos | Anna Parul, Marko Micic |
| 11/29 | (no meeting, Thanksgiving break) | (no meeting, Thanksgiving break) |
| 12/06 | Marko Micic | Nirmal Baral |
Archive of previously presented articles.