Astronomy Journal Club

On Wednesday mornings, once a fortnight, we meet at 11:30 (unless otherwise stated) for a journal club. The location for each meeting will be announced beforehand.

Attendees bring interesting papers, and a brief introduction is given to the Journal Club. Each paper presentation is then followed by discussion. The entire event should take one hour. The papers could be anything published in the last year in astrophysics, related science and relevant to astronomy.

We encourage MSSL astronomers and astrophysicists to come to Journal Club for a discussion on recent research. Please contact Megan Whewell with suggested papers, or for other JC queries. Links to suggested and discussed papers will be added below.

Calendar 2015
Date	Title
21 Jan Common Room	A spin-down clock for cool stars from observations of a 2.5-billion-year-old cluster (Meiborn et al, 2015, Nature accepted, doi:10.1038/nature14118) The Rich Are Different: Evidence from the RAVE Survey for Stellar Radial Migration (Kordopatis et al, 2014, MNRAS accepted, arxiv.org:1412.5649) Searching for intermediate mass black holes: understanding the data first (Bianchini et al, 2015, Proceedings IAU Symposium No. 312, arxiv.org:1501.04114)
4 Feb Library	Integral manoeuvres for the future (ESA news article) Radio-far infrared correlation in "Blue Cloud" galaxies with 0 < Z < 1.2 (Basu et al, 2015, ApJ accepted, arxiv.org:1502.00330) The companion candidate near Fomalhaut - a background neutron star? (Neuhauser et al, 2015, MNRAS accepted, arxiv.org:1501.07083) Characterizing the Star Formation of the Low-Mass SHIELD Galaxies from Hubble Space Telescope Imaging (McQuinn et al, 2015, ApJ accepted, arxiv.org:1501.07313)
18 Feb Library	25 year anniversary of Pale Blue Dot photo Gravitational Lensing by Spinning Black Holes in Astrophysics, and in the Movie Interstellar (James et al, 2015, Classical and Quantum Gravity accepted, arxiv.org:1502.03808) A glitch and an anti-glitch in the anomalous X-ray pulsar 1E 1841-045 (Sasmaz Mus et al, 2014, MNRAS accepted, arxiv.org:1411.5274) Looking for Population III stars with He II line intensity mapping (Visbal et al, 2015, MNRAS submitted, arxiv.org:1501.03177) Made-to-measure models of the Galactic box/peanut bulge: stellar and total mass in the bulge region (Portail et al, 2015, MNRAS accepted, arxiv.org:1502.00633) Far-infrared observations of an unbiased sample of gamma-ray burst host galaxies (Kohn et al, 2015, MNRAS accepted, arxiv.org:1501.01004)
4 Mar Stable Block, Room A	Observation of Comet Lovejoy by the Dark Energy Survey BBC News story: Bright spotlight on Dawn mission to Ceres BBC News story: Rosetta catches its own shadow A dusty, normal galaxy in the epoch of reionization (Watson et al, 2015, Nature accepted, arxiv.org:1503.00002) "Spoon-feeding" an AGN (Mainetti et al, 2015 "Swift:10 years of Discovery", arxiv.org:1502.07835) Three-dimensional Tomography of the Galactic and Extragalactic Magnetoionic Medium with the SKA (Han et al, 2015 "Advancing Astrophysics with the Square Kilometre Array", arxiv.org:1412.8749)
18 Mar Library	Recent solar storm and resulting Aurorae Space as never seen before - Space centres seen through the eyes of photographer Edgar Martins (partnered with ESA) Upcoming partial solar eclipse (from the UK) - MET Office news story Explosive lithium production in the classical nova V339 Del (Nova Delphini 2013) (Tajitsu et al, 2015, Nature accepted, arxiv.org:1502.05598) The Effects of Boxy/Peanut Bulges on Galaxy Models (Fragkoudi et al, 2015, MNRAS accepted, arxiv.org:1503.03068) A New Merging Double Degenerate Binary in the Solar Neighborhood (Debes et al, 2015, AJ accepted, arxiv.org:1503.00349) Mapping high-velocity H-alpha and Lyman-alpha emission from Supernova 1987A (France et al, 2015, ApJL accepted, arxiv.org:1502.05403)
1 Apr NA	~~~~ Easter break ~~~~
15 Apr Library	45 year anniversary of Apollo 13 mission The Swift GRB Host Galaxy Legacy Survey — II. Rest-frame NIR Luminosity Distribution and Evidence for a Near-Solar Metallicity Threshold (Perley et al. 2015, ApJ submitted, arxiv.org:1504.02479) Identifying the source of perytons at the Parkes radio telescope (Petroff et al, 2015, MNRAS submitted, arxiv.org:1504.02165)
29 Apr Library	25th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope launch Protests in Hawaii about the Thirty Meter Telescope project The abundance of satellites depends strongly on the morphology of the host galaxy (Ruiz et al, 2015, MNRAS submitted, arxiv.org:1504.02777) Coevolution Between Supermassive Black Holes and Bulges Is Not Via Internal Feedback Regulation But By Rationed Gas Supply Due To Angular Momentum Distribution (Cen, 2015, ApJL accepted, arxiv.org:1504.07248)
13 May Stable Block A	ESO News Release: The Dark Side of Star Clusters Telescope clash deeply rooted in Hawaii’s past UK General Election result: What will a Conservative government mean for UK science? UK researchers fret about downgrading of science minister role A Periodically Varying Luminous Quasar at z=2 from the Pan-STARRS1 Medium Deep Survey: A Candidate Supermassive Black Hole Binary in the Gravitational Wave-Driven Regime (Liu et al, 2015, ApJ published, arxiv:1503.02083) Beasts of the Southern Wild: Discovery of nine Ultra Faint satellites in the vicinity of the Magellanic Clouds (Koposov et al, 2015, ApJ accepted, arxiv:1503.02079) Stellar Kinematics and Metallicities in the Ultra-Faint Dwarf Galaxy Reticulum II (Simon et al, 2015, ApJ submitted, arxiv:1504.02889)
27 May Library	ESA News: Four decades of tracking European spacecraft Hawaiian telescope fight prompts new rules for Mauna Kea "The Brightest Galaxy Ever Discovered Shines Like 300 Trillion Suns" Active galactic nuclei flicker: an observational estimate of the duration of black hole growth phases of ~1e5 years (Schawinsky et al, 2015, MNRAS accepted, arxiv:1505.06733) Neutrino and Cosmic-Ray Emission from Multiple Internal Shocks In Gamma-Ray Bursts (Bustamante et al, 2015, Nature published, arxiv:1409.2874)
10 June Library
24 June Library
8 July Library
22 July Library
5 Aug NA	~~~~ Summer break ~~~~
19 Aug NA	~~~~ Summer break ~~~~
2 Sept NA	~~~~ Summer break ~~~~
16 Sept Library
30 Sept Library
14 Oct Library
28 Oct Library
11 Nov Library
25 Nov Library
9 Dec Library

Journal club schedules in other years: 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015.