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.

Normally each speaker critically dissects a refereed research paper, or sometimes closely linked papers. Each paper presentation should be 30 minutes long, followed by discussion. The papers can be anything published in the last year in astrophysics, related science and relevant to astronomy.

We encourage MSSL astronomers and astrophysicists to register in the schedule of talks below. Please contact CJS2 to choose a date, or for other JC queries.

Calendar 2010
Date	Title	Speaker
10 Feb Ariel Hs	Which galaxies host bars and disks? A study of the Coma cluster (Mendez-Abreu et al. 2010, ApJL arXiv:1002.0583 The population of barred galaxies in the local universe (Aguerri et al. 2009, A&A 495, 491)	Curtis Saxton
24 Feb Ariel Hs	(internal astro jamboree)	Ignacio Ferreras Jason Rawlings Missagh Mehdipour Daisuke Kawata
10 Mar	[postponed for Elizabeth Spreadbury Lecture 2010 in London]
17 Mar ν Meet Rm	Second Genaration Planets (Perets 2010, ApJ submitted arXiv:1001.0581)	Kinwah Wu
24 Mar Ariel Hs	Orbital parameters of extrasolar planets derived from polarimetry (fluri & Berdyugina 2010, arXiv:1001.3091)	Ziri Younsi
07 Apr Ariel Hs	The first galaxies: Chemical enrichment, mixing and star formation (Greif et al. arXiv:1003.0472)	Ignacio Ferreras
21 Apr Ariel Hs	The Long-Lost Siblings of the Sun (Portegies Zwart 2009, Sci.Am 301, 40–47; also via Nature)	Dave Vande Putte
05 May	Extremely energetic Fermi gamma-ray bursts obey spectral energy correlations (Amati et al. 2009, A&A 508, 173) The E_p,i – E_iso correlation and Fermi Gamma-Ray Bursts (Amati 2009 “The Shocking Universe—”, arXiv:1002.2232)	Sam Oates
21 May Library	Non-homogeneities in the spatial distribution of gamma-ray bursts (A.A. Raikov, V.V. Orlov, O.B. Beketov, arXiv:1001.4592)	Vladimir Yershov
02 Jun ν Meet Rm	“Comets” orbiting a black hole (R. Maiolino et al. 2010, A&A accepted, arXiv:1005.3365)	Neil Johnson
16 Jun ν Meet Rm	The formation of disk galaxies in computer simulations (Mayer et al. 2008, ASL 1, 7; arXiv:0801.3845)	Awat Rahimi
30 Jun ν Meet Rm	Variability of the H-beta line profiles as an indicator of orbiting bright spots in accretion disks of quasars: a case study of 3C 390.3 (Jovanovic et al. 2010, ApJ accepted, arXiv:1005.5039)	Missagh Mehdipour
14 Jul Ariel Hs	The Primordial Origin Model of Magnetic Fields in Spiral Galaxies (Sofue et al. 2010, PASJ accepted; arXiv:1006.5250)	Phyllis Yen
28 Jul Library	UHECRs from magnetic reconnection in relativistic jets (Giannios et al. 2010, MNRAS submitted, arXiv:1007.1522)	Xinyu Li
11 Aug ν Meet Rm	Probing Fundamental Constant Evolution with Redshifted Conjugate-Satellite OH lines (Kanekar et al. 2010, ApJ 716, L23; arXiv:1004.5383)	Jennifer Chan
08 Sep ν Meet Rm	Faraday Rotation Measure due to the Intergalactic Magnetic Field (Akahori & Ryu 2010, ApJ in press, arXiv:1009.0570)	Kinwah Wu
22 Sep ν Meet Rm	The non-causal origin of the black hole-galaxy scaling relations ( Jahnke & Maccio 2010, ApJL, arXiv:1006.0482)	Curtis Saxton
06 Oct ν Meet Rm	Effects of supernova feedback on the formation of galaxy discs (Sannapieco et al. 2008, MNRAS 389, 1137; arXiv:0804.3795)	Awat Rahimi
20 Oct ν Meet Rm	The two phases of galaxy formation (Oser et al. 2010, arXiv:1010.1381)	Ignacio Ferreras
24 Nov ν Meet Rm	Spectroscopic confirmation of a galaxy at redshift z~8.6 (Lehnert et al, Nature 467, 940; arXiv:10104312) HerMES: SPIRE Emission from Radio Selected AGN (Seymour et al 2011)	Mikako Matsuura Myrto Symeonidis
15 Dec Ariel Hs	Rapid TeV variability in Blazars: Proton-Synchrotron Radiation of blobs produced at by Jet-Star Interaction (Barkov et al. 2010, Phys Rev D, arXiv:1012.1787)	Ziri Younsi

Journal club schedules in other years: 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018.