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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,
interrupted and 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 register in the schedule of talks below.
Please contact IBJ2 or MMP2 to choose a date, or for other JC queries.
| Calendar 2013 |
| Date |
Title |
Speaker |
30 Jan
Library |
The star-forming progenitors of massive red galaxies
(Cattaneo et al. 2013,
MNRAS accepted,
arXiv:1301.2067)
|
Myrto Symeonidis
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6 Feb
Common Room |
Signatures of magnetar central engines in short GRB lightcurves
(Rowlinson et al. 2013,
MNRAS accepted,
arXiv:1301.0629)
|
Max De Pasquale
|
20 Feb
Nu Mt Rm |
Detection of the Characteristic Pion-Decay Signature in Supernova Remnants
(The Fermi-LAT collaboration: Ackermann et al. 2013,
Science Magazine,
arXiv:1302.3307)
|
Idunn Jacobsen
|
13 Mar
Ariel House |
A rapidly spinning supermassive black hole at the centre of NGC 1365
(Risaliti et al. 2013,
Nature 494, 449-451,
arXiv:1302.7002)
|
Missagh Mehdipour
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20 Mar
Nu Mt Rm |
Tickling the CMB damping tail: scrutinizing the tension between the ACT and SPT experiments
(Di Valentino et al. 2013,
arXiv:1301.7343)
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Tom Kitching
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3 Apr
Nu Mt Rm |
G2 can Illuminate the Black Hole Population near the Galactic Centre
(Bartos et al. 2013,
arXiv:1302.3220v1)
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Kinwah Wu
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17 Apr
Common Room |
On the study of Galactic potential via action-based mono-abundance stars distribution function
(Ting et al. 2013,
arXiv:1212.0006)
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Rob Grand
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1 May
Nu Mt Rm |
The Biggest Explosions in the Universe
(Johnson et al.2013,
arXiv:1304.4601v1)
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Richelle de Bokx
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15 May
Nu Mt Rm |
Central Stellar Mass Deficits in the Bulges of Local Lenticular Galaxies, and the Connection with Compact z ~ 1.5 Galaxies
(Dullo & Graham 2013,
arXiv:1303.1273)
|
Ignacio Ferreras
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5 June
Nu Mt Rm |
Dark matter chaos in the Solar System
(Lages & Shepelyansky 2012,
arXiv:1211.0903)
|
Jason Hunt
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19 Jun
Common Room |
Chandra Identification of 26 New Black Hole Candidates in the Central Region of M31
(Barnard et al. 2013, ApJ accepted,
arXiv:1304.7780)
|
Alvina On
|
26 Jun
Ariel House |
Combining Planck with Large Scale Structure gives strong neutrino mass constraint
(Riemer-Sørensen et al. 2013,
arXiv:1306.4153)
|
Ziri Younsi
|
10 Jul
Ariel House |
The NuSTAR Extragalactic Survey: A First Sensitive Look at the High-Energy Cosmic X-Ray Background Population
(Alexander et al. 2013,
arXiv:1307.1733)
|
Graziella Branduardi-Raymont
|
24 Jul
Ariel House |
The age structure of stellar populations in the solar vicinity. Clues of a two-phase formation
history of the Milky Way disk
(Haywood et al. 2013,
arXiv:1305.4663)
|
Daisuke Kawata
|
4 Sep
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18 Sep
Ariel House |
A new way to measure supermassive black hole spin in accretion disc dominated Active Galaxies
(Done et al. 2013, MNRAS accepted,
arXiv:1306.4786)
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Vladimir Yershov
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2 Oct
Ariel House |
Two populations of gamma-ray burst radio afterglow
(Hancock, Gaensler & Murphy 2013, ApJ accepted,
arXiv:1308.4766)
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Sam Oates
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16 Oct
Ariel House |
Halo-driven size and velocity dispersion evolution of early-type
galaxies
(Posti et al. 2013, MNRAS submitted,
arXiv:1310.2255)
|
David Barnes
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30 Oct
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13 Nov
Ariel House |
Star-to-star Iron Abundance Variations in Red Giant Branch Stars in the Galactic Globular Cluster NGC 3201
(Simmerer et al. 2013,
ApJL 647 L7)
|
George Seabroke
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27 Nov
Library |
Chemodynamics of the Milky Way. I. The first year of APOGEE data
(Anders et al. 2013, A&A submitted,
arXiv:1311.4549)
|
Stefano Pasetto
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11 Dec
Ariel House |
The Dust Attenuation Law in Distant Galaxies: Evidence for Variation with Spectral Type
(Kriek & Conroy, 2013, ApJ accepted,
arXiv:1308.1099)
|
Susan Hutton
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Journal club schedules in other years:
2007,
2008,
2009,
2010,
2011,
2012,
2013,
2014,
2015,
2016,
2017,
2018.
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