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 Ellis Owen with suggested papers, or for other JC queries. Links to suggested and discussed papers will be added below.

Calendar 2016
Date	Title
13 Jan Common Room	Gravitational-wave rumours in overdrive: Nature article Alien life could thrive in ancient star clusters: Nature article Largest ever 'age map' traces galactic history: BBC article Observing Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays with Smartphones (Whiteson et al, 2015, arxiv:1410.2895) SA self-consistent analytical magnetar model: The luminosity of Gamma-ray burst supernovae is powered by radioactivity (Cano et al. 2016, MNRAS, arxiv:1601.02610) Half of the Most Luminous Quasars May Be Obscured: Investigating the Nature of WISE-Selected Hot Dust-Obscured Galaxies (Assef et al, 2015, ApJ, arxiv:1408.1092) NuSTAR and XMM-Newton Observations of Luminous, Heavily Obscured, WISE-Selected Quasars at z ~ 2 (Stern et al. 2014, ApJ submitted, arxiv:1403.3078)
27 Jan Library	Caltech Researchers Find Evidence of a Real Ninth Planet: NASA article Green pea galaxies may have been responsible for re-ionizing the Universe: Galaxy Zoo blog post When the Milky Way turned-off the lights: APOGEE provides evidence of star formation "quenching" in our Galaxy (Haywood et al, 2016, A&A, arxiv:1601.03042) *Non-parametric analysis of the rest-frame UV sizes and morphological disturbance amongst L galaxies at redshift 4 to 8 (Curtis-Lake et al, 2016, MNRAS, arxiv:1409.1832) Dark matter subhalos and unidentified sources in the Fermi 3FGL source catalog** (Schoonenberg et al, 2016, JCAP submitted, arxiv:1601.06781)
10 Feb TBC
24 Feb TBC
9 March TBC
23 March TBC
6 April TBC
20 April TBC
4 May TBC
18 May TBC
1 June TBC
15 June TBC
29 June TBC
13 July TBC
27 July TBC
August NA	~~~~ Summer break ~~~~
14 Sept TBC
28 Sept TBC
12 Oct TBC
26 Oct TBC
9 Nov TBC
23 Nov TBC
7 Dec TBC
21 Dec TBC

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