Steward Observatory Journal Club: Fall 2008

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Room N305, 12:00 - 1:00 Wednesdays
Contact: Romeel Davé
Assistants/Henchmen: Ben Weiner, Michael Meyer

Fall 2008 Schedule

Date Speaker Discussion Topic
Aug 27 Michael Meyer How To Give a Bad Talk
Romeel Davé Meet & Greet the Department
Sep 3
Dimitrios Psaltis Noble, Krolik, and Hawley 2008: Direct Calculation of the Radiative Efficiency of an Accretion Disk around a Black Hole
Jared Gabor Dekel et al. 2008: Early Massive Galaxy Formation by Cold Streams Through Hot Haloes
Sep 10 Jill Bechtold Watson et al (2008): First Stellar Velocity Dispersion Measurement of a Luminous Quasar Host with Gemini North Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics
Ken Wong Caputi et al. (2008): The close environment of 24 micron galaxies at 0.6< z< 1.0 in the COSMOS field
Sep 17
Mike Cooper Schawinski et al. (2008): Destruction of molecular gas reservoirs in early-type galaxies by AGN feedback
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Sep 24 Ed O. Learned et al. (2008): The Cepheid Galactic Internet
Dennis Just Lafreniere et al. (2008): Direct Imaging and Spectroscopy of a Planetary Mass Candidate Companion to a Young Solar Analog
Oct 1
Dennis Zaritsky Dong et al. (2008): Spitzer Observations of Star Formation in the Extreme Outer Disk of M83
Werk et al. (2008): Isolated OB Associations in Stripped H I Gas Clouds
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Oct 8
Joannah Hinz Gogarten et al. (2008): Young Stars and their Relation to Halpha and UV Emission Timescales in the M81 Outer Disk
Weisz et al. (2008): The Recent Star Formation Histories of M81 Group Dwarf Irregular Galaxies
Kristian Finlator Gnedin et al. (2008): Escape of Ionizing Radiation from High-Redshift Galaxies
Wise & Cen (2008): Ionizing Photon Escape Fractions from High Redshift Dwarf Galaxies
Oct 15
Chad Engelbracht Ayres (2008): Solar Forbidden Oxygen, Revisited
Erik Brogt Ogilvie (2008): Impact of Context-Rich, Multifaceted Problems on Students Attitudes Towards Problem-Solving
Oct 22
Phil Hinz Lagrange et al. (2008): Extrasolar planets and brown dwarfs around A-F type stars VI. High precision RV survey of early type dwarfs with HARPS
Jen Lotz Daddi et al. (2008): Two bright submillimeter galaxies in a z=4.05 proto-cluster in GOODS-North, and accurate radio-infrared photometric redshifts
Schinnerer et al. (2008): Molecular Gas in a Submillimeter Galaxy at z=4.5: Evidence for a Major Merger at 1 Billion Years after the Big Bang
Oct 29
INTERNAL .
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Nov 5
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Nov 12
Kyle Penner Koenig et al. (2008): Investigating ChaMPlane X-ray sources in the Galactic Bulge with Magellan LDSS2 spectra
Xiaoying Xu Shen et al. (2008): Quasar Clustering from SDSS DR5: Dependences on Physical Properties
Nov 19
Laird Close Kalas et al. (2008): Optical Images of an Exosolar Planet 25 Light-Years from Earth
Marios et al. (2008): Direct Imaging of Multiple Planets Orbiting the Star HR 8799
Casey Meakin Bate (2008): Stellar, brown dwarf, and multiple star properties from hydrodynamical simulations of star cluster formation
Price & Bate (2008): The effect of magnetic fields on star cluster formation
Nov 26
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Dec 3
Yancy Shirley Caselli et al. (2008): Survey of ortho-H2D+(1_10 - 1_11) in Dense Cloud Cores
Suresh Sivanandam Holden et al. (2008): The Ellipticities of Cluster Early-type Galaxies from z~1 to z~0: No Evolution in the Overall Distribution of Bulge-to-Disk Ratios



Please sign up by contacting Romeel . For students who take JC for credit, please talk to Romeel about your paper selection at least two weeks in advance.

Some suggestions:

  • Presentations should be 20 min long, leaving 10 min for discussions. A good rule of thumb is 2 minutes per (content-filled) overhead.
  • For students (not just those taking it for credit), please talk to your advisor and/or mentoring committee about the paper selection, and encourage them to come to your talk and give you feedback.
  • Typically people present recent papers, but we also encourage classic papers, especially those relevant to important new results.
  • Please select your paper carefully. Consult a local expert if you are unsure about the quality of the paper. Don't limit yourself to the most recent posting.
  • Please send your title and link to the paper at least a few days in advance to us for posting.

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