Journal Club Papers -- Fall 2006

Astronomy Journal Club will meet in the conference room at 11am on Thursdays. All are welcome.


Date
Paper Title
Speaker

Aug 31 First Week of Classes -- No Journal Club

Sept 7 Dynamical Formation of Close Binaries in Globular Clusters: Cataclysmic Variables Ted
Pooley & Hut, 2006, ApJ, 646, L143
Sept 14 The Red Rain Phenomenon on Kerala and its Possible Extraterrestrial Origin Prasanth
Louis & Kumar, 2006, Astrophysics and Space Science, 302, 175
Sept 21 Chondrule formation in particle-rich nebular regions at least hundreds of kilometres across Aaron
Cuzzi & Alexander, 2006, Nature, 441, 483
Sept 28 Fluorine Abundance Variations as a Signature of Enhanced Extra Mixing in Red Giants of the Globular Cluster M4 Christian
Denissenkov, Pinsonneault, and Terndrup, 2006, astro-ph/0604503
Oct 5 HST Imaging of Globular Cluster Candidates in Low Surface Brightness Dwarf Galaxies Jayce
Sharina, Puzia, & Makarov, 2005, A&A, 442, 85
Oct 12 A search for 6Li in stars with planets Kevin
Reddy et al. 2002, MNRAS, 335, 1005
Oct 19 Turbulent Diffusion in Protoplanetary discs: the effect of an imposed magnetic field Scott
Johansen et al 2006, MNRAS, 370, L71.
Oct 26 A strongly s-process enriched RV Tauri star in the LMC Ryan
Reyniers et al. 2006, MmSAI, 77, 949
Nov 2 Abundance gradients in the Milky Way for alpha elements, iron peak elements, barium, lanthanum, and europium Heather
Cescutti et al. 2006, astro-ph/0609813
Nov 9 ACS Photometry of the Remote M31 Globular Cluster B514 Gabe
Galleti et al. 2006, ApJ, 650, L107
Nov 16 cancelled

Nov 23 Thanksgiving!!

Nov 30 No meeting

Dec 7 No meeting


Past Journal Club Listings:

Spring 2006 Fall 2005 Spring 2005 Fall 2004