Journal Club Papers -- Spring 2007

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



Date
Paper Title
Speaker

January 11 AAS Meeting -- No Journal Club

January 18 No meeting

January 25 Can ambipolar diffusion solve the cosmic lithium problem? Jeff
Chuzhoy, 2006, astro-ph/0611300
February 1 Mineralogy and Petrology of Comet 81P/Wild 2 Nucleus Samples Aaron
Zolensky et al. 2006, Science, 314, 5806, 1735
February 8 Evidence for Tidal Effects in the Stellar Dynamics of the Large Magellanic Cloud Ted
Olsen & Massey, 2006, ApJL, 656, in press (Feb 20)
February 15 Neutron-Capture Elements in the s- and r-Process-rich Stars: Constraints on Neutron-Capture Nucleosynthesis Processes Christian
Zhang et al. 2006, ApJ, 642, 1075
February 22 The Extended Star Formation History of the Andromeda Spheroid at Twenty One Kiloparsecs on the Minor Axis Jayce
Brown et al, 2007, astro-ph/0702448
March 1 Systematic Uncertainties in Stellar Mass Estimation for Distinct Galaxy Populations Prasanth
Kannappan & Gawiser, 2007, ApJ, 657, L5
March 8 The Connection between Gamma-Ray Bursts and Extremely Metal-poor Stars: Black Hole-forming Supernovae with Relativistic Jets Ryan
Tominaga et al. 2007, ApJL, 657, L77
March 15 Spring Break - No Journal Club

March 22 A Dusty Disk Around WD1150-153: Explaining the Metals in White Dwarfs by Accretion from the Interstellar Medium versus Debris Disks Tala
Kilic & Redfield 2007, astro-ph/0701549
March 29 The Benchmark Cluster Reddening Project. II. A Reddening Value for M67 Kevin
Taylor 2007, ApJ, 133, 370
April 5 No meeting

April 12 No meeting

April 19 No meeting

April 26 No meeting

Past Journal Club Listings:

Fall 2006 Spring 2006 Fall 2005 Spring 2005 Fall 2004