Steward Observatory Journal Club

Fall 2009

Room N305, 12:00 - 1:00, Wednesdays

Contacts: Christopher Walker

Date Speaker Discussion Topic
Sept 16 Romeel Dave A Maximum Stellar Surface Density in Dense Stellar Systems, Hopkins et al 2009, arXiv:0908.4088
Sept 23 Megan Reiter The Diverse Stellar Populations of the W3 Star-Forming Complex , Feigelson & Townsley 2008
Kevin Flaherty Evidence for Disk Photoevaporation Driven by the Central Star, Pascucci & Sterzik, 2009
Sept 30 Jill Bechtold CASSOWARY 20: A Wide Separation Einstein Cross Identified with the X-Shooter Spectrograph, Pettini et al., 2009 ; discussing X-shooter spectrograph
Still need another volunteeer! TBA
Oct 7 Charles Engelbracht Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Galaxies at z~0.1: the Effect of Star Formation and AGN, O'Dowd et al 2009, arXiv:0909.2279
Dennis Zaritsky Measuring the galaxy-mass and galaxy-dust correlations through magnification and reddening, Ménard, B. et al., arXiv:0902.4240
Oct 14 Ben Weiner z~8 Galaxies from Ultra-Deep WFC3/IR Observations over the HUDF, Bouwens et al. 2009, arXiv:0909.1803
Johanna Teske Radiative Transfer Models of Mid-Infrared H2O Lines in the Forming Region of Circumstellar Disks, Meijerink et al. 2009, arXiv:0909.0975
Oct 21 Grant Williams The Host Galaxies of Gamma-Ray Bursts I: ISM Properties of Ten Nearby Long-Duration GRB Hosts Levesque et al. 2009, arXiv:0907.4988 and The High-Metallicity Explosion Environment of the Relativistic Supernova 2009bb Levesque et al. 2009, arXiv:0908.2818
Jared Gabor What Does Clustering Tell Us About the Buildup of the Red Sequence? Tinker & Wetzel 2009, arXiv:0909.1325
Oct 28 Xiaohui Fan Optical Flares from the Tidal Disruption of Stars by Massive Black Holes, Stubbe & Quataert 2009, arXiv:0905.3735
Mark Ammons Feedback from Central Black Holes in Elliptical Galaxies. I. Models with Either Radiative or Mechanical Feedback but not Both, Ciotti, Ostriker,& Proga 2009
Nov 4 Serena Kim The History of the Solar System's Debris Disc: Observable Properties of the Kuiper Belt Booth et al. 2009, arXiv:0906.3755v1
Andy Skemer The Coevality of Young Binary Systems, Kraus & Hillenbrand 2009
Nov 11 Veteran's Day No Journal Club
Nov 18 Dennis Just The Fermi Haze: A Gamma-Ray Counterpart to the Microwave Haze Dobler et al. 2009, arXiv:0910.4583
Craig Kulesa The "True" Column Density Distribution in Star-Forming Molecular Clouds Goodman et al. 2009 and The Perils of Clumpfind: The Mass Spectrum of Substructures in Molecular Clouds Pineda et al. 2009
Nov 25 John Bieging TBA
Fuyan Bian The SINS Survey: SINFONI Integral Field Spectroscopy of z~2 Star-forming Galaxies Schreiber et al., arXiv:0903.1872
Dec 2 Yancy Shirley TBA
Amanda Ford TBA
Dec 9 Kyle Penner Star Formation in Galaxies Along the Hubble Sequence Kennicutt 1998
Pablo Espinoza Debris Disks in the Upper Scorpius OB Association Carpenter et al. 2009, arXiv:0909.4124

Please sign up by contacting Chris Walker at cwalker@as.arizona.edu and/or Johanna Teske at jteske@as.arizona.edu.

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. Pick something important and/or interesting. It doesn't have to be in the last few days of astro-ph.
  • Please send your title and web link to the paper at least a few days in advance to us for posting.


    • Previous Journal Clubs: Fall 2008 Spring 2009