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Astronomy Journal Club

We meet on even Fridays at 2pm in Phillips 277, except for when we have Astrophysics Seminar. Each week, we discuss a current research topic in the field of Astronomy.

Below is the list of speakers and topics for the Fall 2011 semester. Follow the provided links to a paper related to the presentation or an abstract of the talk.

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Schedule of Speakers


Date Speaker(s) Topic
September 16 Katie Eckert
JoEllen McBride
Klessen & Hennebelle - Accretion-driven turbulence as universal process: galaxies, molecular clouds, and protostellar disks
Marmol-Queralto, et al - Integral Field Spectroscopy of a sample of nearby galaxies. I. Sample, Observations and Data Reduction
September 23 Gerald Cecil Braun, Heald, & Beck - "The Westerbork SINGS Survey III. Global Magnetic field Topology"
October 7 Mark Norris A brief review of the US virtual observatory and a related tool, Topcat
November 11 Amy Colon
Special time! - 1:00PM
D'Andrea, et al. - "Spectroscopic Properties of the Star-Forming Host Galaxies and Type Ia Supernova Hubble Residuals in a Nearly Unbiased Sample
November 18 Ricky O'Steen Simon, et al. - "Signals of exomoons in averaged light curves of exoplanets"
December 2 Brandon Bartell Kwak et al. 2011 - "Simulations of High-velocity Clouds. I. Hydrodynamics and High-velocity High Ions"
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