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  Journal Club

The AstroGroup Journal Club meets every Friday at 3:30pm in Kinard room 224. Listed below are the articles for the current and past meetings.


December 1 , 2006
Infall of gas as the formation mechanism of stars up to 20 times more massive than the Sun
Solar Wind Neon from Genesis: Implications for the Lunar Noble Gas Record
Articles picked by Roggie Boone.

November 24 , 2006
Thanksgiving Holiday -- No journal club this week.

November 17 , 2006
55Fe in Supernova 1987A
Escape of Ionizing Radiation from Star-forming Regions in Young Galaxies
Articles picked by Mark Theiling.

November 10 , 2006
No journal club this week.

November 3 , 2006
Infall of gas as the formation mechanism of stars up to 20 times more massive than the Sun
An energetic stellar outburst accompanied by circumstellar light echoes
Articles picked by Roggie Boone and Keith Davis.

October 27, 2006
An almost head-on collision as the origin of two off-centre rings in the Andromeda galaxy
Direct Detection of the Brown Dwarf GJ 802B with Adaptive Optics Masking Interferometry
Articles picked by Matt Troutman.

October 20, 2006

Optical Interferometry in Astronomy

Metallicity in the Solar Neighborhood Out to 60pc
Articles picked by Allen Parker and Roggie Boone.

October 13, 2006

Environment and the Cosmic Evolution of Star Formation

The Correlation Dimension of Young Stars in Dwarf Galaxies
Articles picked by Keith Davis and Yu Chen.

October 6, 2006

The X-Ray Synchrotron Emission of RCW 86 and the Implications for Its Age

Gravitational Microlensing with the Space Interferometry Mission
Articles picked by Bethany Johns and Ginger Bryngelson.

September 29, 2006
Vega is a Rapidly Rotating Star
A Whirling Dervish
Articles picked by Eric Bubar.

September 22, 2006
Discussion on how to write telescope proposals.
Lead by Eric Bubar.

September 15, 2006
Probing Cosmic Chemical Evolution With Gamma-Ray Bursts: GRB 060206 at z=4.048
Dynamo Action in the Solar Convection Zone and Tachocline: Pumping and Organization of Toroidal Fields
Articles picked by Adria Updike.

September 8, 2006
The Evolution of Galactic Beryllium and Boron Traced by Magnesium and Calcium
The AGN-obscuring Torus: The End of the "Doughnut" Paradigm?
Articles picked by Eric Bubar and Matt Troutman.

September 1, 2006
A Direct Empirical Proof of the Existence of Dark Matter
 
Article picked by Kiran Garimella.

August 25, 2006
Late Light Curves of Normal Type 1a Supervnovae
 
Article picked by Keith Davis.

August 18, 2006

Iron Implantation in Presolar Supernova Grains
A Study of Warm Gas in the Inner Disks around Young Intermediate Mass Stars
Articles were picked by Allen Parker and Matt Troutman.

August 11, 2006
Supernova Fallback: A Possible Site for the r-Process
Neon Abundances in B-Stars of the Orion Association: Solving the Solar Model Problem?
Articles were picked by Simon Schuler.

 

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