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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.

Schedule from Previous Semesters


August 24, 2007
Warm HCN, C2H2, and CO in the Disk of GV Tau

Articles picked by Matt Troutman.


May 18 , 2007
Kinematic Decoupling of Globular Clusters with the Extended Horizontal Branch
A Triple Main Sequence in the Globular Cluster NGC 2808

Articles picked by Yu Chen.


May 11 , 2007
Note: No Journal Club last week due to final exams.
Ages for Illustrative Field Stars Using Gyrochronology: viability, limitation and errors

Article picked by Allen Parker.


April 27, 2007
Identification of Absorption Features in an Extrasolar Planet Atmosphere
 
Article picked by Matt Troutman.

April 20, 2007
The First Detection of Near-Infrared CN Bands in Active Galactic
Nuclei: Signature of Star Formation
 
Article picked by Matt Troutman. Guest presenter is Ginger Bryngelson.

March 30, 2007
Survival of a brown dwarf after engulfment by a red giant star
A near-infrared spectroscopic detection of the brown dwarf in the post common envelope binary WD 0137-349
Article picked by Yu Chen.

March 23, 2007
Spring Break -- no journal club.

March 16, 2007
Direct Wimp Detection in Directional Experiments
 
Article picked by Allen Parker.

March 9, 2007
A confirmed location in the Galactic halo for the cloud chain A
Discovery of molecular hydrogen in a high-velocity cloud of the Galactic halo

Article picked by Patrick Baugh.

For supplementary information please see the following two articles:

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/astronomy/galactic_clouds_991123.html

http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/astro-ph/9901029


March 2, 2007
XRT Light curves: Morphology, Flares and Energy
 
Article picked by Hala Eid.

February 22, 2007
 
No Journal Club this week.
 

February 16, 2007
Why Haven't Loose Globular Clusters Collapsed Yet?
 
Article picked by Ginger Bryngelson.

February 9, 2007
Type II Supernovae SN 1987A and SN 1993J
 
Article picked by Mark Theiling.

February 2, 2007
The Discovery of an Anomalous X-Ray Pulsar in the Supernova Remnant Kes 73
The Collapse of Neutron Stars in High-Mass Binaries as the Energy Source for the Gamma-Ray Bursts
Articles picked by Ginger Bryngelson.

January 26, 2007
Hydrodynamic Thermonuclear Runaways in Superbursts
Getting a Kick Out of Numerical Relativity
Articles picked by Allen Parker.

January 19, 2007
A black hole in a globular cluster
A new big gamma-ray burst classification scheme from GRB 060614
Articles picked by Matt Troutman.

 

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