UNM Astrophysics Journal Club (AJC) Home Page

This page contains the current schedule for the AJC (Fall 2011), links to the papers which will be discussed during the semester, and some links to resources which may be helpful to you.

Meetings are regularly scheduled for 12:00 on Fridays in room 1131. Lunch will be provided for active participants.

You can go directly to the list of resources, the current semester's schedule, or the archive of previous talks.

If you have questions, comments, or complaints, please email the administrator of this page.

Schedule: Fall 2011 (Subject to Change)

2 September 2011
Daniel Zirzow
Shapes and Shaping of Planetary Nebula (omit sections concerning pPNe)
Link to paper - omit pPNe sections

9 September 2011
Laura Zschaechner
Magnetic Fields in Galaxy Clusters
Link to paper - Sections 1-3

16 September 2011
Justin Linford
Magnetic Fields in Galaxy Clusters - Continued
Link to paper - Same as last week, but sections 4-11 (omit section 10)

23 September 2011
Jeff Karle
Measuring Cosmology with Supernovae
Link to paper

30 September 2011
Bob Mesler
Theories of Gamma-Ray Bursts
Link to paper - Read only up to page 30.

7 October 2011

No AJC

14 October 2011
FALL BREAK
No AJC

21 October 2011
Paige Romero
Evolution of Debris Disks
Link to paper

28 October 2011
Daniel Zirzow
The Ages of Stars
Link to paper

4 November 2011
Laura Zschaechner
Rings and Bars: Unmasking Secular Evolution of Galaxies
Link to paper

11 November 2011
Jeff Karle
Dynamics of Elliptical Galaxies and Other Spheroidal Components
Link to paper

18 November 2011
No AJC

Link to paper

25 November 2011
HOLIDAY
No AJC

2 December 2011
Bob Mesler
Epsilon Eridani's Planetary Debris Disk: Structure and Dynamics based on Spitzer and CSO Observations
Link to paper

Resources

• For extremely useful review articles covering many topics in modern astrophysics, visit Annual Reviews of Astronomy and Astrophysics. This is a great resource for doing background research (the big picture).

• Another great resource for extragalactic astronomy and cosmology is LEVEL5, provided by the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED).

• The arXiv.org e-print archive (Astrophysics section), commonly referred to as astro-ph, provides author-supplied papers (submitted and/or accepted to major journals), conference proceedings, et cetera.

• NASA's Astrophysics Data System (ADS) is a great place to search for published journal articles and more. If you are at UNM, you can directly access the articles you find.

• If you are off campus, you may be denied access to recent journal articles when you find them with ADS. UNM's Gold Rush allows access to those journal articles from any location (if you have a UNM NetID).

Archived Talks

Note: This list is not complete. Thanks to B. Creel for helping fill in some of the blanks. If you know what some of the missing talks were, please let me know... thanks!

Fall 2009
Spring 2008
Fall 2007
Spring 2007
Fall 2006
Spring 2006
Fall 2005
Spring 2005
Fall 2004
Spring 2004
Summer 2004
Fall 2003