UNM Astrophysics Journal Club (AJC) Home Page

This page contains the current schedule for the AJC (Fall 2009), 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 12:15 on Fridays in room 190. 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 2009 (Subject to Change)

4 September 2009
Laura Zschaechner
Cepheid Calibrations of Modern Type Ia Supernovae: Implications for the Hubble Constant
Link to paper
Optional Readings:
Link to optional paper

11 September 2009
Katie Richardson-McDaniel
Dark Matter and Pulsar Signals for Fermi LAT, PAMELA, ATIC, HESS and WMAP Data
Link to paper

18 September 2009
Steve Tremblay
Powerful Flares from Recoiling Black Holes in Quasars
Link to paper

25 September 2009
Eric Miller
TBA

2 October 2009
Fonda Day
Unabsorbed Seyfert 2 Galaxies: the Case of "Naked" AGN
Link to paper

9 October 2009
No AJC

16 October 2009
FALL BREAK
No AJC

23 October 2009
Travis McIntyre
Questions Surrounding Elliptical Galaxy Formation
Link to paper - READ SECTION 11.1.1 ONLY

30 October 2009
Laura Zschaechner
Galaxy Zoo: Passive Red Spirals
Link to paper

6 November 2009
Katie Richardson-McDaniel
Pulsar Electrodynamics
Link to paper
Link to optional paper

13 November 2009
Steve Tremblay
Searching for Primordial Black Hole Dark Matter With Pulsar Timing Arrays
Link to paper
Link to optional paper

20 November 2009
Eric Miller
Theory of Accretion Disks I: Angular Momentum Transport Processes
Link to paper

27 November 2009
HOLIDAY
No AJC

4 December 2009
Paige Romero
The Type Ia Supernova SNLS-03D3bb From a Super-Chandrasekhar-Mass White Dwarf Star
Link to paper
Link to optional 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!

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