In this week’s Journal Club, I will talk about a very cute paper on the Kennicutt-Schmit relation of local galaxies by Andreas Schruba (http://iopscience.iop.org/0004-637X/722/2/1699/) with a bit of flavor from my own research.

Other interesting papers related to this topic are:

http://iopscience.iop.org/0004-637X/735/1/63

See you there!

Best wishes,

Ji-hoon Kim

The strong anisotropy in the phase-space distribution of the observed MW satellites:

“The VPOS: a vast polar structure of satellite galaxies, globular clusters and streams around the Milky Way”
M S Pawlowski, J Pflamm-Altenburg, and P Kroupa
http://arxiv.org/abs/1204.5176v1

“Can filamentary accretion explain the orbital poles of the Milky Way satellites?”
M S Pawlowski, P Kroupa, G Angus, K S de Boer, B Famaey, and G Hensler
http://arxiv.org/abs/1204.6039v1

Hi,

In this week’s Journal Club, I’ll be discussing the recent paper by Sterzik et al. entitled, “Biosignatures as revealed by spectropolarimetry of Earthshine” (AKA “Tentative discovery of life on Earth with the VLT”).

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v483/n7387/pdf/nature10778.pdf

Sloane

Hi everyone,

For Journal Club this week I’d like to discuss James Mullaney’s recent paper “The hidden AGN main sequence: Evidence for a universal SMBH accretion to star formation rate ratio since z~2 producing a M_BH-M* relation.”  Here’s the link:

http://arxiv.org/abs/1204.2824v1

See you on Thursday!

Jon

Today I will discuss a recent paper  by Mike Shull: “The Baryon Census in a Multiphase Intergalactic Medium: One-Third of the Baryons are Still Missing”

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2011arXiv1112.2706S

In this week’s Journal Club, I will lead a discussion on a recent review paper – - “Mechanical Feedback from Active Galactic Nuclei in Galaxies, Groups, and Clusters” by B. R. McNamara and P. E. J. Nulsen

http://arxiv.org/abs/1204.0006

See you there!

Fulai

Hi all,

in tomorrow’s Journal Club, we will discuss the following paper about magnetic field amplification inside collapsing massive stars:

http://arxiv.org/abs/1203.3108

(Endeve et al.: “Turbulent Magnetic Field Amplificiation from Spiral SASI Modes: …”)

The paper is accompanied by these short versions:

http://arxiv.org/abs/1203.3385

http://arxiv.org/abs/1203.3748

See you there,

Rainer

Hello everyone,

For this week’s Journal Club, I am going to talk about the series of papers by Bovy et al. examining the structure of the Milky Way disk by analyzing chemical subsamples in the SEGUE G dwarf data set. Notably, they find that the disk is composed of a single component, rather than a distinct thin and thick disk. We discussed some of these briefly at Morning Coffee, but I think it is very useful to look at the three together as a whole.

• The Spatial Structure of Mono-Abundance Sub-Populations of the Milky Way Disk: http://arxiv.org/abs/1111.1724
• The Milky Way has No Thick Disk: http://arxiv.org/abs/1111.6585
• The Vertical Motions of Mono-Abundance Sub-Populations in the Milky Way Disk: http://arxiv.org/abs/1202.2819

Thanks,

katie schlesinger

During this journal club  I’d like to discuss S. Wuyts’s last paper, which studies both galaxy structure and mode of star-formation for  a large sample of galaxies at 3 redshift ranges: z~0.1 (local), z~1 (intermediate) and z~2 (not so high).

The paper provides a nice overall picture of the SFR – Mass correlation and its dependence on galaxy structure.

You can find the paper here:

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2011ApJ…742…96W

and his previous paper, from which we might show a couple of figures, here:

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2011ApJ…738..106W

Hi all,

Journal Club is canceled this week because of the strike.

In the Journal Club this week I’ll discuss the latest paper by John Kormendy (http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2012ApJS..198….2K) where they propose a modification in the Hubble tunning-fork diagram where the galaxies are classified morphologically. In this paper they propose to include a new category, the spheroidals, to account for all the dwarf early-type galaxies, and their position in this diagram is directly related with their formation mechanisms.

Elisa

At journal club this week I will present a recent Nature paper by Charpinet et al. claiming the discovery of two very close-in planets orbiting an evolved (sdB subdwarf) star.  The planets are presumed to have survived being immersed within the star’s envelope during its red giant phase:

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v480/n7378/full/nature10631.html

There is also a short News & Views piece written by myself, for those who would like to check that out:

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v480/n7378/full/480460a.html

-Eliza

As there was a new paper by Jim Dale today, I’m going to review recent simulations on ionization-induced star formation, mainly:

Dale et al.:’Ionisation-induced star formation III: Effects of external triggering on the IMF in clusters’ http://arxiv.org/abs/1202.1417v1

Walch et al.: ‘Flaws in the perfect bubble’ http://arxiv.org/abs/1109.3478

Arthur et al.: ‘Radiation-magnetohydrodynamic simulations of HII regions and their associated PDRs in turbulent molecular clouds’ http://arxiv.org/abs/1101.5510

I will be presenting some highlights from the recent review article “Multiple populations in globular clusters, Lessons learned from Milky Way globular clusters”, by R. Gratton, E. Carretta, and A. Bragaglia.

http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/1201.6526

This week, Dan Fabrycky will present some exciting new results from Kepler (see his email to academics).

In this week’s Journal Club, I’ll give a quick update on current observational constraints on the reionization history, and I’ll discuss a recent paper which combines the evolution of the UV LF at z>4 and the Lya forest data at z<6 to come up with constraints on the sources of reionization :

Kuhlen & Faucher-Giguere, 2012,  http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2012arXiv1201.0757K

See you there.

At Journal Club we will discuss the following paper:

Rau et al. : “BL Lacertae objects beyond redshift 1.3 – UV-to-NIR photometry and photometric redshift for Fermi/LAT blazars”

http://arxiv.org/abs/1112.0025

Cheers,

Gabor

Hi, as I am in charge of the Journal Club on Thursday, December 1st, I will discuss the following paper:

“Fe and alpha-element production in the first billion years after the big bang”

Becker et al. (http://arxiv.org/abs/1111.4843)

Interesting reference on the topic is also:

Simcoe et al. 2011: arXiv1104.4117

Latest news on the “Missing Satellites Problem”:

The Cosmic Abundance of Classical Milky Way Satellites by Louis E. Strigari, Risa H. Wechsler

http://arxiv.org/abs/1111.2611

+

The Milky Way’s bright satellites as an apparent failure of LCDM by Michael Boylan-Kolchin, James S. Bullock, Manoj Kaplinghat

http://arxiv.org/abs/1111.2048

This week I’ll discuss how one can use Type I X-ray bursts to place constraints on the mass and radius of the underlying neutron star.  This in turn may rule out various theories regarding the equation of state of very high-density material.

I’ll briefly introduce some of the approaches used to constrain the neutron star properties using the so-called Photospheric Radius Expansion (PRE) bursts, such as those described in the following two papers:

http://arxiv.org/abs/1005.0811  (Steiner et al., 2010)

http://arxiv.org/abs/1004.4871 (Suleimanov et al., 2011)

I’ll then introduce a recently proposed method, which couples 1-dimensional numerical simulations with observations to place constraints on non-PRE outbursts:

http://arxiv.org/abs/1111.0347 (Zamfir et al., 2011)

This week, we’ll discuss the claim of a significant X-ray detection in z~6 galaxies published recently:

Treister et al., Nature in press: http://arxiv.org/abs/1106.3079

This triggered a suite of papers, which unfortunately could not confirm the initial result:
Fiore et al.: http://arxiv.org/abs/1109.4586  (see also http://arxiv.org/abs/1109.2888 for more results)
Cowie et al.: http://arxiv.org/abs/1110.3326
Willot: http://arxiv.org/abs/1110.4118

I will thus summarize the results from these papers and their implications for the growth of very early black holes.

We’ll discuss the following paper this week:

http://arxiv.org/abs/1110.4636v1

see you there!

Today we will continue from last week’s round of new postdoc introductions, featuring now the not-so-new postdocs.

In lieu of journal club this Thursday, we’ll have a round of introductions of the new
postdocs. Please come prepared to give a 5-minute description of your favorite research,
using the wipeboard. If time permits, we can continue with the “old” postdocs.

We will discuss the following paper:
Brodie et al., “The Relationships Among Compact Stellar Systems: A Fresh View of Ultra Compact Dwarfs”

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2011arXiv1109.5696B

Hi,

we will discuss the following paper

Rauch et al. (http://arxiv.org/abs/1105.4876): “Filamentary Infall of Cold Gas and Escape of Lyman Alpha and Hydrogen Ionizing Radiation from an Interacting High-Redshift Galaxy”

See you there!

Gabor

This week we’ll discuss a recent paper on the evolution of star-forming and quiescent galaxies across the redshift range 0.4<z<2.2:

http://arxiv.org/abs/1104.2595

See you there!

We’ll discuss the following paper in the journal club this week:

http://arxiv.org/abs/1105.2562v1

It is about the impact of galactic fountain on the formation of disk galaxies. There is also a related paper by the same group

http://arxiv.org/abs/1010.1004v3

we can discuss a bit if there is time.

This week, we will be discussing Transformation from spirals into S0s with bulge growth in groups of galaxies in Journal Club.

It has everything – gas, supernova, star-formation, dark matter and dynamics – that you could ever want in a paper.

I will use the two following papers

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2000Natur.406..376C

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2010CQGra..27l4011D

to give a pedagogical/useful introduction to primordial non-Gaussianity and its effects on the large-scale structure.

Today’s paper for discussion in journal club:
Cappellari et al.
The Atlas3D project – VII. A new look at the morphology of nearby galaxies: the kinematic morphology-density relation

We will discuss cosmological implications of the observation of massive galaxy clusters at high redshift (z>1).

We will start with

Jimenez and Verde 2009,
“Implications for primordial non-Gaussianity (f_NL) from weak lensing masses of high-z galaxy clusters”

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2009PhRvD..80l7302J

to arrive to

Foley et al. 2011
“Discovery and Cosmological Implications of SPT-CL J2106-5844, the Most Massive Known Cluster at z > 1″

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2011arXiv1101.1286F

The papers for discussion in the journal club are:

Stark et al.:”Keck spectroscopy of faint 3 < z < 7 Lyman break galaxies – I. New constraints on cosmic reionization from the luminosity and redshift-dependent fraction of Lyman α emission”

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2010MNRAS.408.1628S

and

Dijkstra et al: “The Detectability of Lyman Alpha Emission from Galaxies during the Epoch of Reionization”

http://arxiv.org/abs/1101.5160

The papers for discussion today in journal club are:

Cortesi et al.
“Unravelling the origins of S0 galaxies using maximum likelihood analysis of planetary nebulae kinematics”

http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/1101.5092

Stott et al.
“Little change in the sizes of the most massive galaxies since z = 1″

http://lanl.arxiv.org/abs/1101.4652

Journal club this week led by special guest Lars Hernquist.

http://lanl.arxiv.org/abs/1101.1299

Relation Between Globular Clusters and Supermassive Black Holes in Ellipticals as a Manifestation of the Black Hole Fundamental Plane

Journal Club is canceled this week and will resume after the break!

For journal club this week, we will discuss:

The inner structure of very massive elliptical galaxies: implications for the inside-out formation mechanism of z~2 galaxies

PDF

Postdoc introductions will occur at a later date.

Tomorrow’s FLASH speaker, Kristian Finlator, will be discussing one of his recent papers. If we have time, we’ll also go over the recent BOSS results.

Cheers,
Sarah

*** Topic: beta Pic, its imaged exoplanet, and its disk ***

Where: CfAO Atrium

When: Thursday at 10:45 am

Please have a look at Lagrange et al. 2010, Science:

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/329/5987/57

And for an overview, the most efficient reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta_Pictoris

Cheers, Dan Fabrycky

At journal club this morning, I will talk about my paper:

Binaries migrating in a gaseous disk: Where are the Galactic center binaries?
by C. Baruteau, J. Cuadra and D. N. C. Lin

http://www.ucolick.org/~cbarutea/bcl.pdf

(recommended for publication, the present revised version to be resubmitted)

And, since it will be my last journal club, I will bring my very homemade lemon pie : – )

See you all at CfAO, 10:45am,
Best,

Clément

I will be discussing http://arxiv.org/abs/1009.5988

Anyone is welcome to bring a second paper.

We will discuss two papers, and briefly mention a third if there is time.

First, Ma & Ebeling (2010)
The morphology-density relation of galaxies around MACSJ0717.5+3745
http://arxiv.org/abs/1009.1163

Second, Grillo (2010)
Projected central dark matter fractions and densities in massive early-type galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
http://arxiv.org/abs/1009.2183

We’ll discuss

Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA): Survey Diagnostics and Core Data Release
by Driver et al.

http://arxiv.org/abs/1009.0614

and

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Cosmological Parameters from the 2008 Power Spectra
by Dunkley et al.

http://arxiv.org/abs/1009.0866

We will discuss two recent papers in this week’s journal club (September 2).

Aaron Romanowsky will lead the discussion of

“On Sizes, Kinematics, M/L Gradients, and Light Profiles of Massive Compact Galaxies at z~2″
Wuyts, S.; Cox, T. J.; Hayward, C. C.; et al.

http://arxiv.org/abs/1008.4127

and Fulai Guo will talk about

“Gas expulsion by quasar-driven winds as a solution to the over-cooling problem in galaxy groups and clusters”
McCarthy, I. G.; Schaye, J.; Bower, R. G.; et al

http://arxiv.org/abs/1008.4799

Today at Journal Club, Dale Kocevski will talk about a paper that
he has just submitted, but is not yet on astro-ph. So we get a special
sneak peak. Please see the abstract below, read the PDF of the paper
(which you can find in my Journal Club mail to academics)
and I hope to see you at coffee at 10:30am.

Dave

Obscured Starburst Activity in High Redshift Clusters and Groups

We have used Spitzer-MIPS 24um imaging and extensive Keck  spectroscopy to identify and study the obscured star forming population in and around three clusters and three groups in the  Cl1604 supercluster at z~0.9.  We find that the average density of  24um-detected galaxies within the Cl1604 clusters is nearly twice  that of the surrounding field and that this overdensity scales with  the cluster’s dynamical state.  The 24um-bright members often appear  optically unremarkable and exhibit only moderate [OII] line emission  due to severe obscuration. Their spatial distribution suggests they are an infalling population, but an examination of their spectral properties, morphologies and optical colors indicate they are not simply analogs of the field population that have yet to be quenched.  Using stacked composite spectra, we find the 24um-detected cluster and group galaxies exhibit elevated levels of Balmer absorption compared to what is expected from normal, continuous star formation activity. A similar excess is not observed in field galaxies with equivalent infrared luminosities.  This implies a greater fraction of the detected cluster and group members are experiencing starburst activity compared to their counterparts in the field.  Using HST-ACS imaging we find that disturbed morphologies are common among the 24um-detected cluster and group members and become more prevalent in regions of higher galaxy density.  We conclude that mergers are the dominant triggering mechanism responsible for the enhanced star formation found in the Cl1604 groups, while a mix of harassment and mergers are likely driving the activity of the cluster galaxies.

http://lanl.arxiv.org/abs/1007.5322

Steepening mass profiles, dark matter and environment of X-ray bright elliptical galaxies
Das, Gerhard, Churazov, Zhuravleva

At Summer Journal Club 07/29 the three directly imaged planets around HR8799 will be under consideration with respect to their possible metallicity:

“Metallicity of the massive Protoplanets around HR 8799 if formed by gravitational instability” (Helled & Bodenheimer 2010)

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2010Icar..207..503H

and their orbital stability and mass:

“Stability of the Directly Imaged Multiplanet System HR 8799: resonances and masses”  (Fabrycky & Murray-Clay 2010)

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2010ApJ…710.1408F

Journal club will end at 11:00 today so that we can celebrate Jerry’s receipt of the Kavli Prize.  Therefore, we will focus only on David’s paper.

The Jet-Driven Outflow in the Radio Galaxy SDSS J1517+3353:
Implications for Double-Peaked Narrow-Line AGN
D. J. Rosario, G. A. Shields, G. B. Taylor, S. Salviander, and K. L.
Smith
http://arxiv.org/abs/1005.0021

to be discussed at a later time:

A fundamental relation between mass, SFR and metallicity in local and
high redshift galaxies
F. Mannucci, G. Cresci, R. Maiolino, A. Marconi, and A. Gnerucci
http://arxiv.org/abs/1005.0006

At Journal Club we will discuss the following two papers:

Danforth et al.: “HST/COS Observations of the Ly alpha Forest toward the BL Lac Object 1ES1553+113″,

http://arxiv.org/abs/1005.2191

and

Atek et al.: “The WFC3 Infrared Spectroscopic Parallel (WISP) Survey”,
http://arxiv.org/abs/1005.4068

At Journal Club this week I will discuss the paper
“Critical core masses for gas giant formation with grain-free envelopes”
by Y.Hori and M.Ikoma 2010, ApJ 714, 1343:

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2010ApJ…714.1343H

which addresses the core-accretion scenario of planet formation.

For this week’s journal club on Thursday, Joel Primack will discuss the following paper:

Major Galaxy Mergers and the Growth of Supermassive Black Holes in Quasars
Authors: Treister, E.; Natarajan, P.; Sanders, D. B.; Urry, C.M.; Schawinski, K. and Kartaltepe, J.

http://arxiv.org/abs/1003.4736

Joel’s Perspective on this Science article can be found at

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/328/5978/576

If there is time left, we will also discuss :

The formation of disk galaxies in a LCDM universe
Authors: Agertz, Oscar; Teyssier, Romain; Moore, Ben

http://arxiv.org/abs/1004.0005

At journal club Tesla will discuss her recent paper (accepted to ApJL
and about to be posted)

“Hot Gas Halos in Early-Type Field Galaxies”
Mulchaey & Jeltema

http://www.ucolick.org/~tesla/field_revised.pdf

and I will briefly cover

The X-ray brightest clusters of galaxies from the Massive Cluster Survey
H. Ebeling et al.

http://arxiv.org/abs/1004.4683

For tomorrow’s journal club, Nadine will discuss her recent paper:

Interior structure models of GJ 436b
N. Nettelmann, U. Kramm, R. Redmer, R. Neuhaeuser

http://arxiv.org/abs/1002.4447

and then I will discuss:

The very steep spectrum radio halo in Abell 697
Authors: Giulia Macario, Tiziana Venturi, Gianfranco Brunetti, Daniele
Dallacasa, Simona Giacintucci, Rossella Cassano, Sandro Bardelli, Ramana
Athreya

http://arxiv.org/abs/1004.1515

(probably with reference to other papers on the origin of cluster radio
halos)

Today at Journal Club, Fulai will talk about his latest submitted
paper with Bill Mathews. The paper has just shown up in Astro-ph:
Fulai Guo and William Mathews
Removing Cool Cores and Central Metallicity Peaks in Galaxy Clusters
with Powerful AGN Outbursts

http://arxiv.org/abs/1004.2258

Then, I will give a brief overview of the paper by Machida et al.
entitled Gas accretion onto a protoplanet and formation of a gas giant
planet:

http://arxiv.org/abs/1002.3002

At Journal Club today, we will discuss the following:

http://arxiv.org/abs/1004.0319 - The Physical Origins of The
Morphology-Density Relation: Evidence for Gas Stripping from the SDSS:
van der Wel et al
     which will be led by Brad Holden.

http://arxiv.org/abs/1004.1099 - Evidence of different star formation
histories for high- and low-luminosity radio galaxies: Herbert et al.
     which will be led by me.

Apologies for the late mail. See you at coffee,

For journal club tomorrow, we will discuss the following two articles:

“New Observational Constraints and Modeling of the Infrared
Background: Dust Obscured Star-Formation at z>1 and Dust in the
Outer Solar System,” Ranga-Ram Chary, Alexandra Pope,

http://arxiv.org/abs/1003.1731

“The Mid-Infrared Luminosities of Normal Galaxies over Cosmic Time,”
Dan Kelson, Brad Holden,

http://arxiv.org/abs/1003.1420

See you there,
– Rychard

We will discuss the following papers:

“Orbital migration of low-mass planets in evolutionary radiative
models: Avoiding catastrophic infall”
by W. Lyra, S.-J. Paardekooper and M.-M. Mac Low
http://arxiv.org/abs/1003.0925

and

“The HeI 584A forest as a diagnostic of helium reionization”
by M. McQuinn and E.R. Switzer
http://arxiv.org/abs/1003.1744

This week at journal club (on FRIDAY), our colloquium speaker Gordon
Ogilvie will
tell us about his recent paper:

"On the angular momentum transport due to vertical convection
in accretion discs", by  G. Lesur & G. I. Ogilvie

http://arxiv.org/abs/1002.4621v1

“The Long-term Evolution of the Galactic Disk Traced by Dissolving Star Clusters” by Joss Bland-Hawthorn, Mark Krumholz, Ken Freeman

http://arxiv.org/abs/1002.4357

“Constraints on Cosmological Dark Matter Annihilation from the Fermi-LAT Isotropic Diffuse Gamma-Ray Measurement” by The Fermi-LAT collaboration

http://arxiv.org/abs/1002.4415

And one more, if there’s time:
“The merger-driven evolution of massive galaxies” by Aday R. Robaina et al.

http://arxiv.org/abs/1002.4193

(1) Dark matter haloes determine the masses of supermassive black holes
Booth, C. M.; Schaye, Joop

http://arxiv.org/abs/0911.0935

(2) Three-Dimensional Simulations of Bi-Directed Magnetohydrodynamic
Jets Interacting with Cluster Environments
O’Neill, S. M.; Jones, T. W.

http://arxiv.org/abs/1001.1747

Agenda for Journal Club:

Two Moderate-Redshift Analogs to Compact Massive Early-Type Galaxies
at High Redshifts
Alan Stockton, Hsin-Yi Shih, Kirsten Larson
http://www.iop.org/EJ/article/2041-8205/709/1/L58/apjl_709_1_58.pdf

The M-Sigma Relation Derived from Sphere of Influence Arguments
D. Batcheldor
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1002.1705

Rachel Kuzio de Naray et al. “The Case Against Warm or Self-Interacting Dark Matter as Explanations for Cores in Low Surface Brightness Galaxies”

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2009arXiv0912.3518K

Dear all,

At Journal Club, we will have the following program:

1- Fulai will talk about his paper:
title: Simulating X-Ray supercavities and their impact on galaxy clusters
authors: Fulai Guo and Bill Mathews
see: http://arxiv.org/abs/0911.3709

2- I will talk about:
title: Planetesimal collisions in binary systems
authors: Sijme-Jan Paardekooper and Zoe Leinhardt
see: http://arxiv.org/abs/1001.3025

With best wishes,
Clément

arXiv:1001.1696
Title: On the over-concentration problem of strong lensing clusters
Authors: M. Sereno (Univ Zurich; POLITO), Ph. Jetzer, M. Lubini

and

arXiv:1001.1170
Title: Evolution of shocks and turbulence in major cluster mergers
Authors: S. Paul, L. Iapichino, F. Miniati, J. Bagchi, K. Mannheim

Hi,

we will discuss two fresh papers:

Prochaska, O’Meara & Worseck: A Definitive Survey for Lyman Limit Systems at z~3.5 with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (http://arxiv.org/abs/0912.0292)

and

Baruteau & Lin: Protoplanetary migration in turbulent isothermal disks (to be posted on arXiv in a few days)

Hi,

Our journal club meetings for tomorrow will be:

#1) http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/0911.2260
Testing adiabatic contraction with SDSS elliptical galaxies
A.E. Schulz, Rachel Mandelbaum, Nikhil Padmanabhan

We might take a quick look at a related paper from the same day:
http://lanl.arxiv.org/abs/0911.2316
Dark matter response to galaxy formation
Patricia B. Tissera, Simon D. M. White, Susana Pedrosa, Cecilia
Scannapieco

#2) http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/0911.2236
Cosmic Evolution of Virial and Stellar Mass in Early-Type Galaxies
Lagattuta, Fassnacht et al.

Cheers,
Aaron

High-redshift elliptical galaxies: are they (all) really compact?
http://arxiv.org/abs/0909.3088
C.Mancini, E. Daddi, A. Renzini, F. Salmi, H. J. McCracken, A.
Cimatti, M. Onodera, M. Salvato, A. M. Koekemoer, H. Aussel, E. Le
Floc’h, C. Willott

A new measurement of the bulk flow of X-ray luminous clusters of
galaxies
http://arxiv.org/abs/0910.4958
A. Kashlinsky, F. Atrio-Barandela, H. Ebeling, A. Edge, D. Kocevski

This week at journal club, we will focus on galaxy clusters, discussing
the following two papers:

On the influence of non-thermal pressure on the mass determination of
galaxy clusters
Authors: T. F. Laganá, R. S. de Souza, G. R. Keller

http://arxiv.org/abs/0911.0647

and

Cool core remnants in galaxy clusters
Authors: M. Rossetti, S. Molendi

http://arxiv.org/abs/0910.4900

Since I didn’t receive any suggestions for papers, this week’s journal club is going to be heavy on the exoplanets.  We will discuss 2 articles:

The CoRoT-7 planetary system: two orbiting super-Earths

D. Queloz, F. Bouchy, C. Moutou, A. Hatzes, G. Hebrard, R. Alonso, M. Auvergne, A. Baglin, M. Barbieri, P. Barge, W. Benz, P. Borde, H.J. Deeg, M. Deleuil, R. Dvorak, A. Erikson, S. Ferraz Mello, M. Fridlund, D. Gandolfi, M. Gillon, E. Guenther, T. Guillot, L. Jorda, M. Hartmann, H. Lammer, A. Leger, A. Llebaria, C. Lovis, P. Magain, M. Mayor, T. Mazeh, M. Ollivier, M. Patzold, F. Pepe, H. Rauer, D. Rouan, J. Schneider, D. Segransan, S. Udry, and G. Wuchteri

Available for free access on the A&A website:
http://www.aanda.org/index.php?option=article&access=standard&Itemid=129&url=/articles/aa/abs/2009/40/aa13096-09/aa13096-09.html
(pdf of article is available on the right side of the page)

and

Water, Methane, and Carbon Dioxide Present in the Dayside Spectrum of the Exoplanet HD 209458b

Authors: M. Swain, G. Tinetti, G. Vasisht, P. Deroo, C. Griffith, J.Bouwman, Pin Chen, Y. Yung, A. Burrows, L.R. Brown, J. Matthews, J.F. Rowe, R. Kuschnig, D. Angerhausen

http://arxiv.org/abs/0908.4010

The Impact of Theoretical Uncertainties in the Halo Mass Function and Halo Bias on Precision Cosmology
by Wu et al.
http://arxiv.org/abs/0910.3668

and

Major Merging: The Way to Make a Massive, Passive Galaxy
by van der Wel et al
http://arxiv.org/abs/0910.4018

Galaxy Formation In The Reionization Epoch As Hinted By Wide Field
Camera 3 Observations Of The Hubble Ultra Deep Field

http://arxiv.org/pdf/0910.0077v2

Dear all,

The program for Journal Club this morning is the following:

- I will show you that planet migration can also explain the detection of giant planets far from their host star:

http://arxiv.org/abs/0910.1004

Title: Long range outward migration of giant planets, with application to Fomalhaut b
Authors: Crida, Masset & Morbidelli

- then Tesla will discuss:

http://arxiv.org/abs/0909.4651

Title: Detection of Gamma Rays From a Starburst Galaxy
Authors: The HESS Collaboration: F. Acero, et al

With best wishes,
Clément

Here is the main reading for  journal club on Aug 27th:

Kiuchi et al.
“CANGAROO-III search for TeV Gamma-rays from two clusters of galaxies”
http://arxiv.org/abs/0908.3301

Tinker & Chen
“On the Redshift Evolution of MgII Absorption Systems”
http://arxiv.org/abs/0908.3691

Castro-Rodriguez et al.
“Intracluster Light in the Virgo Cluster: Large Scale Distribution”
http://arxiv.org/abs/0908.3848

Tomorrow at journal club we will be discussing two papers.

http://arxiv.org/abs/0907.4777

High-Redshift Star-Forming Galaxies: Angular Momentum and Baryon Fraction,
Turbulent Pressure Effects and the Origin of Turbulence
Authors: A. Burkert, R. Genzel, N. Bouche, G. Cresci, S. Khochfar, J.
Sommer-Larsen, A. Sternberg, T. Naab, N. Foerster-Schreiber, L. Tacconi,
K. Shapiro, E. Hicks, D. Lutz, R. Davies, P. Buschkamp, S. Genel

and

http://arxiv.org/abs/0907.5416

zCOSMOS – 10k-bright spectroscopic sample. The bimodality in the Galaxy
Stellar Mass Function: exploring its evolution with redshift
Authors: L. Pozzetti, et al.

Dear Academics,

at Journal Club at 10:30am in the CfAO atrium Avishai Dekel will lead the discussion on his latest paper

Ceverino, Dekel & Bournaud: “High-redshift clumpy disks and bulges in cosmological simulations”, http://arxiv.org/abs/0907.3271

Moreover, we will discuss the paper by

Fynbo et al.: “Low-resolution spectroscopy of gamma-ray burst optical afterglows: Biases in the Swift sample and characterization of the absorbers”, http://arxiv.org/abs/0907.3449

See you there,

Gabor