AST Journal Club, Spring 2024

This material can be found online at URL

http://spiff.rit.edu/classes/jclub/jclub.html

Once a week, students and faculty of the AST program congregate to chat about this and that, socialize, nibble on tasty snacks, drink tea, and discuss the latest developments in astronomy. Please join us.

When?

Wednesday, 3:00 PM: Tea and snacks; followed at 4:00 PM by talks

Where?

Carlson Building, outside (or inside) East-side lobby for snacks, followed by CAR-1275 for talks. We'll meet in person whenever possible, but if it's necessary to hold a meeting over Zoom, we'll use this link (Zoom ID 450 625 6396) .

How?

Option A: RIT Astrophysics Journal Club entry on benty-fields to submit papers for us to discuss,
Option B: If you are in AST Grad Seminar, sign up on this spreadsheet.
Option C: send E-mail to me (Michael Richmond) directly.

Tea?

Yes, many different kinds of tea

Typically, three people will lead discussions during each meeting. Contact Michael Richmond to sign up for a timeslot. I will write your name in the table below.

We ask that you please consider leaving feedback and comments for each speaker. Use the Google sheet below.

Google sheet for feedback

Jan 17	Michael Richmond A big ring in the sky	Michael Richmond Some notes on the upcoming solar eclipse of Apr 8
Jan 24	Taylor Paul Examining Periodic Solar Wind Density Structures Observed in the SECCHI Heliospheric Imagers	Audrey Dunn The CO-to-H2 Conversion Factor	Cj The Effect of the Velocity Distribution on Kilonova Emission
Jan 31	Carter Flayhart JADES: Rest-frame UV-to-NIR Size Evolution of Massive Quiescent Galaxies from Redshift z=5 to z=0.5	Patricia M GA-NIFS: JWST discovers an offset AGN 740 million years after the Big Bang	Rachel M Is there a black hole in the center of the Sun?
Feb 7	Diana Ryder Investigative study on preprint journal club as an effective method of teaching latest knowledge in astronomy see also PDF presentation	Noelle Fiest Status of Women in Astronomy: A need for advancing inclusivity and equal opportunities see also PDF presentation	Felix Martinez HYPERION. Interacting companion and outflow in the most luminous z>6 quasar
Feb 14	Jediah Tau A Gravitational Waveform Model for Detecting Accelerating Inspiraling Binaries	Jayden Butler Quenching of satellite galaxies of Milky Way analogues: reconciling theory and observations	Cj Spiral-wave Wind for the Blue Kilonova see also PDF presentation
Feb 21	DJ Klyde A 1.55 R_🜨 habitable-zone planet hosted by TOI-715, an M4 star near the ecliptic South See also this website. Bonus prize to the first person to point out the unforgiveable grammatical error in the Abstract.	Jersey Hutchins Cosmology with the SPHEREX All-Sky Spectral Survey (see marked-up copy )	Clive Amplifying the Chirp: Using Deep Learning (U-Nets) to filter signal from noise in LIGO data
Feb 28	Rachel M Effective-one-body waveforms for extreme-mass-ratio binaries: Consistency with second-order gravitational self-force quasicircular results and extension to nonprecessing spins and eccentricity	Patricia M Which came first: supermassive black holes or galaxies? Insights from JWST	Audrey Dunn Detection of Diffuse Hot Gas Around the Young, Potential Superstar Cluster H72.97-69.39
Mar 6	Jersey Hutchins VIRUP : The Virtual Reality Universe Project (or f)	Noelle Planetary Defense Use of the SPHEREx Solar System Object Catalog (see also PDF pres)	Felix Martinez PEARLS: A Potentially Isolated Quiescent Dwarf Galaxy with a TRGB Distance of 30 Mpc
Mar 13	Spring Break -- no Journal Club
Mar 20	DEI talk by Taj Smith
Mar 27	Carter Flayhart The true number density of massive galaxies in the early Universe revealed by JWST/MIRI	DJ Klyde LHS 1140 b is a potentially habitable water world See also New Mass and Radius Constraints on the LHS 1140 Planets	Kevin Kearney A Galactic Eclipse: The Small Magellanic Cloud is Forming Stars in Two, Superimposed Systems
Apr 3	Taylor Paul Species Syzygy: Which Animal Has Seen the Most Total Solar Eclipses? See also PPTX and PDF	Clive Binu Nuggets of Wisdom: Determining an Upper Limit on the Number Density of Chickens in the Universe	Diana Ryder Detection of Rotational Variability in Floofy Objects at Optical Wavelengths See also PPTX or PDF
Apr 10	Jediah Tau GW190521: a binary black hole merger inside an active galactic nucleus? or PDF slides	Kevin Kearney Deconvolution of JWST/MIRI Images: Applications to an Active Galactic Nucleus Model and GATOS Observations of NGC 5728	Jayden Butler Rapid Quenching of Galaxies at Cosmic Noon
Apr 17	no Journal Club, special AST talk instead
Apr 24	Jersey Hutchins VIRUP : The Virtual Reality Universe Project	Vitalia Conners Reflecting on the history of astronomy education research to plan for the future	Vitalia Conners Meeting students halfway: Increasing self-efficacy and promoting knowledge change in astronomy

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