AST Journal Club, Summer 2022
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?
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Wednesday, 3:00 PM: Tea and snacks; followed at 3:30 PM by talks
- Where?
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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.
- How?
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Use the
RIT Astrophysics Journal Club entry on benty-fields
to submit papers for us to discuss.
- Tea?
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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.
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May 25
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Michael Richmond
A Comprehensive Measurement of the Local Value of the Hubble Constant with 1 km/s/Mpc Uncertainty from the Hubble Space Telescope and the SH0ES Team
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Michael Richmond
New meteor shower/storm on May 30/31??
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June 8
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Nikki Noughani
The case for space environmentalism
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Andy Robinson
RESOLVE and ECO: Finding Low-metallicity z ∼ 0 Dwarf AGN Candidates Using Optimized Emission-line Diagnostics
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June 22
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Andy Robinson
Discovery of the most luminous quasar of the last 9 Gyr
See also
Astronomer's Telegram 15450
and
AT 15452
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Brittany Vanderhoof
Probing cold gas in a massive, compact star-forming galaxy at z=6
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Michael Lam
Young, blue, and isolated stellar systems in the Virgo Cluster. II. A new class of stellar system
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Sara Rosborough
M et al. (2008),
N (2009),
M et al. (2009),
N & M (2010),
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July 6
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Michael Richmond
Searching for Transit Timing Variations and Fitting a New Ephemeris to Transits of TrES-1 b
see also
the MicroObservatory page
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Michael Richmond
A Supernova in a Magnified Multiply Imaged Galaxy at Redshift z=1.76
see also
a finding chart
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Michael Richmond
A Sample of Neutron Star and Black Hole Binaries Detected through Gaia DR3 Astrometry
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False positives and the challenge of testing the alien hypothesis
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July 20
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Joel Kastner
First images from JWST
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Michael Richmond
Two Remarkably Luminous Galaxy Candidates at z = 11 - 13 Revealed by JWST
(for background, see
spectrum of an A7V star )
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Michael Lam
PSR J0952-0607: The Fastest and Heaviest Known Galactic Neutron Star
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Michael Richmond
Update on micrometeoroid damage to JWST
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Aug 3
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Sara Rosborough
M et al. (2008),
N (2009),
M et al. (2009),
N & M (2010),
(plus some notes )
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Michael Richmond
JWST image of Stefan's Quintet: more than just a pretty picture
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For more information:
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