AST Journal Club, Fall 2021

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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, 3:35 PM: Tea and snacks; followed at 4:40 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.
How?: Use the RIT Astrophysics Journal Club entry on benty-fields to submit papers for us to discuss.
Tea?: Yes, many different kinds of tea

Typically, three people will lead discussions during each meeting. You can sign up for a timeslot on the AST Journal Club sheet. Contact Michael Richmond if you aren't able to access this sheet. I will periodically transfer names from the sheet to this webpage, writing them into the table below.

Week 1 no tea time, this week only. Paper discussion starts 4:40 PM	Michael Richmond Calibration of the Tip of the Red Giant Branch Method in the Megamaser Host Galaxy, NGC 4258 (M106)	Vera Delfavero Formation of the First Two Black Hole - Neutron Star Mergers (GW200115 and GW200105) from Isolated Binary Evolution see also an interesting figure.	Michael Lam The orbit of Planet Nine
Week 2	Michael Richmond Measurements of the Hubble Constant: Tensions in Perspective	Sara Rosborough Varstrometry for Off-nucleus and Dual sub-Kpc AGN (VODKA): Hubble Space Telescope Discovers Double Quasars	Michael Lam No Large Dependence of Planet Frequency on Galactocentric Distance
Week 3	Joel Kastner When to Post? Saturday Evening? The Propriety of Papers	Ben Vaughan Multiwavelength view of SPT-CL J2106-5844. The radio galaxies and the thermal and relativistic plasmas in a massive galaxy cluster merger at z~1.13	Ryan Butler K2, Spitzer, and TESS Transits of Four Sub-Neptune Exoplanets
Week 4	Jitrapon Lertprasertpong A universal relationship between stellar masses and binding energies of galaxies	Ryan Wills A search of the full six years of the Dark Energy Survey for outer Solar System objects	Michael Richmond Detection of the Crab Nebula by the prototype Schwarzschild-Couder Telescope but see also an older version (PDF) and Fig. 6 of this paper , as well as ctapSCT website
Week 5	Lorenzo Ennoggi Two steps forward and one step sideways: the propagation of relativistic jets in realistic binary neutron star merger ejecta	Muhammad Zeeshan SpecGrav: Detection of Gravitational Waves using Deep Learning	Michael Richmond A New Type of Exoplanet Direct Imaging Search: The SCExAO/CHARIS Survey of Accelerating Stars
Week 6	Sadie Coffin The diffuse gamma-ray background is dominated by star-forming galaxies and Cosmic Gamma-ray Background Radiation	Sofia Valentina Sosa Alteration of the magnetosphere of the Vela pulsar during a glitch but see also a local copy and lighthouse animation and ATel 14806.	Shaelyn Shadwell Is the Birth of PSR J0538+2817 Accompanied by a Gamma-ray Burst? See also the FAST website
Week 7	Ben Vaughan The HASHTAG project: The First Submillimeter Images of the Andromeda Galaxy from the Ground	Muhammad Zeeshan Detection and Parameter Estimation of Gravitational Waves from Binary Neutron-Star Mergers in Real LIGO Data using Deep Learning
Week 8	Jitrapon Lertprasertpong Multipoint ICME events during the first year of combined Solar Orbiter, BepiColombo, Parker Solar Probe, Wind and STEREO-A observations plus a video	Michael Richmond VLT/SPHERE imaging survey of the largest main-belt asteroids: Final results and synthesis and see also SPHERE Unveils the True Face of the Largest Main Belt Asteroids and a description of SPHERE.
Week 9: Mystery Chai	Ryan Butler Chemical evidence for planetary ingestion in a quarter of Sun-like stars	Ryan Wills Modeling the Spectral Diversity of Quasars in the Sixteenth Data Release from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey	Lorenzo Ennoggi The early evolution of solar flaring plasma loops
Week 10	Sadie Coffin Fragmentation of ring galaxies and transformation to clumpy galaxies and pictures: Picture A and Picture B	Sofia Valentina Sosa Consecutive Bright Pulses in the Vela Pulsar and also this animation and this diagram	Shaelyn Shadwell TOI-2285b: A 1.7 Earth-radius Planet Near the Habitable Zone around a Nearby M Dwarf	Michael Richmond ...
Week 11: Russian (but really American) tea	Ben Vaughan ~~Metrics of research impact in astronomy: Predicting later impact from metrics measured 10-15 years after the PhD~~ A Unified Model for the Fan Region and the North Polar Spur: A bundle of filaments in the Local Galaxy	Muhammad Zeeshan Gravitational wave population inference with deep flow-based generative network	Michael Richmond HST is sick but maybe we would feel better if we put a new space telescope far away
Week 12: Kehwa tea from Kashmir	Ryan Butler The Scientific Observation Campaign of the Hayabusa-2 Capsule Re-entry	Jitrapon Lertprasertpong The electron-capture origin of supernova 2018zd	Vera Delfavaro Target of Opportunity Observations of Gravitational Wave Events with Vera C. Rubin Observatory
Week 13: Ginger tea	Sadie Coffin Stellar Metamorphosis: Red stars evolve into brown dwarfs and Observations of Protoplanetary Disk Structures	Sofia Valentina Sosa Pulsars and Special Relativity see also this diagram	Shaelyn Shadwell Is it possible to control gravity on the Earth's surface? see also info on Dyson sphere and Ringworld
Week 14 -- Thanksgiving	no meeting
Week 15: Hoji-Cha from Japan	Ryan Wills A search for Planet 9 in the IRAS data	Lorenzo Ennoggi Models of pulsationally assisted gravitationally confined detonations with different ignition conditions	Michael Lam Searches for Gravitational Waves from Known Pulsars at Two Harmonics in the Second and Third LIGO-Virgo Observing Runs

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