AST Journal Club, Spring 2022

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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, 3:15 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.
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.

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

Google sheet for feedback

Week 1 no tea time, this week and next week only. Paper discussion starts 4:00 PM	Michael Richmond Discovery of the Fastest Early Optical Emission from Overluminous SN Ia 2020hvf: A Thermonuclear Explosion within a Dense Circumstellar Environment	Vera Del Favero It has to be cool: on supergiant progenitors of binary black hole mergers from common-envelope evolution	Michael Lam Probing the local interstellar medium with scintillometry of the bright pulsar B1133+16
Week 2 no tea time	Jitrapon Lertprasertpong The Accretion flow in M87 is really MAD See also Foucart et al. (2018) and comments on names	Ryan Butler Identifying interesting planetary systems for future X-ray observations	(tentative) Michael Richmond An exomoon survey of 70 cool giant exoplanets and the new candidate Kepler-1708 b-i
Week 3 no tea time	Shaelyn Shadwell Did a close tidal encounter cause the Great Dimming of Betelgeuse? See V-band light curve	Sofia Valentina Sosa Fiscella Eccentricity estimate for black hole mergers with numerical relativity simulations (or see a local copy)	Sadie Coffin NGC5846-UDG1: A galaxy formed mostly by star formation in massive, extremely dense clumps of gas	MWR Alternate funding sources
Week 4 no tea time	Ben Vaughan Co-evolution of the Brightest Cluster Galaxies and their Host Clusters in Illustris-TNG	Lorenzo Ennogi Universality of the turbulent magnetic field in hypermassive neutron stars produced by binary mergers	Ryan Wills HOLISMOKES. VIII. High-redshift Strong Lens Candidates from the Hyper Suprime-Cam Subaru Strategic Program
Week 5 no tea time	Muhammad Zeeshan First direct dynamical detection of a dual supermassive black hole system at sub-kiloparsec separation	Michael Lam Tick-Tock: The Imminent Merger of a Supermassive Black Hole Binary
Week 6 (gunpowder green tea)	Kristina Punzi Freelance science writing for fun and profit	Jitrapon Lertprasertpong Shallowness of circulation in hot Jupiters; see also Structure and Evolution of Internally Heated Hot Jupiters and The Snow Line	Muhammad Zeeshan Reconstructing phenomenological distributions of compact binaries via gravitational wave observations
Week 7	Isabella Cox The Evolution of Brightest Cluster Galaxies in the Nearby Universe II: The star-formation activity and the Stellar Mass from Spectral Energy Distribution	Ryan Butler Trajectory, recovery, and orbital history of the Madura Cave meteorite	Vera Del Favero Detectablity of Black Hole Binaries with Gaia: Dependence on Binary Evolution Models
Week 8 (Mikey's Mystery Chai)	Michael Richmond Is the Hubble crisis connected with the extinction of dinosaurs?
Week 9: Noon tea	Lorenzo Ennoggi Axion Instability Supernovae	Ryan Wills Physical Publicly Verifiable Randomness from Pulsars	Ryan Butler The Flaring TESS Objects of Interest: Flare Rates for all Two Minute Cadence TESS Planet Candidates
Week 10: Rooibos Tea	Sofia Sosa Gravitational Lensing by Spinning Black Holes in Astrophysics, and in the Movie Interstellar ; see also movie one and movie two and Into the BH	Shaelyn Shadwell AstroDance: Engaging Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students in Astrophysics via Multimedia Performances see also movie	Sadie Coffin Gravitational lens modelling in a citizen science context
Week 11: Yerba Mate	Ben Vaughan Tomography-based observational measurements of the halo mass function via the submillimeter magnification bias	Round-robin A highly magnified star at redshift 6.2 See also the press release.	Michael Richmond The Rapidly Evolving AGB Star, V Hya: ALMA finds a Multi-Ring Circus with High-Velocity Outflows
Week 12: Yorkshire tea 1 2 3	Callum Woodhouse The proper pronuciation of "Yorkshire"	Muhammad Zeeshan Gravitational Lensing of Gravitational Waves: Effect of Microlens Population in Lensing Galaxies	Lorenzo Ennoggi Origin of intense electron heating in relativistic blast waves	Michael Richmond Have astronomers caught a Jovian planet in the act of formation?
Week 13: Matcha tea	Sophia Sosa Fiscella Physical Publicly Verifiable Randomness from Pulsars	Shaelyn Shadwell A Truly Direct Measurement of the Hubble Constant from Mooniversal Expansion see also hardware and measurements and results	Sadie Coffin The Andromeda Gamma-Ray Excess: Background Systematics of the Millisecond Pulsars and Dark Matter Interpretations	MWR Discovery of a Meteor of Interstellar Origin with recent update (declassified) but see discussion
Week 14: Boba Fett Tea	Jitrapon Lertprasertpong The Green Valley is a Red Herring: Galaxy Zoo reveals two evolutionary pathways towards quenching of star formation in early- and late-type galaxies	Ryan Wills LADUMA: Discovery of a luminous OH megamaser at z > 0.5	Ben Vaughan Determining the Hubble Constant without the Sound Horizon

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