AST Journal Club, Spring 2023

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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, 3:00 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?: 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. 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 18	Michael Lam A Second Earth-Sized Planet in the Habitable Zone of the M Dwarf, TOI-700	Sara Rosborough Science with the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph into the 2030's	Michael Richmond The Green Comet is coming see also JPL Horizons orbital viewer
Jan 25	Edwin Alexani On the distribution of the CNM in spiral galaxies	Askold Circular Polarization of the Astrophysical Gravitational Wave Background	Ben Fisler Early Results from GLASS-JWST. XXI: Rapid assembly of a galaxy at z=6.23 revealed by its C/O abundance
Feb 1	Kaila Nathaniel The role of stellar expansion on the formation of gravitational wave sources	Ziming Ji Flares from dual jets in supermassive black hole binaries	Kazuma Noda A Complete HCN Survey of the Perseus Molecular Cloud	Michael Richmond Searching for Intelligent Life in Gravitational Wave Signals Part I: Present Capabilities and Future Horizons
Feb 8	Ben Ramsey The many reasons that the rotation curves of low-mass galaxies can fail as tracers of their matter distributions	Emily Temple Hidden Little Monsters: Spectroscopic Identification of Low-Mass, Broad-Line AGN at z>5 with CEERS	Andy Robinson A candidate runaway supermassive black hole identified by shocks and star formation in its wake	Michael Richmond A deep-learning search for technosignatures from 820 nearby stars
Feb 15	Kaila Nathaniel Close Encounters of Tight Binary Stars with Stellar-mass Black Holes see also video on YouTube	Allen Wen The Event Horizon Telescope Image of the Quasar NRAO 530	Ziming Ji Are the fates of supermassive black holes and galaxies determined by individual mergers, or by the properties of their host haloes?	Michael Richmond A deep-learning search for technosignatures from 820 nearby stars Or perhaps a more serious note on the first videos of a predicted meteor
Feb 22	Kazuma Noda First detailed study of two eccentric eclipsing binaries: TYC 5378-1590-1 and TYC 8378-252-1	Edwin Alexani Interior and Evolution of the Giant Planets	Bailey Filer VLT MUSE observations of the bubble nebula around NGC 1313 X-2 and evidence for additional photoionization
Mar 1	Kaila Nathaniel A model of anisotropic winds from rotating stars for evolutionary calculations	Emily Temple Absence of the predicted 2022 October outburst of OJ 287 and implications for binary SMBH scenarios	Michael Richmond A large meteor impact on the Moon; see also Suggs et al. (2014) and Sigismondi (2019)
Mar 8 (MWR gone)
Mar 22	Emily Temple Optical and near-infrared spectroscopy of the black hole transient 4U 1543-47 during its 2021 ultra-luminous state	Allen Wen Flares, jets and quasi-periodic outbursts from neutron star merger remnants	Ben Rapidly growing primordial black holes as seeds of the massive high-redshift JWST Galaxies
Mar 29 Out of this World	Askold Nuclear-Physics Multi-Messenger Astrophysics Constraints on the Neutron-Star Equation of State: Adding NICER's PSR J0740+6620 Measurement	Kazuma Noda CEERS Key Paper VI: JWST/MIRI Uncovers a Large Population of Obscured AGN at High Redshifts	Ben Ramsey Revising the properties of low mass eclipsing binary stars using TESS light curves
Apr 5	Baily Filer Discovery of an Exceptional Optical Nebulosity in the Suspected Galactic SN Iax Remnant Pa 30 Linked to the Historical Guest Star of 1181 CE			Michael Richmond Discovery of a new quasi-satellite of Earth
Apr 12	Askold Direct Astrophysical Tests of Chiral Effective Field Theory at Supranuclear Densities	Allen Wen A Biotic Habitable Zone: Impacts of Adaptation in Biotic Temperature Regulation
Apr 19	Bailey Filer New Insight on Neutrino Dark Matter Interactions from Small-Scale CMB	Ben Precursors of Supernovae from Mass Eruption: Prospects for Early Warning of Nearby Core-collapse Supernovae	Sophia Sosa Fiscella Investigating the origin of optical and X-ray pulsations of the transitional millisecond pulsar PSR J1023+0038
Apr 26

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