Instructors: Blain, W. Sargent
4pm 106 Robinson
Note: Nov 7 Single speaker - time 4:30pm
| October 10: | Cody | "The unusual pre-main-sequence star V718 Per," Grinin et al. 2008 (A&A, 489, 1233) |
| Ali-Haimoud | "Magnetic fileds in star formation: from galaxies to stars", Price et al. (arXiv:0804:4647) | |
| October 17: | Newman | "The kinematic footprints of five stellar streams in Andromeda's halo", Chapman et al. (astro-ph/0808.0755) |
| Schlichting | "The Ratio of Retrograde to Prograde Orbits: A Test for Kuiper Belt Binary Formation Theories" Own research. See ApJ 686, 741 and ApJ 673, 1218 | October 24: | Kasliwal | "Very fast optical flaring from a possible new Galactic magnetar" Stefanescu et al. Nature 455, 503. See also Nature 455, 506 and ApJ 678, 1127 |
| Bhalerao | "The Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope Discovers the Pulsar in the Young Galactic Supernova Remnant CTA 1" Science Website | |
| October 31: | Goncalves | "Tycho Brahe's 1572 supernova as a standard type Ia explosion revealed from its light echo spectrum" Krause et al. arXiv:0810.5106 |
| Max-Moerbeck | "A numerical testbed for hypotheses of extraterrestrial life and intelligence" Forgan et al. arXiv:0810.2222 | |
| November 7: | Findeisen | "HD 271791: An Extreme Supernova Runaway B Star Escaping from the Galaxy" Przybilla et al. arXiv:0811.0576 |
| Perez | "Standing on the shoulders of giants: Trojan Earths and vortex trapping in low mass self-gravitating protoplanetary disks of gas and solids" Lyra et al. arXiv:0810.3192 | |
| Glusevic | Own research on CMB polarization. Discussion based on astro-ph/9611125 and arXiv:0810.1286 | |
| November 21: | Jones | "Optical Images of an Exosolar Planet 25 Light-Years from Earth" Kalas et al. arXiv:0811.1994 and "Fomalhaut's Debris Disk and Planet: Constraining the Mass of Fomalhaut b" Chiang et al. arXiv:0811.1985 |
| Krause | "The Diversity and Similarity of Cold Dark Matter Halos" Navarro et al. arXiv:0810.1522 | |
| November 28: | ... | Thanksgiving holiday |
| December 5: | Lee | "Observation of an anomalous positron abundance in the cosmic radiation" Adriani et al. arXiv:0810.4995 |
| Morton | "Direct Imaging of Extrasolar Planets and Radioisotope Chemistry: What do these have in common?" arXiv:0808.2506 and arXiv: 0812.0011 |