The Star Formation Journal Club is a bi-monthly meeting of faculty, postdocs and students from the Physics and the Astronomy Departments. At each meeting a participant review a recent paper related to star formation, in his/her field of expertise.
We usually meet every other week afternoons in the Owl room (845 Dennison Building). If you would like to join us, you are encouraged to subscribe to our mailing list, and to check out the schedule.
Schedule for '05-'06
Fall
| Tuesday Sep. 9 | 3:10 PM | Sébastien Maret | Probing the evolutionary status of starless cores through N2H+ and N2D+ observations (Crapsi et al. 2005). | NASA ADS |
| Tuesday Oct. 11 | 3:10 PM | Ted Bergin | CO self-shielding as the origin of oxygen isotope anomalies in the early solar nebula (Lyons & Young 2005). | NASA ADS |
| Tuesday Nov. 1 | 3:10 PM | Ted Bergin, John Monnier and Fred Adams | Review of the conference Protostars and Planets V | |
| Tuesday Nov. 15 | 2:10 PM | Gabor Furesz (SAO) | Special talk: "Hectochelle: High resolution multi-object spectroscopy at the MMT" | |
| Tuesday Nov. 29 | 4:10 PM | Nuria Calvet | Disk Evolution in Cep OB2: Results from the Spitzer Space Telescope (Aurora Sicilia-Aguilar et al., accepted) | CfA Preprints |
| Tuesday Dec. 6 | 3:10 PM | Lee Hartmann | Direct magnetic field detection in the innermost regions of an accretion disc (Donati et al. 2005) |
Nature
Astro-ph |
Winter
| Tuesday Mar. 14 | 3:10 PM | Sarah Ragan | A high resolution comparative study of the slowly contracting, starless cores, L694-2 and L1544 (Williams & Myers, accepted to ApJ) | Astro-ph |
| Tuesday Mar. 28 | 3:10 PM | Fred Adams | Enhancement of Ambipolar Diffusion Rates through Field Fluctuations (Fatuzzo & Adams 2002) | NASA ADS |
| Tuesday Apr. 18 | 3:10 PM | John Monnier | c2d Spitzer IRS Spectra of Disks around T Tauri stars: I. Silicate Emission and Growth (Kessler-Silacci et al. 2006) | NASA ADS |
| The building blocks of planets within the terrestrial planet forming region of protoplanetary disks (van Boekel et al. 2004) | NASA ADS | |||
| ISO spectroscopy of circumstellar dust in 14 Herbig Ae/Be systems: Towards an understanding of dust processing (Meeus et al. 2001) | NASA ADS |
Spring
| Tuesday May 16 | 2:30 PM | Fabian Heitsch | The Transition to Incompressibility from Compressible Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence (Shaikh & Zank 2006) | NASA ADS |
| Compressible magnetohydrodynamic turbulence: mode coupling, scaling relations, anisotropy, viscosity-damped regime and astrophysical implications (Cho & Lazarian 2003) | NASA ADS | |||
| Tuesday May 30 | 3:10 PM | Jesus Hernandez | Decay of planetary debris disk (Rieke et al. 2005) | NASA ADS |
| Collisional Cascades in Planetesimal Disks. II. Embedded Planets (Kenyon & Bromleyal 2004) | NASA ADS | |||
| Prospects for Detection of Catastrophic Collisions in Debris Disks (Kenyon & Bromleyal 2005) | NASA ADS | |||
| Tuesday Jun. 13 | 3:10 PM | Chuck Cowley | Stabilization of the disk around β Pictoris by extremely carbon-rich gas (Roberge et al. 2006) | Nature |
| Braking the Gas in the β Pictoris Disk (Fernández et al. 2006) | Astro-ph | |||
| Wednesday Jun. 28 | 3:10 PM | Ted Bergin | Determining the composition of the Earth (Drake & Righter 2002) | NASA ADS |
Summer
| Tuesday Jul. 11 | 3:10 PM | Ajay-Kumar Tannirkulam | Competitive accretion in embedded stellar clusters (Bonnell et al. 2001) | NASA ADS |
| Accretion in stellar clusters and the initial mass function (Bonnell et al. 2001) | NASA ADS | |||
| Star formation through gravitational collapse and competitive accretion (Bonnell & Bate 2006) | Astro-ph | |||
| An Extinction Threshold for Protostellar Cores in Ophiuchus (Johnstone et al 2004) | NASA ADS |
Display schedule for: '09-'10 | '08-'09 | '07-'08 | '06-'07 | '05-'06
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