The University of Sydney - Sydney Institute for Astronomy

Journal Club Papers

Suggestions and links for papers to be discussed in Journal Club at AstroMorningTea. Further suggestions are always welcome.

You can take a look at papers discussed in past years. There is also a list of papers which were suggested but not discussed. You're welcome to choose one of these; or if you think any of these should still be on the list, send them to Helen or Scott.

• Knigge 2011, "Cataclysmic Variables: Eight Breakthroughs in Eight Years"
  http://arxiv.org/abs/1101.2901
  Suggested by Tim Bedding

• Rawlings & Saunders 1992, "Evidence for a common central-engine mechanism in all extragalactic radio sources"
  http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1991Natur.349..138R
  Suggested by Helen Johnston

• Wang, Gotthelf & Lang 2002, "A faint discrete source origin for the highly ionized iron emission from the Galactic Centre region"
  http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2002Natur.415..148W
  Suggested by Helen Johnston

• Kormendy & Bender 2011, "Supermassive black holes do not correlate with dark matter haloes of galaxies",
  http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2011Natur.469..377K
  Suggested by Helen Johnston
  Discussed 9 May

• Tanvir et al. 2009, "A gamma-ray burst at a redshift of z~8.2",
  http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2009Natur.461.1254T
  Suggested by Tara Murphy

• Pfrommer & Dursi 2010, "Detecting the orientation of magnetic fields in galaxy clusters",
  http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2010NatPh...6..520P
  Suggested by Bryan Gaensler

• Su et al. 2010, "Giant gamma-ray bubbles from Fermi-LAT: Active galactic nucleus activity or bipolar galactic wind?",
  http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2010ApJ...724.1044S
  Suggested by Helen Johnston
  Discussed 20 June

• Hankins et al. 2003, "Nanosecond radio bursts from strong plasma turbulence in the Crab pulsar",
  http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2003Natur.422..141H
  Suggested by Tara Murphy

• Larsson et al. 2011, "X-ray illumination of the ejecta of Supernova 1987A",
  http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2011arXiv1106.2300L
  Suggested by Tara Murphy

• Muraki et al. 2011, "Discovery and Mass Measurements of a Cold, 10-Earth Mass Planet and Its Host Star",
  http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2011arXiv1106.2160M
  Suggested by Tim Bedding