Journal Club Papers
These papers have already been discussed at past journal clubs. Other papers which were suggested but not discussed are here; if you'd like to re-propose any of these, send them to Helen or Scott.
- "On the possibility of determining Hubble's parameter and the masses of galaxies from the gravitational lens effect", Refsdal, S., (1964)
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 128, 307
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1964MNRAS.128..307R
Discussed 16 Mar 2009
- "Fermat's principle, caustics, and the classification of gravitational lens images", Blandford, Roger & Narayan, Ramesh, (1986)
Astrophysical Journal, 310, 568
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1986ApJ...310..568B
Discussed 21 Sep 2009
- "The Baryon Content of Galaxy Clusters - a Challenge to Cosmological Orthodoxy", White, S. D. M., Navarro, J. F., Evrard, A. E., & Frenk, C. S., (1993)
Nature, 366, 429
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1993Natur.366..429W
Discussed 27 Apr 2009
- "Black holes in binary systems. Observational appearance", Shakura, N. I.; Syunyaev, R. A., (1973)
A&A, 24, 337
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1973A%26A....24..337S
Discussed 30 Mar 2009
- "Parallaxes and proper motions for 20 open clusters as based on the new Hipparcos catalogue", Floor van Leeuwen, (2009)
Accepted for publication by A&A, arXiv:0902.1039
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2009arXiv0902.1039V
Discussed 25 May 2009
- "A Universal Density Profile from Hierarchical Clustering" Navarro, Frenk & White, (1997)
ApJ, 490, 493
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1997ApJ...490..493N
Discussed 7 Sep 2009
- "The structure of star clusters. III. Some simple dynamical models", King, (1966)
AJ, 71, 64
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1966AJ.....71...64K
Discussed 11 May 2009
- "Large-Scale Effects of Supernova Remnants on the Galaxy: Generation and Maintenance of a Hot Network of Tunnels", Cox & Smith (1974)
ApJL, 189, 105
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1974ApJ...189L.105C
Discussed 10 Aug 2009
- "Long gamma-ray bursts and core-collapse supernovae have different environments", Fruchter et al. (2006)
Nature, 441, 563
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2006Natur.441..463F
Discussed 27 Jul 2009
- "Galactic Bridges and Tails", Toomre & Toomre, (1972)
ApJ, 178, 623
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1972ApJ...178..623T
Discussed 15 Mar 2010
- "On the Density of Neutral Hydrogen in Intergalactic Space" Gunn & Peterson, (1965)
ApJ 142, 1633
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1965ApJ...142.1633G
Discussed 1 Mar 2010
- "On the Correlation Between Metallicity and the Presence of Giant Planets" M. Haywood, (2009)
ApJ 698 L1-L5
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2009ApJ...698L...1H
Tim Bedding.
Discussed 24 Aug 2009
- "The many lives of active galactic nuclei: cooling flows, black holes and the luminosities and colours of galaxies" Croton et al. (2006)
MNRAS, 365, 11
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2006MNRAS.365...11C
Discussed 19 Oct 2009
- "A Systematic Study of Radio-induced X-Ray Cavities in Clusters, Groups, and Galaxies" Birzan et al. (2004)
ApJ, 607, 800
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2004ApJ...607..800B
Discussed 2 Nov 2009
- "Evidence for Oscillation of Atmospheric Neutrinos", Fukuda et al., (1998)
PhRvL, 81, 1562
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1998PhRvL..81.1562F
Discussed 15 Feb 2010
- "Final Results from the Hubble Space Telescope Key Project to Measure the Hubble Constant", Freedman et al., (2001)
ApJ, 553, 47
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2001ApJ...553...47F
Discussed 19 Apr 2010
- " A paradox resolved using observations of Doppler boosting in Kepler lightcurves", van Kerkwijk et al., (2010)
arXiv:1001.4539
http://arxiv.org/abs/1001.4539
Discussed 29 Mar 2010
- " "A Correlation Between Stellar Activity and the Surface Gravity of Hot Jupiters" Hartman(2010)
arXiv:1004.4252
http://arxiv.org/abs/1004.4252
Discussed 7 Jun 2010
- Implications of the Copernican principle for our future prospects" Gott (1993)
Nature 363, 315
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1993Natur.363..315G
Discussed 24 May 2010
- "A relativistic type Ibc supernova without a detected γ-ray burst", Soderberg et al., (2010)
Nature, 463, 513.
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2010Natur.463..513S
Discussed 10 May 2010
- "Cold streams in early massive hot haloes as the main mode of galaxy formation" Dekel et al (2009)
Nature, 457, 451
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2009Natur.457..451D
Discussed 12 Jul 2010
- "A giant planet imaged in the disk of the young star Beta Pictoris" Lagrange et al (2010)
arXiv:1006.3314
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2010arXiv1006.3314L
Discussed 26 Jul 2010
- "The R136 star cluster hosts several stars whose individual masses greatly exceed the accepted 150 Msun stellar mass limit" Crowther et al (2010)
arXiv:1007.3284
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2010arXiv1007.3284C
Discussed 23 Aug 2010
- "Formation of Galaxies and Clusters of Galaxies by Self-Similar Gravitational Condensation" Press & Schechter (1974)
ApJ, 187, 425
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1974ApJ...187..425P
Discussed 6 Sep 2010
- "Confirmation of the Remarkable Compactness of Massive Quiescent Galaxies at z ~ 2.3: Early-Type Galaxies Did not Form in a Simple Monolithic Collapse", van Dokkum et al (2008)
ApJ, 677, L5
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2008ApJ...677L...5V
Discussed 9 Aug 2010
- "The hierarchical formation of the brightest cluster galaxies", De Lucia & Blaizot (2007)
MNRAS, 375, 2
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2007MNRAS.375....2D
Discussed 11 Oct 2010
- "The Kinematics of the Ultra-faint Milky Way Satellites: Solving the Missing Satellite Problem" Simon & Geha (2007)
ApJ 670, 313
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2007ApJ...670..313S
Discussed 18 Oct 2010
- "The Lick-Carnegie Exoplanet Survey: A 3.1 M_Earth Planet in the Habitable Zone of the Nearby M3V Star Gliese 581" Vogt et al. (2010)
ApJ accepted, arXiv:1009.5733
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2010arXiv1009.5733V
Discussed 1 Nov 2010
- "A two-solar-mass neutron star measured using Shapiro delay"
Demorest et al. (2010)
Nature 467, 1081
http://www.nature.com.ezproxy2.library.usyd.edu.au/nature/journal/v467/n7319/full/nature09466.html
Discussed 15 Nov 2010