| Date |
Speaker |
Discussion Topic |
| Jan 18 |
Martin Pessah |
Nonlinear
Criterion for the Stability of Molecular Clouds (Krasnopolsky &
Gammie), Gravitational
Instability of Magnetized Gaseous Disks 6 (Nakano & Nakamura
1978). |
| Romeel Dave |
The
Space Density and Colors of Massive Galaxies at 2~z~3 (van Dokkum
et al) |
Jan 25
|
Christy Tremonti |
Constraints on the Star Formation Rate in Active Galaxies, (Kim, Ho, & Im) |
| Emerich Le Floc'h |
Silicate Emission in the Spitzer IRS spectrum of FSC 10214+4724 (Teplitz et al),
Mid-infrared Spitzer spectra of X-ray selected Type 2 QSOs: QSO2s are not ULIRGs (Sturm et al) |
| Feb 1 |
Moire Prescott |
Simulations of Dust in Interacting Galaxies I: Dust Attenuation (Jonsson et al) |
| Kurtis Williams |
The Mystery Deepens: Spitzer Observations of Cool White Dwarfs (Kilic et al) |
Feb 8
|
Jennifer Lotz |
Kinematics of Low-z Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies and Implications for Dynamical Mass Derivations in High-z Star-forming Galaxies (Colina et al) |
| Jared Gabor |
Explaining the Color Distributions of Globular Cluster Systems in Elliptical Galaxies (Yoon et al) |
| Feb 15 |
Shane Bussman |
Confirmation of the effectiveness of submm source redshift estimation based on rest-frame radio-FIR photometry, (Aretxaga et al 2005) |
| Kevin Flaherty |
Spitzer Identification of the Least Massive Known Brown Dwarf with a Circumstellar Disk and
Discovery of a Planetary Mass Brown Dwarf with a Circumstellar Disk (Luhman et al 2005) |
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Feb 22
|
Krystal Tyler |
Discovery of a cool planet of 5.5 Earth masses through gravitational microlensing (Beaulieu et al) |
| Kate Brand |
Mapping large-scale structures behind the galactic plane: The second CIZA survey (Kocevski et al), and On the origin of the local group's peculiar velocity (Kocevski&Ebeling) |
Mar 1
|
Stephane Herbert-Fort |
The Afterglow and Host Galaxy of the Energetic Short-Hard Gamma-Ray Burst 051221, Soderberg et al, and
A Study of Compact Object Mergers as Short Gamma-ray Burst Progenitors, Belczinsky et al. |
| Greg Rudnick |
The Mass-Metallicity Relation at z~2, Erb et al. |
Mar 8
|
Dante Minniti |
Spitzer observations of the dusty warped disk of Centaurus A, Quillen et al. |
| Jonathan Trump |
Discovery of a relativistic Fe line in PG 1425+267 with XMM-Newton and study of its short time-scale variability, Miniutti & Fabian |
Mar 15
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Mar 22
|
Kristian Finlator |
A Guaranteed Flux of Extra-Galactic High-Energy Neutrinos, Loeb & Waxman |
| Jeremiah Murphy |
"Cassini at Enceladus", Science, vol 311, 3/10/06 (collection of articles) |
Mar 29
|
Suresh Sivanandam |
X-ray detection of the proto supermassive binary black hole at the center of Abell 400, Hudson etal |
| J.-D. Smith |
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Apr 5
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Ed O. |
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Apr 12
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Eiichi Egami |
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Apr 19
|
Yong Shi |
Type II Quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: V. Imaging host galaxies with the Hubble Space Telescope, Zakamska etal |
| Dave Trilling |
Nearby debris disk systems with high fractional luminosity reconsidered, Moor etal |
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Apr 26
| Richard Cool |
A Fundamental Relation Between Compact Stellar Nuclei, Supermassive Black Holes, and Their Host Galaxies, Ferrarese etal |
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May 3
|
Christopher Willmer |
The Stellar Masses of 25000 galaxies at 0.2-z-1.0 estimated by the COMBO-17 Survey, Borch etal |
| Ben Oppenheimer |
An Observational Test for the Anthropic Origin of the Cosmlogical Constant, Loeb |