MKI Journal Club meets semester Fridays at noon in the Marlar Lounge (building 37, room 252).
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| 12 September | |
| Robyn Sanderson: G. Anglada-Escudé, M. López-Morales, & J. E. Chambers, "How eccentric orbital solutions can hide planetary systems in 2:1 resonant orbits" | |
| Tracey Delaney: K. Z. Stanek, "How long should an astronomical paper be to increase its impact?" | |
| 19 September | |
| Leo Stein: K. Barbary et al., Discovery of an Unusual Optical Transient with the Hubble Space Telescope | |
| Rob Simcoe: I. Iwata et al., Detection of Lyman Continuum From Star-Forming Galaxies at z~3 | |
| 26 September | |
| Josh Carter: D. Lafrenière, R. Jayawardhana, & M. H. van Kerkwijk, Direct Imaging and Spectroscopy of a Planetary Mass Candidate Companion to a Young Solar Analog | |
| Adam Burgasser: D. Lang, D. W. Hogg, S. Jester, & H.-W. Rix, Measuring the undetectable: Proper motions and parallaxes of very faint sources | |
| 3 October | |
| Tim Bodiya: A. Stefanescu et al, Very fast optical flaring from a possible new Galactic magnetar, and A. J. Castro-Tirado et al., Flares from a Galactic magnetar suggest a missing link to dim isolated neutron stars | |
| Jocelyn Monroe: C. Savage et al., Compatibility of DAMA/LIBRA Dark Matter Detection with Other Searches | |
| 10 October | |
| John Rutherford: D. Stamatellos & A. P. Whitworth, The formation of brown dwarfs and low-mass stars by disc fragmentation | |
| Jan-Uwe Ness: High-Resolution X-Ray Spectroscopy of the Evolving Shock in the 2006 Outburst of RS Ophiuchi | |
| 17 October | |
| Stephen O'Sullivan: C. A. Onken & J. A. Kollmeier, An Improved Method for Using MgII to Estimate Black Hole Masses in Active Galactic Nuclei | |
| Mustafa Amin: A. Frolov, DEFROST: A new code for simulating preheating after inflation. | |
| 24 October | |
| Madhu Nikku: Gavignaud et al., Eddington ratios of faint AGN at intermediate redshift: Evidence for a population of half-starved black holes. | |
| Steve Leman: E. Behnke et al., Spin Dependent WIMP Limits from a Bubble Chamber | |
| 31 October | |
| Scott Hertel: S. Gillessen et al., Monitoring Stellar Orbits around the Massive Black Hole at the Galactic Center | |
| Al Lazarus | |
| 7 November | |
| Lindy Blackburn: O. Adriani et al., Observation of an anomalous positron abundance in the cosmic radiation | |
| Herman Marshall: A. Loeb & M. Zaldarriaga, Eavesdropping on Radio Broadcasts from Galactic Civilizations with Upcoming Observatories for Redshifted 21cm Radiation | |
| 14 November | |
| Dacheng Lin: James F. Steiner, Ramesh Narayan, Jeffrey E. McClintock, Ken Ebisawa, A Simple Comptonization Model | |
| Glenn Allen: Morlino, G., Amato, E., Blasi, P., Gamma ray emission from SNR RX J1713.7-3946 and the origin of galactic cosmic rays | |
| 21 November | |
| Joel Fridriksson: E. M. Cackett et al, Cooling of the Crust in the Neutron Star Low-Mass X-Ray Binary MXB 1659-29 | |
| Paul Schechter: Z. Staniszewski et al., Galaxy clusters discovered with a Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect survey | |
| 28 November | Thanksgiving: no Journal Club. |
| 5 December | |
| Sara Seager: A summary of recent direct detections of exoplanets | |
| Mike Matejek: Christian Y. Cardall, Degeneracy, the virial theorem, and stellar collapse | |
| 12 December | |
| En-Hsin Peng: D. Eckert and S. Paltani, INTEGRAL observations of the Perseus cluster | |
| Karl Andersson: Goobar et al., Near-IR Search for Lensed Supernovae Behind Galaxy Clusters - II. First Detection and Future Prospects | |