Radius and Structure Models of the First Super-Earth Planet
| Rob Simcoe: Stanway et al., Faint z ~ 6 Lya Line Emitters in the Hubble Ultra-Deep Field |
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| 23 February
| Ben Cain: Evrard et al., Virial Scaling of Massive Dark Matter Halos: Why Clusters Prefer a High Normalization Cosmology |
| Madhu Nikku: Kasen and Woosley, On the Origin of the Type Ia Supernova Width-Luminosity Relation |
| Jeroen Homan: McHardy et al., Active galactic nuclei as scaled-up Galactic black holes |
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| 2 March
| Robyn Sanderson: Strigari et al., Determining the nature of dark matter with astrometry |
| Will Farr: Baker, et al., Modeling Kicks from the Merger of Non-Precessing Black-Hole Binaries. |
| Ed Bertschinger: Chluba and Sunyaev, Induced two-photon decay of the 2s level and the rate of cosmological hydrogen recombination |
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| 9 March
| Lindy Blackburn: Dimmelmeier, et al., Generic Gravitational Wave Signals from the Collapse of Rotating Stellar Cores |
| Molly Swanson: Elgaroy and Multamaki, On using the CMB shift parameter in tests of models of dark energy |
| Eric Miller: Takei et al., Warm-Hot Intergalactic Medium Associated with the Coma Cluster |
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| 16 March
| Tamer Elkholy: Kim and Croft, A potentially pure test of cosmic geometry: galaxy clusters and the real space Alcock-Paczynski test |
| Jared Markowitz: M. Volonteri, Gravitational Recoil: Signatures on the Massive Black Hole Population |
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| 23 March
| Jeff Blackburne: Poindexter et al., Mid-IR Observations and a
Revised Time Delay for the Gravitational Lens System Quasar HE
1104-1805 |
| Phil Zukin: Siegel, Hertzberg, and Fry, Probing Dark Matter Substructure with Pulsar Timing |
| David Kaplan |
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| 30 March
| Spring Break: no talks. |
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| 6 April
| Scott Hughes |
| Nicolas Smith |
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| 13 April
| Timothy Bodiya |
| Chris Williams |
| Tracey Delaney |
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| 20 April
| Adrian Liu: HongSheng Zhao, Timing and Lensing of the Colliding Bullet Clusters: barely enough time and gravity to accelerate the bullet. |
| Pranesh Sundararajan |
| Peter Ford |
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| 27 April
| Jinrong Lin: Van den Heuvel, Double Neutron Stars: Evidence for two different Neutron-Star formation mechanisms |
| Sarah Vigeland: Flambaum & Kozlov, Enhanced sensitivity to time-variation of m_p/m_e in the inversion spectrum of ammonia |
| Paul Schechter: S. White, Fundamentalist Physics: Why Dark Energy is Bad for Astronomy |
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| 4 May
| Dacheng Lin: Miniutti, et. al., Suzaku Observations of the Hard X-Ray Variability of MCG -6-30-15: the
Effects of Strong Gravity around a Kerr Black Hole. PASJ, 59, 315 (2007). |
| Aidan Crook: Argon, et. al., Toward a New Geometric Distance to the Active Galaxy NGC4258: I. VLBI Monitoring of Water Maser Emission. |
| Al Levine: Trauger & Traub, A laboratory demonstration of the capability to image an Earth-like extrasolar planet |
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| 11 May
| Ian Duke: Wang, et. al., Is Modified Gravity Required by Observations? An Empirical Consistency Test of Dark Energy Models. |
| Joel Fridriksson |
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| 18 May
| Keisuke Goda |
| Chris Wipf |
| Rick Binzel: Porco et al, "Cassini Observes the Active South Pole of Enceladus," |
