MKI Journal Club meets semester Fridays at noon in the Marlar Lounge (building 37, room 252).
Click on a speaker's name to visit their home page. Click on an author's name to download and view their paper.
| 8 February | |
| Max Tegmark: C. L. Reichardt et al, "High resolution CMB power spectrum from the complete ACBAR data set" | |
| Ben Cain: Sanghamitra Deb, David M. Goldberg & Vede J. Ramdass, "Reconstruction of Cluster Masses using Particle Based Lensing I: Application to Weak Lensing" | |
| 15 February | |
| MKI Postdoc Symposium: no Journal Club. | |
| 22 February | |
| John Belcher: E. C. Stone et al, "Voyager 2 finds an asymmetric termination shock and explores the heliosheath beyond" | |
| Jeff Blackburne: James Binney, "Fitting orbits to tidal streams" | |
| 29 February | |
| Paul Schechter: X.-X. Xue, H.-W. Rix et al., "The Milky Way's Curve to 60kpc and an Estimate of the Dark Matter Halo Mass from Kinematics of ~2500 SDSS Blue Horizontal Branch Stars" | |
| Ben Monreal: Weidenspointner et al., "An asymmetric distribution of positrons in the Galactic disk revealed by gamma-rays" | |
| 7 March | |
| Scott Hughes: Weinberg and Quataert, "Nonlinear saturation of g-modes in proto-neutron stars: quieting the acoustic engine" | |
| Aidan Crook: Loeb & Narayan, "Dynamical Constraints on the Local Group from the CMB and 2MRS Dipoles" | |
| 14 March | |
| Paola Rebusco: Voss & Nelemans, "Discovery of the progenitor of the type Ia supernova 2007on" | |
| Sarah Vigeland: Wu et al., "Milky Way potentials in CDM and MOND. Is the Large Magellanic Cloud on a bound orbit?" | |
| 21 March | |
| Sara Seager: Gaudi et al, "Discovery of a Jupiter/Saturn Analog with Gravitational Microlensing" | |
| Dacheng Lin: Altamirano, et al, "Millihertz Oscillation Frequency Drift Predicts the Occurrence of Type I X-Ray Bursts" | |
| 28 March | Spring Break: no Journal Club. |
| 4 April | |
| Fred Baganoff: Uchiyama & Aharonian, "Fast Variability of Nonthermal X-Ray Emission in Cassiopeia A: Probing Electron Acceleration in Reverse-Shocked Ejecta" | |
| Adrian Liu: Wray & Gunn, "A New Technique for Galaxy Photometric Redshifts in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey" | |
| 11 April | |
| Karl Andersson: Berrier et al.,"The Assembly of Galaxy Clusters" | |
| Leslie Rogers: Li et al, A laser frequency comb that enables radial velocity measurements with a precision of 1 cm/s | |
| 18 April | |
| Saul Rappaport: Troja et al, XMM-Newton observations of the supernova remnant IC 443: II. evidence of stellar ejecta in the inner regions | |
| Phil Zukin: Bhat, Bailes, and Verbiest, Gravitational-radiation losses from the pulsar-white-dwarf binary PSR J1141-6545 | |
| 25 April | |
| Ron Remillard: Shaposhnikov and Titarchuk, Determination of Black Hole Mass in Cygnus X-1 by Scaling of Spectral Index-QPO Frequency Correlation | |
| Jinrong Lin: Galloway et al, Biases for neutron-star mass, radius and distance measurements from Eddington-limited X-ray bursts | |
| 2 May | |
| Tali Figueroa: E. M. Cackett et al, Relativistic iron emission lines in neutron star low-mass X-ray binaries as probes of neutron star radii | |
| Chris Williams: Bauer et al, Supernova 1996cr: SN 1987A's Wild Cousin? | |
| 9 May | |
| Michael Nowak: Poutanen, Zdziarski, and Ibragimov, Superorbital variability of X-ray and radio emission of Cyg X-1 - II. Dependence of the orbital modulation on the superorbital phase | |
| Pranesh Sundararajan: Willems et al, Probing white dwarf interiors with LISA: periastron precession in double white dwarfs | |
| 16 May | |
| Mike Stevens: Fields, Athanassiadou, and Johnson, Supernova collisions with the heliosphere | |
| Will Farr: Harfst, et al, A Hybrid N-Body Code Incorporating Algorithmic Regularization and Post-Newtonian Forces | |