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Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Star and Planet Formation Journal Club |
Benjamin Disraeli, in a speech to the House of Commons
The Star and Planet Formation Journal Club is an informal forum for the CfA community where we discuss recent articles of interest in the literature. Our principal focus is on star and planet formation, although we also regularly discuss articles on the interstellar medium. We will meet every Wednesday during the '05-'06 school year, at 11:00 in the M-340 conference room on the 3rd floor of 160 Concord St (Fall 2005) and in Phillips auditorium, 60 Garden St. (Spring 2006) [city map & another]. Coffee and cookies are provided, although generous donations may lead to sweeter provisions. If you are looking for ideas for papers to present, a good place to start is the star formation newsletter and astro-ph.
Judging by our current attendence, we suggest that you make ~20 copies of the paper and/or handout for distribution.
Please sign up and remember the journal club motto: "It is easier to criticize than to be correct." Anyone who can find the Latin translation of this phrase will be rewarded with *extra free* coffee or cookies at the next journal club.
Previous 2005-2006 Journal Clubs
| Oct. 12 | Anthony Stark | Stark & Lee, subm. to ApJ Letters, astro-ph/0509694 "Giant Molecular Clouds are More Concentrated to Spiral Arms than Smaller Clouds" |
| Oct. 19 | Erik Rosolowsky | Krumholz & McKee, ApJ, 630, 250 "A General Theory of Turbulence-regulated Star Formation, from Spirals to Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies" |
| Nov. 2 | group discussion | Protostars & Planets V meeting |
| Nov. 9 | Scott Wolk | "Six Years of Science with Chandra"
and the "Star Formation in the Era of the Three Great Observatories" meetings |
| Nov. 16 | Subu Mohanty | Mohanty et al., in prep "Temperature, Mass, and Grey Extinction of the Planetary Candidate 2M1207b: New Results from VLT" |
| Nov. 30 | Eric Mamajek | Zavagno et al., A&A, in press, astro-ph/0509289 "Triggered massive-star formation on the borders of Galactic HII regions. II. Evidence for the collect and collapse process around RCW 79" |
| Dec. 7 | Naomi Ridge | Garrod, Williams, & Rawlings, ApJ, in press, astro-ph/0510619 "Molecular Clouds as Ensembles of Transient Cores" |
| Dec. 14 | Phil Myers | Weidner & Kroupa, MNRAS, in press (astro-ph/0511331) "The Maximum Stellar Mass, Star-Cluster Formation and Composite Stellar Populations" |
| Jan. 18 | Tyler Bourke | Mouschovias, Tassis, & Kunz, ApJ, in press (astro-ph/0512043) "Observational Constraints on the Ages of Molecular Clouds and the Star-Formation Timescale: Ambipolar Diffusion-Controlled or Turbulence-Induced Star Formation" |
| Jan. 25 | Nimesh Patel | de Buizer, Osorio, & Calvet, 2006, ApJ, in press (astro-ph/0508376) "Observations and Modelling of the 2-25 um Emission from High Mass Protostellar Object Candidates." |
| Feb. 1 | Alyssa Goodman | Ballesteros-Paredes et al., 2006, ApJ 637, 384 "The Mass Spectra of Cores in Turbulent Molecular Clouds and Implications for the Initial Mass Funcation" |
| Feb. 15 | Nick Tothill | C. Lada, 2006, ApJL, in press "Stellar Multiplicity and the IMF: Most Stars Are Single" |
| Feb. 22 | Rob Gutermuth | Adams, Proszkow, Fatuzzo, & Myers, 2006, ApJ, in press "Early Evolution of Stellar Groups and Clusters: Environmental Effects on Forming Planetary Systems" |
| Mar. 1 | Charlie Lada | Bastian & Goodwin, MNRAS, in press "Evidence for the Strong Effect of Gas Removal on the Internal Dynamics of Young Stellar Clusters" |
| Mar. 8 | Paula Teixeira | Larson, 2005, MNRAS, 359, 211 (astro-ph/0412357) "Thermal Physics, Cloud Geometry, and the Stellar IMF" |
| Mar. 15 | Scott Schnee | Huff & Stahler, ApJ, in press (astro-ph/0603138) "Star Formation in Space and Time: The Orion Nebula Cluster" |
| Mar. 22 | Gus Muench | Calvet et al., 2005, ApJ, 630, L185 "Disks in Transition in the Taurus Population: Spitzer IRS Spectra of GM Aurigae and DM Tauri" |
| Mar. 29 | Qizhou Zhang | Rathborne, Jackson, & Simon, ApJ, in press (astro-ph/0602246) "Infrared Dark Clouds: Precursors to Star Clusters" |
| Apr. 5 | Subu Mohanty | Scholz, Jayawardhana, & Wood, 2006, ApJ, in press (astro-ph/0603619) "Exploring Brown Dwarf Disks: A 1.3-mm Survey in Taurus" |
| Apr. 19 | Lori Allen | Perrin, M., Duchene, G., Kalas, P., & Graham, J., 2006, ApJ, in press (astro-ph/0603667) "Discovery of an Optically Thick, Edge-on Disk around the Herbig Ae star PDS 144N" |
| Apr. 26 | Jonathan Foster | Clark & Bonnell, MNRAS, in press "Clumpy Shocks and the Clump Mass Function" and Bonnell, Clarke, & Bate, MNRAS, in press "The Jeans mass and the origin of the knee in the IMF" |
| May 3 | Thayne Currie | Kessler-Silacci et al. 2006, ApJ, 639, 275 "c2d Spitzer IRS Spectra of Disks around T Tauri Stars. I. Silicate Emission and Grain Growth" |
| May 10 | Jaime Pineda | Natta, Testi, & Randich, 2006, A&A, in press (astro-ph/0602618) Accretion in the Rho-Oph Pre-Main Sequence Stars |
| Wed. May 17 11am, Phillips | Carlos Roman-Zuniga (& Jonathan Tan) | Tan, Krumholz, & McKee, ApJ, 641, L121 (astro-ph/0603278) "Equilibrium Star Cluster Formation" |
| Wed. May 24 11am, Phillips | Jens Kauffmann (MPIfR) | talk: "The c2d MAMBO and Spitzer Dense Core Surveys: Clues on the Star-Formation
Threshold" |