Star Formation Journal Club

Star formation image of the week: Ejecting gas bubble in XZ Tau

Here is a list of past articles discussed and formal talks given during the year 2001.


January 3: No Journal Club meeting

January 10: No Journal Club meeting (AAS)

January 17: Maite Beltran will discuss the paper ``The structure of protostellar envelopes derived from submillimeter continuum images'' by Claire Chandler & John Richer (ApJ 530, 851).

January 24: Mario van den Ancker will review the paper ``Spectral Energy Distributions of T Tauri and Herbig Ae Disks: Grain Mineralogy, Parameter Dependences, and Comparison with ISO LWS Observations'' by E.I. Chiang et al. (ApJ, in press).

January 31: No Journal Club Meeting

February 7: Alyssa Goodman will review the paper ``Measurements of magnetic field geometry and strength in Bok globules'' by Thomas Henning et al. (submitted to ApJ).

February 14: Tyler Bourke will review the paper ``From infall to rotation around young stellar objects: A transitional phase with a 2000 AU radius contracting disk?'' by Michiel Hogerheijde (ApJ, in press).

February 21: Kevin Luhman will talk about ``Searching for Substellar Companions with Keck and Gemini Adaptive Optics''

February 28: Chunhua Qi will review the paper ``The Importance of Photoprocessing in Protoplanetary Disks'' by K. Willacy & W.D. Langer. (ApJ 544, 903).

March 7: Ted Bergin will review the paper ``New molecules found in comet C/1995 O1 (Hale-Bopp): Investigating the link between cometary and interstellar material'' by D. Bockelée-Morvan et al. (A&A 353, 1101).

March 14: Simon Portegies Zwart (MIT) will talk about ``Is the Mass Function of the Arches Cluster as Flat as the Dutch Landscape?''

March 21: Lee Hartmann will review the paper ``Observational Constraints on the Formation and Evolution of Binary Stars'' by R.J. White & A.M. Ghez (ApJ, in press).

March 28: Hector Arce will review the paper ``High-latitude molecular clouds and near-by OB associations'' by H.C. Bhatt (A&A 362, 715).

April 4: Phil Myers will review the paper ``The Formation of Brown Dwarfs as Ejected Stellar Embryos'' by B. Reipurth & C. Clarke (AJ, in press).

April 11: Tom Megeath will review the paper ``The Formation of a Bound Star Cluster: From the Orion Nebula Cluster to the Pleiades'' by P. Kroupa, S.J. Aarseth & J. Hurley (MNRAS, in press).

April 18: Dave Latham & Mario van den Ancker will discuss the conference ``Young Stars Near Earth: Progress and Prospects'' (NASA Ames Research Center, 28-30 March 2001).

April 25, room M340: Kathleen Kraemer (Boston University) will talk about ``Dust and Gas in Star Forming Regions: A Mid-Infrared Investigation''

May 2: Mario Tafalla (Observatorio Astronomico Nacional) will talk about ``Widespread Molecular Differentiation in Starless Cores''

May 9: Chang Won Lee will review the paper ``A SCUBA survey of compact dark Lynds clouds'' by A.E. Visser, J.S. Richer & C.J. Chandler (MNRAS, in press).

May 16: Gregory Sloan (Air Force Research Lab) will talk about ``The Nature of Organic Molecules in the Interstellar Medium (and what long-slit infrared spectroscopy can tell us)''

May 23: Joseph Hora will talk about ``Observations of Young Stars with MIRAC3''

May 30: James Muzerolle (University of Arizona) will talk about ``The Multiband Imaging Photometer for SIRTF and a Survey of Young Clusters''

June 6: No Journal Club Meeting (AAS)

June 13: Jeff Bary (Vanderbilt University) will talk about ``Detection of Quiescent Ro-Vibrational Molecular Hydrogen Emission from the Circumstellar Disks of T Tauri Stars''

June 20: Qizhou Zhang will review the paper ``A SCUBA survey of the NGC 2068/2071 protoclusters'' by F. Motte et al. (A&A, in press).

June 27: Nuria Calvet will review the paper ``A reconsideration of disk properties in Herbig Ae stars'' by A. Natta et al. (A&A 371, 186).

September 5: No Journal Club meeting.

September 12: Annemieke Boonman (Leiden Observatory) will talk about ``Molecular spectroscopy of massive young stars''.

September 19: No Journal Club meeting (cancelled).

September 26: David Wilner will review the paper ``Tracing the Mass during Low-Mass Star Formation. II. Modelling the Submillimeter Emission from Preprotostellar Cores'' by N.J. Evans II, J.M.C. Rawlings, Y.L. Shirley & L.G. Mundy (ApJ 557, 193).

October 3: Paolo Padoan will talk about ``The Calibration of Turbulence Models with the Spectral Correlation Function''.

October 10: Chang Won Lee will review the paper ``Molecular ions in L1544. I. Kinematics'' by P. Caselli et al. (ApJ, in press).

October 17: Mario van den Ancker will review the paper ``Far-Infrared Investigation of Class 0 Sources: Line Cooling'' by T. Giannini, B. Nisini & D. Lorenzetti (ApJ 555, 40).

October 24: Lee Hartmann will review the paper ``The first million years of the Sun: A calculation of formation and early evolution of a solar-mass star'' by G. Wuchterl & R. Klessen (ApJL, in press).

October 31: Tyler Bourke will review the paper ``Submillimeter lines from circumstellar disks around pre-main sequence stars'' by G.J. van Zadelhoff et al. (A&A 377, 566).

November 7, room M340: Cancelled

November 14, room M340: Ted Bergin will review the paper ``Contributions of Icy Planetesimals to the Earth's Early Atmosphere'' by T. Owen & A. Bar-Nun (Origins of Life and Evolution of the Biosphere 31, 435).

November 21: No Journal Club Meeting (Thanksgiving)

November 28: Subhanjoy Mohanty (UC Berkeley) will talk about ``Magnetospheric Accretion in T Tauri Stars: X-wind Models with Multipole Fields''.

December 5: Antony Stark will review the paper ``Dense gas in nearby galaxies: XIII. CO submillimeter line emission from the starburst galaxy M82'' by R.Q. Mao et al. (A&A 358, 433).

December 12: Tracy Huard will talk about ``Are Interstellar Abundances Closer to Those of the Sun or B Stars?'', guided by the paper ``Interstellar Abundance Standards Revisited'' by U.J. Sofia & D.M. Meyer (ApJ 554, L221).

December 19: Nuria Calvet will review the paper ``Spatially resolved imaging spectroscopy of T Tauri'' by M.E. Kasper et al. (ApJ, in press).

December 26: No Journal Club Meeting


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