Star and Planet Formation Journal Club
Image of the week: Photo-Evaporating Proplyds in Orion
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The Star and Planet Formation Journal Club is a forum in which 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. The format is informal, and we welcome talks from
visitors to the CfA. We meet every Wednesday
during the school year, at 11:00 in Phillips
Auditorium. Coffee, tea and cookies will be provided.
To receive the Journal Club announcements via e-mail, either send an
e-mail to
Majordomo@cfa.harvard.edu with the command "subscribe jclub" in the
body of your message, or send an e-mail to the list administrator,
Mario
van den Ancker. To unsubscribe from this mailing list, either send
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mvandenancker@cfa.harvard.edu.
If you would like to sign up to give a talk or discuss a paper, please e-mail us
at mvandenancker@cfa.harvard.edu or
mkuchner@cfa.harvard.edu
January 2: No Journal Club meeting.
January 9: No Journal Club meeting (AAS meeting).
January 16: No Journal Club meeting.
January 23, Room M340: Tommy Grav will review the paper
``The formation of Uranus and
Neptune among Jupiter and Saturn'' by E.W. Thommes, M.J. Duncan & H.F. Levison
(to appear in AJ).
January 30, 2 PM: David Smith will talk about ``The Origin of Water on Earth''
February 6: Naoki Yoshida will review ``Direct N-body Simulations and the Applications in
Planetary Science''
February 13: Sung Kim will review the paper
``Sensitive CO
Observations of the LMC Supergiant Shells with NANTEN: Their Effects on the Formation
of Molecular Clouds and Stellar Clusters'' by Yamaguchi et al. (PASJ 53, 959).
February 20: Open discussion: what star & planet formation science to
do with the GSMT. Have a look at the ideas
suggested at this meeting and e-mail Marc Kuchner
if you think of other good Star and Planet Formation science drivers for a Giant Segmented
Mirror Telescope.
February 27: Mario van den Ancker will review the paper
``Spectroscopic
Variability of the UXOR Star RR Tauri'' by
Rodgers et al. (ApJ 564, 405).
March 6: No Journal Club meeting (Infrared Astronomy from Antarctica meeting at BU)
March 13: Phil Myers will review the papers
``Magnetic Fields in Star-Forming
Molecular Clouds III. Submillimeter Polarimetry of Intermediate Mass
Cores and Filaments in Orion B'' by Mattews, Fiege & Moriarty-Schieven
``Enhancement of Ambipolar
Diffusion Rates through Field Fluctuations'' by Fatuzzo & Adams, and
related papers.
March 20: Scott Kenyon will lead a discussion on debris disks guided by the
paper ``Collisional Cascades in
Planetesimal Disks I. Stellar Flybys'' by S. Kenyon & B. Bromley (to appear in AJ).
March 27, Room M340: Andrew Walsh will review the paper
``Gravitational
Instabilities in the Disks of Massive Protostars as an Explanation for Linear
Distributions of Methanol Masers'' by R.H. Durisen et al. (ApJ 563, L157).
April 3: Guillermo Torres will talk about ``A search for spectroscopic binaries in
a sample of ROSAT sources'' guided by the paper
``Spectroscopic
binaries in a sample of ROSAT X-ray sources South of the Taurus molecular clouds''
by Torres et al. (AJ 123, 1701).
April 10: Tyler Bourke will review the paper
``Far-infrared
and molecular line observations of Lynds 183 - Studies of cold gas and dust'' by
Juvela et al. (A&A 382, 583).
April 17: Ken Jucks will talk about ``Spectral signatures and biomarkers of solar and
extra-solar planets''.
April 24: Aurora Sicilia Aguilar will review the paper
``Rapid
Formation of Ice Giant Planets'' by A. Boss, G. Wetherill &
N. Haghighipour (to appear in Icarus).
May 1: Mauricio Tapia will review the paper
``Infrared Observations of NGC 3603. I: New constraints on cluster radius and K-band luminosity function''
by D.E.A. Nuernberger & M.G. Petr-Gotzens (A&A 382, 537).
May 8: Mark Gurwell will review the papers
``Evolution of "51Peg b-like" Planets''
by Tristan Guillot & Adam P. Showman and
``Atmospheric Circulation and Tides of "51Peg b-like" Planets''
by Adam P. Showman & Tristan Guillot (to appear in A&A).
May 15: No Meeting.
May 22, Room M340: Wes Traub & Alessandro Sozzetti will review the conference ``Astrophysics of Life'' (Space Telescope Science Institute, 6-9 May 2002).
May 29: José-Luis Saucedo Cardena will review the paper
``Simulation-Based Investigation of a Model
for the Interaction Between Stellar Magnetospheres and Circumstellar Accretion Disks''
by Matt et al. (to appear in ApJ).
June 5: Frank Bensch will talk about the status and recent results from the
BU-FCRAO Galactic Ring Survey guided by the papers
``The structure of four molecular cloud complexes in
the BU-FCRAO Milky Way Galactic Ring Survey'' by R. Simon et al. (ApJ 551, 747),
``HI Self-Absorption and the kinematic distance ambiguity:
the case of the Molecular Cloud GRSMC 45.6+0.3'' by J. Jackson et al. (ApJ 566, L81), and
``A Comparison of 13CO and CS emission in the Inner Galaxy''
by K. McQuinn et al. (submitted to ApJ).
June 12, Room M340: Scott Wolk and Kevin Luhman will review
``IAU Symposium 211: Brown Dwarfs''
(Waikoloa, Hawaii, May 20-24, 2002).
June 19: No Meeting.
June 26, 11:30 AM, Room M340: Valeri Makarov (USNO) will talk about
``Young nearby stars: where are they from?''
July 3: Dave Latham will talk about new developments in ``Ground-based
Searches for Planetary Transits'' discussed at the conference
``Scientific
Frontiers in Research on Extrasolar Planets''
(Washington DC, June 18-21, 2002).
Please sign up and remember our motto:
"It is easier to criticize than to be correct"