UNLV Astro Journal Club Schedule for Fall 2007

Date Reviewer Journal/Talk Title
09-10 Nayantara Gupta "Gamma Ray Background" based on the paper arxiv:0707.2915 by
       T. M. Kneiske.
09-17 Daniel Proga   "Dynamics of Accretion Flows Irradiated by a Quasar" based on Proga, 2007, ApJ, 661, 693 and astro-ph/0708.4037
09-24 Junhwan Choi  "The dynamics of tidal tails from massive satellites
 : A tail that wasn't right  (astro-ph/0702353
10-01 Kentaro Nagamine  "Direct cosmological simulations of the growth of black holes and  
galaxies" by Di Matteo et al. (astro-ph/0705.2269)
10-08 Bing Zhang "A bright millisecond radio burst of extragalactic origin" by D. R. Lorimer et al. (astro-ph/0709.4301)
10-15 Monika Moscibrodzka "Star formation in a gaseous disc around Sgr A* -- a failed AGN by Sergei Nayakshin, Jorge Cuadra, Volker Springel based on  (astro-ph/0701141)
10-22 Francisco Virgili "Neutral hydrogen in galactic fountains" by C. M. Booth and Tom Theuns   (astro-ph/0708.0221)
10-29 Enwei Liang Base on  three papers:
(1). A Comprehensive Analysis of Swift/XRT Data:  III. Jet Break Candidates in X-ray and Optical Afterglow Lightcurves (http://arxiv.org/abs/0708.2942,  ApJ, in press)
by Liang E. W., Racusin, J., Zhang, B., Zhang, B-B, Burrows, D. N.
(2). Jet breaks in the X-ray light-curves of Swift gamma-ray burst afterglows (http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2007MNRAS.380..374P)
by Panaitescu, A.
(3). GRB Energetics in the Swift Era (http://arxiv.org/abs/0707.4478, ApJ, submitted)
by Kocevski, D. & Butler, N.
11-05 Junhwan Choi  "The dynamical friction in satellite and dark matter halo interaction" based on his thesis work.
Other general references:  (1). Binney and Tremaine 1987 Chapter 7.1 (Dynamical friction 100), (2).  Tremaine & Weinberg 1984, MNRAS, 209, 729 ,  (3).  Weinberg & Katz 2006, MNRAS, 375, 425
11-12 No Talk Hoilday
11-19 Binbin Zhang "Highlights of GRB2007 Conference"  See the conference website at  http://grb2007.lanl.gov/
11-26 Open
TBA
12-03 Stephane Courteau (Queen's University) (Special Seminar) "Puzzles in Galaxy Scaling Relations". 
12-10 No talk -- Final Exam Week