UNLV Astro Journal Club Schedule for Spring 2008

Date Reviewer Journal/Talk Title
01-28 Francisco Virgili   The DEEP2 Galaxy Redshift Survey: The Red Sequence AGN Fraction and its Environment and Redshift Dependence  (arXiv:0801.2769)
02-04 No Talk Swift
02-11 Amanda Maxham Equal- and unequal-mass mergers of disk and elliptical galaxies with black holes: The M_BH-sigma and M_BH-M_* relation
(arXiv:0802.0210v1)
02-18 No Talk
President's Day
02-25 Ryuichi
Kurosawa
The effect of radiation pressure on virial black hole mass estimates and
the case of Narrow Line Seyfert 1 galaxies
(arXiv:0802.2021v1)
03-03 Jun-Hwan Choi Gamma-Ray Bursts in $1.8 < z < 5.6$ Suggest that the Time variation of the Dark Energy is small
(arXiv:0802.3428v1)
03-10 Bin-bin Zhang
Discovery of the progenitor of the type Ia supernova 2007on
http://arxiv.org/abs/0802.2082
and
sphericity in Supernova Explosions from Late-Time Spectroscopy
/http://arxiv.org/abs/0801.1100v2
03-17 No Talk Spring Break
03-24
Amanda Maxham Anomalous Orbital-Energy Changes Observed during Spacecraft Flybys of Earth.
(link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.091102)
03-31 George Rhee
An N-body/SPH Study of Isolated Galaxy Mass Density Profiles
Authors: Kelly Foyle, Stephane Courteau, Robert Thacker
04-07 Bing Zhang
Supernova Shock Breakout from a Red Supergiant
04-14 Stefan Luketic
The Black Hole Accretion Disk in NGC 4258: One of Nature's Most Beautiful
Dynamical Systems
Authors: James M. Moran
04-21 Dave Whitehead
Spherical Accretion with Anisotropic Thermal Conduction
Authors: Prateek Sharma, Eliot Quataert, James M. Stone
04-28 Shanshan Li
Can Supermassive Black Holes Form in Metal-Enriched High-Redshift
Protogalaxies ?
Authors: K. Omukai, R. Schneider, Z. Haiman
05-05 Tae Song Lee