Star and Planet Formation Journal Club
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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.
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If you would like to sign up to give a talk or discuss a paper, please e-mail us
at mkuchner@cfa.harvard.edu
skim@cfa.harvard.edu
or smohanty@cfa.harvard.edu.
Maps to the CfA are here .
September 18: Qingzhu Yin "Rapid accretion and core formation of the terrestrial planets:
New constraints from Hf-W chronometry"
see Q. Yin et al. (2002) Nature, 418, 949-952
T. Kleine et al. (2002) Nature, 418, 952-955
A. Cameron (2002) Nature, 418, 924-925 (News and Views)
Schoenberg et al. 2002, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 66, 3151
Al Cameron sent us a preprint of a paper submitted to ApJ in May
which eloborates on his
position in the News and Views article.
October 2: Scott Schnee will review the paper "Molecular line study of the very young protostar
IRAM 04191 in Taurus: Infall, rotation, and outflow" Belloche et al. astro-ph/0207287
Note: Division of Planetary Sciences Meeting October 6-11
October 9: Ted Bergin will review the paper "Warm molecular layers in protoplanetary disks"
Aikawa, van Zadelhoff, van Dishoeck, and Herbst 2002, A&A, 386, 622
October 16: Tracy Huard will review the paper "Completion of a SCUBA survey of Lynds dark clouds and implications
for low-mass star formation"
Visser, Richer, & Chandler, accepted by AJ, available at
astro-ph/0209082
October 23: Ann Bragg and Hannah Jang-Condell
October 30: Alyssa Goodman will review the paper
Matthew R. Bate, Ian A. Bonnell, Volker Bromm
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society; Volume 336, Issue 3, Page 705
November 6: Gabriela Mallen-Ornelas
The EXPLORE Search for Transiting Extrasolar Planets
November 13: Chris De Vries
Bright-Rimmed Clouds, Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Star
Formation
November 20: Ulyana Dyudina (Columbia University)
Clouds and lightning on Jupiter, interpretation of their images and
lessons learned from a 3D light scattering model
November 27: Stein Jacobsen "Noble Gases and Accretion of the Earth"
December 4, noon: Dave Jewitt (U. Hawaii IfA) "The Large Synoptic Survey
Telescope: DMT, Pan Starrs and the Future of Wide Field Astronomy"
December 11: Michail Petaev "Timescales of Nebular Condensation:
Insights from the zoned metal grains of the CH and CB chondrites"
December 18: Qingzhu Yin
January 29: Subhanjoy Mohanty "Measurement of Surface Gravities
& Masses in Cluster Brown Dwarfs and Planemos"
February 5: John Wood "A Review and Critique of the X-Wind Model"
February 12: John Clarke (BU) "Hubble Space Telescope Observations of Jupiter's Aurora"
February 19 (M-340): Wes Traub will review the paper "Imaging spectroscopy
for extrasolar planet detection", Sparks and Ford, 2002, ApJ, 578, 543
and the preprint "Spiderweb masks for high-contrast imaging", Vanderbei,
Spergel, and Kasdin
February 26: Scott Wolk will talk about "Planetary Results from Chandra"
March 5: Sung Kim will review the papers:
"The CO J = 2-1 / J = 1-0 Ratio in the Large Magellanic
Cloud", Sorai et al. 2001,
ApJ, 551, 794
"Enhanced CO J = 2-1 / J = 1-0 Ratio as a Marker of
Supernova
Remnant-Molecular Cloud Interactions: The
Cases of W44 and IC 443", Seta et al. 1998,
ApJ, 505, 286 and
"Is the Supernova Remnant RX J1713.7-3946 a Hadronic
Cosmic-Ray
Accelerator?", Butt et al. 2001, ApJL, 562, 167
March 11 (Tuesday!): Mark Gurwell
March 19: Tyler Bourke
March 26: Dimitar Sasselov
April 2: Lee Hartman
April 9: Andrew Walsh will review the paper
"Testing the Circumstellar Disk Hypothesis: A Search for Molecular
Hydrogen Outflow Signatures from Massive YSOs with Linearly Distributed
Methanol Masers" by James De Buizer
April 16: Aurora Sicilia will review the paper
by A. Nelson and W. Benz, accepted by ApJ in 2003.
"On the Early Evolution of Forming Jovian Planets I: Initial
Conditions, Systematics and Qualitative Comparisons to Theory",
April 23: Phil Meyers will review the paper
"Dynamic Cores in Hydrostatic Disguise"
by Ballesteros-Paredes, Klessen, & Vazquez-Semadeni
and
"Turbulent Molecular Cloud Cores: Rotational Properties"
by Burkert & Bodenheimer 2000 (ApJ 543, 822)
April 30: Charlie Lada will talk about
"The Historical Development of Star Formation Research: From 3000 BC to 1950"
I will present a short informal review of the major historical developments
in the quest to understand the origins of stars from the Genesis to
the mid-1950s. The talk will attempt to explain why it took until
the late twentieth century for star formation research to become
an active and accepted branch of astrophysics.
May 7: Bob Noyes will talk about Tim Brown's new preprint:
"Expected Detection and False Alarm Rates for Transiting Jovian Planets"
Guillermo Torres will talk about the recent paper by Dreizler et al.
"OGLE-TR-3: A Possible New Transiting Planet"
May 14: David Wilner will review the paper by Wyatt, Dent & Greaves,
SCUBA Observations of Dust around Lindroos Stars: Evidence for a
Substantial Submillimetre Disc Population
May 21: Mike Lecar will review the paper by M.R. Bate, S.H. Lubow, G.I. Ogilivie and K.A. Miller,
"Three-dimensional calculations of high- and low-mass planets embedded in protoplanetary discs"
MNRAS, 341, 213-229, 2003
May 28: Greg Herczeg (U. Colorado) will talk about
"H2 in diverse environments around Classical T Tauri Stars"
June 11: Pete Nisenson will talk about
"The Space Interferometry Mission and its Planet-Finding Capabilities."
The Space Interferometry Mission (SIM) has made a great deal of progress
in the last year. It is now transitioning from Phase A to Phase B and is
coming closer and closer to reality. I will describe the current status
of the mission and discuss the its importance to other NASA missions and
exo-planet science in general.
Please sign up and remember our motto:
"It is easier to criticize than to be correct"
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