ASTRO 201a JOURNAL CLUB Schedule


 Oct. 12:  "The Hamburg/ESO R-process enhanced star survey (HERES).
            III. HE0338-3945 and the formation of the r+s stars."
           by Jonsell, K. et al., A&A, 451, 651-670, 2006

 Oct. 19:  "Binaries Like to be Twins: Implications for Doubly Degenerate
            Binaries, the Supernova Ia Rate and Other Interacting Binaries."
           by Pinsonneault, M. & Stanek, K., ApJ, 639, L67-70, 2006

            and related to this (perhaps somewhat counter to it):
               Lucy, 2006, astro-ph/0607225
               "Spectroscopic binaries with components of similar mass"
            (whether or not there is a peak near 1 in the binary mass ratio
             distribution is an open and important question.)

 Nov. 2:   "Origin of Solar Torsional Oscillations" by M. Rempel, astro-ph/
           0610221.
             http://xxx.lanl.gov/PS_cache/astro-ph/pdf/0610/0610221.pdf 
        ***   Roman & Meredith

 Nov. 9:   "A Planet-Sized Transiting Star Around OGLE-TR-122. Accurate Mass and
            Radius Near the Hydrogen-Burning Limit.", by Pont. F. et al., 2005,
           Astron. & Astrophys., 433, L21.
        ***   Diego & Josh

 Nov. 16:  "Neon Abundances in B-Stars of the Orion Association: Solving the Solar
           Model Problem?" by Cunha, Hubeny and Lanz, astro-ph/0606738
            and related:
             Asplund, M. 2005, Ann. Rev. Astron. Astrophys., 43, 481
            and
             Bahcall, Basu and Serenelli, 2005, ApJ, 631, 1281
        ***   Melaku
         

 Nov. 21 (Tue): "A Type Ia Supernova SNLS-03D3bb from a super-Chandrasekhar-mass white
                 Dwarf Star", Howell et al., Nature, v.443, 308-311.
           and related:
                "Champagne supernova", David Branch, Nature - News&Views, v.443, 283-284.
        ***

 Nov. 30:  "A Physical Orbit for the High Proper Motion Binary HD 9939", by A. Boden
             et al., Astrophys.J. 644 (2006) 1193-1201
            and related:
             Rocha-Pinto, et al., A&A, v.358, p.850-868 (2000)
        ***

 Dec. 7:   "Theory for the Secondary Eclipse Fluxes, Spectra, Atmospheres, and
           Light Curves of Transiting Extrasolar Planets", Burrows et al., 2006
             http://xxx.lanl.gov/pdf/astro-ph/0607014
            and related:
             J. Harrington et al., 2006, Science, 314, 623-626
        ***   Ann & Robert

 Dec. 14:  "Detection of Thermal Emission from an Extrasolar Planet", Charbonneau et
             al., Astrophys.J. 626 (2005) 523-529;
            and related:
             Deming, D. et al.,"IR radiation from an extrasolar planet", Nature,434,740;
            and
             Fortney,J. et al., "Comparative Planetary Atmospheres: Models of TrES-1 
             and HD 209458b, Astrophys.J. 627 (2005) L69-L72.
        ***