Reading
Group Meetings
The meetings occur on Tuesdays
at 11:00 AM in building 70, room 191.
Bring your lunch if you like!
Upcoming Meeting Agenda
Previous meetings
Useful Links
Upcoming
Meeting Agenda
Last meeting of the semester has been
scheduled
Previous
Meetings:
5/31/05: Formation of Glass With Embedded Metal and Sulfides
from Shock-Accelerated Crystalline Dust in Superbubbles
- Ben gave a presentation on the SNe origin of glass with embedded metal and sulfides.
The paper can be found here.
- His presentation is here.
5/17/05: Identification of Type IA Supernovae at Redshift 1.3 and
Beyond with the Advanced Camera for Surveys on HST
- Natalie led journal club discussion on the topic of Type IA SNe Identification through
observations of the UV deficit.
The paper can be found here.
- Her presentation is here.
4/19/05: Why Are Radio-Galaxies Prolific
Producers of Type Ia Supernovae?
- Vitaliy led journal club discussion on the topic of Type Ia SNe in Radio Galaxies.
The paper can be found here.
- His presentation is here.
4/05/05: Sticky Ice Grains Aid Planet Formation:
Unusual Properties of Cryogenic Water Ice
- Richard led journal club discussion on the role of cryogenic water ice in planet formation.
The paper can be found here.
3/22/05:Self-Calibration of Cluster Dark Energy Studies:
Observable-Mass Distribution
- Ramon led a discussion on the relationship between cluster mass and observable quantities and how this
relationship must be understood if cluster studies are to be used to constrain cosmological models. The paper is here.
- His powerpoint presentation is here.
3/08/05:Giant Flare from the
Magnetar SGR 1806-20
- Kyle led a discussion on observations of a gamma ray burst located inside the Milky Way. The papers are here and here.
- Some animations of the event can be found at PR machine NASA's web site here.
2/22/05:HST Absolute Spectrophotometry of Vega from the Far-UV
to the IR
- Alex led a discussion on observations of the standard star Vega. The paper is here.
- His presentation can be found here.
2/15/05:Spectral Signatures of Gravitationally
Confined Thermonuclear Supernova Explosions
- Rollin led a discussion on a paper by former Berkeley grad student Daniel Kasen, found here.
- His presentation can be found here.
2/8/05: Terrestrial Planet Finder science and mission
concepts
- Stephen led a discussion on the Terrestrial Planet Finder based on the science paper by Seager et al., found here
and the instrument paper by Charles Beichman, found here.
- Even more flashy and general info is avaliable at the NASA web site.
2/1/05: Median Statistics, H_0, and the Accelerating
Universe
- Marek led a discussion on median image statistics based on a paper by Gott et al., found here.
1/25/05: Discovery of a Pulsar in a Binary
System
- Natalia led a discussion of the paper by Hulse and Taylor, found here
and included some special effects in her presentation found here, here, andhere, .
1/18/05: Large-Scale Structure Correlation
Function
12/20/04: Beta, local SN1a data and the
Great Attractor
12/06/04: Stellar Encounters as the
Origin of Distant
Solar System Objects in Highly Eccentric Orbits.
- David Gerdes presentation can be found here,
while the original paper by
B.
Bromley et al. can be found here.
11/29/04: Evidence for SN fallout on the earth
2.8 million years ago, Knie et al.
- Stephens presentation can be found here,
while the original paper can be found here.
11/22/04:
The binary progenitor of Tycho Brahe's 1572 supernova, P.
Ruiz-Lapuente et al.
- Tony´s presentation can be downloaded here.
11/15/04: The diversity of Type Ia Supernovae: evidence for
systematics?
The paper by
Benetti et al. can be found here, and the
presentation
here (ppt).
10/25/04: Towards a more standardized candle using GRB
energetics and Spectra
- This paper
with
the above
title was presented by Marek Kowalski. The presentation
can
be found here (ppt).
10/19/04: The Era of Reionization
10/12/04: The flux
of small
near-Earth objects colliding with the Earth
10/05/04: A
Giant Planet Candidate near a Young Brown Dwarf.
09/28/04: Effects of halo substructure on the power spectrum and
bispectrum
- This paper
with the above title was presented by Stephen Bailey. The presentation
can be found
here.
09/21/04: Optimizing Cosmological Surveys
09/14/04: Noise in Strong Lensing Cosmography.
- This paper by
Dalal, Hennawi, and Bode, presented by Eric Linder.
09/07/04: Departures
from a Power Law Galaxy Correlation Function.
- This
paper by Zehavi et al., presented by Richard Szalco.
08/31/04: Claimed
Detection of Weak Lensing.
- This paper
by Williams & Song, presented by Graig Aldering.
- Eric pointed out this paper by
Menard & Dalal that showed that W&S can't be lesing.
08/24/04: Fisher
Analyses.
- The main paper is this one, by Max
Tegmark et al.. Introduction (section 1) and section 2 are
sufficient, presented by Natalia Kuznetsova.
- Here is
a paper by Tegmark et al. with nice Fisher applications.
- This paper
by Gary Bernstein gives another example of using the Fisher in the
context of SN photometry.
- You might also want to check out the appendix of this paper by
Kallosh et al..
- Natalia's presentation in PowerPoint
and pdf
on the subject.
08/17/04: Cancelled
08/10/04:
Redshift-Independent Distances to Type Ia Supernovae.
08/03/04: No meeting
07/27/04: Clues to
Type Ia Supernova Physics from the Remnant 0509-67.5
07/20/04: Constraints
on dark energy from Chandra observations
07/13/04: Postponed
06/28/04: High
redshift supernova rates
06/22/04: Expanding
Confusion
- This paper
on the common misconceptions of cosmological horizons and the
superluminal expansion of the Universe by T. Davis and C. Lineweaver
06/15/04: Cancelled
06/08/04:
Polarization Detection in GRBs
06/01/04: Hillebrandt's
video conference
05/25/04: Cancelled
05/18/04: Cancelled
05/11/04: MeV Dark
Matter: Has It Been Detected?
05/04/04: Cancelled
04/27/04: Planet
found via microlensing
- This
paper by Bond et al..
- Useful background can be found in this
paper by Gaudi et al. (see also Bennett & Rhie 1996,
referenced therein).
- Here
is a nice presentation by Bennett and Rhie.
04/20/04: Statistics
04/13/04:
K-Corrections and Interstellar Extinction
- K-corrections: This
paper by P. Nugent, A. Kim, and S. Perlmutter.
- You might also find it useful to take a look at this
write-up by D. Hogg et al..
- Natalia's presentatation
on the subject.
- Interstellar Extinction: This
paper by J. O'Donnell.
04/06/04: Cancelled
03/30/04: Effect of
the C/O Ratio on Peak Luminosity in SN Ia
03/23/04: Constraints
on Neutrino Masses from Cosmology
03/17/04: No meeting
03/10/04: Baryon
Oscillations
- This
paper by Seo and Eisenstein.
- Eric's suggestions on the Seo/Eisenstein paper:
Focus on sections 1-2
Eqs. 8 and 14 plus the last 4 paragraphs of section 3
Skim section 4, read section 5 (note the improper treatment of SNe on
the bottom of p.6.)
- Alex's presentation
(PowerPoint) on the subject.
- Section 3 of Eric
Linder's paper.
03/03/04:
Gunn-Peterson effect
02/25/04: Binary
stellar evolution
- This paper
by S.C. Yoon and N. Langer presents the first binary star evolution
model that produces a Chandrasekhar mass white dwarf.
02/18/04: No meeting
(DOE Physics Division review)
02/11/04: Kuiper belt
objects
02/04/04: Big
telescopes and Cross-correlation cosmography
- A summary of big telescopes is available here.
- Cross-correlation cosmography - Bernstein & Jain (2004) ApJ , 600, 17
01/27/04: Branes and
Telescope parameters
- Branes: The following sections from this paper by D.
Langlois:
Section 1
Section 2 - through eq. 2.4, then skip to eq. 2.20
Section 3 - skip
Section 4 - through 4.8, then skip to below 4.26
Section 5-8 - skip
Section 9 - skim
- Telescopes parameters: a nice pictorial introduction is
available here.
01/20/04: The ICRS
and Quintessense
01/13/04: Time and
Coordinate systems
- Time: Allen's Astrophysical Quantities (Fourth Edition):
2.4 Astronomical Constants Involving Time
27.1 The Julian Date
27.2 Standard Epochs
A less terse introduction and more information is available here.
A more technical description is given in the "The rotating earth"
- Coordinate systems: a good pictorial introduction is available here.
Useful
references
- ADS journal search: here.
- World of Astronomy: all here.
- LBL photometry group Web
page.
Questions or comments about this page should be directed to
Marek Kowalski