Astro Journal Research Club: Fall, 2023 – Spring, 2024


Date Title Speaker
September 6, 2023 Potential Outreach Opportunities at Dyer Observatory
Introduction to AJRC
Billy Teets
Olivia and Krystal
September 13, 2023 Lightning Talks Everyone!
September 20, 2023 “The Need for Speed: Rapid Refitting Techniques for Bayesian Spectral Characterization of the Gravitational Wave Background Using PTAs”
by Lamb, Willaim et al. (2023) [2303.15442]
William Lamb
September 27, 2023 “The Dragon-II simulations — II. Formation mechanisms, mass, and spin of intermediate-mass black holes in star clusters with up to 1 million stars”
by Sedda,Manuel et al. (2023) [2307.04806]
Krystal Ruiz-Rocha
October 4, 2023 “The NANOGrav 15-year Data Set: Search for Anisotropy in the Gravitational-Wave Background”
by NANOGrav Collaboration (2023) [2306.16221]
Levi Schult
October 11, 2023 no AJRC
October 18, 2023 “Living With a Red Dwarf: The Rotation-Age Relationship of M Dwarfs”
by Engle,Scott and Guinan,Edward (2023) [2307.01136]
Jessica Schonhut-Stasik
October 25, 2023 “Joint population and cosmological properties inference with gravitational waves standard sirens and galaxy surveys”
by Mastrogiovanni,Simone et al. (2023)
Bill Smith
November 1, 2023 “A Parametric Study of the SASI Comparing General Relativistic and Non-Relativistic Treatments”
by Dunham, Samuel et al. (2023) [2307.10904]
Sam Dunham
November 8, 2023 Creating a Catalog for the Dynamics of Flyby Galaxies
Mitigating Scattering Noise in aLIGO’s Gravitational Wave detector
Kamara Culbreath

Kaylah McGowan

November 15, 2023 “The difficult path to coalescence: massive black hole dynamics in merging low mass dark matter haloes and galaxies”
by Partmann,Christian et al. (2023) [2310.08079v1]
Keshawn Ivory
November 22, 2023 Thanksgiving Break – no AJRC
November 29, 2023 “Modeling the Reverberation Response of the Broad Line Region in Active Galactic Nuclei”
by Rosborough,Sara et al. (2023) [2311.03590]
Collin Dabbieri
December 6, 2023 How to Conference EMIT
December 13, 2023 Winter Break – no AJRC
December 20, 2023 Winter Break – no AJRC
December 27, 2023 Winter Break – no AJRC
January 3, 2024 Winter Break – no AJRC
January 10, 2024 AAS – no AJRC
January 17, 2024 “Spectropolarimetry and spectral decomposition of high-accreting Narrow Line Seyfert 1 galaxies”
by Śniegowska, Marzena et al. (2023) [2202.13839]
Mary Kaldor
January 24, 2024 “The NANOGrav 15-year Data Set: Bayesian Limits on Gravitational Waves from Individual Supermassive Black Hole Binaries”
by Agazie, Gabriella et al. (2023) [2306.16222]
Polina Petrov
January 31, 2024 Expanding the Optimal Statistic: Why Failures made it Better Kyle Gersbach
February 7, 2024 “The difficult path to coalescence: massive black hole dynamics in merging low mass dark matter haloes and galaxies”
by Partmann, Christian et al. (2023) [2310.08079v1]
Jaelyn Roth
February 14, 2024 Leveraging Galaxy Distributions to Model the Astrophysical Foreground in Simulated LISA Data

“Effects of gravitational-wave recoil on the dynamics and growth of supermassive black holes”
by Blecha,Laura and Loeb,Abraham et al. (2018) [0805.1420]

Shaniya Jarrett

Jordan Sibley

February 21, 2024 “LISA Constraints on an Intermediate-Mass Black Hole in the Galactic Centre”
by Strokov,Vladimir et al. (2023) [2303.00015]
Ryan Nowicki
February 28, 2024 “UHZ1 and the other three most distant quasars observed: possible evidence for Supermassive Dark Stars”
by Ilie, Cosmin et al. (2023) [2312.13837]
Azeem Bari
March 6, 2024 Let’s go to the DISCO! Astrophysical Disk Modelling with Hydrodynamic Simulations Michael Smith
March 13, 2024 Spring Break – no AJRC
March 20, 2024 Rotationally Driven Ultraviolet Emission of Red Giant Stars II. Metallicity, Binarity and Sub-subgiants Don Dixon
March 27, 2024 no AJRC
April 3, 2024 “Ultra-short-period massive black hole binary candidates in LSST as LISA ‘verification binaries'”
by Xin, Chengcheng and Haiman, Zoltan(2021) [2105.00005]
Sofía Martínez Fortis
April 10, 2024 “Bounds on Ultralight Dark Matter from NANOGrav'”
by Aghaie, Mohammad et al.(2023) [2308.04590]
Zachary James Hoelscher
April 17, 2024 Planning for Next Year

Days with no planned AJRC are highlighted in red. Talks from special visitors are highlighted in blue.

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