| Date | Presenter | Subject |
|---|---|---|
| Aug. 24 | organizational meeting | |
| Aug. 31 | Emilio Romano-Diaz | Reconstructing Cosmic Peculiar Velocities with LAP |
| Sept. 7 | Jorge Villa-Vargas | An N-body Model for the Cartwheel Galaxy |
| Sept. 14 | Robert Nikutta | Nonlocal radiative coupling in winds from hot stars |
| Sept. 21 | Kai Cai, Univ. Indiana | Disk Instabilities and Giant Gas Planet Formation: 3-D Radiative Hydrodynamics Simulations |
| Sept. 28 | Ryan Porter | Revisiting Standard X-ray Diagnostics |
| Oct. 5 | Matthew Sirocky | SBJC: ULIRGs |
| Oct. 12 | Grant Thompson | Understanding Silicon Carbide around Carbon Stars |
| Oct. 19 | Daniel Jones | Star Formation Across Cosmic History |
| Oct. 26 | Loic Chevallier | The Puzzle of the Soft X-ray Excess in Active Galactic Nuclei: Reflection or Absorption...? |
| Nov. 2 | Zeljko Ivezic, Univ. Washington | A Survey of Surveys Across Wavelengths |
| Nov. 9 | Margaret Hanson, Univ. Cincinnati | Revealing our Galaxy's Massive Star Clusters |
| Nov. 16 | ||
| Nov. 23 | No meeting | Thanksgiving Holiday |
| Nov. 30 | Humeshkar Nemala | SBJC: Emission Line Diagnostics |
| Dec. 7 |
Past References
NGC 7714
Weedman et al. define the prototype.
Emission Line Diagnostics
See Osterbrock and Ferland for the latest textbook explanation.
The classic Baldwin, Phillips, and Terlevich
paper.
An explanatory guide (though ignore
the practical exercise on pp. 12-16).
The diffuse interstellar medium - precursor to star formation
Cox 2005,
The Three-Phase ISM Revisited
Photoionization Equilibrium
Osterbrock & Ferland Chapter 2
Dynamical environment and triggering
Inflows and Outbursts in Galaxies
A gentle introduction to starbursts, emphasizing dwarf galaxies.
Galaxy Spectra
A web lecture from N. Vogt.
Another web lecture, from W. Keel.
Extragalactic Results from the Infrared Space Observatory
Genzel and Cesarsky ARAA 2000 38 761
Concentrate on the background and ULIRG discussion in sections 1 through 3.
Dust extinction of the stellar continua in starburst galaxies: The ultraviolet and optical extinction law, by Calzetti et al. 1994 ApJ 429 582
Infrared astronomy, emphasizing starburst vs. AGN diagnostics: Genzel et al. 1998 ApJ 198 579 and Dale et al. 2006 ApJ, in press
For a general review of quasars, see astro-ph/0601255.