Archive: Astro Seminar and Starburst Journal Club

Fall 2006


Date Presenter Subject
Aug. 24organizational meeting
Aug. 31Emilio Romano-Diaz Reconstructing Cosmic Peculiar Velocities with LAP
Sept. 7Jorge Villa-Vargas An N-body Model for the Cartwheel Galaxy
Sept. 14Robert Nikutta Nonlocal radiative coupling in winds from hot stars
Sept. 21 Kai Cai, Univ. IndianaDisk Instabilities and Giant Gas Planet Formation: 3-D Radiative Hydrodynamics Simulations
Sept. 28Ryan PorterRevisiting Standard X-ray Diagnostics
Oct. 5 Matthew Sirocky SBJC: ULIRGs
Oct. 12 Grant Thompson Understanding Silicon Carbide around Carbon Stars
Oct. 19 Daniel JonesStar 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. WashingtonA 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

Possible Topics

References and Reading

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.