Astro Reading Group
Discussing pertinent topics in astronomy and astrophysics since 2006.
To join the discussion e-mail Phil Chang (pchang NOSPAM at astro.berkeley.edu)

Clusters Schedule


Date Name Topic/Reading List Notes
8/9 Alexia Schulz DM Halos notes
8/23 Philip Chang Cooling Flows notes slides
9/13 Brian Metzger AGN Feedback on IGM notes
9/27 Mike Boylan-Kolchin Brightest Cluster Galaxies and Intracluster Light
10/18 Matt Browning SZ effect as probe of clusters

Archive

Galactic Center Schedule: 3/2/2006-6/23/2006


The review papers most pertinent to this topic are
Date Name Topic/Reading List Notes
3/2 Philip Chang Tidal Disruption and Stellar Collisions
  • Rees (1988) Nature,333,523
  • Spitzer and Saslaw (1966) ApJ, 143, 400
  • Komossa and Bade (1999) A&A, 343, 775
 Tidal.pdf
3/16 Bjoern Schmekel GR effects
  • Rubilar and Eckart (2001) A&A, 374, 95
  • Levin and Belobordov (2003), ApJ, 590L, 33
3/31 Greg Howes S Stars
  • Genzel et al (2003) ApJ, 594, 812. Sec 4
  • Ghez et al (2005) ApJ, 620, 744. Sec 4.3
 S-stars
4/14 Brian Metzger Stellar Dynamics - The Two Rings
  • Paumard et al (2006) astro-ph/0601268
  • Nayakshin and Cuadra (2005) A&A, 437, 437
 talknotes.ps
4/28 Eugene Chiang CND/CMZ and Molecular Clouds
  • Morris & Serabyn, ARAA 1996, only sections 2.1--2.3, 3.1--3.2, 5.
  • Binney et al., MNRAS, 1991, v252, 210
  • Stark et al., MNRAS, 1991, v248, 14
  • And for people who really want to know more:
  • Shlosman et al., Nature, v338, 45
  • Morris, 1996, IAU v169, only section 4 pages 257--259
  • Ostriker and Peebles, 1973, ApJ, v186, 467
  • see Gerhard 1992, Reviews of Mexican Astronomy, v5, 174
  • Whatever sections of Binney and Tremaine you feel like learning.
5/19 Ruth Murray-Clay Accretion Processes in the Galactic Center
6/9 Geoff Bower History of Sgr A*
6/23 Bryan Johnson Comparison between our GC and other galactic nuclei talk. Scale comparison is here