JOURNAL CLUB
Anno 2009

Aula "L. Rosino", Department of Astronomy
Everyone is invited

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Meetings start at 14.00 unless otherwise specified.

2009

Dec 14:
Rosa Calvi:  "K+a galaxies in the zCOSMOS Survey: Physical properties of systems in their post-starburst phase"  Vergani et al. 2009, A&A, in press (arXiv:0909.1968)
Elena Carolo:  "The cluster Terzan 5 as a remnant of a primordial building block of the Galactic bulge" Ferraro et al. 2009, Nature, 462, 483

Nov 30:
Umberto Buonomo: "Star Formation Histories, Abundances and Kinematics of Dwarf Galaxies in the Local Group" Carr 2005, in Inflating Horizon of Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Universal Academy Press Inc and Yamada Science Foundation (astro-ph/0511743)
Letizia Cassarà: "Dust in the Early (z>1) Universe" Walter, 2009 in Cosmic Dust - Near and Far, ed. Th. Henning, E. Grun, J. Steinacker, ASP Conf. Series, in press (0904.0152)

Nov 27: (PhD Workshop 2009 - 3rd Year: 9.00 - 17.00) Proceedings (visibile solo con password) - Abstracts

AREA: STELLE E PIANETI
COMMISSIONE: Gratton, Greggio, Vallenari
ore 09.00 Irene Agnoletto: Overluminous and interacting corecollapse supernovae
ore 09.40 Anna Marino: Spectroscopy of stars in globular clusters
ore 10.20 Marica Valentini: ARCS: the Asiago Red Clump Spectroscopic Survey and its applications
ore 11.00 Mariangela Bonavita: Scientific preparation of SPHERE planet search survey

AREA: ALTRI TEMI DI RICERCA
COMMISSIONE: Ciroi, Marigo
ore 11.40 Sabrina Masiero: Communicating Astrophysics
ore 12.20 Chiara Bertolin: Methodologies of climatological investigations: historical series in Italy and skyquality from satellite data

AREA: GALASSIE E COSMOLOGIA
COMMISSIONE: Corsini, Secco, Poggianti
ore 14.30 Alessandra Beifiori: Dynamics induced by the central supermassive black hole in galaxies
ore 15.10 Elena Tundo: Supermassive black holes and the evolution of their host galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
ore 15.50 Luigi Vaona: Spectral properties and photoionization models of the Narrow Line Region in Seyfert galaxies
ore 16.30 Federico Biondi: Formation of dark matter halos: models and simulations

Nov 26: (PhD Workshop 2009 - 1st and 2nd Year: 9.00 - 19.00) Proceedings (visibile solo con password) - Abstracts

AREA: GALASSIE E COSMOLOGIA
Primo Anno
ore 09.00 Rosa Calvi: Groups of galaxies: a key environment for galaxy evolution
ore 09.15 Letizia Cassarà: High redshift galaxies: theory versus observations
ore 09.30 Lucia Marchetti: Normal and active galaxy luminosity functions based on Spitzer and Herschel Space Observatory cosmological surveys
ore 09.45 Benedetta Vulcani: The evolution of the galaxy mass assembly and star formation activity from z=1 to z=0 as a function of environment
Secondo Anno
ore 10.00 Umberto Buonomo: Numerical models of elliptical galaxies with cosmological initial condition and magnetic fields
ore 10.20 Tommaso Grassi: ISM in cosmological numerical simulations: energy feedback and related issues numerical methods
ore 10.40 Gabriele Mainetti: Cosmological survey with Herschel Space Observatory
ore 11.00 Valentina Cracco: Gas origin in the Extended Narrow Line Region of nearby AGN
ore 11.20 Andrea Cardullo: Study of metallicity in distant galaxies

AREA: TECNOLOGIA
Primo Anno
ore 14.30 Alessandro Brunelli: Development of optics instruments for dust and fluid tomographic analysis in space environment
ore 14.45 Valentina Viotto: From 8 (m) to 8 (mm): wavefront sensing from cosmological to human scales
Secondo Anno
ore 15.00 Enrico Verroi: Very fast photon counting photometers for astronomical application
ore 15.20 Dino Mesa: Planet detection with EPICS, the EELT Planet Finder

AREA: PIANETI
Primo Anno
ore 15.45 Elena Carolo: Observations of the extrasolar planets with direct and indirect methods
ore 16.00 Valerio Nascimbeni: New groundbased methods for detecting transiting exoplanets
Secondo Anno
ore 16.20 Cesare Grava: Study of the Exospheres of the Solar System Bodies

AREA: STELLE
Primo Anno
ore 16.40 Matteo Miluzio: Wide field optical/infrared supernovae searches to probe SN progenitor scenarios
ore 16.55 Luca Santoro: Influence of rotation, mixing and levitation on age determination for Gaia
Secondo Anno
ore 17.15 Claudio Germanà: Timing studies of compact objects
ore 17.35 Jasna Krivicic: Stellar evolution code with rotation
ore 17.55 Stefano Rubele: Deep near infrared observations of Magellanic System
ore 18.15 Tenay Saguner: Reference Synthetic Spectra For Gaia

Oct 19:
Jasna Krivicic: "The chemical composition of the Sun" Asplund et al., 2009, ARA&A, 47, 481
Dino Mesa: "On the semimajor axis distribution of extrasolar gas giant planets: why hot Jupiters are rare around high-mass stars" Currie 2009, Apj, 694, L171

Oct 12:
Claudio Germanà: "Tidal effects on small bodies by massive black holes" Kostic et al., 2009, A&A, 496, 307
"Gravity: getting to the event horizon of Sgr A*" Eisenhauer et al., 2008, SPIE, 7013, 69
Cesare Grava: "Uranus at equinox: Cloud morphology and dynamics" Stromovsky et al., 2009, Icarus, 203, 265

Jun 29:
Benedetta Vulcani: "The Ellipticities of Cluster Early-type Galaxies from z ~ 1 to z ~ 0: No Evolution in the Overall
Distribution of Bulge-to-Disk Ratios" Holden et al. , 2009, ApJ, 693, 617
Gabriele Mainetti: "Determining all gas properties in galaxy clusters from the dark matter distribution alone" Frederiksen et al. , 2009,
in press (arXiv:0906.0455v1)

Jun 22:
Tommaso Grassi: "An overview of the current status of CMB observations" Barreiro 2009, in Proc. VIII SEA Meeting, in press (arXiv:0906.0956v2)

Jun 15:
Andrea Cardullo: "The spiral structure of our Milky Way Galaxy" Hou et al., 2009, A&A 499, 473

Jun 08:
Valentina Cracco: "The Age of Ellipticals and the Color-Magnitude Relation" Schombert & Rakos, 2009, ApJ, in press (arXiv:0905.0410)

May 25:
Valentina Viotto: "Hierarchical star formation in the Milky Way disk" de la Fuente Marcos & de la Fuente Marcos, 2009, ApJ, in press (arXiv:0905.1889)

May 18:
Matteo Miluzio:"The Stellar Disk of M81" Davidge 2009, ApJ, in press (arXiv:0904.0026)
Valerio Nascimbeni:"On the correlation between metallicity and the presence of giant planets" Haywood 2009, ApJ, in press (arXiv:0904.4445)

May 11:
Letizia Cassarà: "Cosmologists in the dark" Martinez & Trimble, 2009, in Cosmologies across Cultures, ed. J. A. Belmonte et al., ASP Conf. Ser. (San Francisco: ASP), in press (arXiv:0904.1126)
Lucia Marchetti:  "Over half of the far-infrared background light comes  from galaxies at z >= 1.2" Devlin et al., 2009, Nature, 458, 737

May 04:
Rosa Calvi: "Early assembly of the most massive galaxies" Collins et al. 2009, Nature, in press (arXiv:0904.0006)
Elena Carolo: "Transiting exoplanets from the CoRoT space mission. II. CoRoT-Exo-2b: a transiting planet around an active G star"
Alonso et al. 2008, A&A, 482, 21

Apr 27:
Alessandro Brunelli: "Ground-based direct detection of close-in extra-solar planets  with nulling and high order adaptive optics" Langlois et al., 2006, A&A, 445, 1143

Apr 20:
Andrea Cardullo: "The Origin of the Mass-Metallicity Relation: Insights from 53,000 Star-forming Galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey"
Tremonti et al. 2004, ApJ, 613, 898
Gabriele Mainetti: "Aberration and the speed of gravity" Carlip 2000, Phys. Lett. A. , 267, 81

Apr 06:
Stefano Rubele: "The global gas and dust budget of the Large Magellanic Cloud: AGB stars and supernovae, and the impact on the ISM evolution" M. Matsuura et al., 2009, MNRAS, in press (arXiv:0903:1123v2)
Tenay Saguner: "An analysis of the composite stellar population in M32" P. Coelo et al., 2009, MNRAS, in press (arXiv:0903:0448v2)

Mar 30:
Dino Mesa: "Is Beta Pic b the transiting planet of November 1981?" Lecavelier des Etangs & Vidal-Madjar 2009, A&A, in press (arXiv:0903.1101v1)

Mar 23:
Tommaso Grassi: "Interactions of Galaxies in the Galaxy Cluster Environment'" Park & Hwang 2008, ApJ, submitted (arXiv:0812.2088)
Jasna Krivicic: "The Supernova - Gamma-Ray Burst Connection" Woosley & Bloom 2009, ARA&A, 44, 507

Mar 16:
Umberto Buonomo: " 'The emergence of Spacetime or Quantum Gravity on Your Desktop'" Loll 2008, Class. Quant. Grav., 25, 114006 (arXiv:0711.0273v2)
Claudio Germana: "Tidal effects on small bodies by massive black holes" Kostic et al., 2009, A&A, in press (arXiv:0901.3447)
" Gravity: getting to the event horizon of Sgr A*" Eisenhauer et al. 2008, SPIE, in press (arXiv:0808.0063)

Mar 09:
Cracco Valentina: "A characteristic division between the fueling of quasars and seyferts: five simple test"
Hopkins & Hernquist, 2008, ApJ, in press (arXiv:0812.2915v1)
Enrico Verroi: "Concerning the slope of the cepheid period-luminosity relation" Madore & Freeman, 2009, ApJ, in press (arXiv:0902.3747)

Mar 02 (programma di ricerca/research program):
Viotto Valentina:"From 8(m) to 8 (mm): wavefront sensing from cosmological to human scales"
Benedetta Vulcani: "The evolution of the galaxy mass assembly and star formation activity from z=1 to z=0 as a function of environment"

Feb 23 (programma di ricerca/research program):
Valerio Nascimbene:" New ground-based methods for detecting transiting exoplanets"
Luca Santoro: "Age and mass determination for stars in the Gaia mission"

Feb 16 (programma di ricerca/research program):
Lucia Marchetti: "Normal and Active Galaxy Luminosity Functions based on Spitzer and Herschel Space Observatory Cosmological Surveys"
Matteo Miluzio: "Wide field optical/infrared supernova searches to probe SN progenitor scenarios"

Feb 05 (programma di ricerca/research program):
Elena Carolo: "Observations of the extra-solar planets with direct and indirect methods"
Letizia Cassara: "High redshift galaxies: Theory versus observations"

Feb 02 (programma di ricerca/research program):
Alessandro Brunelli: "Development of optics instruments for dust and fluid tomographic analysis in space environment"
Rosa Calvi: "Groups of galaxies: a key environment for galaxy evolution"

Jan 26:
Tenay Saguner: "A large stellar evolution database for population synthesis studies : Integrated properties and spectra."
Percival et al. 2009, ApJ, 690, 427

Jan 19:
Dino Mesa : "The nature of red dwarf galaxies" Wang et al. 2008, ApJ, submitted (arXiv: 0812.3723v1)
Stefano Rubele : "Extremely massive young clusters in NGC 1365" Galliano et al. 2008, A&A, 492, 3

Jan 12:
Tommaso Grassi: "The dynamics of satellite disruption in cold dark matter haloes" Choi et al. 2008, MNRAS, submitted (arXiv: 0812.0009)
Gabriele Mainetti: "Star formation histories from multi band photometry: a new approach" Dye 2008,  MNRAS, in press (arXiv: 0806.1222v1)

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