JOURNAL CLUB
Anno 2011

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

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Meetings start at 14.00 unless otherwise specified.

2011

Dec 12 (ore 13:30):
Matteo Bonato: "The fraction of early-type galaxies in low redshift groups and clusters of galaxies"
(Hoyle et al. 2011)

Dec 01 - 02: (PhD Workshop 2011 - 1st and 2nd Year)
programme

Nov 21 (ore 13:30):
Maria Bergomi: "Testing the apodized pupil Lyot coronagraph on the laboratory for adaptive optics extreme adaptive optics testbed"
(Thomas et al. 2011)
Elena Zaninoni: "Fermi and swift gamma-ray burst afterglow population studies"
(Racusin et al. 2011)

Nov 14 (ore 13:30):
Barbara Lofaro: "Goods-Herschel & Candels: the morphologies of ultraluminousiInfrared galaxies at z~2"
(Kartaltepe et al. 2011)
Anna Sponselli: "Relation to solar activity of intense aurorae in sunlight and darkness"
(Newell et al. 1998)

Nov 07 (ore 13:30):
Elisa Portaluri: "Polytropic model fits to the globular cluster NGC 2419 in Modified Newtonian Dynamics"
(Ibata et al. 2011)
Simona Paiano: "The radio/gamma-ray connection in Fermi-blazars"
(Ghirlanda et al. 2010)

Oct 24 (ore 13:30):
Mario Damasso: "A layer of ozone detected in the nightside upper atmosphere of Venus"
(Montmessin et al. 2011)
Luca Malavolta: "Mass and Environment as Drivers of Galaxy Evolution II: The quenching of satellite galaxies as the origin of environmental effects"
(Peng et al. 2011)

Oct 17 (ore 13:30):
Anna Feltre: "A new cosmological distance measure using AGN"
(Watson et al. 2011)
Fiorangela La Forgia: "Ocean-like water in the Jupiter-family comet 103P/Hartely 2"
(Hartogh et al. 2011)

Oct 10:
Alice De Biasi: "The effect of an early planetesimal-driven migration of the giant planets on terrestrial planet formation"
(Walsh & Morbidelli 2011)
Stefano Cavazzani: "Fluctuation of photon arrival times in free atmosphere"
(Cavazzani et al. 2011, to be submitted)

Oct 03:
Valentina Calvi: "The UDF05 Follow-up of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field. III. The Luminosity Function at z ~ 6"
(Su et al. 2011)
Luca Borsato: "Characterizing Habitable Exomoons"
(Kaltenegger 2010)

June 20:
Mario Damasso:
"Improved Methodology for the Automated Classification of Periodic Variable stars"
(Blomme  J., et al. 2011)
"A super-Earth Transiting a Naked-Eye Star"
(Winn, J. N. et al. 2011)
"Detection of a Transit of the super-Earth 55 Cnc e with Warm Spitzer"
(Demory, B. -O.et al. 2011)

June 09 (presentazione tesi dottorato/PhD thesis talk):
Andrea Cardullo: "Gas Metallicity in Galaxies "
Cesare Grava: " Study of Exospheres of the Solar System Bodies"

June 06:
Matteo Bonato: "Constraining variations in the fine structure constant in the presence of early dark energy"
(Calabrese E.et al. 2011)
Matteo Bonato: "The value of the fine structure constant over cosmological times"
(Gutierrez C. M. et al. 2010)
Fabio Pintore: "On the apparent absence of broad iron lines in Seyfert galaxies"
(Shyam Bhayani et al. 2011)
Simona Paiano: "Ultra high energy cosmic ray: a review "
(Todor Stanev 2010)

May 30:
Anna Feltre: "The breakdown of classical gravity?"
(Hernandez X. et al. 2011)
Barbaro Lo Faro: "Exploring the Holmberg effect for high redshift major-merger pairs selected in the Cosmos field"
(summary of the project with Kevin C. Xu, IPAC-Caltech)

May 23:
Elisa Portaluri : "Relation between globular clusters and supermassive black holes in ellipticals asstrong lensing by galaxies as a manifestation of the black hole fundamental plane"
(Gregory, F. et al , 2011)
Anna Sponselli: "Strong lensing by galaxies"
( Treu, T. 2010)

May 16:
Elena Zaninoni: "The Milky Way's Fermi Bubbles: echoes of the last quasar outburst? "
(Zubovas, K. et al, 2011)
Maria Bergomi: "MOAO first on-sky demonstration with CANARY "
(Gendron, E. et al, 2011)

May 09:
Luca Borsato: "Disentangling between stellar activity and planetary signals"
(Boisse, I. et.al, 2011)
Alice De Biasi: "The simulation of the outer Oort cloud formation .The first giga-year of the evolution"
(Dybczynski, P.A. et al. 2008)

May 02 :
Stefano Cavazzani: "Mass-radius curve for extrasolar Earth-like planets and ocean planets"
(Sotin, C. et al. 2007)
Fiorangela La Forgia: "The tidal downsizing hypothesis for planet formation and the composition of solar system comets"
(Nayakshin, S. et al. 2011)

Apr 18:
Valentina Calvi: "The contribution of high-redshift galaxies to cosmic reionization: new results from deep WFC3 imaging of the Hubble ultra deep field"
(Bunker, A. J. et al. 2010)
Elena Zaninoni: "Gamma-Ray Flares from the Crab Nebula "
(Abdo, A. A., et al., 2011)
Elena Zaninoni: "Discovery of Powerful Gamma-Ray Flares from the Crab Nebula"
(Tavani, M. et al., 2011)

Apr 11:
Elisa Portaluri: "Constraining the role of star cluster mergers in nuclear cluster formation: Simulations confront integral-field data"
(Hartmann, M. et al., 2011)
Anna Sponselli: "Astronomical demonstration of an optical vortex coronagraph"
(Swartzlander, G.A. et al., 2008)

Apr 4:
Maria Bergomi: "Scientific potential of ground-layer adaptive optics on large telescopes"
(McCarthy, P.J. 2010 )
Anna Feltre : "A large number of z > 6 galaxies around a QSO at z = 6.43: evidence for a protocluster?"
(Utsumi,Y. et al., 2010 )

Mar 28:
Matteo Bonato: "Modified gravity models of dark energy "
(Shinji Tsujikawa, 2010)
Fabio Pintore: "Neutron Star Radius Measurement with the Quiescent Low-Mass X-ray Binary U24 in NGC 6397"
(Guillot, S. et al., 2010)

Mar 21 (presentazione tesi dottorato/PhD thesis talk):
Stefano Cavazzani: "Remote Sounding of Atmospheric Layer Motions for Site Testing and Photon Propagation Properties"
Fiorangela la Forgia: "Disk-Resolved and Unresolved Spectrophotometry of Solar System Small Bodies"
Simona Paiano: "Study of Unidentified Fermi Objects with Magic Telescopes"

Mar 14 (presentazione tesi dottorato/PhD thesis talk):
Alice De Biasi: "Galactic Tidal Effects on Proto-Comet Orbits of Oort Cloud"

Mar 07 (presentazione tesi dottorato/PhD thesis talk):
Luca Borsato: "Transits of Exoplanets"
Valentina Calvi: "The Contribution to Cosmic Reionization from Undetected Galaxies in the HUDF"

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