General Format: We will usually have one talk of 30 - 40 minutes. Each talk will disscuss a paper related to the topic announced at the beginning of the quarter (see below). There will be available a list of recommended publications, and the order in which they will have to be presented.
Drexel Journal Club |   | General Introduction of the Seminar and... of the Black Holes |
speaker: Anca Constantin |   | theme: Observational evidence for Black Holes |   | suggested reading: * Ho 1997, astro-ph/9803307 * Martin J. Rees, Science, New Series, Vol. 247, No. 4944. (Feb. 16, 1990), pp. 817-823. |
speaker: John Parejko |   | theme: The BH in the center of the Milky Way |   | suggested reading: * Ghez, Morris, & Becklin, Galaxy Dynamics, ASP proceedings 1999, vol. 182, 24 (available on ADS server) . |
speaker: Samantha Osmer |   | theme: Formation of stellar mass BHs |   | suggested reading: * Black-hole formation from stellar collapse, Fryer, 2003, Classical and Quantum gravity @ http://ej.iop.org/links/q59/XUjEH4N,OG4wOT7wVudHLg/q31009.pdf |
speaker: Fan-Chi Lin |   | theme: Accretion physics -The ADAF model |   |
suggested reading: * Narayan & Yi, 1994, ApJ, 428, 13 |
speaker: David Goldberg |   | theme: Phenomenology of AGNs -Unification model |   |
suggested reading: * Antonucci, 1993, ARA&A 31, 473 (quite long but comprehensive) |
speaker: Anthony Dyszel |   | theme: AGN demographics; AGNs in the nearby galaxies |   |
suggested reading: * Ho, Filippenko & Sargent, 1997, ApJ, 487, 568 |
speaker: Mike Fench |   | theme: Correlations between BH mass and galaxy properties |   | suggested reading:
* Ferrarese & Merritt, the ApJL, 539, 9 * Gebhardt et al. 2000, ApJL, 539, 13 * Magorrian et al., 1998, AJ, 115, 2285 |
speaker: Ernie Mamikonyan |   | theme: Formation/Growth mechanisms -- Mergers |   | Sggested reading:
* Small & Blandford, 1992, MNRAS, 259, 725 * Merloni, 2004, MNRAS, 353, 1035 |
speaker: Adriene Leonard |   | theme: Super Massive Black Holes and their environments |   | suggested reading:
* Haehnelt, Natarajan & Rees, 1998, MNRAS, 300, 817 |
speaker: Michael Vogeley (?) |   | theme: Review: Quasars - high redshift surveys |   | suggested reading:
* tbd |
- Penn Journal Club is at 1pm on Fridays in DRL Astro Room.
Locations:
(DRL A2 is also in David Robinson Laboratory, on 33rd and Walnut, but on the first floor)