This week's journal club was host by Michael De Robertis. Some highlights are following:
1. IYA 2009 officially came to a close on Jan 9th and 10th in Padua, Italy. Read the event here.
2. Pulsar watchers race for gravity waves. Radio telescopes use pulsars looking for massive cosmic collisions. Read the article here.
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Thursday, January 21, 2010
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Oct 28 Recap
Today's host was Jesse Rogerson.
1. Ares I-X, NASA's next generation spacecraft and launch vehicle system has taken its first flight test today successfully. Read NASA's news release here.
2. Which method is more efficient to detect the first galaxies (z:6~12), lensing or blank fields? Based on the simulations they are both needed. Read the journal paper here.
1. Ares I-X, NASA's next generation spacecraft and launch vehicle system has taken its first flight test today successfully. Read NASA's news release here.
2. Which method is more efficient to detect the first galaxies (z:6~12), lensing or blank fields? Based on the simulations they are both needed. Read the journal paper here.
Friday, October 23, 2009
Oct 21 Recap
Today's host was Laura Chajet.
1. ESO the team built High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS) reported an impressive discovery of 32 exoplanets. Read news release here.
2. Herschel and Planck new results. Planck finished its 'first light' survey, watch the movie here to see how Planck mapped the sky.
1. ESO the team built High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS) reported an impressive discovery of 32 exoplanets. Read news release here.
2. Herschel and Planck new results. Planck finished its 'first light' survey, watch the movie here to see how Planck mapped the sky.
Sunday, October 11, 2009
Oct 7 Recap
Today's host was Dr. Chris Ryan.
1. Nobel Prize in Physics
Half of the Nobel Prize in Physics is rewarded to Willard Boyle and George Smith for their development of the charge-coupled device (CCD). We all know how important CCD is to astronomy. Read the nature news here.
An interesting article in The Globe and Mail speculated about who would win the Nobel Prize if the Prize is to be rewarded to the discovery of "exoplanets". The article uncovered the melodrama story of two Canadian astronomers, Gordon Walker and Bruce Campbell, who were the pioneers of the world's most successful search technique for exoplanets.
1. Nobel Prize in Physics
Half of the Nobel Prize in Physics is rewarded to Willard Boyle and George Smith for their development of the charge-coupled device (CCD). We all know how important CCD is to astronomy. Read the nature news here.
An interesting article in The Globe and Mail speculated about who would win the Nobel Prize if the Prize is to be rewarded to the discovery of "exoplanets". The article uncovered the melodrama story of two Canadian astronomers, Gordon Walker and Bruce Campbell, who were the pioneers of the world's most successful search technique for exoplanets.
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