UMass Astronomy Department

Extragalactic Lunch


Time: Fridays at 12:30--1:30pm

Place: Rm. 644

Join us for an informal discussion of current
work in extragalactic astronomy. Bring your
lunch and a copy of the week's selected paper
(unless there's an external speaker)r.

Fall 2007, organized by Dr. Jörg M. Colberg
Dec. 14, 2007 TBD
Dec. 7, 2007 Jacqueline Chen Luminous and Dark Substructure at Galaxy Scales
Nov. 30, 2007 all Li et al.: Interaction-induced star formation in a complete sample of 10^5 nearby star-forming galaxies arXiv:0711.3792v1
Nov. 16, 2007 all Sheth et al.: Evolution of the Bar Fraction in COSMOS: Quantifying the Assembly of the Hubble Sequence arXiv:0710.4552
Nov. 9, 2007 Jonghak Woo Cosmic evolution of black holes and galaxies: eggs before chickens?
Nov. 2, 2007 Frank van den Bosch The origin of galaxy bimodality
Oct. 26, 2007 Yu Lu Viola et al.: How does gas cool in DM halos? arXiv:0710.2473
Oct. 19, 2007 all Bundy et al.: AEGIS: New Evidence Linking Active Galactic Nuclei to the Quenching of Star Formation arXiv:0710.2105
Oct. 12, 2007 Jesper Rasmussen The interface between galaxies and galaxy groups
Oct. 5, 2007 Neal Katz Tonnesen et al.: Environmentally-Driven Evolution of Simulated Cluster Galaxies arXiv:0709.1720v1
Spring 2007, organized by Dr. M. A. Fardal.
May 18, 2007 Peek et al. Ongoing Galactic Accretion: Simulations and Observations of Condensed Gas in Hot Halos astro-ph/0705.0357
Apr. 27, 2007 Afshordi et al. Missing Thermal Energy of the Intracluster Medium astro-ph/0612700
Apr. 20, 2007 Prochaska et al. On the Nature of Velocity Fields in High z Galaxies astro-ph/0703701
Apr. 13, 2007 Springel and Farrar et al. The speed of the `bullet' in the merging galaxy cluster 1E0657-56 astro-ph/0703232
Apr. 6, 2007 Gilmore et al. The Observed properties of Dark Matter on small spatial scales astro-ph/0703308
Mar. 9, 2007 Oosterloo et al. Extended, regular HI structures around early-type galaxies astro-ph/0701716
Feb. 23, 2007 Cassata et al. The Cosmic Evolution Survey (COSMOS): The morphological content and enviromental dependence of the galaxy color-magnitude relation at z~0.7 astro-ph/0701483
Feb. 9, 2007 Naab et al. Formation of early-type galaxies from cosmological initial conditions astro-ph/0512235
Feb. 2, 2007 Magliocchetti et al. A highly obscured and strongly clustered galaxy population discovered with the Spitzer Space Telescope astro-ph/0611409
Fall 2006, organized by Dr. M. A. Fardal.
Dec. 6, 2006 Brook et al. Two disk components from a gas rich disk-disk merger astro-ph/0611748
Nov. 29, 2006 Greg Stinson, U. Washington Talk: Star Formation and Feedback in Cosmological SPH Simulations
Nov. 15, 2006 Nakashishi et al. Environmental Effects on Gaseous Disks of the Virgo Spiral Galaxies astro-ph/0610820
Nov. 8, 2006 Hahn et al. Properties of Dark Matter Haloes in Clusters, Filaments, Sheets and Voids astro-ph/0610280
Nov. 1, 2006 Libeskind et al. Satellite Systems around Galaxies in Hydrodynamic Simulations astro-ph/0607237
Oct. 25, 2006 Norbert Schulz, MIT Talk: X-ray Absorption Line Spectroscopy
Oct. 18, 2006 Dalcanton The Metallicity of Galaxy Disks: Infall versus Outflow astro-ph/0608590
Oct. 4, 2006 Aragon-Salamanca et al. Measuring the fading of S0 galaxies using globular clusters astro-ph/0607645
Sep. 27, 2006 Murray et al. On the Maximum Luminosity of Galaxies and Their Central Black Holes: Feedback from Momentum-driven Winds 2005 ApJ, 618, 569
Sep. 20, 2006 Dav'e et al. The Enrichment History of Baryons in the Universe astro-ph/0608268
Sep. 6, 2006 Clowe et al. A direct empirical proof of the existence of dark matter astro-ph/0608407
Summer 2006, organized by Dr. M. A. Fardal.
Aug. 30, 2006 Conroy et al. Evolution in the Halo Masses of Isolated Galaxies between z~1 and z~0: From DEEP2 to SDSS astro-ph/0607204
Aug. 23, 2006 Geha et al. The Baryon Content of Extremely Low Mass Dwarf Galaxies astro-ph/0608295
Aug. 16, 2006 De Lucia and Blaizot The hierarchical formation of the brightest cluster galaxies astro-ph/0606519
Aug. 9, 2006 Baldry et al. Galaxy bimodality versus stellar mass and environment astro-ph/0607648
Aug. 2, 2006 Swinbank et al. The Link between Submillimetre Galaxies and Luminous Ellipticals: Near-Infrared IFU Spectroscopy of Submillimetre Galaxies astro-ph/0606372
July 26, 2006 Li et al. Correlations Between Central Massive Objects And Their Host Galaxies: From Bulgeless Spirals to Ellipticals astro-ph/0607444
July 5, 2006 Bureau et al. K-Band Observations of Boxy Bulges. I. Morphology and Surface Brightness Profiles astro-ph/0606056
June 28, 2006 Haines et al. The Different Environmental Dependencies of Star-formation for Giant and Dwarf Galaxies astro-ph/0606521
June 21, 2006 Young et al. The Evolution of the ISM in the Mildly Disturbed Spiral Galaxy NGC 4647 astro-ph/0606410
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