HST ACS view of M104, the Sombrero galaxy
UMass Astronomy Department

Wednesday Extragalactic Lunch


Time: 12:30--1:15pm, Place: Rm. 644

Join us for an informal discussion of a current
article in extragalactic astronomy. Bring your
lunch and a copy of the week's selected paper.

halos in a high-resolution LCDM model (from B. Moore)

Spring 2006, organized by Dr. A. Sluis.
May 31, 2006 Mashchenko et al Cosmological puzzle resolved by stellar feedback in high redshift galaxies astro-ph/0605672
May 24, 2006 Sommer-Larsen Where are the 'Missing' Galactic Baryons? astro-ph/0602595
May 10, 2006 Mark Fardal
Yu Lu
Las Cruces Prep Talks Talk
May 3, 2006 Ferrarese et al. A Fundamental Relation Between Compact Stellar Nuclei, Supermassive Black Holes, and Their Host Galaxies astro-ph/0603840
Apr. 26, 2006 Governato et al. Forming Disk Galaxies in Lambda CDM Simulations astro-ph/0602351
Apr. 12, 2006 Cattaneo et al. Modelling the Galaxy Bimodality: Shutdown Above a Critical Halo Mass astro-ph/0601295
Apr. 5, 2006 Yipeng Jing
Shanghai Astr. Obs.
Interpreting clustering in SDSS Talk
Mar. 29, 2006 Hopkins et al. Observational evidence for the co-evolution of galaxy mergers, quasars, and the blue/red galaxy transition astro-ph/0601621
Mar. 15, 2006 Blake et al. On the cross-correlation of sub-mm sources and optically-selected galaxies astro-ph/0602428
Mar. 1, 2006 Dan McIntosh A Tale of Two Sequences Talk
Feb. 22, 2006 Hopkins & Beacom On the normalisation of the cosmic star formation history astro-ph/0601463
Feb. 15, 2006 Best et al. AGN-controlled cooling in elliptical galaxies astro-ph/0602171
Feb. 8, 2006 Yoon et al. Explaining the Color Distributions of Globular Cluster Systems in Elliptical Galaxies astro-ph/0601526

Fall 2005, organized by Dr. A. Sluis.
Dec. 14, 2005 Mathews et al Heating Cooling Flows with Weak Shock Waves astro-ph/0511151
Dec. 7, 2005 Almaina et al A Hubble Space Telescope study of SCUBA submillimetre galaxies astro-ph/0511009
Nov. 30, 2005 Trujillo et al Detection of the effect of cosmological large-scale structure
on the orientation of galaxies
astro-ph/0511680
Nov. 23, 2005 Martin Weinberg A Magellanic Origin for the Warp of the Galaxy (Part II) Talk
Nov. 21, 2005
4pm
Frank v.d. Bosch
MPIA
Galaxies and their dark matter haloes: From Ecology to Conformity. Talk
Nov. 16, 2005 Martin Weinberg A Magellanic Origin for the Warp of the Galaxy Talk
Nov. 9, 2005 Kashlinsky et al Tracing the first stars with cosmic infrared background fluctuations astro-ph/0511105
Nov. 2, 2005 Diehl & Statler A fundamental plane relation for the X-Ray gas in normal elliptical galaxies astro-ph/0509599
Oct. 26, 2005 Mannucci et al Two populations of progenitors for type Ia supernovae astro-ph/0510315
Oct. 19, 2005 Dijkstra et al Lyman Alpha Radiation From Collapsing Protogalaxies II: Observational Evidence for Gas Infall astro-ph/0510409
Oct. 12, 2005 Hoekstra et al Virial masses and the baryon fraction in galaxies astro-ph/0510097
Oct. 5, 2005 Naab et al Properties of Early-Type, Dry Galaxy Mergers and the Origin of Massive, Slowly Rotating, Pressure Supported Elliptical Galaxies astro-ph/0509667
Sep. 28, 2005 Dalcanton et al Extragalactic Thick Disks: Implications for Early Galaxy Evolution astro-ph/0509700
Sep. 21, 2005 Stephane Courteau
Queen's University
Review of the Ascona Meeting Formation of Disk Galaxies
and the Terschelling Meeting Island Universes
Talk

Spring 2005, organized by Dr. A. Sluis.
June 14, 2005 Battaglia et al "The radial velocity dispersion profile of the Galactic halo:
constraining the density profile of the dark halo of the Milky Way"
astro-ph/0506102
June 7, 2005 Tran et al "Spectroscopic Confirmation of Multiple Red Galaxy-Galaxy
Mergers in MS1054-03 (z=0.83)"
astro-ph/0505355
May 31, 2005 Skordis et al "Large scale structure in Bekenstein's theory of relativistic MOND" astro-ph/0505519
May 24, 2005 Evans & Belokurov "Is There A Microlensing Puzzle?" astro-ph/0505167
May 17, 2005 Zasov & Smirnova "The Gas Content in Galactic Disks: Correlation with Kinematics" astro-ph/0505282
May 10, 2005 Begelman & Nath "Self-regulated black hole accretion, the M-sigma relation,
nd the growth of bulges in galaxies"
astro-ph/0504400
May 3, 2005 Seigar "The connection between shear and star formation
in spiral galaxies"
astro-ph/0504529
Apr. 19, 2005 Adelberger "Galaxies, Intergalactic Absorption Lines,
and Feedback at High Redshift"
astro-ph/0504311
Apr. 12, 2005 Scannapieco "What Can the Distribution of Intergalactic Metals Tell us
About the History of Cosmological Enrichment?"
astro-ph/0504081
Apr. 5, 2005 Conselice et al. "Evolution of the Near-Infrared Tully-Fisher Relation: [...]" astro-ph/0503597
Mar. 29, 2005 Kazantzidis et al. "The Fate of Supermassive Black Holes and the Evolution [...]" ApJ link
Mar. 22, 2005 Robertson et al. "A Merger-Driven Scenario for Cosmological Disk Galaxy Formation" astro-ph/0503369
Mar. 8, 2005 Adam Ruzicka "MW - LMC - SMC: a group of interacting galaxies " Talk
Feb. 22, 2005 Diemand et al.
Zhao et al.
Moore et al.
"Earth-mass dark-matter haloes as the first structures ..."
"Earth-mass dark halos are torn into dark mini-streams by stars"
"On the survival and disruption of Earth mass ..."
astro-ph/0501589
astro-ph/0502049
astro-ph/0502213
Feb. 15, 2005 Zheng et al. "HST/WFPC2 morphologies and bar structures of field galaxies at 0.4 astro-ph/0502170

Fall 2004, organized by Dr. D. McIntosh.
Dec. 10, 2004 Drory et al. "The stellar mass function of galaxies to z ~ 5 in the Fors Deep and GOODS-S fields" (astro-ph/0412167) direct link
Dec. 3, 2004 Lin et al. "The Deep2 Galaxy Redshift Survey: Evolution of Close Galaxy Pairs and Major-Merger Rates Up to z ~ 1.2" (astro-ph/0411104) direct link
Nov. 19, 2004 Schiminovich et al. "The GALEX-VVDS Measurement of the Evolution of the Far-Ultraviolet Luminosity Density and the Cosmic Star Formation Rate" (astro-ph/0411424) direct link
Nov. 12, 2004 Q. Daniel Wang "Diffuse hot gas around our Galaxy" Talk
Nov. 5, 2004 Willman et al. "A New Milky Way Companion: Unusual Globular Cluster or Extreme Dwarf Satellite?" (astro-ph/0410416) direct link
Oct. 22, 2004 Frank van den Bosch "Informal Discussion" Talk
Oct. 15, 2004 Miller & Bregman "High-Velocity Clouds in M 83 and M 51" (astro-ph/0410238) direct link
Oct. 8, 2004 David Weinberg "Informal discussion on Tully-Fisher project" Talk
Oct. 1, 2004 Wolf et al. "GEMS: In what type of galaxies do most stars form at z~0.7?" (astro-ph/0408289) direct link

2003-2004
July 23, 2004 Dusan Keres "How do galaxies get their gas?" Talk
June 25, 2004 Ari Maller "How the Galaxy Got its Mass, and Other Just-So Stories" Talk
June 4, 2004 Marleau et al. "Extragalactic Source Counts at 24 Microns in the Spitzer First Look Survey" (astro-ph/0405635) direct link
Yan et al. "Characterization of Extragalactic 24micron Sources in the Spitzer First Look Survey" (astro-ph/0405637) direct link
May 21, 2004 Kannappan "Linking Gas Fractions to Bimodalities in Galaxy Properties" (astro-ph/0405136) direct link
May 7, 2004 Fontana et al. "The K20 survey. VI. The Distribution of the Stellar Masses in Galaxies up to z~2" (astro-ph/0405055) direct link
February 10, 2004 Daniel McIntosh "Mining For Cosmic Treasures With GEMS" Talk
December 12, 2003 Romanowsky et al. "A Dearth of Dark Matter in Ordinary Elliptical Galaxies" (astro-ph/0308518) direct link
Bundy et al. "A Slow Merger History of Field Galaxies Since z=1" (astro-ph/0312222) direct link

2002-2003
April 11, 2003 Birnboim & Dekel "Virial shocks in galactic haloes" (astro-ph/0302161) direct link
April 4, 2003 Mushotzky et al. "Groups and the Entropy Floor- XMM-Newton Observations of Two Groups" (astro-ph/0302267) direct link

Mar. 28, 2003 Donald Horner Special Lunch Talk: Entropy in Clusters of Galaxies
Mar. 14, 2003 Athanassoula "Angular momentum redistribution and the evolution and morphology of bars" (astro-ph/0302521) direct link
Mar. 7, 2003 Bennett et al. "First Year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Observations: Preliminary Maps and Basic Results" (astro-ph/0302207) direct link

Nov. 1, 2002 Swaters et al. "The Central Mass Distribution in Dwarf and Low Surface Brightness Galaxies" (astro-ph/0210152) direct link

Oct. 25, 2002 Martin et al. "Properties of Galactic Outflows" (ApJ 513, 156) and "The Metal Content of Dwarf Starburst Winds" (Apj 574, 663) link1, link2
Oct. 11, 2002 Barkana and Loeb "Spectral Signature of Cosmological Infall Around the FirstQuasars" (astro-ph/0209515) direct link
Oct. 4, 2002 Nicastro et al. "Tracking the Missing Baryons in the Local Group" (astro-ph/0208012) direct link

Sept. 27, 2002 Kovac et al. "Detection of Polarization in the Cosmic Microwave Background using DASI" (astro-ph/0209478) direct link
Sept. 20, 2002 Mackey, Bromm, & Hernquist "Three Epochs of Star Formation in the High Redshift Universe" (astro-ph/0208447) direct link

2001-2002
June 7, 2002 Kelson et al. "Determination of the Dark Matter Profile of Abell 2199 from Integrated Starlight" (astro-ph/0205316) direct link

May 24, 2002 Falcon-Barroso et al. "Bulges on the Fundamental Plane of Early-Type Galaxies" (astro-ph/0205176) direct link
May 17, 2002 Xiang-Ping and Xue "The Effect of radiative cooling on the scale-dependence of global stellar and gas contents of groups and clusters of galaxies" (astro-ph/0205057) direct link
May 10, 2002 Hogg, D., et al. "The Luminosity Density of Red Galaxies" (astro-ph/0204436) direct link
May 3, 2002 Plionis, M. "Recent Dynamical Evolution of Galaxy Clusters" (astro-ph/0204324) direct link

April 19, 2002 Bicker, J., et al. "Evolutionary Synthesis Models for the Formation of S0 Galaxies in Clusters" (astro-ph/0203299) direct link
April 12, 2002 Athanassoula, E. "Bar-Halo Interaction and Bar Growth" (astro-ph/0203368) direct link
April 5, 2002 Savaglio et al. "Heavy Element Abundances and Dust Depletions in 4 Gamma Ray Bursts" (astro-ph/0203154) direct link
March 29, 2002 Hayashi, E., et al. "The Structural Evolution of Substructure" (astro-ph/0203004) direct link
March 15, 2002 Hu, E. M., et al. "A Redshift z = 6.56 Galaxy Behind the Cluster Abell 370" (astro-ph/0203091) direct link
March 8, 2002 Abraham, R. G. & van den Bergh, S. "Observations of Disk Galaxy Evolution" (astro-ph/0203042) direct link
March 1, 2002 Verde, L., Oh, S. P., & Jimenez, R. "The abundance of dark galaxies" (astro-ph/0202283) direct link

February 22, 2002 Songaila, A. & Cowie, L. L. "Approaching Reionization: The Evolution of the Lyman Alpha Forest from Redshifts Four to Six" (astro-ph/0202165) preprint
February 15, 2002 Seljak, U. "Constraints on galaxy halo profiles from galaxy-galaxy lensing and Tully-Fisher/fundamental plane relations" (astro-ph/0201450) preprint
February 8, 2002 Zhao, H., Haehnelt, M. G., & Rees, M. J. "The M_bh-sigma_* relation for black holes fed by capturing stars and dark matter from an isothermal cusp" (astro-ph/0112096) preprint
February 1, 2002 Bernstein, R. A., Freedman, W. L., & Madore, B. F. "The First Detections of the Extragalactic Background Light at 3000, 5500, and 8000A (III): Cosmological Implications" (astro-ph/0112170) preprint

December 14, 2001 Dalal, N. & Kochanek, C. S. "Direct Detection of CDM Substructure" (astro-ph/0111456) preprint
December 7, 2001 Kodama, T. et al. "The Transformation of Galaxies within the Large Scale Structure around a z=0.41 Cluster" (astro-ph/0110354) preprint

November 16, 2001 Baes, M. & Dejonghe, H. "Dark matter halos around elliptical galaxies: how reliable is the stellar kinematical evidence ?" (astro-ph/0111137) link
November 9, 2001 Moustakas, L. A. & Somerville, R. S. "The Masses, Ancestors and Descendents of Extremely Red Objects: Constraints from Spatial Clustering" (astro-ph/0110584) link
November 2, 2001 Finoguenov, A. et al. "X-ray Evidence for Spectroscopic Diversity of Type Ia Supernovae: XMM observation of the elemental abundance pattern in M87" (astro-ph/0110516) link

October 26, 2001 Mayer, L. et al. "Tidal debris of dwarf spheroidals as a probe of structure formation models" (astro-ph/0110386) link
October 19, 2001 Wu, X.-B. & Han, J. L. "On black hole masses, radio-loudness and bulge luminosities of Seyfert galaxies" (astro-ph/0110219) link
October 12, 2001 Songaila, A. "The Minimum Universal Metal Density Between Redshifts 1.5 and 5.5" (astro-ph/0110123) link
October 5, 2001 Edge, A. C. "The detection of molecular gas in the central galaxies of cooling-flow clusters" (astro-ph/0106225) link


Version: February 22, 2005
by D. H. McIntosh