The Star Formation Journal Club is a forum in which we discuss recent articles of interest in the literature. Our principal focus is on star and planet formation. The format is informal, but from time to time, we have talks from visitors to the CfA. We meet at 12:30 on Wednesdays in Phillips Auditorium. If you would like to sign up, please click on an open date below.

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Current schedule (Spring 1999)

Jan. 20: Leo Bronfman, Universidad de Chile, will discuss his recent work "The Radial Distribution and Luminosity Function of Galactic Ultracompact HII Regions"

Jan. 27: J. Ballesteros, CfA and UNAM, will discuss: "Velocity Field Statistics in Star-Forming Regions. I. Centroid Velocity Observations" by M.S. Miesch, J.M. Scalo & J. Bally.
get the paper

Feb. 3: no meeting

Feb. 10: Enrique Vazquez-Semadeni, Instituto de Astronomia, UNAM will discuss "MHD compressible turbulence:implications for cloud and star formation"

Feb. 17: A. Goodman: "Star Formation in Clusters: A Survey of Compact Millimeter-Wave Sources in the Serpens Core" by L. Testi & A. Sargent (998ApJ,508L,91). get the paper or get Alyssa's handout

Feb. 24: L. Hartmann: Highlights from a recent meeting on dust and planets

Mar. 3: H. Kristen: "Polarized Foreground from Thermal Dust Emission" by S. Prunet and A. Lazarian get the paper

Mar. 10: K. Luhman: "A Test of Pre-Main-Sequence Evolutionary Models Across the Stellar/Substellar Boundary Based on Spectra of the Young Quadruple GG Tau" by R.J. White, A.M. Ghez, I.N. Reid, and G.Schultz get the paper

Mar. 17: Tsuyoshi Sawada & Tetsuo Hasegawa (Institute of Astronomy, University of Tokyo) will speak on "Molecular Gas in the Galactic Center Region - Results from the 60-cm CO Survey Telescope in Chile"

Mar. 24: Scott Fisher (Univ. Florida) will speak on "Mid-infrared imaging of debris disks". Special location today only: 160 Concord Ave, Rm. 340.

Mar. 31: No journal club. Instead, go hear Prof. Fred Whipple: "Oort-Cloud and Kuiper-Belt Comets" Planetary Sciences Division Lunch Talk, Pratt conference room.

Apr. 7: Lisa Prato (UCLA): "Young Binaries in the IR: Masses, Ages and Disks"

Apr. 14: T. Megeath: "IRAS 23385+6053: A Prototype Massive Class 0 Object" by Molinari, Testi, Brand, Cesaroni & Palla, and
"Unveiling the Disk-Jet System in the Massive (Proto)star IRAS 20126-4104" Cesaroni, Felli, Jenness, Neri, Olmi, Robberto, Testi & Walmsley

Apr. 21: J. DiFrancesco: "HST/NICMOS Imaging of Disks and Envelopes Around Very Young Stars" by Padgett et al.

Apr. 28: Shantanu Basu (CITA) "Alfven Wave Damping and the Formation of Stellar Clusters"

May 5: D. Wilner (meets today in M-340): ``Hot Gas and Dust in a Protostellar Cluster near W3(OH)'' by Wyrowski et al., ApJ, 514, L43 (1999 March 20 issue)

May 12: T. Bergin (meets today in M-340): ``Evolution of Molecular Abundances in Protoplanetary Disks with Accretion Flow" by Aikawa et al.

May 19: Mike Skrutskie (UMass): "The Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS)"

May 26: N. Calvet: "Mid-infrared imaging of the young binary star Hen 3-600: Evidence for a dust disk around the primary by R. Jayawardhana et al.


That's all for this semester. Have a great summer!
Last semester's (Fall 1998) journal articles and talks
Last year's (97-98) journal articles and talks

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