Astronomy Journal Club

2026 Spring Astronomy Journal Club

Mondays 12:10-1:00pm in PS 239

Present on any paper related to a space telescope (if taking course for credit)

Jan 26
- Introduction, Schedule and Expectations
Feb 2
- Toward a Comprehensive Grid of Cepheid Models with MESA. I. Uncertainties of the Evolutionary Tracks of Intermediate-mass Stars (Josh)
Feb 9
- Modeling Asteroseismic Yields for the Roman Galactic Bulge Time-Domain Survey (Caleb)
Feb 16
Feb 23
- A Sun-like star orbiting a black hole (Eliza)
Mar 2
- No talk.
Mar 9
- Feeding the Dead: Neutral Gas Inflow in a Long-quenched Ancient Massive Galaxy at z ∼ 2.7 Observed with JWST/NIRSpec (Vinny)
Mar 16
Mar 23
- Little red dots as young supermassive black holes in dense ionized cocoons (Kaiwen)
Mar 30
- Title (Adam T.)
- Title (Taylor)
Apr 6
- Title (Tony)
Apr 13
- Title (Sam)
Apr 20
- Search for the radiative decay of the cosmic neutrino background through spectral measurements of the cosmic infrared background using PRIMA (Aidan)
Apr 27
- Title (Josh)
May 4
- Title (Yufeng)