Journal Club

"Giant gamma-ray bubbles in the Milky Way"

K. Nalewajko (CAMK)

Based on arXiv:1005.5480

"First Earth-based Detection of a Superbolide on Jupiter"

K. Złoczewski (CAMK)

Based on arXiv:1009.1824

"Gaia mission and its real-time alerting system"

Ł. Wyrzykowski (Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge)

Gaia is a successor of Hipparcos mission and its main goal is to derive positions, distances and motion information about a billion stars and create a 6D image of the Galaxy. In its 5 years life-time (from 2012) it will repeatedly scan the entire sky allowing also for the almost-real-time detections of new objects or anomalous behaviour of stars. In my talk I will describe the mission and present the preparations undertaken for the detection and classification of transient events in Gaia.

"Dynamical evolution of titanium, strontium, and yttrium spots on the surface of the HgMn star HD11753"

P. Lenz (CAMK)

Based on arXiv:1003.1902 [ Briquet et al., 2010, A&A 511, A71 ]

"Highlights of the conference 'High Energy View of Accreting Objects: AGN and X-ray Binaries', Agios Nikolaos, Crete"

B. Czerny (CAMK)

Highlights of the conference 'High Energy View of Accreting Objects: AGN and X-ray Binaries', Agios Nikolaos, Crete

"How to create a White Hole in the kitchen sink"

O. Straub (CAMK)

Based on arXiv:1010.1701 [Jannes et al.]

"The mysterious red rain of Kerala"

M. Bejger (CAMK)

Based on arXiv:1008.4960