Journal Club



19.01.2009

"Discovery in IC10 of the farthest known symbiotic star"

M. Gromadzki (CAMK)

(based on arXiv:0809.2370)


"New dynamical model and BH spin determination for LMC X-1"

A. Sądowski (CAMK)

(based on arXiv:0810.3447 and arXiv:0901.0920)


26.01.2009

"The minimum stellar metallicity observable in the Galaxy"

T. Zdravkov (CAMK)

(based on arXiv:0811.0020v1)


"SDSS 1507+52: A Halo Cataclysmic Variable?"

A. Olech (CAMK)

(based on Patterson et al. 2008, PASP, 120, 510-522)


02.02.2009

"Multiple stellar populations in old stellar clusters"

J. Kałużny (CAMK)

(based on arXiv:0810.2558)


09.02.2009

"High-Impact Astronomical Observatories"

M. Otulakowska (CAMK)

based on arXiv:0901.4552


"A gruesome tale of white dwarfs and dwarf planets"

O. Straub (CAMK)

based on arXiv:0901.0973


16.02.2009

"BRITE Constellation: Space astronomy with very small satellites and budgets"

S. Mochnacki (University of Toronto)


23.02.2009

"Astronomical discoveries of the year 2008"

S. Bajtlik (CAMK)


02.03.2009

"The evolution of runaway stellar collision products"

A. Hypki (CAMK)

(based on arXiv:0902.1753)


"Neutron stars and extreme physics - Astro2010"

P. Haensel (CAMK)


09.03.2009

"The Virtual Observatory"

M. Nikołajuk (UwB)


16.03.2009

"Fermi / LAT Bright Sources"

K. Nalewajko (CAMK)

(based on arXiv:0902.1340)


"Darkness I see..."

M. Różyczka (CAMK)

(based on Vikhlinin et al., 2009, ApJ 692, 1060, Granett et al., 2008, ApJ 683, L99 and related papers)


23.03.2009

"Downsizing in galaxy formation"

E. Łokas (CAMK)

(based on arXiv:0901.1130v1)


"The detection of inside-out disk growth in M33"

K. Złoczewski (CAMK)

(based on arXiv:0902.3460v1)


30.03.2009

"News from Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope"

G. Madejski (KIPAC, Stanford University)


"Testing General Relativity with Atomic Clocks"

P. Jacewicz (CAMK)

(based on arXiv:0903.1166)


06.04.2009

"Armageddon 2036"

A. Sołtan (CAMK)

(based on arXiv:0903.2727)


"Accretion disk winds as the jet suppression mechanism in the microquasar GRS 1915+105"

W. Kluźniak (CAMK)

(based on J. Neilsen & J. C. Lee, Nature 458, 481-484, 2009)


20.04.2009

"X-ray QPO in the active galaxy RE J1034+396"

P. Życki (CAMK)

(based on arXiv:0807.1899, arXiv:0807.4847)


"Future dark energy constraints from measurements of quasar parallax: Gaia, SIM and beyond"

R. Wojtak (CAMK)

(based on arXiv:0903.3402)


27.04.2009

"Dark energy: the case for a paradigm shift"

M. Chodorowski (CAMK)

(based on arXiv0809.2839)


"A Chandra Study of the Galactic Globular Cluster Omega Centauri"

W. Pych (CAMK)

(based on arXiv:0902.2397)


04.05.2009

"Black holes in GR"

B. Czerny (CAMK)

(based on arXiv:0901.4365)


"MRI according to Balbus"

W. Kluźniak (CAMK)


11.05.2009

"The dynamical effects of white dwarfs birth kicks in globular clusters"

M. Giersz (CAMK)

based on arXiv:0902.1166v1


"Highlights from Alexandria 2009 conference"

J. Ziółkowski (CAMK)


18.05.2009

"Discovery of Very High Energy Gamma-Ray Emission from Centaurus A"

R. Moderski (CAMK)

(based on ApJL, Volume 695, Issue 1, pp. L40, 2009)


"Low-Energy Astrophysics"

M. Bilicki (CAMK)

(based od arxiv:0903.3384)


25.05.2009

"Long term AGN X-ray spectral variability"

M. Sobolewska (Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH) and University of Crete, Greece)


01.06.2009

"Status of Higgs boson searches at the Tevatron"

S. Tatur (CAMK)

(based on arXiv:0903.4312 and arXiv:0903.4001)


"VLBI astrometry and binary pulsars"

J. L. Zdunik (CAMK)

(based on arXiv:0808.1594 and arXiv:0902.0996)


08.06.2009

"Does radiation pressure really stop the star formation?"

A. Rutkowski (CAMK)

(based on Krumholz et al., Science 2009 323, 754)


"Eta Carinae"

A. Zdziarski (CAMK)

(based on arXiv:0904.2736)


15.06.2009

"Where galaxies really come from"

W. Hellwing (CAMK)

(based on arXiv:0906.0903v1)


"Is Convection in Cepheids Observable in A Telescope: V440 Per Sequel"

A. Schwarzenberg-Czerny (CAMK)


22.06.2009

"Asteroseismology of Delta Scuti stars: the case of 44 Tauri"

P. Lenz (Institute of Astronomy, University of Vienna)


06.07.2009

"Non-gaussianities in the CMB and Primordial Anisotropies"

A. Dey (Theory Group, Department of Physics, University of Texas at Austin)


26.08.2009

"Evolved binaries in OGLE"

B. Miszalski (Observatoire de Strasbourg/Macquarie University, Sydney)


02.09.2009

"Lobster eye"

P. Konorski (Uniwersytet im. Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu)


05.10.2009

"Kinematic constraints on expansion history of the Universe from supernovae Ia"

M. Bilicki (CAMK)

(based on arXiv:0904.3550)


"The missing link between radio MSPs and LMXBs"

J. Ziółkowski (CAMK)

(based on arXiv:0905.3397 and arXiv:0905.3899)


12.10.2009

"Magnetocentrifugal launching of jets from discs around Kerr black holes"

M. Sikora (CAMK)

based on M. Lyutikov, MNRAS, 396, 1545, 2009


"Searching for GWs from GRBs"

M. Bejger (CAMK)

(based on Abbott et al., ApJ 681, 1419 [2008] and arXiv:0908.3824)


19.10.2009

"HST after face lifting - pushing the limits again"

J. Kałużny (CAMK)

(based on arXiv:0910.1098, arXiv:0909.1803 and arXiv:0909.1806)


"Falsification Of The Atmospheric CO<sub>2</sub> Greenhouse Effects Within The Frame Of Physics"

M. Różyczka (CAMK)

(G. Gerlich and R. D. Tscheuschner, Int. J. Mod. Phys. B 23, 275, 2009 [arXiv:0707.1161v4])


26.10.2009

"Eccentric millisecond binary pulsars"

A. Zdziarski (CAMK)

(based on arXiv:0907.3219; ApJ, 692, 723; MNRAS, 399, L123)


"Weighing dark matter haloes with gravitationally lensed supernovae"

J. Klimentowski (CAMK)

(based on arXiv:0910.4098)


02.11.2009

"JKCS041: a colour-detected galaxy cluster at z<sub>phot</sub>=1.9 with deep potential well as confirmed by X-ray data"

A. Hypki (CAMK)

(based on arXiv:0812.1699)


"Hanny in the Galaxy Zoo"

O. Straub (CAMK)

(based on MNRAS 399, p. 129 [2009])


09.11.2009

"Rotation of neutron star in EXO 0748-67 and its (disastrous) consequences"

P. Haensel (CAMK)

(based on Galloway et al., arxiv:0910.5546)


"Watching a star evolve. The case of pulsating pre-white dwarf PG1159-035 (GW Vir)"

P. Moskalik (CAMK)

(based on Costa, J.E.S. & Kepler, S.O, 2008, A&A, 489, 1225)


16.11.2009

"How to prevent a flu epidemic"

R. Moderski (CAMK)

based on Nature 457, 1012-1014 [19 February 2009]


"GRB 090510"

K. Nalewajko (CAMK)

(based on arXiv:0908.1832)


23.11.2009

"Recent papers about symbiotic stars on astro-ph"

M. Gromadzki (CAMK)

(based on arXiv:0910.5176, arXiv:0910.5484, arXiv:0910.5621 and arXiv:0910.5930)


"LoCuSS: First Results from Strong-lensing Analysis of 20 Massive Galaxy Clusters at z~0.2"

R. Wojtak (CAMK)

(based on arXiv:0911.3302)


30.11.2009

"On the gravitational origin of the Pioneer Anomaly"

P. Jacewicz (CAMK)

(based on arXiv:0908.1644)


"Universality of young cluster sequences"

M. Giersz (CAMK)

(based on arXiv:0904.0523 [S. Pfalzner, A&A 498, L37 2009])


07.12.2009

"Cyg X-3 - the first unambiguous detection of high energy gamma rays from an accreting binary"

A. Zdziarski (CAMK)

(based on arXiv:0910.5344, The Fermi LAT Collaboration, Science, 26 Nov 2009)


"Terzan 5 - relic in the Galaxy bulge"

K. Złoczewski (CAMK)

(based on Ferraro et al., Nature 462, 483-486 [26 Nov 2009])


14.12.2009

"Evidence for a Triaxial Milky Way Dark Matter Halo from the Sagittarius Stellar Tidal Stream"

E. Łokas (CAMK)

(based on Law et al., 2009, ApJ, 703, L67)


"Water on the Moon - preliminary results from the analysis of the LCROSS impact data"

A. Sądowski (CAMK)

(based on http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/ LCROSS and http://www.nature.com/ news/2009/091113/full/ news.2009.1087.html)


21.12.2009

"Flutomania: making and playing the flute of bamboo, or anything suitable"

P. Bolek (Warsaw University of Technology, 7bulls.com sp. z o.o.)