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====== Astro Journal Club ======

The Astro Journal Club has hybrid meetings (both in FOSC 202 and on zoom), Mondays from 12 - 1 pm. For those people interesting in hearing announcements about activities, or for communicating with other people active in this effort, there is a mailing list. You can subscribe by sending an email to join-astrophysics@list.smu.edu. You will receive an email explaining how to confirm your subscription to the mailing list.

===== Remote Connection Information =====

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===== Spring 2022 Schedule of Events =====
^ Date         ^  Lead            ^  Main Paper                                                   ^                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Additional Papers ^
| January 24   |                  |                                                               |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       |
| January 31   | Krista           | [[https://www.nap.edu/download/26141|Decadal Survey Report]]  | https://www.nationalacademies.org/our-work/decadal-survey-on-astronomy-and-astrophysics-2020-astro2020                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                |
| February 7   | Cynthia          | TBD                                                           |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       |
| February 14  | Eric             | https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.01214                              |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       |
| February 21  | Joel/Roundtable  | JWST                                                          | Links to come here                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    |
| February 28  |                  |                                                               |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       |
| March 7      | Joe Ryan         | https://arxiv.org/abs/1509.08181                              | 1.) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212686417300420\\ 2.) https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.02264v1\\ 3.) https://arxiv.org/abs/1309.4924v2\\ 4.) https://arxiv.org/abs/1205.2384v2\\ 5.) https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.01759v1\\ 6.) https://arxiv.org/abs/1509.03835v3\\ 7.) https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.03394v2\\ 8.) https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.07044v1  |
| March 14     |                  |                                                               |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       |
| March 21     |                  |                                                               |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       |
| March 28     |                  |                                                               |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       |
| April 4      | Joel Meyers      | https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.11431                              | https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.11391                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      |
| May 2     | Joe Ryan      | https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/abdd40/pdf |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   |
| May 9     | Joe Ryan | https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/502/1/436/6095721 |   https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/504/4/5840/6261198 https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.10728 |

===== Fall 2021 Schedule of Events =====
^ Date         ^  Lead  ^  Main Paper                  ^  Additional Papers ^
| November 8   |        |                              |                    |
| November 15  | Bob    | Rodriguez-Torres et al 2017  |                    |
| November 22  |        |                              |                    |
| November 29  |        |                              |                    |
| December 6   |        |                              |                    |
| December 13  |        |                              |                    |

===== Spring 2021 Schedule of Events =====
^ Date         ^  Lead       ^  Main Paper                                                                                                                               ^  Additional Papers ^
| February 22  | Bob         | https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.04298                                                                                                          |                    |
| March 1      | No Meeting  |                                                                                                                                           |                    |
| March 8      | No Meeting  |                                                                                                                                           |                    |
| March 15     | Bob         | Optimizing Photonics Ring-Resonator Filters for OH-Suppressed Near-Infrared Astronomy                                                     |                    |
| March 22     | Joel        | Physics of Neutrino Mass                                                                                                                  |                    |
| March 29     | Krista      | https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020ApJ...904...83S/abstract                                                                            |                    |
| April 5      | Steve S.    | Amateur/Teaching Astronomy Opportunities with SMU Physics Department Resources                                                            |                    |
| April 12     | Rob         | https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.03537 - Strong constraints from COSINE-100 on the DAMA dark matter results using thesame sodium iodide target  |                    |
| April 19     |             |                                                                                                                                           |                    |
| April 26     |             |                                                                                                                                           |                    |
| May 3        |             |                                                                                                                                           |                    |

===== Fall 2020 Schedule of Events =====
^ Date          ^  Lead                    ^  Main Paper                           ^                                                                                                Additional Papers ^
| September 14  | No Meeting               | Graduate Student Lunch                |                                                                                                                  |
| September 21  | Group Introduction       | 3 minutes, 5 slides from each person  | Introduction of you and your interests                                                                           |
| September 28  | Taylor Wallace           | Radon Plate-Out                       |                                                                                                                  |
| October 5     | Cynthia                  | exoplanet searches                    | [[https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1fZdmPiiN--DQr4-tr1NMn6NeqgRDkebovwp8UqyAzXM/edit?usp=sharing|slides]]  |
| October 12    | Krista                   | Supermassive Black Holes              |                                                                                                                  |
| October 19    | No Meeting               |                                       |                                                                                                                  |
| October 26    | No Meeting               |                                       |                                                                                                                  |
| November 2    | No Meeting               |                                       |                                                                                                                  |
| November 9    | Noah / Cynthia           | NanoHz Gravitational Waves            |                                                                                                                  |
| November 16   | Ishwita                  |                                       |                                                                                                                  |
| November 23   | No Meeting - Grad Lunch  |                                       |                                                                                                                  |
| November 30   | Jasmine                  |                                       |                                                                                                                  |
| December 7    |                          |                                       |                                                                                                                  |


===== Summer 2020 Schedule of Events =====
^ Date       ^  Lead       ^  Main Paper                                                                                          ^                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Additional Papers |                                                                                                                                                           |
| June 1     | Bob         | https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.05318                                                                     |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              |                                                                                                                                                           |
| June 15    | Joel        | https://www.nature.com/articles/s42254-019-0137-0?draft=collection                                   | https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.03663                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             | [[https://smu.box.com/s/eqnscmsxxpvjg97pmah168jjwfty4ea5|Flauger Slides]] [[http://online.kitp.ucsb.edu/online/inflation20/flauger/|Flauger Talk Video]]  |
| June 29    | Jodi/Rob    | https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.09721                                                                     |  [[https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.13278|XENON1T observes tritium]]  [[https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.12487|Solar axions cannot explain the XENON1T excess]]  [[https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.12529|Prospects of Migdal Effect in the Explanation of XENON1T Electron Recoil Excess]] [[https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.11919|Neutrino self-interactions and XENON1T electron recoil excess]] |  [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDp0svIavsI|Xenon1T presentation]] {{ ::shockley20200617.pdf |slides.pdf}}                                             |
| July 6     | Eric        | https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.10218                                                                     |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              |                                                                                                                                                           |
| July 20    | No Meeting  | Identifying Dark Matter Meeting (https://indico.cern.ch/event/766367/page/20554-connection-details)  |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              |                                                                                                                                                           |
| August 10  | No Meeting  | SLAC Summer Institute (https://conf.slac.stanford.edu/ssi2020/)                                      |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              |                                                                                                                                                           |
| August 17  | No Meeting  | SLAC Summer Institute (https://conf.slac.stanford.edu/ssi2020/)                                      |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              |                                                                                                                                                           |


===== Spring 2020 Schedule of Events =====
^ Date         ^  Lead                                                                  ^  Main Paper                                                                                                        ^                                                                                                                          Additional Papers |   |
| January 27   | No Meeting                                                             |                                                                                                                    |                                                                                                                                            |   |
| February 3   | Joel                                                                   | [[https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.05291|https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.05291]]                                              | [[https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.09187|https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.09187]]                                                                      |   |
| February 10  | No Meeting                                                             |                                                                                                                    |                                                                                                                                            |   |
| February 17  | Cynthia                                                                | [[https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.00101|https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.00101]]                                              |                                                                                                                                            |   |
| February 24  | Eric                                                                   | https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.06958                                                                                   |                                                                                                                                            |   |
| March 2      | Rob                                                                    |  https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.181102                                              |  https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.251801 , Suggest Krista consider https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.12043v1         |   |
| March 9      | (Linux Mtg)                                                            |                                                                                                                    |                                                                                                                                            |   |
| March 16     | SPRING BREAK                                                           |                                                                                                                    |                                                                                                                                            |   |
| March 23     | Yoni Kahn (via remote)                                                 | [[https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.06937|https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.06937]]  {{ :smu_journal_club_3-22-20.pdf |Slides}}  | [[https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.08893|https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.08893]]                                                                      |   |
| March 30     | Vera Glusevic (via remote)  Note:  We will start at 12:15pm this day.  |                                                                                                                    |  {{ :gluscevic-smu2020.pdf | Slides (pdf)}}                                                                                                |   |
| April 6      | No Meeting                                                             |                                                                                                                    |                                                                                                                                            |   |
| April 13     | (Linux Mtg) Ryan Staten (via remote)                                   | https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/0067-0049/226/2/24/pdf                                                  | https://arxiv.org/pdf/1607.03145.pdf                                                                                                       |   |
| April 20     | No Meeting                                                             |                                                                                                                    |                                                                                                                                            |   |
| April 27     | Cynthia                                                                | https://arxiv.org/abs/0802.2962  {{ :Leptogenesis.pdf | Slides (pdf)}}                                             | https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2177-0, see also https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0502169 and https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0703087  |   |
| May 4        | Cynthia                                                                | https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0609125                                                                               |                                                                                                                                            |   |


===== Fall 2019 Schedule of Events =====
^ Date          ^  Lead                           ^  Main Paper                                                                                                                                                                                                    ^                                                                                                                                            Additional Papers ^
| September 9   |  Joel                           |  https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.10625  [[https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1TrZqtaTOuDMSaFxqLXkVxeZE9uZt6zUTAMIKKeGUtLo/edit?usp=sharing|Slides]]                                                             |  https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.03663                                                                                                                            |
| September 16  | GRAD STUDENT LUNCH              | NONE                                                                                                                                                                                                           | NONE                                                                                                                                                         |
| September 23  |  Rob                            |  [[https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.201101|Search for γ-Ray Line Signals from Dark Matter Annihilations in the Inner Galactic Halo from 10 Years of Observations with H.E.S.S.]]  |  [[https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.08609|A New Population of Ultra-High-Energy Gamma-Ray Sources Detected by HAWC]]                                               |
| September 30  |  Jodi                           | Highlights from [[http://taup2019.icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp/|TAUP 2019]] {{ :190930_journalclub.pdf | slides}}                                                                                                        | {{ :web_plenary_x_drexlin.pdf | Katrin_talk.pdf}}  {{ :web_plenary_i_pschmidt.pdf | Gravitational_waves.pdf}}  {{ :taup_2019.pdf | Dark_Matter_Theory.pdf}}  |
| October 7     |  Cynthia                        | https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.03507 [[https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1jCtuwFzYu8jCOKmixZ48EwIKBhwa9-j7m1JKrHckFyo/edit?usp=sharing|slides]]                                                               | https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.07947                                                                                                                             |
| October 14    |  No Meeting Fall Break          |                                                                                                                                                                                                                |                                                                                                                                                              |
| October 21    |  Ishwita                        |                                                                                                                                                                                                                |                                                                                                                                                              |
| October 28    |  Eric                           | https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.04255                                                                                                                                                                               | https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.06533                                                                                                                             |
| November 4    |  Krista                         | https://arxiv.org/pdf/1910.00940.pdf                                                                                                                                                                           |                                                                                                                                                              |
| November 11   |  Joel                           | https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.03689 [[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pgN-6y55j-wzb4vjj4ClWHUTHige43qQ/view?usp=sharing|Neutrinos in the CMB]]                                                                   |                                                                                                                                                              |
| November 18   | GRAD STUDENT LUNCH              | NONE                                                                                                                                                                                                           |                                                                                                                                                              |
| November 25   | NO MEETING                      | NONE                                                                                                                                                                                                           |                                                                                                                                                              |
| December 2    |  Eric                           | https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.12083                                                                                                                                                                               |                                                                                                                                                              |
| December 9    |  Ivan Vitev (LANL) [Host:Fred]  | Effective field theories in reactions with nuclei: from jets to quarkonia                                                                                                                                      |                                                                                                                                                              |

===== Fall 2017 Schedule of Events =====
^ Date          ^  Lead                         ^  Main Paper                                                                                                        ^  Additional Papers                                                     ^
| August 21     |  No Meeting 1st Day of Class  |                                                                                                                    |                                                                        |
| August 28     |  Jodi                         | [[https://arxiv.org/pdf/1708.06372.pdf|arXiv:1708:06372]]                                                          |                                                                        |
| September 4   |  No Meeting Labor Day         |                                                                                                                    |                                                                        |
| September 11  |  Ryan                         | https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03413                                                                                   |                                                                        |
| September 18  |  Rob                          | [[https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.02222|https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.02222]]                                              | [[https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.03434|https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.03434]]  |
| September 25  |  Matt                         | http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/aa831c                                                         |                                                                        |
| October 2     |  Govinda                      | https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.01513                                                                                   | http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/835/2/166/meta     |
| October 9     |  No Meeting Fall Break        |                                                                                                                    |                                                                        |
| October 16    |  Ryan                         | https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03413                                                                                   |                                                                        |
| October 23    |  No Meeting TSAPS             |                                                                                                                    |                                                                        |
| October 30    |  No Meeting DM Day            |                                                                                                                    |                                                                        |
| November 6    |  Rob                          | https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.07902                                                                                   |                                                                        |
| November 13   |  Matt                         | https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.05024                                                                                   | http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/aa9373             |
| November 20   |  Frank Avignone Lunch         |                                                                                                                    |                                                                        |
| November 27   |  Ryan                         | https://journals.aps.org/prl/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.161101                                                    | http://iopscience.iop.org/journal/2041-8205/page/Focus_on_GW170817     |
| December 4    |  Dan                          | [[https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.111102|SIDM Can Explain Diverse Rotation Curves]] [[https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.02716|arxiv]] |                                                                        |


===== Spring 2017 Schedule of Events =====
^ Date         ^  Lead      ^   Main Paper   ^   Additional Papers  ^
| January 30   | Jodi                                  | [[http://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-016-0009| NATURE ASTRONOMY 1, 0009 (2016)]]                                                                                                                                                     | {{ ::nphys3175.pdf |Nature Physics Article 1}} {{ ::nphys3137-s1.pdf |Nature Physics Article 2}}  |
| February 6   | Matt                                  | [[https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.05917|arxiv 1609.05917]]                                                                                                                                                                                   |                                                                                                   |
| February 13  | Rob                                   | [[https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.02688v1| Dark Matter Search in a Proton Beam Dump with MiniBooNE]] \\ [[http://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.060401|Cosmic Bell Test: Measurement Settings from Milky Way Stars]]  |                                                                                                   |
| February 20  | Govinda                               | [[https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.04635|arxiv 1611.04635]]                                                                                                                                                                                   |                                                                                                   |
| February 27  | Ryan                                  | http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v542/n7642/full/nature21360.html                                                                                                                                                                   |                                                                                                   |
| March 6      | Burcin Mutlu Pakdil (Hosted by Fred)  | [[https://smu.box.com/s/w1m4eembcv4l4ukgwf5tyuijvffnye8h| ]]                                                                                                                                                                            |                                                                                                   |
| March 13     | No Meeting Spring Break               |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         |                                                                                                   |
| March 20     | Rob                                   | [[http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v543/n7645/full/nature21685.html|Strongly baryon-dominated disk galaxies at the peak of galaxy formation ten billion years ago]]                                                                 |                                                                                                   |
| March 27     | Ryan                                  | See the link I provided above (new exoplanets)                                                                                                                                                                                          |                                                                                                   |
| April 3      | Govinda                               | [[https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.08293|arxiv 1703.08293]]                                                                                                                                                                                   | [[https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.08165|arxiv 1701.08165]]                                             |
| April 10     | Jodi                                  | [[https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.07325| arXiv:1612.07325]]                                                                                                                                                                                  |                                                                                                   |
| April 17     | Matt                                  | [[http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/aa693a| http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/aa693a]]                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        |                                                                                                   |
| April 24     | Dan Akerib Lunch                      |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         |                                                                                                   |
| May 1        | Hang                                  | [[https://oup.silverchair-cdn.com/oup/backfile/Content_public/Journal/mnras/468/3/10.1093_mnras_stx517/1/stx517.pdf?Expires=1493692328&Signature=EnEg6GYpy0LzaCM2mgaIXGttIHtp8RcoIRM8URPMUsgm46R8MPxvFJ-f3UKoPRpVRlEOu7kNtSZNg7QXBlUo5Q34S4-NwDbCwIpzEe4pF3QU3z7fJiu3VMdbhOHmsaiViM-aiy2lt-1wDT-qK29dUmeVgbJc1fnuNGqAB7Fiv15tQTAmT-WIohB9c9HoqRNmLP3UErVaJk18w8Ug8RA80fPCz1XiLCIJaQ8L5GGppZroq-bAdi1c4RfYkyH4w140fDGFxa3q5iScp3bDTq0IO2beLjrkpDB7hyQ65ilMtVZ~nQaszXnhVoXwtrSVAvbqzNT8wJ7AB6Hf4YuC1eBAmw__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAIUCZBIA4LVPAVW3Q| The weak-lensing masses of filaments between luminous red galaxies
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===== Fall 2016 Schedule of Events =====

^ Date          ^  Lead            ^  Main Paper Link     ^  Additional Papers    ^
| September 19  |  Jodi            | [[http://arxiv.org/abs/1604.03158|1604.03158]]                                                          |                                                                                                                                                                  |
| September 26  |  Dan             | [[https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.07410|1607.07410]]                                                         | [[https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.06154|1609.06154]] \\ [[https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.06138|1609.06138]]                                                               |
| October 3     |  Bob & Farley    | [[https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.08573|1603.08573]]                                                         | [[https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.09076|1609.09076]] \\ [[https://arxiv.org/abs/1304.6993|1304.6993]] \\ [[https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0508646|astro-ph/0508646]]  |
| October 10    |  Fall Break      |  No Meeting                                                                                             |                                                                                                                                                                  |
| October 17    |  Govinda         | [[https://arxiv.org/pdf/1603.04730v4.pdf|1603.04730]]                                                   |                                                                                                                                                                  |
| October 24    |  Matt            | [[http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8205/830/1/L14|Minniti et al. 2016]]                   |                                                                                                                                                                  |
| October 31    |  Rob             |  [[http://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.061101#fulltext|Sasaki et al. 2016  ]]  | [[http://www.nature.com/articles/srep35596| 1506.01354]]  \\  [[https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.08972|1610.08972]]                                                    |
| November 7    |  Ryan            | [[https://arxiv.org/abs/1508.05898|1508.05898]]                                                         |                                                                                                                                                                  |
| November 14   |  Dan             | [[https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.01492|1609.01492]]                                                                                                        |                                                                                                                                                                  |
| November 21   |  Pavel Nadolsky  | HEP lunch seminar                                                                                       |  N/A                                                                                                                                                             |
| November 28   |  Fred Olness     |                                                                                                         |  N/A                                                                                                                                                             |
| December 5    |  Matt            |       [[http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8205/830/2/L27|ApJL Link]]                                                                                                  |                                                                                                                                                                  |
| December 12   |  Ryan            |                                                                                                         |                                                                                                                                                                  |

===== Events =====
   * 2014/09/29: Jodi , recent AMS results
     * [[http://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.121102|Electron and Positron Fluxes in Primary Cosmic Rays Measured with the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on the International Space Station]]
     * [[http://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.121101|High Statistics Measurement of the Positron Fraction in Primary Cosmic Rays of 0.5–500 GeV with the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on the International Space Station]]
  * 2014/09/15: [[http://www.indiana.edu/~iubphys/faculty/lstrigar.shtml|Louis Strigari]] (visitor). He suggested these papers as background to the discussion:
    * [[http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1103.0007|Too big to fail? The puzzling darkness of massive Milky Way subhaloes]]
    * [[http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1108.2404|A Method for Measuring (Slopes of) the Mass Profiles of Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies]]
    * [[http://arxiv.org/abs/1406.6079|Dynamical models for the Sculptor dwarf spheroidal in a Lambda CDM universe]]
  * 2014/09/08: [[http://www.its.caltech.edu/~jfilippi/Welcome.html|Jeff Filippini]] (Caltech), a special guest, via BigBlueButton, discussing the [[http://www.physics.smu.edu/web/seminars/astro/SMUastro_BICEP2_08Sep2014.pdf|BICEP-2 results]].