Stellar transients - paper presentations

Each student is required to summarize in about 15 minutes a paper about a subject related to the course.
Here and here are some tips on how to give good talks (courtesy Cole Miller of the University of Maryland at College Park)

  • Altamirano et al. (2008; ApJ, 674, L45): Intermittent millisecond X-Ray pulsations from the neutron star X-ray transient SAX J1748.9-2021 in the globular cluster NGC
  • Bode et al. (2008; ApJ, 562, 629): Swift observations of the 2006 outburst of the recurrent nova RS Ophiuchi. I. early X-Ray emission from the shocked ejecta and red giant wind
  • Boirin et al. (2007; Astron. Astrohys., 465, 559): Discovery of X-ray burst triplets in EXO 0748-676
  • Fields et al. (2008; ApJ, 678, 549): Supernova collisions with the heliosphere
  • Kasliwal et al. (2007; ApJ, 678, 1127): GRB 070610: A curious galactic transient
  • Martel et al. (2008; ApJ, 673, 657): Light propagation in inhomegenous universes. V. gravitational lensing of distant supernovae
  • Modiaz et al. (2008; ApJ, 135, 1136): Measured metalicities at the sites of nearby broad-lined Type Ic supernovae and implications for the supernovae GRB connection
  • Oezel et al. (2006; Nature, 441, 1115 Soft equations of state for neutron-star matter ruled out by EXO 0748-676 and published correspondence about this result
  • Poelarends et al. (2008; ApJ, 675, 614): The supernova channels of super-AGB stars
  • Prieto et al. (2008; ApJ, 673, 999): Characterizing supernova progenitors via the metallicities of their host galaxies, from poor dwarfs to rich spirals
  • Racusin et al. (2008; Nature, submitted): GRB 080319B: a naked-eye stellar blast from the distant universe
  • Smith et al. (2007; ApJ, 666, 1116): SN 2006gy: disovery of the most luminonous supernova ever recorded, powered by the death of an extremely massive star like Eta Carinae
  • Soderberg et al. (2008; Nature, 453, 471): An extremely luminous X-ray outburst at the birth of a supernova and comment by Chevalier
  • Umeda et al. (2008; ApJ, 673, 1014): How much Nickel-56 can be produced in core-collapse supernovae? evolution and explosions of 30-100 solar-mass stars
  • Woosley et al. (2007; Nature, 450, 390): Pulsational pair instability as an Explantion for the most luminous supernovae

    • Norbert Langer / n.langer@astro.uu.nl, Jean in 't Zand / jeanz@sron.nl, May 22, 2008