Random Papers

We meet every Wednesday at 3.30pm in MSI to discuss 5 random astrophysics papers.

This week's papers

1. Stellar disc truncations and extended haloes in face-on spiral galaxies Peters, S. P. C., van der Kruit, P. C., Knapen, J. H., Trujillo, I., Fliri, J., Cisternas, M., Kelvin, L. S., 2017, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

2. Identifying and analysing protostellar disc fragments in smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulations Hall, Cassandra, Forgan, Duncan, Rice, Ken, 2017, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

3. Extragalactic background light: a measurement at 400 nm using dark cloud shadow*- I. Low surface brightness spectrophotometry in the area of Lynds 1642 Mattila, K., Lehtinen, K., Väisänen, P., von Appen-Schnur, G., Leinert, Ch., 2017, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

4. On the apparent power law in CDM halo pseudo-phase space density profiles Nadler, Ethan O., Oh, S. Peng, Ji, Suoqing, 2017, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

5. Fluctuating feedback-regulated escape fraction of ionizing radiation in low-mass, high-redshift galaxies Trebitsch, Maxime, Blaizot, Jérémy, Rosdahl, Joakim, Devriendt, Julien, Slyz, Adrianne, 2017, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Selected on Thursday, 19 October 2017 from a total of 747 papers published last month in ApJ, AJ, MNRAS and A&A.

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