1. From ridges in the velocity distribution to wiggles in the rotation curve Martinez-Medina, Luis, Pichardo, Barbara, Peimbert, Antonio, Valenzuela, Octavio, 2019, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
2. Nonlinear Development of Electron Heat Flux Instability: Particle in Cell Simulation Lee, Sang-Yun, Lee, Ensang, Yoon, Peter H., 2019, The Astrophysical Journal
3. An Eccentric Massive Jupiter Orbiting a Subgiant on a 9.5-day Period Discovered in the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite Full Frame Images Rodriguez, Joseph E., Quinn, Samuel N., Huang, Chelsea X., Vanderburg, Andrew, Penev, Kaloyan, Brahm, Rafael, Jordán, Andrés, Ikwut-Ukwa, Mma, Tsirulik, Shelly, Latham, David W., Stassun, Keivan G., Shporer, Avi, Ziegler, Carl, Matthews, Elisabeth, Eastman, Jason D., Gaudi, B. Scott, Collins, Karen A., Guerrero, Natalia, Relles, Howard M., Barclay, Thomas, Batalha, Natalie M., Berlind, Perry, Bieryla, Allyson, Bouma, L. G., Boyd, Patricia T., Burt, Jennifer, Calkins, Michael L., Christiansen, Jessie, Ciardi, David R., Colón, Knicole D., Conti, Dennis M., Crossfield, Ian J. M., Daylan, Tansu, Dittmann, Jason, Dragomir, Diana, Dynes, Scott, Espinoza, Néstor, Esquerdo, Gilbert A., Essack, Zahra, Garcia Soto, Aylin, Glidden, Ana, Günther, Maximilian N., Henning, Thomas, Jenkins, Jon M., Kielkopf, John F., Krishnamurthy, Akshata, Law, Nicholas M., Levine, Alan M., Lewin, Pablo, Mann, Andrew W., Morgan, Edward H., Morris, Robert L., Oelkers, Ryan J., Paegert, Martin, Pepper, Joshua, Quintana, Elisa V., Ricker, George R., Rowden, Pamela, Seager, Sara, Sarkis, Paula, Schlieder, Joshua E., Sha, Lizhou, Tokovinin, Andrei, Torres, Guillermo, Vanderspek, Roland K., Villanueva, Steven, Jr., Villaseñor, Jesus Noel, Winn, Joshua N., Wohler, Bill, Wong, Ian, Yahalomi, Daniel A., Yu, Liang, Zhan, Zhuchang, Zhou, George, 2019, The Astronomical Journal
4. A highly variable methanol maser in G111.256-0.770 Durjasz, M., Szymczak, M., Olech, M., 2019, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
5. An analysis of binary microlensing event OGLE-2015-BLG-0060 Tsapras, Y., Cassan, A., Ranc, C., Bachelet, E., Street, R., Udalski, A., Hundertmark, M., Bozza, V., Beaulieu, J. P., Marquette, J. B., Euteneuer, E., Bramich, D. M., Dominik, M., Figuera Jaimes, R., Horne, K., Mao, S., Menzies, J., Schmidt, R., Snodgrass, C., Steele, I. A., Wambsganss, J., Mróz, P., Szymański, M. K., Soszyński, I., Skowron, J., Pietrukowicz, P., Kozłowski, S., Poleski, R., Ulaczyk, K., Pawlak, M., Jørgensen, U. G., Skottfelt, J., Popovas, A., Ciceri, S., Korhonen, H., Kuffmeier, M., Evans, D. F., Peixinho, N., Hinse, T. C., Burgdorf, M. J., Southworth, J., Tronsgaard, R., Kerins, E., Andersen, M. I., Rahvar, S., Wang, Y., Wertz, O., Rabus, M., Calchi Novati, S., D'Ago, G., Scarpetta, G., Mancini, L., Abe, F., Asakura, Y., Bennett, D. P., Bhattacharya, A., Donachie, M., Evans, P., Fukui, A., Hirao, Y., Itow, Y., Kawasaki, K., Koshimoto, N., Li, M. C. A., Ling, C. H., Masuda, K., Matsubara, Y., Muraki, Y., Miyazaki, S., Nagakane, M., Ohnishi, K., Rattenbury, N., Saito, To, Sharan, A., Shibai, H., Sullivan, D. J., Sumi, T., Suzuki, D., Tristram, P. J., Yamada, T., Yonehara, A., 2019, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Selected on Tuesday, 25 June 2019 from a total of 827 papers published last month in ApJ, AJ, MNRAS and A&A.
We meet every Monday at 2pm at the McGill Space Institute to discuss 5 random astrophysics papers.
The goal of Random Papers is to gain a broad view of current astrophysics research. Each week we run a script to choose 5 random papers published in the last month in refereed astrophysics journals. This gives a different slice of the literature than the typical astro-ph discussion, with papers from outside our own research areas or those that might not otherwise be chosen for discussion.
Rather than reading each paper in depth, the goal is to focus on the big picture, with questions such as: How would we summarize the paper in a few sentences? What are the key figures in the paper? What analysis methods are used? Why is this paper being written, and Why now?
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