Random Papers

This week's papers

1. 2D-Galactic chemical evolution: the role of the spiral density wave Mollá et al. 2019, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

2. Search for the H Chondrite Parent Body among the Three Largest S-type Asteroids: (3) Juno, (7) Iris, and (25) Phocaea Noonan et al. 2019, The Astronomical Journal

3. Eigenfunctions of Galactic phase space spirals from dynamic mode decomposition Darling & Widrow 2019, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

4. A model for core formation in dark matter haloes and ultra diffuse galaxies by outflow episodes Freundlich et al. 2019, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

5. NGTS-8b and NGTS-9b: two non-inflated hot-Jupiters Costes et al. 2019, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Selected on Tuesday, 3 December 2019 from a total of 1156 papers published last month in ApJ, AJ, MNRAS and A&A.

About Random Papers

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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