Random Papers

This week's papers

1. Prospects of joint detections of neutron star mergers and short GRBs with Gaussian structured jets Saleem 2020, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

2. Detection of the phase curve and occultation of WASP-100b with TESS Jansen & Kipping 2020, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

3. Using Data Imputation for Signal Separation in High-contrast Imaging Ren et al. 2020, The Astrophysical Journal

4. Quantifying the effects of spatial resolution and noise on galaxy metallicity gradients Acharyya et al. 2020, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

5. Do the solar flares originating from an individual active region follow a random process or a memory-dependent correlation? Lei et al. 2020, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Selected on Tuesday, 12 May 2020 from a total of 1098 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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