We meet every Wednesday at 3.30pm to discuss 5 astrophysics papers chosen at random from papers published in the last month in ApJ, MNRAS, or A&A.
1. Redshift-space distortions of galaxies, clusters, and AGN. Testing how the accuracy of growth rate measurements depends on scales and sample selections Marulli, Federico, Veropalumbo, Alfonso, Moscardini, Lauro, Cimatti, Andrea, Dolag, Klaus, 2017, Astronomy and Astrophysics
2. The COS-Halos Survey: Metallicities in the Low-redshift Circumgalactic Medium Prochaska, J. Xavier, Werk, Jessica K., Worseck, Gábor, Tripp, Todd M., Tumlinson, Jason, Burchett, Joseph N., Fox, Andrew J., Fumagalli, Michele, Lehner, Nicolas, Peeples, Molly S., Tejos, Nicolas, 2017, The Astrophysical Journal
3. Neutron Star Kicks by the Gravitational Tug-boat Mechanism in Asymmetric Supernova Explosions: Progenitor and Explosion Dependence Janka, Hans-Thomas, 2017, The Astrophysical Journal
4. Kinematics and properties of the central molecular zone as probed with [C ii] Langer, W. D., Velusamy, T., Morris, M. R., Goldsmith, P. F., Pineda, J. L., 2017, Astronomy and Astrophysics
5. Structure formation in a colliding flow: The Herschel view of the Draco nebula Miville-Deschênes, M. -A., Salomé, Q., Martin, P. G., Joncas, G., Blagrave, K., Dassas, K., Abergel, A., Beelen, A., Boulanger, F., Lagache, G., Lockman, F. J., Marshall, D. J., 2017, Astronomy and Astrophysics
Selected on Thursday, 20 April 2017 from a total of 630 papers.