We meet every Wednesday at 3.30pm in MSI to discuss 5 random astrophysics papers.
1. An explanation of the formation of the peculiar periphery of Tycho's supernova remnant Fang, Jun, Yu, Huan, Zhang, Li, 2018, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
2. Magnetar Giant Flares in Multipolar Magnetic Fields. III. Multipolar Magnetic Field Structure Variations Yao, Guang-Rui, Huang, Lei, Yu, Cong, Shen, Zhi-Qiang, 2018, The Astrophysical Journal
3. Establishing the accuracy of asteroseismic mass and radius estimates of giant stars. I. Three eclipsing systems at [Fe/H]̃-0.3 and the need for a large high-precision sample. Brogaard, K., Hansen, C. J., Miglio, A., Slumstrup, D., Frandsen, S., Jessen-Hansen, J., Lund, M. N., Bossini, D., Thygesen, A., Davies, G. R., Chaplin, W. J., Arentoft, T., Bruntt, H., Grundahl, F., Handberg, R., 2018, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
4. An HST/STIS Optical Transmission Spectrum of Warm Neptune GJ 436b Lothringer, Joshua D., Benneke, Björn, Crossfield, Ian J. M., Henry, Gregory W., Morley, Caroline, Dragomir, Diana, Barman, Travis, Knutson, Heather, Kempton, Eliza, Fortney, Jonathan, McCullough, Peter, Howard, Andrew W., 2018, The Astronomical Journal
5. Two-dimensional Core-collapse Supernova Explosions Aided by General Relativity with Multidimensional Neutrino Transport O’Connor, Evan P., Couch, Sean M., 2018, The Astrophysical Journal
Selected on Thursday, 22 March 2018 from a total of 941 papers published last month in ApJ, AJ, MNRAS and A&A.