Random Papers

This week's papers

1. On the Chemical and Kinematic Consistency between N-rich Metal-poor Field Stars and Enriched Populations in Globular Clusters Tang et al. 2020, The Astrophysical Journal

2. Variable stars in the Sh 2-170 H II region Sinha et al. 2020, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

3. Dim Prospects for Transmission Spectra of Ocean Earths around M Stars Suissa et al. 2020, The Astrophysical Journal

4. MEGARA-GTC stellar spectral library: I GarcĂ­a-Vargas et al. 2020, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

5. Fast numerical method to generate halo catalogues in modified gravity (part I): second-order Lagrangian perturbation theory Moretti et al. 2020, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Selected on Tuesday, 7 April 2020 from a total of 1069 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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