This week's papers
1. Gaseous dynamical friction under radiative feedback: do intermediate-mass black holes speed up or down?
Toyouchi
et al.
2020, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
2. Mean field dynamo action in shear flows. I: fixed kinetic helicity
Jingade
& Singh
2020, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
3. Infrared colours and spectral energy distributions of hard X-ray selected obscured and Compton-thick active galactic nuclei
Kilerci Eser
et al.
2020, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
4. An astrophysically motivated ranking criterion for low-latency electromagnetic follow-up of gravitational wave events
Artale
et al.
2020, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
5. Finding Strong Gravitational Lenses in the DESI DECam Legacy Survey
Huang
et al.
2020, The Astrophysical Journal
Selected on Tuesday, 9 June 2020 from a total of 794 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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