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Extragalactic Astrophysics &
Observational Cosmology Group
 
ETH ASTRO JOURNAL CLUB
 
Once every few weeks PhD Students and Advisors get together to discuss selected papers in Astro-Cosmology, to discuss together specific astro-cosmology topics, etc.

Everybody in the ETH and Zurich Astro Community is very welcome to join!

Selected Thursdays during semester; 16.30
Location: ETH HPT D17


Date   Paper/Topic                           
18.10.07
time:15.35!
"DUST EXTINCTION AND EMISSION"

1) Interstellar Dust Grains, Draine, 2003   
2a) The Dust Opacity of Star-foming Galaxies, Calzetti, 2001   
2b) Interstellar dust from the Milky Way to the Magellanic Clouds, Pei, 1992   
2c) Maps of Dust Infrared Emission for Use in Estimation of Reddening and Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation Foregrounds, Schlegel et al, 1998   
3) Interstellar dust models for extinction and emission, Desert et al, 1990
15.11.07
"REIONIZATION:    INTRODUCTION AND OBSERVATIONAL CONSTRAINTS I"

-introduction
-quasars spectra
-ly-alpha emitters

1) Fan, Carilli & Keating 2006 (chapter 7)   
2) Barkana & Loeb 2001 (chapters 1 and 9.1)   
3) Barkana & Loeb 2007 (pagg. 1-10)   
24.01.08
time:15.00!
"REIONIZATION:    OBSERVATIONAL CONSTRAINTS II"

-CMB
-thermal state of the IGM

1) Fan, Carilli & Keating 2006 (in particular, chapter 6 and paragraph 5.3)   
2) Barkana & Loeb 2001 (paragraph 9.2)   
Monday!!
02.06.08
"REIONIZATION:    MODELS"

-sources
-recipes for SF, stellar IMF, escape fraction
-topology
-simulations

1) Fan, Carilli & Keating 2006 (chapter 7)   
2) Barkana & Loeb 2001 (chapter 8)   
3) Barkana & Loeb 2007 (para. 3.4)   
4) Furlanetto, Oh & Briggs 2006 (para. 8.1 & 8.2)   

Wednesday!! 18.06.08
time: 11.00! Location: TBD
"REIONIZATION:    21cm"

-Basic physics
-Statistical measures
-Observational challenges

1) Meiksin 2007 ( pp. 48-49, for details see 2) sec. 2-3 )   
2) Furlanetto, Oh & Briggs 2006 ( sec. 4.0 and sec. 9.0, 9.1.0, 9.1.1, 9.1.2, 9.4.2, 9.4.3)   
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