We meet every Wednesday at 3.30pm in MSI to discuss 5 random astrophysics papers.
1. Gemini/GRACES spectroscopy of stars in Tri II Venn, K. A., Starkenburg, E., Malo, L., Martin, N., Laevens, B. P. M., 2017, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
2. Quenching versus quiescence: forming realistic massive ellipticals with a simple starvation model Gutcke, Thales A., Macciò, Andrea V., Dutton, Aaron A., Stinson, Greg S., 2017, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
3. Testing the lognormality of the galaxy and weak lensing convergence distributions from Dark Energy Survey maps Clerkin, L., Kirk, D., Manera, M., Lahav, O., Abdalla, F., Amara, A., Bacon, D., Chang, C., Gaztañaga, E., Hawken, A., Jain, B., Joachimi, B., Vikram, V., Abbott, T., Allam, S., Armstrong, R., Benoit-Lévy, A., Bernstein, G. M., Bernstein, R. A., Bertin, E., Brooks, D., Burke, D. L., Rosell, A. Carnero, Carrasco Kind, M., Crocce, M., Cunha, C. E., D'Andrea, C. B., da Costa, L. N., Desai, S., Diehl, H. T., Dietrich, J. P., Eifler, T. F., Evrard, A. E., Flaugher, B., Fosalba, P., Frieman, J., Gerdes, D. W., Gruen, D., Gruendl, R. A., Gutierrez, G., Honscheid, K., James, D. J., Kent, S., Kuehn, K., Kuropatkin, N., Lima, M., Melchior, P., Miquel, R., Nord, B., Plazas, A. A., Romer, A. K., Roodman, A., Sanchez, E., Schubnell, M., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Smith, R. C., Soares-Santos, M., Sobreira, F., Suchyta, E., Swanson, M. E. C., Tarle, G., Walker, A. R., 2017, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
4. Four Sub-Saturns with Dissimilar Densities: Windows into Planetary Cores and Envelopes Petigura, Erik A., Sinukoff, Evan, Lopez, Eric D., Crossfield, Ian J. M., Howard, Andrew W., Brewer, John M., Fulton, Benjamin J., Isaacson, Howard T., Ciardi, David R., Howell, Steve B., Everett, Mark E., Horch, Elliott P., Hirsch, Lea A., Weiss, Lauren M., Schlieder, Joshua E., 2017, The Astronomical Journal
5. A merger in the dusty, z = 7.5 galaxy A1689-zD1? Knudsen, Kirsten K., Watson, Darach, Frayer, David, Christensen, Lise, Gallazzi, Anna, Michałowski, Michał J., Richard, Johan, Zavala, Jesús, 2017, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Selected on Thursday, 25 May 2017 from a total of 736 papers published last month in ApJ, AJ, MNRAS and A&A.