Young Stars Reading Group

Sun and Stars Reading Group

When: 11:00am-12:00pm, every other Thursday
Where: 300A Optics Building (conference room)

The sun and stars reading group is open to all students, postdocs, research scientists, and faculty interested in the sun and stars. To receive the email announcements of up coming articles to be discussed, send an email to: russel[dot]white[at]uah[dot]edu
Hubble telescope image of the Horsehead nebula.
Internet voters selected this object for
the orbiting telescope to view.

For the reading group meeting on Thursday, 2007 Nov 8, we will discuss:

HD17156b: A Transiting Planet with 21.2 Day Period and an Eccentric Orbit
Barbieri, M. et al. 2007, A&A, in press

16-20 M_Jup Radial Velocity Companion Orbiting the Brown Dwarf Candidate Cha Ha 8
Joergens, V. & Muller, A. 2007, ApJ, 666, L113

New Worlds on the Horizons: Earth-Sized Planets Close to Other Stars
Giados, E. et al. 2007, Science, (Oct 12 issue)

Some images of young stars:

Note the tendency to cluster while young.