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The weekly meetings of the Extragalactic Science Club provides a forum
for informal conversations on extragalactic astrophysical topics.
As discussed during the meeting on 12/10/2010, we have now compiled a pool of papers from which the participants can choose their contribution. The full list can be found here . Comments and suggestions to Georg Lamer or Christian Tapken. |
| Time & Venue: | Tuesday afternoon at 16:00 in the | |
| seminar room of the Schwarzschild Haus. |
| 2012 | |||
| Mar | 6 | ||
| Feb | 28 | Christian Herenz | Rob Kennicut: "Star Formation in Galaxies Along the Hubble Sequence" 1998AR&A..36..189 |
| Feb | 21 | Daniel Kupko | Silk, Joseph; Rees, Martin J.: "Quasars and galaxy formation" 1998A&A...331L...1S |
| Feb | 14 | ||
| Feb | 7 | Sebastian Kamann | Schechter 1976: "An analytic expression for the luminosity function for galaxies." 1976ApJ...203..297S |
| Jan | 31 | ||
| Jan | 24 | Bernd Husemann | Cowie et al. 1996:"New Insight on Galaxy Formation and Evolution From Keck Spectroscopy of the Hawaii Deep Fields " 1996AJ....112..839C |
| Jan | 17 | ||
| Jan | 10 | Ali Takey | "The 2XMMi/SDSS Galaxy Cluster Survey" |
| Jan | 3 | ||
| 2011 | |||
| Dec | 20 | ||
| Dec | 13 | David Streich | |
| Dec | 6 | Anne Hutter | George B. Field: "Excitation of the 21-cm Line" Proceedings of the IRE , Jan 1958, p 240 |
| Nov | 29 | Isabel Suarez Velasquez | "The Contribution of the WHIM to the CMB anisotropies via the Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect" |
| Nov | 22 | Tilmann Piffl | Sellwood & Binney (2002): Radial mixing in galactic disks 2001Natur.409...39 |
| Nov | 15 | Arjen de Hoon | Sunyaev, R. A.; Zeldovich, Ya. B.: The Observations of Relic Radiation as a Test of the Nature of X-Ray Radiation from the Clusters of Galaxies 1972CoASP...4..17 |
| Jun | 14 | Daniel Kupko | Toomre, Alar; Toomre, Juri: Galactic Bridges and Tails, 1972ApJ...178..623T |
| Jun | 6 | Jose Ramirez | |
| May | 31 | Isabel Suarez | Cen, Renyue; Ostriker, Jeremiah P.: Where are the Baryons?
1999ApJ...514....1C
Dave, Romeel; et al.: Baryons in the Warm-Hot Intergalactic Medium, 2001ApJ...552..473D |
| May | 24 | ||
| May | 17 | No ESC (Betriebsausflug) | |
| May | 10 | ||
| May | 3 | Kai Hoffmann | Cole,Shaun, et al.: Hierarchical galaxy formation ( 2000 MNRAS.319..168c ) |
| Apr | 26 | ||
| Apr | 19 | Christian Tapken | Freedman, Wendy L.; et. al: Final Results from the Hubble Space Telescope Key Project to Measure the Hubble Constant, 2001ApJ...553...47F |
| Apr | 12 | Sebastian Kamann | Salpeter, Edwin E. : The Luminosity Function and Stellar Evolution 1955ApJ...121..161S |
| Feb | 15 | Maria del Pilar Bonilla | Seljak, Uros; Zaldarriaga, Matias: A Line-of-Sight Integration Approach to Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropies 1996ApJ...469..437S |
| Feb | 8 | Aldo Dall'Aglio | Haardt, Francesco; Madau, Piero: Radiative Transfer in a Clumpy Universe. II. The Ultraviolet Extragalactic Background ( 1996ApJ...461...20H ) |
| Bolton, James S.;Haehnelt, Martin G.;Viel, Matteo; Springel, Volker:The Lyman α forest opacity and the metagalactic hydrogen ionization rate at z~ 2-4 ( 2005MNRAS.357.1178B ) | |||
| Feb | 1 | ||
| Jan | 25 | Timur Doumler | Klypin, A.;Kravtsov, A. V.; Valenzuela, O.o; Prada, F.: Where Are the Missing Galactic Satellites? ( 1999ApJ...522...82K ) |
| Jan | 18 | Jose Ramirez | Ferland, G. J.; Korista, K. T.; et al.: CLOUDY 90: Numerical Simulation of Plasmas and Their Spectra 1998PASP..110..761F |
| Jan | 11 | ||
| 2010 | |||
| Dec | 14 | Christian Herenz | Partridge, R. B.; Peebles, P. J. E.: Are Young Galaxies Visible? 1967ApJ...147..868P |
| Dec | 7 | Juan Carlos Muñoz | Special issue: Dark Matter Awareness Week |
| Nov | 30 | Tilmann Piffl | Freeman, K. C.: On the Disks of Spiral and so Galaxies 1970ApJ...160..811F |
| Nov | 23 | ||
| Nov | 16 | Jakob Walcher | Mo, H. J.; Mao, Shude;White, Simon D. M.: The formation of galactic discs ( 1998MNRAS.295..319M ) |
| Nov | 9 | Christian Tapken | Madau, Piero: High-redshift galaxies in the Hubble Deep Field: colour selection and star formation history to z~4, 1996MNRAS.283.1388M |
| Jun | 29 | Bernd Husemann | "The non-causal origin of the black hole - galaxy scaling relations" (Knud Jahnke and Andrea V. Maccio), arxiv:1006.0482) |
| Jun | 22 | Sebastian Kamann | "A fundamental relation between mass, SFR and metallicity in local and high redshift galaxies" (Mannucci et al 2010, arxiv:1005.0006) |
| Jun | 15 | Maneenate Wechakama | "Testing the Dark Matter Annihilation Model for the WMAP Haze" (Matthew Maquinn and Matias Zaldarriaga.) |
| Jun | 8 | ||
| Jun | 1 | ||
| May | 25 | ||
| May | 18 | Arjen de Hoon | |
| May | 11 | ||
| May | 4 | Jose Ramirez | |
| Apr | 27 | ||
| Apr | 20 | Jochen Klar | |
| Apr | 13 | ||
| Apr | 6 | ||
| Mar | 30 | Sebastian Kamann | |
| Mar | 23 | Sebastian Krekow | Dissecting the Gravitational Lens B1608+656 (Suyu et al. 2010 ) |
| Mar | 16 | ||
| Mar | 9 | Kai Hoffmann | Measuring galaxy segregation using the mark connection function (Martinez et al. 2010 ) |
| Mar | 2 | Dorothee Brauer | "Galaxy Zoo: Passive Red Spirals" ( Masters at al., 2010) |
| Feb | 23 | Tobias Diekershoff | "High molecular gas fractions in normal massive star-forming galaxies in the young Universe" by Tacconi et al. |
| Feb | 16 | ||
| Feb | 9 | Juan Carlos Muñoz | |
| Feb | 2 | Isabel Suárez | "Modified gravity as an Alternative to dark matter'' (J. Bekenstein, arxiv:1001.3876v1 ) |
| Jan | 26 | Adrian Partl | A Spectroscopic Portrait of Andromeda's Giant Southern Stream Gilbert et al. - arxiv:0909.4540v1, Structure and Population of the Andromeda Stellar Halo From A Subaru / Suprime-Cam Survey Tanaka et al. - arxiv:0908.0245v2 |
| Jan | 19 | Dasha Dubinovska | "Observational constraints on the co-evolution of SMBHs and galaxies" (Zheng et al., arXiv:0911.0005) |
| Jan | 12 | Sabine König (Universität Köln) | "Millimeter and radio astronomy on galactic and extragalactic scales" |
| 2009 | |||
| Dec | 15 | Daniel Kupko | "On the Stellar Populations and Evolution of Star-Forming Galaxies at 6.3 < z < 8.6" http://arxiv.org/abs/0912.1338 |
| Dec | 1 | Christian Tapken | |
| Jul | 14 | Bernd Husemann | |
| Jul | 7 | Laura Hoppmann | "How was the Hubble sequence 6 Gyrs ago?" (arXiv:0906.2805v2) |
| Jun | 30 | Franziska Piontek | arXiv:0906/5304 (Galaxy Zoo: 'Hanny's Voorwerp', a quasar light echo?) |
| Jun | 23 | ||
| Jun | 16 | Isabelle Gavignaud | |
| Jun | 9 | Jaime Forero | Modelling galaxy clustering: Is new physics needed in galaxy formation models? (Han Seek Kim, C.M.Baugh, S.Cole, C.S.Frenk, A.J.Benson) http://arxiv.org/abs/0905.4723 |
| Jun | 2 | Andreas Schulze | "A Survey of z ~ 6 Quasars in the SDSS Deep Stripe. II. Discovery of six Quasars at z>21" (Jiang et al., arxiv:0905.4126) |
| May | 26 | Sebastian Kamann | "The M-sigma and M-L relations in galactic bulges, and determinations of their intrinsic scatter" by Gueltekin et al (arXiv:0903.4897). |
| May | 19 | No ESC (DLR Schwerpunkt meeting) | |
| May | 12 | ||
| Apr | 28 | Taesun Kim | Ly-alpha blobs are powered by heating, not cooling by Geach et al. (arXiv:0904.0452v2); Discovery of a giant Ly-alpha emitter near the reionization epoch by Ouchi et al. (2009, ApJ, 696, 1164) |
| Apr | 21 | ||
| Apr | 14 | ||
| Apr | 7 | Jose Ramirez | "Diffuse baryonic matter beyond 2020" ,White Paper for the NRC Astro-2010 Decadal Survey. |
| Mar | 31 | ||
| Mar | 24 | ||
| Mar | 17 | ||
| Mar | 10 | Isabelle Gavignaud | |
| Mar | 3 | Jochen Klar | "Disk formation and the origin of clumpy galaxies at high redshift", Agertz et al., arXiv:0901.2536 : |
| Feb | 24 | Pierre Ocvirk | "Explaining the observed Ly-alpha blobs as Cold Streams of Gas in the Halos of Galaxies", arXiv 0902.2999 |
| Feb | 17 | Rob Piontek | "Resolving the Galactic ridge X-ray background", Revnivtsev, M.; Vikhlinin, A.; Sazonov, S., 2007 |
| Feb | 10 | Claudio LLineares | "Feedback and the Formation of Dwarf Galaxy Stellar Halos" (Stinson et al. , arXiv:0902.0775v1) |
| Feb | 3 | ||
| Jan | 28 | Silvia Bonoli | "Modelling the cosmological co-evolution of BHs and galaxies: the clustering of quasars" |
| Jan | 13 | Lionel Veltz | " Chemical Inhomogeneities in the Milky way Stellar Halo", AJ,137,272 |
| 2008 | |||
| Dec | 9 | Adrian Partl | "HeII Absorption and the Sawtooth Spectrum of the Cosmic Far-UV" ,P. Madau & F. Haardt arXiv:0812.0824 |
| Nov | 25 | Juan Carlos Muñoz | The Aquarius project: the subhalos of galactic halos, Springel et al, arXiv:0809.0898 |
| Nov | 18 | Bernd Husemann | "Post-starburst galaxies: more than just an interesting curiosity" (Vivienne Wild et al., arXiv:0810.5122) |
| Nov | 11 | Andreas Schulze | "Black Holes in Pseudobulges and Speroidals" (Greene, Ho, Barth, astro-ph 0810.1972) |
| Nov | 4 | Asmus Böhm | The lopsidedness of present-day galaxies: connections to the formation of stars, the chemical evolution of galaxies, and the growth of black holes"; Reichard, Heckman, Rudnick, Brinchmann, Kauffmann, & Wild; arXiv:0809.3310v1 |
| Oct | 28 | ||
| Oct | 21 | Sebastian Kamann | "Absorption Properties and Evolution of Active Galactic Nuclei" (G. Hasinger, astro-ph:0808.0260) |
| Oct | 14 | Jochen Klar | "Is Potsdam expanding?" (arXiv:0808.1081 ,arXiv:0809.4573) |
| Oct | 7 | ||
| Sep | 30 | Malte Schramm | "Time Variation of Fundamental Constants" (astro-ph 0809.2033) |
| Sep | 23 | ||
| Sep | 16 | ||
| Sep | 9 | Lutz Wisotzki | "A Population of Faint Extended Line Emitters and the Host Galaxies of Optically Thick QSO Absorption Systems" by M. Rauch et al, 2008, ApJ 681, 856 (arXiv:0711.1354) |
| July | 22 | Daria Dubinovska | "High-frequency oscillations in short GRBs" |
| July | 15 | Borja Anguiano | |
| July | 1 | Malte Schramm | "The Evolution of the MBH-? Relation Inferred from the Age Distribution of Local Early-Type Galaxies and AGN Evolution" (astro-ph 0806:3459 ) |
| June | 17 | Adrian Partl | " Ram pressure stripping in a viscous intracluster medium" ( Roediger & Brueggen, astro-ph/0806.1406) |
| June | 10 | Steffen Knollmann | Ultra Compact Dwarfs: Simulation and Observation (Goerdt et al., MNRAS, 385, 2136-2142,Mieske et al., astro-ph/0806.0374v1) |
| June | 3 | Jochen Klar | "Dark matter annihilation effects on the first stars"(F. Iocco, A. Bressan, E. Ripamonti, R. Schneider, A. Ferrara, P. Marigo) |
| May | 27 | Yago Ascasibar | Clumps and streams in the local dark matter distribution |
| May | 13 | Matthias Steinmetz | "Observed and simulated hypervelocity stars" |
| May | 6 | Gabor Worseck | "Ubiquitous outflows in DEEP2 spectra of star-forming galaxies at z=1.4" (Weiner et al., arXiv:0804.4686) |
| April | 29 | Pierre Ocvirk | "Quasar Broad Absorption Line Variability on Multiple Timescales" (Gibson, Brandt, and Schneider, 2008, ApJ, 675, 985) |
| April | 22 | Lochlan Campbell | |
| April | 15 | Rachel Campbell | |
| April | 8 | Sebastian Kamann | |
| April | 1 | Asmus Böhm | "The dependence of galaxy morphology and structure on environment and stellar mass" (arXIv:0801.1995) |
| March | 25 | no ESC | |
| March | 18 | Andreas Schulze | The effect of radiation pressure on virial black hole mass estimates and the case of Narrow Line Seyfert 1 galaxies (Marconi et al. 2008, arxiv: 0802.2021) |
| March | 11 | Jochen Klar | The Fate of the First Galaxies. III. Properties of Primordial Dwarf Galaxies and their Impact on the Intergalactic Medium (Ricotti et al. arXiv:0802.2715) |
| March | 4 | Joris Gerssen | "Prevalence of Tidal Interactions among Local Seyfert Galaxies" (Kuo et al., 27 Feb 2008, arXiv:0802.4205v1) |
| February | 26 | Mirko Meißner | "Quasar spectral energy distribution in EUV restored from associated absorbers: indications to the HeII opacity of the quasar accretion disk wind" (Levshakov et al. 2008) |
| February | 19 | Stefan Knollmann | The impact of mergers on relaxed X-ray clusters - I. Dynamical evolution and emergent transient structures' (Poole et al. 2006. MNRAS 373) (shifted to 26 Feb) |
| February | 12 | Corrado Boeche | "The outside-in formation of elliptical galaxies" |
| February | 5 | Franziska Piontek | "The McKee & Ostriker multiphase medium model and its importance today" (McKee & Ostriker 1977) |
| January | 29 | Bernd Husemann | "Galactic Superwinds" |
| January | 22 | Borja Anguiano | Spectroscopy of red giants in the Large Magellanic Cloud bar: Abundances, kinematics and the age-metallicity relation" (Cole et al. 2005) |
| January | 15 | Georg Lamer | Space Density of Optically-Selected Type 2 Quasars (Reyes et al., arXiv:0801.1115) |
| January | 8 | Lionel Veltz | |
| 2007 | |||
| December | 11 | Mary Williams | The Arcturus Moving Group |
| December | 4 | Natasha Maddox | Near-Infrared Selection of Luminous Quasars from UKIDSS |
| November | 27 | Lachlan Campbell | "The 6dF galaxy survey" |
| November | 20 | Rachel Campbell | "From the Solar System to the Milky Way" |
| November | 13 | Jaime Forero | "Semi-Analytic Models of Galaxy Formation" |
| November | 6 | Pierre Ocvirk | "The star formation history of galaxies from their integrated spectrum" |
| October | 30 | Asmus Böhm | "Observational evidence for AGN feedback in early-type galaxies" (Schawinski et al.,arXiv.07093015) |
| October | 23 | Sander von Benda-Beckmann | "Evidence of Cosmic Evolution of the Stellar Initial Mass Function" (van Dokkum, astro-ph/0710.0875) |
| October | 16 | ||
| October | 9 | ||
| October | 2 | ||
| Sep | 25 | Alexander Knebe | "The formation of galactic disks" (Mo, Mao, and White 1998, MNRAS 295, 319) |
| July | 3 | Joris Gerssen | |
| June | 19 | Isabelle Gavignaud, Andrea Cattaneo | "A Cosmological Framework for the Co-Evolution of Quasars, Supermassive Black-Holes and Elliptical Galaxies, I and II." |
| June | 12 | Bernd Husemann | "Selection Bias in Observing the Cosmological Evolution of the BH mass-Sigma and BH mass-Luminosity Relationships" (Lauer et al., astro-ph: 0705.4103) |
| June | 5 | ||
| May | 29 | Marcel Kappel | Forced accretion in stochastically fed AGN and quasars (arXiv:0705.1686) |
| May | 22 | Rob Piontek | Cluster Cl 0024+17 - The best evidence yet for dark matter? (arXiv:0705.2171) |
| May | 15 | Gabor Worseck | "Does intergalactic metal absorption differ between QSO and GRB sightlines?", Tejos et al. (arXiv:0705.0387) und Sudilovski et al. (arXiv:0705.0706) |
| Apr | 24 | Asmus Böhm | "How Mergers May Affect The Mass Scaling Relations Between Black Holes, Galaxies, and Other Gravitationally Bound Systems", (Chien Peng, arXiv:0704.1860) |
| Apr | 3 | Franziska Köckert | We are special after all - Hammer et al 2007, astro-ph/0702585 |
| Mar | 27 | Sander v. Benda-Beckmann | "The Cold Dark Matter Halos of Local Group Dwarf Spheroidals" (Penarrubia, McConnachie and Navarro, astro-ph/0701780) |
| Mar | 13 | Bastian Arnold | "Evolution of the Pancaking Effect in a LCDM Cosmology" (astro-ph/0702664) |
| Mar | 6 | Andreas Schulze | "The unified model of Active Galactic Nuclei: II. Evolutionary connection" (astro-ph/0702279) |
| Feb | 27 | Ana Monreal Ibero | |
| Feb | 13 | Joris Gerssen | AEGIS: Star formation in field galaxies since z=1.1 ( Noeske et al., astro-ph/0701924) |
| Feb | 6 | Rob Piontek | Recently discovered Milky Way dwarf galaxies |
| Jan | 30 | Marcel Kappel | AGNs and galaxy interactions (astro-ph/0701192) |
| Jan | 23 | Franziska Köckert | "The (non)existence of dark galaxies. (Davies et al 2006 & Taylor & Webster 2005)" |
| Jan | 16 | Christian Wagner | Cluster Mass Estimators from CMB Temperature and Polarization Lensing (Vale & Ostriker 2007, astro-ph/0701276 ) |
| Jan | 09 | Steffen Knollmann | "Backreaction issues in Relativistic Cosmology (Buchert 2007, gr-qc/0612166)" |
| 2006 | |||
| Dec | 19 | Isabelle Gavignaud | "Uncertainties of the masses of black holes ... (Susy Collin et al.: astro-ph/0612098, 2006A&A,456,75)" |
| Dec | 12 | Borja Anguiano Jiménez | "The Super-Halo of M31 and M33 (astro-ph/0610632)" |
| Dec | 5 | Jan Kohnert | "The Tautenburg-Calar-Alto variability and proper motion survey" |
| Nov | 28 | Kristin Warnick | "Tidal tails around globular clusters" ( Montuori et al. 2006, astroph/0611204) |
| Nov | 21 | Peter Weilbacher | |
| Nov | 14 | No ESC (XMM SSC meeting) | |
| Nov | 7 | Sander von Benda-Beckmann | "Towards a Concordant Model of Halo Occupation Statistics" ( Frank van den Bosch et al., 2006, astro-ph/0610686) |
| Oct | 24 | Alexander Knebe | "The infamous NFW profile" |
| Jul | 11 | Bernd Husemann | "The Masses of Nuclear Black Holes in Luminous Elliptical Galaxies and Implications for the Space Density of the Most Massive Black Holes."(astro-ph/0606739) |
| Jul | 04 | Isabelle Gavignaud | Constraints on the Accretion History of Massive Black Holes from Faint X-ray Counts (Volonteri et al., astro-ph/0606675) |
| Jun | 27 | Alexander Knebe | "The Cosmological Mass Function" (Press, Schechter 1974, ApJ 187, 425) |
| Jun | 21 | Corrado Boeche | The galactic thick and thin disks: difference in evolution (astro-ph/0605661) |
| Jun | 13 | Kristin Warnick | "Substructure around M31: Evolution and Effects" (astro-ph 0606015) |
| Jun | 06 | Malte Schramm | Low luminosity GRBs, a unique population? |
| May | 30 | Gabor Worseck | Close pairs of QSOs (astro-ph/0603742, astro-ph/0605618) |
| May | 23 | Asmus Böhm | Why X-ray selected AGN appear optically dull (astro-ph/0603313) |
| May | 16 | Steffen Knollmann | Two populations of metal-free stars in the early Universe (astro-ph/0604367) |
| May | 9 | Tae-sun Kim | Infalling faint [OII] emitters in Abell 851: II. Environment,kinematics & star formation history (astro-ph/0605044) |
| May | 2 | Peter Weilbacher | Properties of galaxies at z=6. |
| Apr | 25 | Joris Gerssen | "The true Tully Fisher relation at z ~0.6" (Flores et al. astro-ph/0603563) |
| Apr | 18 | Robert Piontek | Galactic ridge X-ray emission (astro-ph/0510050, astro-ph/0507185) |
| Apr | 11 | Franziska Köckert | Gamma ray bursts |
| Mar | 28 | Sander von Benda-Beckmann | astro-ph/0603550 (Wyithe & Loeb) , astro-ph/0603541 (Haiman et al.) : Suppression of Star-Formation by Cosmic Reionization |
| Mar | 21 | Lutz Wisotzki | astro-ph/0602088 (Lotz et al.) & astro-ph/0602038 (Bell et al.) : Evolution of Galaxy Mergers |
| Feb | 21 | Massimo Meneghetti (ITA Heidelberg) | Strong lensing by galaxy clusters: a tool for cosmology (Abstract) |
| Feb | 14 | ||
| Feb | 07 | Franziska Köckert | The influence of radio-galaxy activity on X-ray absorption lines from the intracluster medium |
| Matthias Hoeft (University of Bremen) | Mechanical heating by AGN in galaxy clusters | ||
| Jan | 31 | Peter Weilbacher | 3D spectroscopy of galaxies |
| Jan | 24 | Aldo dall'Aglio | "The proximity effect along individual sight lines" |
| Jan | 17 | Georg Lamer | Microlensing and variability in the lensed QSO RBS 825 = SDSS J1004+4112 |
| 2005 | |||
| Dec | 13 | Joris Gerssen | IFU observations of the high-z universe |
| Dec | 6 | Ana Monreal Ibero | Optical spectra in the non-nuclear regions of ULIRGs: evidences of ionization by shocks |
| Nov | 29 | Asmus Böhm | Evolution of disk galaxies over the past 8 Gyrs |
| Nov | 22 | Arman Khalatyan | Isodensity contours in DM simulations |
| Nov | 15 | Chien Yi Peng (STScI, Baltimore) | Using Gravitational Lensing to Probe the Coevolution of Supermassive Black Holes and Quasar Host Galaxies |
| Nov | 8 | Jörg Dietrich (Bonn) | A Combined Weak Lensing and X-ray Search for Galaxy Clusters |
| Nov | 1 | Lutz Wisotzki | Lensing and Dark Matter Substructure |
| Oct | 25 | No ESC | |
| Oct | 18 | No ESC | (meeting of the AIP Beirat) |
| Oct | 11 | Sander v. Benda-Beckmann | A Panchromatic View of Clusters of Galaxies |
| June | 21 | Ana Monreal Ibero | |
| June | 14 | Gabor Worseck | "A second Helium-ionizing Quasar near Q0302-003" |
| June | 7 | Sander v. Benda-Beckmann | |
| May | 31 | Matthias Steinmetz | |
| May | 24 | Sanjib Sharma | "An Algorithm For Multi-Dimensional Density Estimation And Phase Space Structure of Dark Matter Halos" |
| May | 17 | ||
| May | 10 | ||
| May | 03 | Amri Wandel, Hebrew University, Jerusalem | "Massive Black Holes in Active Galaxies" |
| April | 26 | Arman Khalatyan | "High-end visualization tools " |
| April | 19 | Andreas Brunthaler (JIVE, Dwingeloo) | "Measuring the proper motion of M33" |
| April | 12 | Georg Lamer, Lutz Wisotzki | "Simultaneous PMAS + XMM-Newton observations of the wide separation gravitational lens SDSS J1004+4112" |
| April | 5 | Sander v. Benda-Beckmann | "Modelling the collimating regime of relativistic MHD jets" |
| March | 22 | Andrea Cattaneo | "Baryonic, non-gravitational processes in galaxy formation" |
| March | 15 | Dragana Ilic (Belgrade) | "Emission-line regions of AGNs: Properties of the BLR" |
| March | 8 | Simon Glover (New York) | |
| March | 1 | Dominik Elsässer (Würzburg) | "Extragalactic Astronomy with the MAGIC Telescope" |
| February | 22 | Christian Maulbetsch | "Clues on galaxy formation from their color-magnitude distribution" |
| February | 15 | Alexander Knebe | Literature discussion: "The Anisotropic Distribution of Galactic Satellites" (Zentner et al. 2005, to be submitted) |
| February | 8 | Malte Schramm | "Host galaxies of luminous high-redshift quasars" |
| February | 2 | Roland Diehl (MPE Garching) Joint with Starformation Seminar |
"Massive stars and interstellar turbulence: a gamma-ray perspective" |
| January | 25 | Arman Khalatyan Different Location: AIP 3d theater in the MCC (Meridian houses) |
3D Stereo Visualization |
| January | 18 | Kristin Warnick (Heidelberg) | "Dynamics and Evolution of Satellite Galaxies in Dark Matter Halos" |
| January | 11 | Janne Holopainen (Tuorla/Turku) | "LMC microlensing experiments" |
| January | 4 | Chris Power (Melbourne) | "The Shapes of CDM Halos" |
| 2004 | |||
| Dezember | 21 | Luka Popovic | "Gravitational lensing and spectra of lensed QSOs" |
| Dezember | 14 | Knud Jahnke | Literature Discussion: "GEMS: The Size Evolution of Disc Galaxies", by Marco Barden and the GEMS collaboration |
| Dezember | 7 | Stefan Gottlöber | Literature Discussion: "Solar Neutrinos: A Popular Account", by John Bahcall, physics/0411190 |
| November | 30 | Lutz Wisotzki | Literature Discussion: "Metal abundances in a damped Ly-alpha system along two lines of sight at z=0.93", a paper by S. Lopez, D. Reimers, M.D. Gregg, L. Wisotzki, O. Wucknitz, A. Guzman (submitted to ApJ on 26 Nov, 2004) |
| November | 23 | Spiros Kitsionas | "On the use of photometric redshifts for X-ray selected AGNs" |
| November | 16 | Gilles Chabrier (ENS Lyon) | Initial Mass Function |
| November | 09 | Gabor Worseck, Andrea Cattaneo | Report on Workshop: "Galaxy-Intergalactic Medium Interaction, Santa Barbara, 10/2004" |
| November | 02 | Peter Weilbacher (Durham) | "Galaxy redshift surveys" |
| Oktober | 19 | Aldo Dall'Aglio | "The line-of-sight proximity effect" |
| Oktober | 12 | Andrea Cattaneo | "Active galactic nuclei and the formation of early-type galaxies." |
| Oktober | 5 | Andreas Kelz | "3D Spectroscopy of Interacting Galaxies" |
| August | 24 | Alexander Knebe | "Computational Cosmology" |
| July | 13 | Effrosyni Rassia (Paris) | "In Search of Emission Line Galaxies with Slitless Spectroscopy using the WFI at the 2.2m of La Silla" |
| July | 6 | Discussion | DFG Schwerpunktprogramm information + proposal coordination |
| June | 29 | Anatoly Klypin (Las Cruces) | "Density of dark matter close to the galactic center" |
| June | 22 | Sasha Kashlinsky (Goddard) | "Searching for Population III via the cosmic infrared background" |
| June | 15 | Christian Maulbetsch | "Semianalytical models, a preliminary discussion" |
| June | 8 | Volker Müller | "Voids and minimal spanning tree" |
| June | 1 | Sanjib Sharma | "Delauny Tesselation and PhaseSpace structure of dark matter halos" |
| May | 25 | Matthias Steinmetz | "Tidal Torques and the Orientation of Nearby Disk Galaxies" |
| May | 18 | Areg Mickaelian (Byurakan/Armenia) | "The Digitized First Byurakan Survey" |
| May | 11 | Arman Khalatyan | "Characteristics of Dark Matter simulations" |
| May | 4 | Marc Freitag (ARI Heidelberg) | "The stellar connection: forming massive black holes in dense clusters" (joint seminar with AIP star formation group) |
| April | 27 | Lise Christensen | Literature discussion: Observations of objects beyond z=7 (Pello at al. 2004, A&A, 416, L35; Loeb et al. 2004, astro-ph/0403193; Ricotti et al. 2004, astro-ph/0403327; Cen et al. 2004, astro-ph/0403419) |
| April | 20 | Ingo Josopait | SPH simulations - basics, pitfalls and the implementation of additional physics |
| April | 6 | Jeremy Bailin | Trying to measure figure rotation of dark matter halos |
| March | 30 | Gábor Worseck | Some theory behind the Transverse Proximity Effect |
| March | 23 | Luca Popovic | On the contribution of microlensing to X-ray variability of high-redshifted QSOs |
| March | 16 | Danielle Alloin (ESO Santiago) | Cold material around the central engine in NGC1068 |
| March | 9 | Björn Kuhlbrodt | Literature discussion: "Gemini imaging of QSO host galaxies at z~2" (Croom et al. 2004, astro-ph/0401442) |
| March | 2 | Lutz Wisotzki | Literature discussion: Is the fine structure constant constant? (M.T. Murphy, J.K. Webb, V.V. Flambaum, MNRAS 345, 609 (2003); R. Quast, D. Reimers, S.A. Levshakov, astro-ph/0311280) |
| February | 24 | Suzanne Linder (Cardiff) | Ionized gas around galaxies and the detection of low column density galaxies |
| February | 17 | Sebastián F. Sánchez | Literature discussion: "The Environmental Dependence of the Relations between Stellar Mass, Structure, Star Formation and Nuclear Activity in Galaxies" (Kauffmann et al. 2004, astro-ph/0402030) |
| February | 11 | Matthew Bershady
(Univ. Wisconsin) |
Luminous Compact Blue Galaxies: Enigma or Archetype? |
| February | 10 | Aaron Romanowski (Nottingham) | Observational Constraints on Galaxy Haloes |
| February | 03 | Marc Verheijen | The Evolution of Galaxies in Clusters |
| January | 27 | Uni Potsdam Colloquium: Jeremiah P. Ostriker | Concordance Cosmology (5:15 p.m., Grosser Physik-Hoersaal, Campus Neues Palais (Haus 1.09, Raum 1.14) |
| January | 20 | Lutz Wisotzki | Literature discussion: Star formation history in the Universe |
| January | 13 | Knud Jahnke | Literature discussion: Star formation in early type galaxies (Fukugita et al., astro-ph/0312518, Bell et al., 2004, ApJ, 600L, 11) |
| 2003 | |||
| December | 16 | Gábor Worseck | Faint Quasars & The Transverse Proximity Effect |
| December | 9 | Michael Andersen | Literature discussion: "A very energetic supernova associated with the gamma-ray burst of 29 March 2003" (Hjorth et al., astro-ph/0306347) |
| November | 25 | Gopal-Krishna/Lutz Wisotzki | The radio properties of luminous QSOs |
| November | 18 | Björn Kuhlbrodt | Literature discussion: "The host galaxies of AGN" (Kauffmann et al., astro-ph/0304239) |
| November | 11 | Mirko Krumpe | The Marano field X-ray QSO survey |
| November | 4 | Eva Örndahl | An optical imaging study of 0.4,z,0.8 quasar host galaxies |
| October | 28 | Christian Maulbetsch | Literature discussion: "Early preheating and galaxy formation" (Benson & Madau, astro-ph/0303121) |
| October | 21 | Vladimir Avila-Reese | The luminous and dark matter content of disk galaxies |
| October | 14 | Sanjib Sharma | Literature discussion: "Towards a resolution of the galactic spin crisis" (Ariye et al, 2002, MNRAS, 335, 487) |
| October | 7 | Axel Schwope | Serendipitous detection of galaxy clusters in XMM-Newton images |
| September | 30 | Gábor Worseck | Quasars near Quasars |
| September | 23 | Carlos Hernandez-Monteagudo | Hot gas in the Universe: WMAP's view |
| September | 16 | Joachim Stadel | The 'zBox', Playing Cosmic Games |
| June | 30 | Gopal-Krishna | Intranight optical variability of different classes of powerful AGN. |
| June | 24 | Anatoly Klypin | Rotation Curves of Dwarf and Low Surface Brightness Galaxies. |
| June | 17 | Aeree Chung | HI and CO observations of spiral galaxies in the Ursa Major group. |
| June | 3 | Lise Christensen | PMAS detection of Lyman-alpha emission from a z=3.15 DLA system. |
| May | 20 | Ewa Lokas | Dark matter distribution in the Coma cluster from galaxy kinematics: breaking the mass-anisotropy degeneracy. |
| May | 13 | Yipeng Ying | Dark matter halos: inner structures and shapes. |
| May | 6 | Olaf Wucknitz | Disentangling Microlensing and Differential Extinction in the Double QSO HE0512-3329. |
| May | 6 | Amitesh Omar | GMRT observations of gas in and around Markarian 1. |
| April | 29 | Stefan Gottlöber | The Structure of Voids. |
| April | 15 | Christian Maulbetsch | Phantom Energy and Cosmic Doomsday. |
| April | 8 | Volker Müller | Galaxy luminosity function from semianalytical models. |
| Ralf Klessen | On the Nature of Galactic dSph's: Draco, A Failure of the Tidal Model. | ||
| April | 1 | Luka Popovic | Spectral Lines as a Tool for Kinematical and Physical Diagnostic of BLR. |
| March | 25 | Lutz Wisotzki | Last presentation of the trilogy on radio loud quasars. |
| March | 18 | Sebastian Sanchez | The properties of radio-loud quasars. |
| March | 11 | Silke Huferath | Construction of a Sample of K Band Flux Limited Bright Quasars. |
| Knud Jahnke | Nuclear radio emission of galaxies: I. Radio emission and black hole mass. | ||
| March | 4 | Ingo Josopait | Thermodynamic constraint on primordial black hole formation in the radiation dominated epoch. |
| Matthias Steinmetz | On the Clustering Tendencies among the Nebulae. II. a Study of Encounters Between Laboratory Models of Stellar Systems by a New Integration Procedure. | ||
| February | 25 | Volker Müller | TE polarization and the epoch of reionization. |
| Andreas Faltenbacher | Cosmological Parameters: Fashion and Facts. | ||
| February | 18 | Various speakers | First results from WMAP. |
| February | 11 | Matthias Steinmetz | The Structural Evolution of Substructure. |
| Walter Dehnen | The Oort constants measured from proper motions | ||
| February | 4 | Fernando Atrio-Barandela | Bulk Flows in the Local Universe. |
| Jan-Peter Mücket | Possible density profile asymptotes for Dark matter halos. | ||
| January | 28 | Björn Kuhlbrodt | The Luminosity Function of QSO host galaxies. |
| Stefan Gottlöber | Observational constraints for Dark Energy. | ||
| January | 14 | Christian Maulbetsch | |
| Gábor Worsek | Literature discussion: The most distant QSO and the reionization of the Universe. | ||
| 2002 | |||
| December | 17 | Georg Lamer | |
| Andreas Kelz | Literature discussion: | ||
| December | 10 | Russell Cannon | Principal Component Analysis of galaxy spectra from 2dF. |
| Lutz Wisotzki | |||
| December | 3 | Walter Dehnen | Literature discussion: Bars and dark matter halo cores. |
| Sanjib Sharma | The crisis of angular momentum in galaxy formation. | ||
| November | 26 | Rodrigo Gil-Merino | Three mystery plays on microlensing: Q0957, Q2237 and HE1104. |
| November | 19 | Sebastian Sanchez | Literature discussion: QSOs, ULIRGs, and Mergers. |
| Lise Christensen | The host galaxies of Gamma Ray Bursts. | ||
| November | 12 | Knud Jahnke | Quasar host galaxies and the difficulties investigating them - classical and adaptive optics imaging of quasar host galaxies. |
| November | 5 | Marc Verheijen | Rotation curves and the Tully-Fisher relation. |
| October | 29 | Kick-off meeting | |
Comments and contribution suggestions to Arnaud Siebert or Georg Lamer.