Andy Howell (Toronto): The Supernova Legacy Survey: Dark Energy and Type Ia Supernovae (JINA Lunch Talk)
some literature:
- A Champagne Supernova in the Sky:News & Views article from Nature
- The type Ia supernova SNLS-03D3bb from a super-Chandrasekhar-mass white dwarf star
Howell, D. A. et al. Nature 443, 308-311 (2006).
Anna Frebel (University of Texas): High Spectroscopic Resolution Observations of Metal-Poor Stars from SDSS/SEGUE -- Identification of Neutron-Capture Rich Stars (JINA talk).
The discovery of HE 1327-2326: Nature paper, news & views
Chris Sneden (University of Texas): Doubled Pleasure: Discovery of a Low Metallicity Carbon-Rich Binary Star System (PA Colloquium).
A recent review article!
Heavy element synthesis in the oldest stars and the early Universe
J. Cowan and C. Sneden, Nature 440, 1151 (2006)
Michael Heil (GSI): The (weak) s-process and its relation to explosive nucleosynthesis (NSCL Seminar).
If you're interested in the nuclear physics side of the X-ray binaries, the following is a recent paper by Hendrik Schatz and Ernst Rehm on the topic:
X-ray binaries, H. Schatz, and K.E. Rehm - NPA 777, 601
I want more!
- Wikipedia on GRB (it must be good information! I got to the article through a link in Derek Fox own website)
- News & Views article in Nature (the article we'll discuss was published in a special Nature issue on GRBs)
- Breaking News! A GRB real-time sky map with data from swift satellite (cooool stuff!).
Thomas Neff: - Microscopic nuclear structure and reaction calculations with astrophysical applications (JINA).
On the Structure of the Hoyle State in 12C
M. Chernykh et. al. - Submitted somewhere (2006)
As a reference, Thomas also provided us with a Nuclear Physics paper that introduces the Fermionic Molecular Dynamics
model:
Nuclear structure based on correlated realistic nucleon-nucleon potentials
Roth, R.; Neff, T.; Hergert, H.; Feldmeier, H. - NPA, Vol 745 (2004) 3.
Richard Cyburt: - BBN, WMAP, CMB, et al.(JINA)
Primordial Nucleosynthesis in Light of WMAP
Richard H. Cyburt, Brian D. Fields, and Keith A. Olive - PLB 567, 227-234 (2003)
Cyburt's website contains a section with some background information on cosmology - here!
A. Baha Balantekin: "Neutrino Many-Body Physics, Core-Collapse Supernovae, and r-process Nucleosynthesis" (NSCL)
JINA-VJ, Volume 04, Issue 34: Neutrinos, Weak Interactions, and r-process Nucleosynthesis
A.B. Balantekin (Wisconsin U., Madison)
ArXiv - Nuclear Theory - nucl-th/0608047
Lee Hartmann - Dynamic Star Formation (CSCE)
- A talk about star formation: pdf talk
- Formation of Structure in Molecular Clouds: A Case Study
Fabian Heitsch, Andreas Burkert, Lee W. Hartmann, Adrianne D. Slyz, and Julien E. G. Devriendt
ApJ Letter, Vol 633 (L113) 2005