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SEMINAR IN STELLAR ASTRONOMY
Astronomy 383T - Spring 2006
W 12:00-1:00 · RLM 15.216B · Unique No. 48245


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Professor

Dr. Edward L. Robinson
Office: RLM 17.318
Phone: (512) 471-3401
elr@astro.as.utexas.edu



Date
Speaker
Topic
1/25
Peter Hoeflich   
SN 1885, The Great Supernova in M31: HST Observations of the Remnant
2/1
Steve DeGennaro   
Inverting Color-Magnitude Diagrams to Access Precise Star Cluster Parameters: A Bayesian Approach
2/8
Chris Sneden   
Very Metal Poor Red Horizontal Branch Stars
2/15
none scheduled   
 
2/22
Howard Bond   
The Light Echo Around V838 Monocerotis
3/1
Joy Chavez   
Seeking to Understand Fe Isotopes in Cool Stars
 
Ian Roederer   
Journal Club: "Chemical Abundance Distributions of Galactic Halos and Their Satellite Systems," Font et al, 2006, ApJ, 638, 585
3/8
David Lambert, Gary Hill & Phillip MacQueen
The Giant Magellan Telescope Project
3/22
Judit Györgyey Ries
Asteroid Rotation Rates
3/29
Mike Siegel
Using dSph Stars to Unravel the Galaxy
4/5
Edward L. Robinson
The Masses of Stellar Black Holes
4/12
Rob Wittenmyer
The Total Solar Eclipse of 29 March 2006
4/19
G. Fritz Benedict &
Barbara McArthur

Hubble Space Telescope Astrometric Parallaxes - A New Calibration of the Galactic Cepheid Period-Luminosity Relation
4/26
Barbara McArthur
The Mass of the Planet around epsilon Eri
5/3
Steven DeGennaro
White Dwarf Luminosity Functions by Mass from Sloan Digital Sky Survey Spectra













 



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