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SEMINAR IN PLANETS AND LIFE
Astronomy 383L - Fall 2007
W 3:30-4:30 · RLM 15.216B · Unique No. 50680
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Professors
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Schedule
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Speaker
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Title
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Aug. 29
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John Scalo
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Organizational Meeting.
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Sept. 5
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Attend Tuesday Colloquium.
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Sept. 12
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Amanda Bayless
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"The HARPS search for southern extra-solar planets XII.
A giant planet orbiting the metal-poor star HD171028," by Santos, N.C., Mayor, M., Bouchy, F., Pepe, F., Queloz, D., Udry, S.;
download paper at ArXiv:0708.0954 and read it before attending the discussion, please.
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Sept. 19
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No talk scheduled
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Sept. 26
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No talk scheduled
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Oct. 3
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Bill Cochran
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"A Giant Planet Orbiting the 'Extreme Horizontal Branch'
Star V 391 Pegasi," by Silviotti et al.
Nature v449, 189-191
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Oct. 11
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John Scalo
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Unexpected Atmospheric Protection from Ozone Erosion
and Nucleobase Damage on Flare Star Planets
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Oct. 17
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Please attend Bashfest on October 14-16
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Oct. 24
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John Scalo
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Life in Hell? Unexpected Atmospheric Protection from
Ozone Erosion and Nucleobase Damage on Flare Star Planets
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Oct. 31
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Candace Gray
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"A Spitzer Search for Water in the Transiting Exoplanet HD 189733b," by
Ehrenreich, David; Hébrard, Guillaume; Lecavelier des Etangs, Alain; Sing, David K.; Désert, Jean-Michel; Bouchy,
François; Ferlet, Roger; Vidal-Madjar, Alfred (all IAP) arXiv:0709.0576
2007ApJ...668L.179E
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Nov.7
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Joe Hahn
Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston
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"Toward a Deterministic Model of Planetary
Formation IV: Effects of Type-I Migration," by Shigeru Ida, D. N. C. Lin, http://arxiv.org/abs/0709.1375
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Nov. 14
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Anita Cochran
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Leading a discussion of: "Planet formation around
stars of various masses: The snow line and the frequency of giant planets," by Kennedy and Kenyon
(astro-ph 4 Oct 2007 arXiv:0710.1065v1).
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Nov.21
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THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY
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Nov. 28
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Rob Robinson
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Journal Club: "A New Planet around an M Dwarf:
Revealing a Correlation between Exoplanets and Stellar Mass," by Johnson et al. 2007, ApJ, 670, 833.
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Dec. 5
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J. Craig Wheeler
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Journal Club: "Search for Supernova-Produced
Fe-60 in a Marine Sediment," by Fitoussi et al., arXiv:0709.4197
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