Monthly Archives: June 2011

This week’s paper: Telescope time without tears: a distributed approach to peer review

Posted on June 28, 2011 by

The paper selected for the third astronomy twitter journal club meeting (8pm UK time, 7pm UT, Thursday 30th June) is Telescope Time Without Tears: A Distributed Approach to Peer Review. The authors of the paper, Michael Merrifield and Donald Saari, … Continue reading →

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Review: Planet Occurrence within 0.25 AU of Solar-Type Stars from Kepler

Posted on June 26, 2011 by

For the second Astronomy Twitter Journal Club meeting we discussed a paper from the Kepler team: Planet Occurrence within 0.25 AU of Solar-Type Stars from Kepler (Howard et al. 2011). Technical problems with twitter took up most of the first … Continue reading →

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Transcript: Planet Occurrence within 0.25 AU of Solar-Type Stars from Kepler

Posted on June 24, 2011 by

The transcript of the second astronomy twitter journal club meeting is now online at Chirpstory: http://chirpstory.com/li/1835 or http://chirpstory.com/dialog_embed/1835. There’s also a PDF copy if you want to download it: Planet Occurrence within 0.25 AU of Solar-Type Stars from Kepler. The … Continue reading →

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This week’s paper: Planet Occurrence within 0.25 AU of Solar-Type Stars from Kepler

Posted on June 22, 2011 by

The paper selected for discussion at the second meeting of the astronomy twitter journal club (8pm UK time, 7pm UT, Thursday 23rd June) is Planet Occurrence within 0.25 AU of Solar-Type Stars from Kepler (Howard et al. 2011). As the … Continue reading →

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Thoughts on the first meeting

Posted on June 18, 2011 by

It’s been nearly two weeks since I first heard about the twitter journal club concept, recently set up to discuss medical research. I thought it was something that could work for astronomy too and, when I mentioned it on twitter, … Continue reading →

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Review: Gamma rays from the Galactic centre and the WMAP haze – 16th June 2011

Posted on June 17, 2011 by

For the first Astronomy Twitter Journal Club meeting we discussed a paper by Dan Hooper and Tim Linden – Gamma Rays From The Galactic Center and the WMAP Haze. The paper suggests that the gamma ray excess found in the Fermi … Continue reading →

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Transcript: Gamma Rays From The Galactic Center and the WMAP Haze – 16th June 2011

Posted on June 17, 2011 by

The transcript of the first Astronomy Twitter Journal Club meeting is now online at Chirpstory: http://chirpstory.com/dialog_embed/1771 or http://chirpstory.com/li/1771. You can also download the PDF: Gamma Rays From The Galactic Center and the WMAP Haze – Meeting Tweet Archive. We’ll be posting a summary of the … Continue reading →

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How to take part in Astronomy Twitter Journal Club meetings

Posted on June 14, 2011 by

To participate in the Astronomy Twitter Journal Club the first thing that you need to do is find the date and time of the next meeting on the Next Meeting page. You also need to download the paper – and then start reading! During … Continue reading →

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This week’s paper: Gamma Rays From The Galactic Center and the WMAP Haze

Posted on June 14, 2011 by

Ahead of the first meeting of the astronomy twitter journal club on Thursday I thought I’d try to give a very brief overview of the chosen paper: Gamma Rays From The Galactic Center and the WMAP Haze. This will undoubtedly … Continue reading →

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The first meeting of the Astronomy Journal Club: Thursday June 16th 2011, 19:00 UT

Posted on June 8, 2011 by

The results are in: as of this morning, there is a clear winner in the voting for the first Astronomy Journal Club meeting: Thursday: 19 votes Sunday: 9 votes Friday: 8 votes The first meeting of the Astronomy Twitter Journal Club will … Continue reading →

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