Tag Archives: Fermi

This week’s meeting: Understanding gamma-ray flares in the Crab Nebula

Posted on February 22, 2012 by

This Thursday, 20:10 GMT, astronomy journal club will look at a possible explanation for the mysterious gamma-ray flares in the Crab Nebula – Extreme particle acceleration in magnetic reconnection layers. Application to the gamma-ray flares in the Crab Nebula (Cerutti … 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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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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