2017

2:00 pm, Monday, December 11, 2017 in Price Place

• The Contribution of HI-Bearing Ultra-Diffuse Galaxies to the Cosmic Number Density of Galaxies

• The Virial Mass Distribution of Ultra-Diffuse Galaxies in Clusters and Groups

• On the Nature of Ultra-Faint Dwarf Galaxy Candidates I:  DES1, Eridanus III and Tucana V

• Using Velocity Dispersion to Estimate Halo Mass: Is the Local Group in Tension with LCDM?

• The APOSTLE simulations: Rotation Curves Derived from Synthetic 21-cm Observations

• Gas Expulsion in MOND: The Possible Origin of Diffuse Globular Clusters and Ultra-Faint Dwarf Galaxies

2:00 pm Monday, November 27, 2017 in the Price Place

• The Minimum Halo Mass for Star Formation at z =6–8

• Unmixing the Galactic Halo with RR Lyrae tagging

• Quasar lenses and pairs in the VST-ATLAS and Gaia

• Discovery of an RR Lyrae structure covering π/3 of the sky

2:00 pm Monday, November 6, 2017 in the Price Place

• Serendipitous discovery of a faint dwarf galaxy near a Local Volume dwarf

• Through a Smoother Lens: An expected absence of LCDM substructure detections from hydrodynamic and dark matter only simulations

2:00 pm, Monday, October 30, 2017 in the Price Place

• Galactic Archeology with RAVE and TGAS

• THE ISLANDS PROJECT III: VARIABLE STARS IN SIX ANDROMEDA DWARF SPHEROIDAL GALAXIES

• The Geometry of Sagittarius Stream from Pan-STARRS1 3π RR Lyrae

• Does the Galaxy-Halo Connection Vary with Environment?

3:00 pm, Monday, October 16, 2017 in Price Place

• The Influence of Sagittarius and the Large Magellanic Cloud on the Milky Way Galaxy

• What the Milky Way's Dwarfs tell us about the Galactic Center extended excess

• Evidence of Absence of Tidal Features in the Outskirts of Ultra Diffuse Galaxies in the Coma Cluster

• The Fornax Deep Survey (FDS) with the VST: III. Low Surface Brightness (LSB) dwarfs and Ultra Diffuse Galaxies (UDGs) in the center of the Fornax cluster

• The Impact of Star Formation Histories on Stellar Mass Estimation: Implications from the Local Group Dwarf Galaxies

• Proper Motion of the Sextans Dwarf Galaxy from Subaru Suprime-Cam Data

• The effects of the IMF on the chemical evolution of elliptical galaxies

3:00 pm, Monday, October 9, 2017 in Price Place

• Leftovers from last week (yum yum)

• A method to calculate the local density distribution of the Galaxy from the Tycho-Gaia Astrometric Solution data

• MeerKAT and the Smallest Galaxies

• Discovery of diffuse dwarf galaxy candidates around M101

• FIRST CHARACTERIZATION OF THE NEUTRAL ISM IN TWO LOCAL VOLUME DWARF GALAXIES

3:00pm, Monday, October 2, 2017 in Price Place (PRB M2005)

• An Overview of the MHONGOOSE Survey: Observing Nearby Galaxies with MeerKAT

• Detection of Enhanced Central Mass-to-Light Ratios in Low-Mass Early-Type Galaxies: Evidence for Black Holes?

• Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): The Consistency of GAMA and WISE Derived Mass-to-Light Ratios

3:00pm, Monday, September 25, 2017 in Price Place (PRB M2005)

• Low metallicities and old ages for three ultra-diffuse galaxies in the coma cluster

• The central spheroids of Milky Way mass-sized galaxies

• Star cluster formation history along the minor axis of the Large Magellanic Cloud

• Deep SOAR follow-up photometry of two Milky Way outer-halo companions discovered with Dark Energy Survey

• Dark galaxy candidates at redshift ~3.5 detected with MUSE

3:00pm, Monday, September 18, 2017 in Price Place (PRB M2005)

• The formation of the Milky Way halo and its dwarf satellites; a NLTE-1D abundance analysis. II. Early chemical enrichment

• CHEMO-DYNAMICAL CLUSTERING APPLIED TO APOGEE DATA: RE-DISCOVERING GLOBULAR CLUSTERS

• Signatures of unresolved binaries in stellar spectra: implications for spectral fitting

• SPECTROSCOPIC CONFIRMATION OF VERY-WIDE STELLAR BINARIES AND LARGE-SEPARATION COMOVING PAIRS FROM GAIA DR1

• The relation between specific baryon angular momentum and mass for a sample of nearby low-mass galaxies with resolved H i kinematics

3:00 pm, Monday, September 11, 2017 in Price Place (PRB M2005)

• Implications for the missing low-mass galaxies (satellites) problem from cosmic shear

• Universal subhalo accretion in cold and warm dark matter cosmologies

• A deep Parkes HI survey of the Sculptor group and filament: HI mass function and environment

1:00 pm, Monday, September 4th, 2017 in Price Place (PRB M2005)

• At a Crossroads: Stellar Streams in the South Galactic Cap

• Morphological Segregation in the Surroundings of Cosmic Voids

• The Local Dark Matter Density from SDSS-SEGUE G-dwarfs

1:00 pm, Monday, August 28, 2017 in Price Place (PRB M2005)

• Dwarf Galaxy Discoveries from the KMTNet Supernova Program I. The NGC 2784 Galaxy Group

• The total satellite population of the Milky Way

• The faint globular cluster in the dwarf galaxy Andromeda I

1:00 pm, Monday, July 17, 2017 in Price Place (PRB M2005)

• CONSTRAINING THE Hi-HALO MASS RELATION FROM GALAXY CLUSTERING

• Theia: Faint objects in motion or the new astrometry frontier

• SPACE MOTIONS OF THE DWARF SPHEROIDAL GALAXIES DRACO AND SCULPTOR BASED ON HST PROPER MOTIONS WITH ∼ 10-YEAR TIME BASELINE

• Mass-metallicity relation of dwarf galaxies and its dependency on time: clues from resolved systems and comparison with massive galaxies

1:00 pm, Monday, June 26, 2017 in Price Place (PRB M2005) 

• d1005+68: A New Faint Dwarf Galaxy in the M81 Group  -Bianca

• Dwarf Galaxy Mass Estimators vs. Cosmological Simulations

• Observing the very low-surface brightness dwarfs in a deep field in the VIRGO cluster: constraints on Dark Matter scenarios

• The abundance of ultra-diffuse galaxies from groups to clusters: UDGs are relatively more common in more massive haloes

• Detection of a Large Population of Ultra Diffuse Galaxies in Massive Galaxy Clusters: Abell S1063 and Abell 2744

• Prospects for dark matter detection in dwarf irregular galaxies with gamma rays

• Dark Matter Limits From Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies with The HAWC Gamma-Ray Observatory

• Blueberry galaxies: the lowest mass young starbursts  -Bianca

• A new target object for constraining annihilating dark matter

1:00 pm, Monday, June 5, 2017 in Price Place (PRB M2005)

• finish up discussion of The SAGA Survey: I. Satellite Galaxy Populations Around Eight Milky Way Analogs

• Going, going, gone dark: Quantifying the scatter in the faintest dwarf galaxies

• Galactic Outflows, Star Formation Histories, and Timescales in Starburst Dwarf Galaxies from STARBIRDS

• Gas kinematics, morphology, and angular momentum in the FIRE simulations

• Dynamics of the Local Group: the Dwarf Galaxies

• The final data release of ALLSMOG: a survey of CO in typical local low-M* star-forming galaxies

1:00 pm, Monday, May 15, 2017 in Price Place (PRB M2005)

• Adam on Physical Properties of Molecular Clouds at 2 parsec Resolution in the Low-Metallicity Dwarf Galaxy NGC 6822 and the Milky Way

• Bianca dwarf galaxy search update

• Quenching and ram pressure stripping of simulated Milky Way satellite galaxies

1:00 pm, Monday, May 8, 2017 in Price Place (PRB M2005)

• The Globular Cluster -- Dark Matter Halo Connection

• Probing dark matter with star clusters: a dark matter core in the ultra-faint dwarf Eridanus II

• The Pristine survey I: Mining the Galaxy for the most metal-poor stars

  • Launching video blog *this week*!!!

1:00 pm, Monday, April 24, 2017 in Price Place (PRB M2005)

• Spectroscopic confirmation of an ultra-faint galaxy at the epoch of reionization

• Satellites and haloes of dwarf galaxies 

• Metals removed by outflows from Milky Way dwarf spheroidal galaxies

• Empirical Determination of Dark Matter Velocities using Metal-Poor Stars

• Searches for New Milky Way Satellites from the First Two Years of Data of the Subaru/Hyper Suprime-Cam Survey: Discovery of Cetus~III

• The Bursty Star Formation Histories of Low-mass Galaxies at 0.4<z<1 Revealed by Star Formation Rates Measured from FUV and Hβ

1:00 pm, Monday, April 17, 2017 in Price Place (PRB M2005)

• Testing the sterile neutrino dark matter paradigm with astrophysical observations

• Dynamics of dwarf galaxies disfavor stellar-mass black hole dark matter

• GROWTH OF FIRST GALAXIES: IMPACTS OF STAR FORMATION AND STELLAR FEEDBACK

• General kibbitzing about whatever is of interest.

1:00 pm, Monday, April 10, 2017 in Price Place (PRB M2005)

• Daniella on current research

• The Stellar Initial Mass Function of Ultra-faint Dwarf Galaxies: Evidence for IMF Variations with Galactic Environment

• Reionization of the Milky Way, M31, and their satellites I: reionization history and star formation

• A rogues gallery of Andromeda's dwarf galaxies I. A predominance of red horizontal branches

1:00 pm, Monday, March 27, 2017 in Price Place (PRB M2005)

• The HI content of isolated ultra-diffuse galaxies: a sign of multiple formation mechanisms?

• EXPLORING HALO SUBSTRUCTURE WITH GIANT STARS. XV. DISCOVERY OF A CONNECTION BETWEEN THE MONOCEROS RING AND THE TRIANGULUM-ANDROMEDA OVERDENSITY?

• DGSAT: Dwarf Galaxy Survey with Amateur Telescopes II. A catalogue of isolated nearby edge-on disk galaxies and the discovery of new low surface brightness systems

1:00 pm, Monday, March 6, 2017 in Price Place (PRB M2005)

• The Nature of Turbulence in the LITTLE THINGS Dwarf Irregular Galaxies

• Too small to succeed: the difficulty of sustaining star formation in low-mass haloes

• Video blog discussion

1:00 pm, Monday, February 27, 2017 in Price Place (PRB M2005)

• Video blog planning

1:00 pm, Monday, February 20, 2017 in Price Place (PRB M2005)

• Stacy on current research

• The Dragonfly Nearby Galaxies Survey. III. The Luminosity Function of the M101 Group

• Full-Data Results of Hubble Frontier Fields: UV Luminosity Functions at z∼6−10 and a Consistent Picture of Cosmic Reionization

• Mapping substructure in the HST Frontier Fields cluster lenses and in cosmological simulations

1:00 pm, Monday, February 13, 2017 in Price Place (PRB M2005)

1:00 pm, Monday, February 6, 2017 in Price Place (PRB M2005)

• Not so lumpy after all: modeling the depletion of dark matter subhalos by Milky Way-like galaxies

• THE DEARTH OF NEUTRAL HYDROGEN IN GALACTIC DWARF SPHEROIDAL GALAXIES

• The impact of baryonic physics on the subhalo mass function and implications for gravitational lensing (Stacy)

• A discussion of a video blog project

• Annika will discuss the LMC

1:00 pm, Monday January 30, 2017 in Price Place (PRB M2005)

• Redshift, metallicity and size of two extended dwarf Irregular galaxies. A link between dwarf Irregulars and Ultra Diffuse Galaxies?

• Emergence of a stellar cusp by a dark matter cusp in a low-mass compact ultra-faint dwarf galaxy

• Annika will discuss the LMC

• Some combo of Stacy and Anna talk about substructure lensing?

1:00 pm, Monday January 23, 2017 in Price Place (PRB M2005)

• Ben will discuss some current research

• The nearest ultra diffuse galaxy: UGC2162

• Evidence for a Dusty Dark Dwarf Galaxy in the Quadruple Lens MG0414+0534

• The M101 group complex: new dwarf galaxy candidates and spatial structure

1:00 pm, Monday January 9, 2017 in Price Place (PRB M2005)

• On the dearth of ultra-faint extremely metal poor galaxies