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Previous journal-clubs Current year Previous years 27 Journal-clubs in 2012 Date Subject Presented by 13 december 2012 The evolution of massive stars towards their death: rotation, binarity and mergers Science 2012 arXiv 2012 A&A 2009 Selma E. de Mink Space Telescope Science Institute, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA 6 december 2012 Evolution of the star formation rate as seen by GALEX Stéphane Arnouts CFHT/LAM, Marseille 22 november 2012 Strong lenses as standard rulers in comology MNRAS 2010 JCAP 2012 RAA 2011 Marek Biesada Dept. Astrophysics Cosmology, Univ. Silesia, Katowice, Poland 15 november 2012 1) Close environment of supernova host galaxies 2) On the nature of unconfirmed supernovae 1) Tigran Nazaryan 2) Levon Aramyan Byurakan Astroph. Obs., Armenia 25 october 2012 Constraining gas and dark matter profiles in groups and clusters of galaxies using polytropic and X-ray scaling relations MNRAS 2012 Pedro Capelo Univ. Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA 18 october 2012 Candidate massive black-hole binaries in the realm of observations ApJ 2011 MNRAS 2012 Massimo Dotti Univ. Studi Milano Bicocca, Italie 4 october 2012 Superclusters of galaxies: morphology and stellar populations MNRAS 2011 arXiv 2012 Marcus Costa Duarte Inst. Astron. Geofísica, Univ. São Paulo, Brasil 20 september 2012 Simulating the growth of black holes in z=6 massive halos and their impact on early structure formation MNRAS 2012 arXiv 2012 Yohan Dubois IAP 13 september 2012 New results from the "Quasars behind Clusters Survey" ApJ Lett 2008 MNRAS 2009 Sebastian Lopez Dept. Astron. Astrof., Univ. Chile, Santiago 6 september 2012 Influence of geometry and viewing angle on the attenuation of starlight by dust in galaxies Jacopo Chevallard IAP 19 july 2012 The present-day circumgalactic medium: a solution to the missing baryons problem ? Jason Prochaska Univ. California, Santa Cruz, USA 12 july 2012 SAMI - A new multi-object IFU for the Anglo-Australian Telescope, for a survey of several thousand galaxies Julia Bryant ARC All-sky Astrophysics (CAASTRO), Univ. Sydney, Australia 5 july 2012 Broad emission line production in AGNs Hélène Flohic Univ. Chile, Santiago, Chile 21 june 2012 Luminous and dark matter in a massive early-type galaxy Alessandro Sonnefeld Physics Dept., Univ. California Santa Barbara, USA 14 june 2012 New galaxy surveys: JPAS and PFS/SuMIRe Laerte Sodré Inst. Astron. Geofísica, Univ. São Paulo, Brasil 10 may 2012 Star Formation in LINER host galaxies at z~0.3 arXiv 2012 Silvia Tommasin School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv Univ. 3 may 2012 Why don't galaxies in compact groups show more signs of interaction ? Gary Mamon IAP 12 april 2012 1) Galaxy formation and evolution through metals ApJ Lett 2010 ApJ Lett 2011 2) Starbursts in dwarf galaxies 1) Lisa Kewley Australian National Univ., Canberra, Australia 2) Kristen McQuinn Univ. Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA 5 april 2012 The Dark energy American French Team (DAFT/FADA) survey of high redshift clusters and latest results Loïc Guennou Lab. Astrophysique de Marseille 29 march 2012 M-sigma relation for the velocity dispersion of globular clusters systems Jacques Colin, Raphaël Sadoun IAP 22 march 2012 1) Scaling relation of dwarf galaxies in the Coma cluster 2) Massive early-type galaxies: the last 12 billion years 1) Ehsan Kourkchi Inst. Theoretical Physics Mathematics, Teheran 2) Sugata Kaviraj Imperial College Science Technology Medecine, London 15 march 2012 1) Environmental effects on galaxy properties up to z=1.5: observations versus semi-analytical models 2) Detection of cosmic bulk motion from the plasma corona of galaxies in WMAP observations 1) Olga Cucciati INAF, Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste 2) Guilhem Lavaux Perimeter Inst. Theoretical Physics and Univ. Waterloo, Canada 1 march 2012 Unveiling dust obscured star formation in the (not so) distant Universe Sébastien Heinis Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille 23 february 2012 A multi-wavelength analysis of Coma cluster galaxies selected by Spitzer : star formation rates and masses Dario Fadda Spitzer Science Center, Caltech, California 16 february 2011 Connecting the cosmic web to the spin of dark halos Sandrine Codis IAP 9 february 2012 On the Hot Gas of Early-type Galaxies. Slow versus Fast Rotators Marc Sarzi Univ. Herfordshire, United Kingdom 2 february 2012 Outbursts from supermassive black holes seen in the hot atmospheres of early-type galaxies, galaxy groups, and rich clusters Bill Forman Harvard-Smithsonian Center Astroph., Cambridge Image : D1 Deep Field from the Legacy Survey of the Canada-France-Hawaï Telescope (CFHTLS) TERAPIX Data Processing Center (CNRS/INSU - IAP - CEA)