Journal Club

Meeting time is 3:30 PM on Friday afternoon in the Gravity Lounge.

Topic should be roughly related to LIGO, and can be new or classic, preferably short.

Future Meetings

Date	Leader	Topic/Comment	Link to article
10/02/09	Andy	Ryan's Theorem (EMRI multipole moments)	PRD 52, p.5707 (1995)

Gravitational Radiation from Point Masses in a Kerplerian Orbit Phys.Rev
read Rai's original LIGO document (here) in sections or all at once - Justin
Core-collapse supernovae models and how well we could see them with LIGO http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/381360 Josh
Core collapse supernovae GW emission (follow up to 9/19/08 topic): http://arxiv.org/pdf/0809.0695 - Josh/Duncan
frequency dependent rotating of the squeezing ellipse - Josh here

Date	Leader	Topic/Comment	Link to article
9/11/09	Josh	Stochastic Nature Paper	nature
9/19/08	Justin	Eta Carinae is great!	nature
10/3/08	Larne	squeezed states	nature
10/10/08	Andy	maximal spins	arXiv
10/17/08	Josh	High efficiency gratings for all-reflective IFO	bunkowski_gratings.pdf applied optics
10/24/08	Collin	Quantum Eraser	http://arxiv.org/abs/0810.3911
11/7/08	Josh	Pulsar timing for GW detection	Hobbs CQG, Additional pulsar timing reading (probably a better article): jenet2005.pdf
12/5/08	Larne	Waves from rotating neutron stars	arXiv
2/27/09	Josh	holographic noise in GEO600?	PRD ← read this one Nature
3/5/09	Collin	Detecting gravity waves on the moon	web-link
3/12/09	none	spring	break
3/19/09	none	LSC	meeting
3/26/09	Andy	The Lowest-Mass Stellar Black Holes: Catastrophic Death of Neutron Stars in Gamma Ray Bursts	http://arxiv.org/abs/0712.1036
4/3/09	none	100 Hours of Astronomy video	and star formation flash game
4/10/09	Peter	Gravity as an emergent phenomena	link
4/17/09	Josh	Control of LIGO	http://www.opticsinfobase.org/abstract.cfm?URI=AO-40-28-4988
7/10/09	Andy	Intermediate mass black hole	link to pdf
7/13/09	Josh	silicon waveguide mirrors	DCC
7/20/09	Peter Z.	Non-Linear GW Memory in BBH mergers	here