BRC Spring work

Big Picture

We need to come up with a short list of papers to read in detail and discuss. We'll rotate through our short list of papers, and each of you will get one to present to the group. This is modelling a so-called "journal club", a common occurrence in astronomy departments/groups/centers, where the papers are usually selected out of recent astro-ph mailings.

Papers to discuss

Type in your paper suggestions here....

Luisa nominates - either this one (IC2118, from my original teacher team), or the one I am in the process of finishing writing on CG4 from my team last year. The reason for this is because the analysis we will do for our BRCs is very similar to the analysis we did for IC2118 or CG4.

Chelen's nominees - reading the IC2118 and/or the CG4 paper would be good ways to learn the analysis procedure we're going to use/modify/manipulate. I also think a couple of papers on BRCs would be helpful for background information. Here's the bibliography from our proposal (with my comments) --CJohnson 09:55, 23 March 2011 (PDT)

paper	Chelen's notes	Luisa's notes
Guieu, S., et al., 2010, ApJ, 720, 46 or Rebull, L., et al., 2011, AJ, submitted soon, hopefully		either the 2118 or CG4 papers.... because our work will look a lot like these
Allen L., et al. 2011, American Astronomical Society, BAAS, 43, 258.15.	Poster from AAS ... good to review?	ok, but not a lot of content beyond the images and their 'big picture' work.
Chauhan N, Pandey A.K., Ogura K., Ojha D.K., Bhatt B.C., Ghosh S.K., Rawat P.S., 2009, MNRAS, 396, 964.	Tests S4F theory; survey using Spitzer archival data; not deep enough??	yes, this one we should spend some time on
Gregorio-Hetem J., Montmerle T., Rodrigues C. V., Marciotto E., Preibisch T., Zinnecker H., 2009, A&A, 2009, 506, 711.	X-ray survey of CMa region	also has optical data.
Makovoz D., Marleau F. R., 2005, PASP, 117, 1113.	MOPEX info	VERY technical, not a manual, and not all that terribly relevant to what we're doing. let's drop this one from the list.
Morgan L. K., Urquhart J. S., Thompson M. A., 2009, MNRAS, 400, 1726.	Radio, mid-ir, SCUBA observations; redefined SFO catalog	three morgan papers can probably be discussed in the same week
Morgan L. K., Thompson M. A., Urquhart J. S., White G. J., 2008, A&A, 477, 557.	SCUBA survey
Morgan L. K., Thompson M. A., Urquhart J. S., White G. J., Mio J., 2004, A&A, 426, 535.	Radio and mid-ir survey
Ogura K., Sugitani K., Pickles A., 2002, AJ, 123, 2597.	Optical + 2MASS; contains general info of BRCs	we should probably put this one near the top of our list, as it seems to be more of a broad intro
Shevchenko V. S., Ezhkova O. V., Ibrahimov M. A., van den Ancker M. E., Tjin A, Djie H. R. E., 1999, MNRAS, 310, 210.	Optical catalog that includes both BRC 27 and BRC 34; contains general info on BRCs
Soares J.B., Bica E., 2003, A&A, 404, 217.	2MASS + optical survey
Soares J.B., Bica E., 2002, A&A, 388, 172.	2MASS obs of BRC 27
Sugitani K., Fukui Y., Ogura K., 1991, ApJS, 77, 59.	SFO article to which many other articles refer ... might be worth a review??	the northern hemisphere
Sugitani K., Ogura K., 1994, ApJS, 92, 163.	another survey	southern hemisphere (all of our targets are in the northern hemisphere)
Sugitani K., Tamura M., Ogura K., 1995, ApJ, 455, L39.	IRAS survey	also see Sugitani and Ogura 1995Ap&SS.224..571S
Valdettaro R., Migenes V., Trinidad M.A., Brand J., Palla F., 2008, ApJ, 675, 1352.	VLA obs of water masers; BRC 34
Valdettaro R., Palla F., Brand J., Cesaroni R., 2005, A&A, 443, 535.	Radio survey of water masers
Wiramihardja S.D., Kogure T., Nakano M., Yoshida S., 1986, PASJ, 38, 395.	Optical survey of CMa region	also Wiramihardja et al. 1986Ap&SS.118..311W

I second reading all of the bibliographic articles, plus the one on IC2118. My reasoning is that I think we should be familiar with all of the work for the references we cited, and I would like any preview of the work that we will do. The older articles I have been looking (Stromgren, 1948 & Sharpless 1959)at are interesting for their historical context, but probably not necessary for all of us to read. --Sartore 12:34, 23 March 2011 (PDT)