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= Transients Discussion Circle =
Supernovae, gamma-ray bursts, tidal disruption flares, active galactic nuclei etc. In short, any transient/variable event involving explosive/accretion phenomena.

= When =
Every other Friday from 10:00-10:30 am in room Tramontane (second floor). '''Next meeting: 10 Nov 2017 (room Tramontane)'''

= Schedule =
==== 2017 ====
 * '''10 Nov 2017''': Arturo Nuñez will review the paper [[https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.00464|Did LIGO detect dark matter? (arXiv link)]] by Bird et al. (2016)
 * '''20 Oct 2017''': Feedback on the [[https://indico.in2p3.fr/event/16360/|Journées LISA France meeting in Paris 12-13 October]] + discussion on the first detected optical counterpart of a gravitational-wave source (see [[https://arxiv.org/find/all/1/all:+GW170817/0/1/0/all/0/1|recent papers on arXiv]] and [[http://iopscience.iop.org/journal/2041-8205/page/Focus_on_GW170817?utm_medium=email&utm_source=iop&utm_term=&utm_campaign=12734-36073&utm_content=FI|ApJ Letters special issue]])
 * '''6 Oct 2017''': Open discussion about the LISA mission (see LISA L3 proposal [[attachment:LISA_L3_20170113.pdf]]) and evaluation of scientific interest at LAM in view of the upcoming [[https://indico.in2p3.fr/event/16360/|Journées LISA France meeting in Paris 12-13 October]] + the latest (published) Ligo/Virgo detection [[https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.09660|GW170814: A three-detector observation of gravitational waves from a binary black hole coalescence]].
 * '''2 Jun 2017''': Discussion about the LISA mission + presentation of the paper [[https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.07581|The detection of an extremely bright fast radio burst in a phased array feed survey]] by Samuel Boissier + latest Ligo results [[https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.221101|GW170104: Observation of a 50-Solar-Mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence at Redshift 0.2]]
 * '''24 Mar 2017''': Feedback on the LSST-France meeting held in Paris 20-22 March (see [[https://indico.in2p3.fr/event/14206/|here]]) by Stéphane Blondin
 * '''10 Mar 2017''': Review of the paper [[http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2017ApJ...834L...7T|The Host Galaxy and Redshift of the Repeating Fast Radio Burst FRB 121102]] by David Corre (see also [[https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.01100|arXiv link]])

 * '''27 Jan 2017''': presentation of the LUVOIR mission (https://asd.gsfc.nasa.gov/luvoir) by Jean-Claude Bouret, in particular the use of a very high-resolution (~120000) UV (~100-400 nm) spectropolarimeter for transient science.

==== 2016 ====
 * '''16 Dec 2016''': Joshua Esteves will present his results on the structure of White Dwarf stars (in French!), as part of a one-month L3 internship with Stéphane Blondin

 * '''2 Dec 2016''': Stéphane Basa will present "DDOTI: the Deca-Degree Optical Transient Imager" ([[https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.00695|arXiv link]])

 * '''4 Nov 2016''': Mini-review of the [[http://www.svom.fr/|SVOM mission]] by Stéphane Basa. See also the SVOM white pape: [[https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.06892|arXiv link]]

 * '''7 Oct 2016''': Review of the paper [[http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature17140|The host galaxy of a fast radio burst]] by David Corre (see also [[http://arxiv.org/abs/1602.07477|arXiv link]])

 * '''9 Sep 2016''': Open discussion on the "Groupement de Recherche" (GDR) on Gravitational Waves. More info: [[attachment:GDR_OG.pdf]]. You can sign up to the GDR mailing list [[http://eepurl.com/cdJIhj|here]].

 * '''24 Jun 2016''': Brief overview of Tidal Disruption Events (TDE) by Jean-Pierre Luminet. Presentation available in [[attachment:crepes-marseille2016.ppt|powerpoint]] or [[attachment:crepes-marseille2016.pdf|PDF]] format

 * '''12 May 2016 (Thursday)''': Prospective meeting on transients at LAM

 * '''19 Feb 2016''': Open discussion on the recent detection of gravitational waves by the Ligo collaboration ([[http://arxiv.org/abs/1602.03837|Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger]]) and the search for electromagnetic counterparts

 * '''5 Feb 2016''': Kick-off meeting; presentation by Stéphane Blondin of a paper on the most luminous supernova: [[http://arxiv.org/abs/1507.03010|ASASSN-15lh: A Highly Super-Luminous Supernova]], by Dong et al. (Science, 351, 257)

Organizers:

 * StephaneBlondin