Physics and Astronomy Publications
The research in Physics and Astronomy encompasses studies from the grand scale of planetary formation the slightest shifts in atmospheric pressure. Areas of study include star formation, astronomic theory, theoretical and experimental nanotechnology and medical physics.
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Submissions from 2019
A Search for Technosignatures from TRAPPIST-1, LHS 1140, and 10 Planetary Systems in the Kepler Field with the Green Bank Telescope at 1.15-1.73 GHz, Pavlo Pinchuk, Jean Luc Margot, Adam H. Greenberg, Thomas Ayalde, Chad Bloxham, Arjun Boddu, Luis Gerardo Chinchilla-Garcia, Micah Cliffe, Sara Gallagher, Kira Hart, Brayden Hesford, Inbal Mizrahi, Ruth Pike, Dominic Rodger, Bade Sayki, Una Schneck, Aysen Tan, Yinxue Yolanda Xiao, and Ryan S. Lynch
Signals: I. Survey description, L. Rousseau-Nepton, R. P. Martin, C. Robert, L. Drissen, P. Amram, S. Prunet, T. Martin, I. Moumen, A. Adamo, A. Alarie, P. Barmby, A. Boselli, F. Bresolin, M. Bureau, L. Chemin, R. C. Fernandes, F. Combes, C. Crowder, L. Della Bruna, S. Duarte Puertas, F. Egusa, B. Epinat, V. F. Ksoll, M. Girard, V. Gómez Llanos, D. Gouliermis, K. Grasha, C. Higgs, and J. Hlavacek-Larrondo
Cosmic Pathways for Compact Groups in the Milli-Millennium Simulation, P. Tzanavaris, S. C. Gallagher, S. Ali, D. R. Miller, S. Pentinga, and K. E. Johnson
Simulations of microscopic propulsion of soft elastic bodies, David Urbanik, Shikhar Man Dwivedi, and Colin Denniston
The Occurrence of Compact Groups of Galaxies through Cosmic Time, Christopher D. Wiens, Trey V. Wenger, Panayiotis Tzanavaris, Kelsey E. Johnson, S. C. Gallagher, and Liting Xiao
An Analytic Study of the Wiedemann-Franz Law and the Thermoelectric Figure of Merit, Aakash Yadav, PC Deshmukh, Ken Roberts, NM Jisrawi, and Sree Ram Valluri
Submissions from 2018
Controlling the Hydrophilicity and Cohesion During Deposition of Highly Oriented Type I Collagen Films: an approach for biomedical applications, Karina Ambrock, Bernd Grohe, and Silvia Mittler
The effect of magnetic fields and ambipolar diffusion on the column density probability distribution function in molecular clouds, Sayantan Auddy, Shantanu Basu, and Takahiro Kudoh
Polymer margination in uniform shear flows, Venkat Balasubramanian and Colin Denniston
A Virgo Environmental Survey Tracing Ionised Gas Emission (VESTIGE): I. Introduction to the survey, A. Boselli, M. Fossati, L. Ferrarese, S. Boissier, G. Consolandi, A. Longobardi, P. Amram, M. Balogh, P. Barmby, M. Boquien, F. Boulanger, J. Braine, V. Buat, D. Burgarella, F. Combes, T. Contini, L. Cortese, P. Côté, S. Côté, J. C. Cuillandre, L. Drissen, B. Epinat, M. Fumagalli, S. Gallagher, G. Gavazzi, J. Gomez-Lopez, S. Gwyn, W. Harris, and G. Hensler
The emergence of the galactic stellar mass function from a non-universal IMF in clusters, Sami Dib and Shantanu Basu
A Mass-Producible and Versatile Sensing System: Localized Surface Plasmon Resonance Excited by Individual Waveguide Modes, Zhutian Ding, James M. Stubbs, Danielle McRae, Johanna M. Blacquiere, François Lagugné-Labarthet, and Silvia Mittler
Narrowing of Plasmon Resonance Peaks as an Ensemble Effect, Zhutian Ding, James M. Stubbs, and Silvia Mittler
A dual power-law distribution for the stellar initial mass function, Karl Heinz Hoffmann, Christopher Essex, Shantanu Basu, and Janett Prehl
Magnetic Field of a Compact Spherical Star under f(R, T) Gravity, Safiqul Islam and Shantanu Basu
The z = 0.54 LoBAL Quasar SDSS J085053.12+445122.5. I. Spectral Synthesis Analysis Reveals a Massive Outflow, Karen M. Leighly, Donald M. Terndrup, Sarah C. Gallagher, Gordon T. Richards, and Matthias Dietrich
The Frequency of Intrinsic X-Ray Weakness among Broad Absorption Line Quasars, Hezhen Liu, B. Luo, W. N. Brandt, S. C. Gallagher, and G. P. Garmire
The Large-scale Structure of the Halo of the Andromeda Galaxy. II. Hierarchical Structure in the Pan-Andromeda Archaeological Survey, Alan W. McConnachie, Rodrigo Ibata, Nicolas Martin, Annette M.N. Ferguson, Michelle Collins, Stephen Gwyn, Mike Irwin, Geraint F. Lewis, A. Dougal Mackey, Tim Davidge, Veronica Arias, Anthony Conn, Patrick Côté, Denija Crnojevic, Avon Huxor, Jorge Penarrubia, Chelsea Spengler, Nial Tanvir, David Valls-Gabaud, Arif Babul, Pauline Barmby, Nicholas F. Bate, Edouard Bernard, Scott Chapman, Aaron Dotter, William Harris, Brendan McMonigal, Julio Navarro, and Thomas H. Puzia
Magnetic Field Structure in Spheroidal Star-forming Clouds, Philip C. Myers, Shantanu Basu, and Sayantan Auddy
Herschel Spectroscopy of the Taffy Galaxies (UGC 12914/12915 = VV 254): Enhanced [C II] Emission in the Collisionally Formed Bridge, B. W. Peterson, P. N. Appleton, T. Bitsakis, P. Guillard, K. Alatalo, F. Boulanger, M. Cluver, P. A. Duc, E. Falgarone, S. Gallagher, Y. Gao, G. Helou, T. H. Jarrett, B. Joshi, U. Lisenfeld, N. Lu, P. Ogle, G. Pineau Des Forêts, P. Van Der Werf, and C. K. Xu
The Astropy Project: Building an Open-science Project and Status of the v2.0 Core Package, A. M. Price-Whelan, B. M. Sipõcz, H. M. Günther, P. L. Lim, S. M. Crawford, S. Conseil, D. L. Shupe, M. W. Craig, N. Dencheva, A. Ginsburg, J. T. Vanderplas, L. D. Bradley, D. Pérez-Suárez, M. De Val-Borro, T. L. Aldcroft, K. L. Cruz, T. P. Robitaille, E. J. Tollerud, C. Ardelean, T. Babej, Y. P. Bach, M. Bachetti, A. V. Bakanov, S. P. Bamford, G. Barentsen, P. Barmby, A. Baumbach, K. L. Berry, and F. Biscani
Classifying galaxy spectra at 0.5 < z < 1 with self-organizing maps, S. Rahmani, H. Teimoorinia, and P. Barmby
JINGLE, a JCMT legacy survey of dust and gas for galaxy evolution studies - I. Survey overview and first results, Amélie Saintonge, Christine D. Wilson, Ting Xiao, Lihwai Lin, Ho Seong Hwang, Tomoka Tosaki, Martin Bureau, Phillip J. Cigan, Christopher J.R. Clark, David L. Clements, Ilse De Looze, Thavisha Dharmawardena, Yang Gao, Walter K. Gear, Joshua Greenslade, Isabella Lamperti, Jong Chul Lee, Cheng Li, Michal J. Michałowski, Angus Mok, Hsi An Pan, Anne E. Sansom, Mark Sargent, Matthew W. Matthew, Thomas Williams, Chentao Yang, Ming Zhu, Gioacchino Accurso, and Pauline Barmby
Milky Way globular cluster metallicity and low-mass X-ray binaries: The red giant influence, N. Vulic, P. Barmby, and S. C. Gallagher
Submissions from 2017
Ionisation in turbulent magnetic molecular clouds: I. Effect on density and mass-to-flux ratio structures, Nicole D. Bailey, Shantanu Basu, and Paola Caselli