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 2017
From molecular clouds to the IMF: Spatial and temporal effects, S. Basu and S. Auddy
A Vision for Canadian Space Exploration, Ilaria Caiazzo, Sarah C. Gallagher, and Jeremy Heyl
Heterogeneous colloidal particles immersed in a liquid crystal, Setarehalsadat Changizrezaei and Colin Denniston
Photonic band structure of diamond colloidal crystals in a cholesteric liquid crystal, Setarehalsadat Changizrezaei and Colin Denniston
The role of angular momentum transport in establishing the accretion rate–protostellar mass correlation, Alexander L. DeSouza and Shantanu Basu
Deconstructing a galaxy: Colour distributions of point sources in Messier 83, A. K. Kiar, P. Barmby, and A. Hidalgo
Deconstructing a galaxy: Colour distributions of point sources in messier 83, Alexander K. Kiar and Pauline Barmby
The role of molecular gas in galaxy transition in compact groups, U. Lisenfeld, K. Alatalo, C. Zucker, P. N. Appleton, S. Gallagher, P. Guillard, and K. Johnson
Zr-doped TiO2 as a Thermostabilizer in Plasmon-Enhanced Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells, Anastasia Pasche, Bernd Grohe, Silvia Mittler, and Paul A. Charpentier
The mineralogy of newly formed dust in active galactic nuclei, Sundar Srinivasan, F. Kemper, Yeyan Zhou, Lei Hao, Sarah C. Gallagher, Jinyi Shangguan, Luis C. Ho, Yanxia Xie, Peter Scicluna, Sebastien Foucaud, and Rita H.T. Peng
Vacuum birefringence, the photon anomalous magnetic moment and the neutron star RX J1856.5−3754, Sree Ram Valluri, J.W. Mielniczuk, Farrukh Chishtie, D. Lamm, and S. Auddy
Tutorial: The quantum finite square well and the Lambert W function, Sree Ram Valluri and Ken Roberts
Submissions from 2016
A MAGNETIC RIBBON MODEL for STAR-FORMING FILAMENTS, Sayantan Auddy, Shantanu Basu, and Takahiro Kudoh
Stellar populations in the outskirts of M31: The mid-infrared view, P. Barmby and M. Rafiei Ravandi
Ten Simple Rules for Digital Data Storage, Edmund M. Hart, Pauline Barmby, David LeBauer, François Michonneau, Sarah Mount, Patrick Mulrooney, Timothée Poisot, Kara H. Woo, Naupaka B. Zimmerman, and Jeffrey W. Hollister
Erratum: "mINING for DUST in TYPE 1 QUASARS" (Astronomical Journal (2015) 149 (203)), Coleman M. Krawczyk, Gordon T. Richards, S. C. Gallagher, Karen M. Leighly, Paul C. Hewett, Nicholas P. Ross, and P. B. Hall
ON R - W1 AS A DIAGNOSTIC to DISCOVER OBSCURED ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI in WIDE-AREA X-RAY SURVEYS, Stephanie M. LaMassa, Francesca Civano, Marcella Brusa, Daniel Stern, Eilat Glikman, Sarah Gallagher, C. Meg Urry, Sabrina Cales, Nico Cappelluti, Carolin Cardamone, Andrea Comastri, Duncan Farrah, Jenny E. Greene, S. Komossa, Andrea Merloni, Tony Mroczkowski, Priyamvada Natarajan, Gordon Richards, Mara Salvato, Kevin Schawinski, and Ezequiel Treister
THE BINARY BLACK HOLE MODEL for MRK 231 BITES the DUST, Karen M. Leighly, Donald M. Terndrup, Sarah C. Gallagher, and Adrian B. Lucy
The ultraviolet and infrared star formation rates of compact group galaxies: An expanded sample, Laura Lenkić, Panayiotis Tzanavaris, Sarah C. Gallagher, Tyler D. Desjardins, Lisa May Walker, Kelsey E. Johnson, Konstantin Fedotov, Jane Charlton, Ann E. Hornschemeier, Pat R. Durrell, and Caryl Gronwall
The dustier early-type galaxies deviate from late-type galaxies' scaling relations, S. Lianou, E. Xilouris, S. C. Madden, and P. Barmby
The JCMT nearby galaxies legacy survey-X. Environmental effects on the molecular gas and star formation properties of spiral galaxies, Angus Mok, C. D. Wilson, J. Golding, B. E. Warren, F. P. Israel, S. Serjeant, J. H. Knapen, J. R. Sánchez-Gallego, P. Barmby, G. J. Bendo, E. Rosolowsky, and P. van der Werf
KOMPANEETS MODEL FITTING of the ORION-ERIDANUS SUPERBUBBLE. II. THINKING OUTSIDE of BARNARD'S LOOP, Andy Pon, Bram B. Ochsendorf, João Alves, John Bally, Shantanu Basu, and Alexander G.G.M. Tielens
Star formation laws in the Andromeda galaxy: Gas, stars, metals and the surface density of star formation, S. Rahmani, S. Lianou, and P. Barmby
The extended disc and halo of the andromeda galaxy observed with spitzer-IRAC, Masoud Rafiei Ravandi, Pauline Barmby, Matthew L.N. Ashby, Seppo Laine, T. J. Davidge, Jenna Zhang, Luciana Bianchi, Arif Babul, and S. C. Chapman
A tale of two tails: Exploring stellar populations in the tidal tails of NGC 3256, Michael Rodruck, Iraklis Konstantopoulos, Karen Knierman, Konstantin Fedotov, Brendan Mullan, Sarah Gallagher, Patrick Durrell, Robin Ciardullo, Caryl Gronwall, and Jane Charlton