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 2016
Constraining the shielded wind scenario in PG 2112+059, C. Saez, W. N. Brandt, F. E. Bauer, F. Hamann, G. Chartas, and S. C. Gallagher
EXPLORING X-RAY BINARY POPULATIONS in COMPACT GROUP GALAXIES with CHANDRA, P. Tzanavaris, A. E. Hornschemeier, S. C. Gallagher, L. Lenkić, T. D. Desjardins, L. M. Walker, K. E. Johnson, and J. S. Mulchaey
Analytic Models of Brown Dwarfs and the Substellar Mass Limit, Sree Ram Valluri, Shantanu Basu, and Sayantan Auddy
Band structure and transport studies of half Heusler compound DyPdBi: An efficient thermoelectric material, Sree Ram Valluri, Ken Roberts, P C. Deshmukh, W Sundareswari, and S Krishnaveni
PROVIDING STRINGENT STAR FORMATION RATE LIMITS of z ∼ 2 QSO HOST GALAXIES at HIGH ANGULAR RESOLUTION, Andrey Vayner, Shelley A. Wright, Tuan Do, James E. Larkin, Lee Armus, and S. C. Gallagher
X-rays beware: The deepest Chandra catalogue of point sources in M31, N. Vulic, S. C. Gallagher, and P. Barmby
Global properties of neutral hydrogen in compact groups, Lisa May Walker, Kelsey E. Johnson, Sarah C. Gallagher, George C. Privon, Amanda A. Kepley, David G. Whelan, Tyler D. Desjardins, and Ann I. Zabludoff
HIERARCHICAL FORMATION in ACTION: CHARACTERIZING ACCELERATED GALAXY EVOLUTION in COMPACT GROUPS USING WHOLE-SKY WISE DATA, Catherine Zucker, Lisa May Walker, Kelsey Johnson, Sarah Gallagher, Katherine Alatalo, and Panayiotis Tzanavaris
Submissions from 2015
Kinematics in partially ionized molecular clouds: Implications for the transition to coherence, Nicole D. Bailey, Shantanu Basu, and Paola Caselli
Molecular cloud fragmentation and core collapse, Shantanu Basu
An infrared census of dust in nearby galaxies with spitzer (DUSTiNGS). II. discovery of metal-poor dusty AGB stars, Martha L. Boyer, Kristen B.W. Mcquinn, Pauline Barmby, Alceste Z. Bonanos, Robert D. Gehrz, Karl D. Gordon, M. A.T. Groenewegen, Eric Lagadec, Daniel Lennon, Massimo Marengo, Iain Mcdonald, Margaret Meixner, Evan Skillman, G. C. Sloan, George Sonneborn, Jacco T.H. Van Loon, and Albert Zijlstra
An infrared census of dust in nearby galaxies with Spitzer (dustings). I. overview, Martha L. Boyer, Kristen B.W. McQuinn, Pauline Barmby, Alceste Z. Bonanos, Robert D. Gehrz, Karl D. Gordon, M. A.T. Groenewegen, Eric Lagadec, Daniel Lennon, Massimo Marengo, Margaret Meixner, Evan Skillman, G. C. Sloan, George Sonneborn, Jacco Th Van Loon, and Albert Zijlstra
The luminosity of population III star clusters, Alexander L. De Souza and Shantanu Basu
Dye Distance Mapping using Waveguide Evanescent Field Fluorescence Microscopy and its Application to Cell Biology, Frederik Fleissner, Michael Morawitz, S. Jeffrey Dixon, Uwe Langbein, and Silvia Mittler
Investigating the structure of the windy torus in quasars, S. C. Gallagher, J. E. Everett, M. M. Abado, and S. K. Keating
Mid-infrared spectroscopy of the Andromeda galaxy, D. Hemachandra, P. Barmby, E. Peeters, S. P. Willner, M. L.N. Ashby, H. A. Smith, K. D. Gordon, D. A. Smith, and G. G. Fazio
MINING FOR DUST IN TYPE 1 QUASARS, Coleman M. Krawczyk, Gordon T. Richards, S. C. Gallagher, Karen M. Leighly, Paul C. Hewett, Nicholas P. Ross, and P. B. Hall
Constraining FeLoBAL outflows from absorption line variability, S. M. McGraw, J. C. Shields, F. W. Hamann, D. M. Capellupo, S. C. Gallagher, and W. N. Brandt
AEGIS-X: Deep Chandra imaging of the central groth strip, K. Nandra, E. S. Laird, J. A. Aird, M. Salvato, A. Georgakakis, G. Barro, P. G. Perez-Gonzalez, P. Barmby, R. R. Chary, A. Coil, M. C. Cooper, M. Davis, M. Dickinson, S. M. Faber, G. G. Fazio, P. Guhathakurta, S. Gwyn, L. T. Hsu, J. S. Huang, R. J. Ivison, D. C. Koo, J. A. Newman, C. Rangel, T. Yamada, and C. Willmer
On Calculating the Current-Voltage Characteristic of Multi-Diode Models for Organic Solar Cells, Ken Roberts and Sree Ram Valluri
ULTRAVIOLET/X-RAY VARIABILITY AND THE EXTENDED X-RAY EMISSION OF THE RADIO-LOUD BROAD ABSORPTION LINE QUASAR PG 1004+130, A. E. Scott, W. N. Brandt, B. P. Miller, B. Luo, and S. C. Gallagher
Tracing quasar narrow-line regions across redshift: A library of high-S/N optical spectra, A. Tammour, S. C. Gallagher, and Gordon Richards
Gravitational wave background in the quasi-steady state cosmology, Sree Ram Valluri, Sayantan Auddy, J V. Narlikar, S V. Dhurandhar, and R G. Vishwakarma
Cosmic Background Radiation, Sree Ram Valluri and B G. Sidharth
Variable protostellar accretion with episodic bursts, Eduard I. Vorobyov and Shantanu Basu