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Book Review: Finding The Big Bang, T. D. Oswalt
Book Review: Finding The Big Bang, T. D. Oswalt
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This document is Dr. Oswalt’s review of Finding the Big Bang edited by P. James E. Peebles, Lyman A. Page Jr., and R. Bruce Partridge Cambridge, 2009 571p, 9780521519823 $80.00
Book Review: Clocks In The Sky: The Story Of Pulsars, T. D. Oswalt
Book Review: Clocks In The Sky: The Story Of Pulsars, T. D. Oswalt
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This document is Dr. Oswalt’s review of Clocks in the Sky: The Story of Pulsars by Geoff McNamara, Springer/Praxis, 2008 190p, 9780387765600 $29.95.
Book Review: Electronic Imaging In Astronomy: Detectors And Instrumentation 2nd Ed., T. D. Oswalt
Book Review: Electronic Imaging In Astronomy: Detectors And Instrumentation 2nd Ed., T. D. Oswalt
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This document is Dr. Oswalt’s review of Electronic imaging in astronomy : detectors and instrumentation 2nd ed. by Ian S. McLean, Springer/Praxis, 2008 552p, 9783540765820 $99.00
General Search For Stars With Rapid Optical Variations: Test Fields, Elizabeth Fagg, Jieun Park, Kelly Pearson, Robert Kehoe
General Search For Stars With Rapid Optical Variations: Test Fields, Elizabeth Fagg, Jieun Park, Kelly Pearson, Robert Kehoe
Journal of Undergraduate Research
We present a search for stars exhibiting short time-scale optical lightvariations. Our search employs archival data taken by the ROTSE1 telephotoarray in two eight degree fields of view. This is a test study considering two fields which overlap fields previously mined for variables, but with different dataand search techniques. Each field was observed for approximately six continuous hours. We employ a general search strategy based on statistical properties of theobserved light curves for each object. The analysis is sensitive to sources with variations < 0.25 day and > 0.1 mag and with mean magnitudes between 9.5 magand 14 mag. We identify 42 variable stars with …
Book Review: Escaping The Bonds Of Earth: The Fifties And The Sixties, T. D. Oswalt
Book Review: Escaping The Bonds Of Earth: The Fifties And The Sixties, T. D. Oswalt
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This document is Dr. Oswalt’s review of by Ben Evans. Springer/Praxis, 2009 493p, 9780387790930 $39.95
Statistical Analysis Of Stellar Evolution, David A. Van Dyk, Ted Von Hippel, Steven Degenarro, Nathan Stein, William Jefferys
Statistical Analysis Of Stellar Evolution, David A. Van Dyk, Ted Von Hippel, Steven Degenarro, Nathan Stein, William Jefferys
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Color-Magnitude Diagrams (CMDs) are plots that compare the magnitudes (luminosities) of stars in different wavelengths of light (colors). High nonlinear correlations among the mass, color, and surface temperature of newly formed stars induce a long narrow curved point cloud in a CMD known as the main sequence. Aging stars form new CMD groups of red giants and white dwarfs. The physical processes that govern this evolution can be described with mathematical models and explored using complex computer models. These calculations are designed to predict the plotted magnitudes as a function of parameters of scientific interest, such as stellar age, mass, …
Book Review: Humans In Outer Space-Interdisciplinary Odysseys, Studies In Space Policy, 1, T. D. Oswalt
Book Review: Humans In Outer Space-Interdisciplinary Odysseys, Studies In Space Policy, 1, T. D. Oswalt
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This document is Dr. Oswalt’s review of Humans in Outer Space-Interdisciplinary Odysseys, Studies in Space Policy, 1. [ed.] by Luca Codignola and Kai-Uwe Schrogl with Agnieszka Lukaszczyk and Nicolas Peter SpringerWeinNewYork, 2009