# Astrophysics and Astronomy Commons™

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## Full-Text Articles in Astrophysics and Astronomy

Computational Astronomy: Classification Of Celestial Spectra Using Machine Learning Techniques, Gayatri Milind Hungund May 2020

#### Computational Astronomy: Classification Of Celestial Spectra Using Machine Learning Techniques, Gayatri Milind Hungund

##### Master's Projects

Lightyears beyond the Planet Earth there exist plenty of unknown and unexplored stars and Galaxies that need to be studied in order to support the Big Bang Theory and also make important astronomical discoveries in quest of knowing the unknown. Sophisticated devices and high-power computational resources are now deployed to make a positive effort towards data gathering and analysis. These devices produce massive amount of data from the astronomical surveys and the data is usually in terabytes or petabytes. It is exhaustive to process this data and determine the findings in short period of time. Many details can be missed ...

Supercdms: Energy Calibration Of A Ge Hv Particle Detector, Salamong Xiong, Vuk Mandic, Matthew Fritts, Nicholas Mast, Jacob Nelson May 2020

#### Supercdms: Energy Calibration Of A Ge Hv Particle Detector, Salamong Xiong, Vuk Mandic, Matthew Fritts, Nicholas Mast, Jacob Nelson

##### Macalester Journal of Physics and Astronomy

The goal of the SuperCDMS collaboration is to directly detect dark matter. Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) are potential candidates. To detect WIMPs, it is important to be able to predict how a Ge/Si particle detector will respond to a dark matter signal. In particular, it is necessary to calibrate the recoil energy measured by these detectors. This paper presents evidence for dark matter, a description of the detector operation, and procedures used to analyze measured data from a SuperCDMS-HV Ge particle detector using Am-241 and a PuBe neutron source. Due to high event rate, criteria were developed to ...

#### The Leoncino Dwarf: A Neutral Hydrogen Analysis Of Agc 198691 And Its Extremely Metal-Poor Environment, Tylyn Page

##### Macalester Journal of Physics and Astronomy

Studies of low-mass galaxies are important for populating the low-mass ends of funda- mental physical relations. Extremely metal-poor (XMP) galaxies are low-mass galaxies with gas-phase oxygen abundances of 12+log(O/H) ≤ 7.35 ( 1/20 Z⊙), and are especially interesting as proxies for studying the distant past, as their chemical makeup resembles those of galaxies in the early universe. AGC 198691, referred to as the Leoncino Dwarf, was discovered through the Arecibo Legacy Fast ALFA (ALFALFA) survey and found to have an oxygen abundance of less than 3% Z⊙. Presented here are the results of recent Karl G. Jansky ...

May 2020

#### Large Scale Grid Integration Of Wind And Solar Power With Storage, Nicholas Moore

##### Macalester Journal of Physics and Astronomy

The current energy grid in the United States is dominated by carbon intense energy generation methods that are based on production when and where it is required. However, solar and wind power have proved themselves as the most promising carbon free energy generation sources. Due to the unpredictable and uncontrollable nature of energy production from solar and wind, large scale integration of these resources into the electric grid will require robust storage capacity. In this project, we model the energy grid of the Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO) energy region with high concentrations of solar and wind power to analyze ...

A Search For Pulsars Towards The Galactic Center, Jacob W. Hetrick, Kunal Mooley, Preshanth Jagannathan May 2020

#### A Search For Pulsars Towards The Galactic Center, Jacob W. Hetrick, Kunal Mooley, Preshanth Jagannathan

##### Macalester Journal of Physics and Astronomy

We present observations from two separate methods for observing the Galactic Center in an attempt to characterize its pulsar and neutron star populations. A persistent puzzle of the past 20 years has been the lack of pulsar detections towards the Galactic Center, specifically within a few parsecs of the central supermassive black hole Sgr A*. This object is bright in the total intensity of its polarized emission, but is very weakly linearly polarized. We take advantage of these circumstances in an experimental search technique where we utilize the Faraday effect in an attempt to detect high rotation measure (RM) point ...

Modeling Scavenging For A Hydraulic Free-Piston Engine, Nathan Davies May 2020

#### Modeling Scavenging For A Hydraulic Free-Piston Engine, Nathan Davies

##### Macalester Journal of Physics and Astronomy

The hydraulic free-piston engine at the University of Minnesota offers a solution to improve the hydraulic efficiency and reduce emission output of off-road vehicles. We developed a MATLAB Simulink model to track the pressure, temperature, and mass profile of the fuel within the cylinder during operation. By varying different initial conditions of our model, we found that a higher intake manifold pressure and larger bottom dead center location results in higher scavenging efficiency. These results can be used to improve the controller of this engine and better maintain stable operation.

Alfalfa Harvest: Hi Imaging And 3d Modeling Of Candidate Local Group Dwarf Galaxies, Lilly Bralts-Kelly, Susie Paine, Elizabeth A. K. Adams, John M. Cannon May 2020

#### Alfalfa Harvest: Hi Imaging And 3d Modeling Of Candidate Local Group Dwarf Galaxies, Lilly Bralts-Kelly, Susie Paine, Elizabeth A. K. Adams, John M. Cannon

##### Macalester Journal of Physics and Astronomy

Isolated neutral hydrogen (HI) clouds, or "ultra-compact high-velocity clouds" (UCHVCs), form a small subset of detections by the Arecibo Legacy Fast ALFA (ALFALFA) blind extragalactic survey. These systems, if located within ~1 Mpc, would populate the lowest-mass end of the HI mass function. Subsequent optical imaging has revealed that some of these UCHVCs harbor associated (thought sparse) stellar populations, suggesting that they may be some of the most extreme galaxies known in the Local Volume, with properties akin to ultra-faint dwarf galaxies but with significant neutral gas reservoirs. In this work, we investigate the neutral hydrogen properties of six UCHVC ...

Leoncino And Ugc 5186, Josh Bartz May 2020

#### Leoncino And Ugc 5186, Josh Bartz

##### Macalester Journal of Physics and Astronomy

AGC 198691 is commonly known as the Leoncino Dwarf and is one of the most metal poor galax- ies known. An Arecibo observation in 2011 first suggested that Leoncino could be gravitationally interacting with its neighbor UGC 5186. In this paper new VLA data is used to examine the H I com- ponent of both galaxies to determine their gravitational relationship. Although the VLA could not confirm intragalactic gas seen by Aricebo, the H I density and velocity components are strong indirect evidence of gravitational interaction. UGC 5186 has a large gaseous arm reaching in the direction of Leoncino. Additionally ...

#### Congressional Committee Resources On Space Policy During The 115th Congress (2017-2018): Providing Context And Insight Into Us Government Space Policy, Bert Chapman

##### Libraries Faculty and Staff Presentations

Article 1 of the US Constitution assigns the US Congress numerous responsibilities. These include creating new laws, revising existing laws, funding government programs, and conducting oversight of these programs' performance. Oversight of US Government agency space policy programs is executed by various congressional space policy committees including the House and Senate Science Committees, Armed Services, and Appropriations Committees. These committees conduct many public hearings on space policy, which invite expert witnesses to testify on US space policy programs and feature debate on the strengths and weaknesses of these programs. Documentation produced by these committees is widely available to the public ...

Physics 516: Electromagnetic Phenomena (Spring 2020), Philip C. Nelson May 2020

#### Physics 516: Electromagnetic Phenomena (Spring 2020), Philip C. Nelson

##### Department of Physics Papers

These course notes are made publicly available in the hope that they will be useful. All reports of errata will be gratefully received. I will also be glad to hear from anyone who reads them, whether or not you find errors: pcn@upenn.edu.

#### Neusch Automated Filter System: A Custom-Designed Photo-Filter Switching Apparatus For Embry-Riddle’S 1 Meter Telescope, Tyler Neusch

##### Dissertations and Theses

The one-meter telescope on the roof of Embry-Riddle’s College of Arts and Sciences building in Daytona Beach, FL is an advanced piece of technology supporting education and public outreach. One part of this telescopic system is a custom-made Cassegrain Instrument Mount. This one-of-a-kind mount allows for multiple scientific instruments to be simultaneously mounted to the telescope. However, its mechanical layout prevents the use of a traditional device known as a filter wheel.

Filter wheels store multiple photo-filters each capable of filtering out all but certain wavelengths of light for use with a CCD camera. Therefore, a filter wheel allows ...

#### Formation Pathways In Brightest Cluster Galaxies: Measuring The Distribution Of Ages, Metallicities, And Hydrodynamics Of Stellar Populations, Priscilla E. Holguin West

##### Physics

Brightest Cluster Galaxies (BCGs) are the most massive galaxies in the local universe and have had the full age of the universe to build. This makes their formation and evolution history particularly interesting as they offer a glimpse at potential evolutionary pathways for younger systems. We present the radial profile of ages, metallicities, and preliminary classification of companions to 23 BCGs observed using the SparsePak instrument on WIYN by running the STARLIGHT stellar population synthesis models. This analysis of the BCGs’ stellar populations is done by separating each BCG into different regions, and preliminary results of the stellar populations for ...

#### Analytic Exoplanet Transit Analysis, And Investigation Into Wasp, Kepler, And Qatar Systems, Colan Gulla

##### College Honors Program

In this paper we analyze exoplanet transit data. First, we discuss an analytical method of assessing the data similar to the one derived in Agol & Mandel, 20021. The time series photometric data for transits used in this paper was downloaded from the NASA Exoplanet Archive. Similar data was also extracted from the Exoplanet Transit Database for analysis. We use a formula for relative flux from Agol & Mandel, 20021 to study the specific transit systems of WASP 1b, WASP 12b, Kepler 1, Qatar 1b and TRES-1b. The formula for relative flux is fit to a set of photometric data ...

Early Warning Solar Storm Prediction, Ian D. Lumsden, Marvin Joshi, Matthew Smalley, Aiden Rutter, Ben Klein May 2020

#### Early Warning Solar Storm Prediction, Ian D. Lumsden, Marvin Joshi, Matthew Smalley, Aiden Rutter, Ben Klein

##### Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects

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Automated Spectroscopic Detection And Mapping Using Alma And Machine Learningtechniques, Steven Cocke, Andrew Wilkins, Josephine Mcdaniel, John Santerre, Conor Nixon Apr 2020

#### Automated Spectroscopic Detection And Mapping Using Alma And Machine Learningtechniques, Steven Cocke, Andrew Wilkins, Josephine Mcdaniel, John Santerre, Conor Nixon

##### SMU Data Science Review

In this paper we present a methodology for automating theclassification of spectrally resolved observations of multiple emissionlines with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA).Molecules in planetary atmospheres emit or absorb different wavelengthsof light thereby providing a unique signature for each species. ALMAdata were taken from interferometric observations of Titan made be-tween UT 2012 July 03 23:22:14 and 2012 July 04 01:06:18 as part ofALMA project 2011.0.00319.S. We first employed a greedy set cover algorithm to identify the most probable molecules that would reproducethe set of frequencies with respective flux greater than ...

#### Physical Dispersions Of Meteor Showers Through High Precision Optical Observations, Denis Vida

##### Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository

Meteoroids ejected from comets form meteoroid streams which disperse over time due to gravitational perturbations and non-gravitational forces. When stream meteoroids collide with the Earth's atmosphere, they are visible as meteors emanating from a common point-like area (radiant) in the sky. Measuring the size of meteor shower radiant areas can provide insight into stream formation and age. The tight radiant dispersion of young streams are difficult to determine due to measurement error, but if successfully measured, the dispersion could be used to constrain meteoroid ejection velocities from their parent comets. The estimated ejection velocity is an uncertain, model-dependent value ...

Apr 2020

#### Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Based Heat Exchanger On The Martian, Sarah Guinn

##### Discovery Day - Prescott

The use of supercritical carbon dioxide (sCO2) in power cycles has been fairly new in the last decade. Due to this, there is a lack in research for both terrestrial and extraterrestrial applications. The purpose of this project is to utilize sCO2 as a working fluid and design and optimize a Brayton Cycle based heat exchanger on the Martian surface. Due to the lack of water on Mars, this research will provide a stronger analysis of planetary based drycooling processes in low atmospheric pressure and colder temperatures. We have been conducting an in-depth analysis of the heat exchanger by modeling ...

#### An Analysis Of The Debate Over Creation, Evolution, And The Timeline Of The Universe At An Ecumenical Christian University, Mason Pohlman

##### Honors Theses

Throughout a significant portion of history and within modern culture, the fields of science and religion appear to be competing for the same holds in a person’s belief system. Universities are where academics and the sciences are the prevailing held truth, while in churches, the Bible reigns as supreme authority. However, in a Christian academic setting, the predominate school of thought in belief systems might turn into a little more of a melting pot. By analyzing gathered personal data (via surveys and interviews), one can begin to piece together the predominate thoughts on the apparent conflict between religion and ...

Apr 2020

#### Gravitational Wave Calibration Error For Supernovae Core Collapse, Brad Ratto

##### Discovery Day - Prescott

The existence of gravitational waves reveals yet another method in which information is transmitted across the cosmos, bringing with it further insight into the inner workings of our universe. In order to detect such phenomena, we use ground based Laser Interferometers to measure the microscopic deformations in space-time and explore a new frontier in gravitational astronomy. However, such instrumentation also induces distortions in the gravitational waves henceforth diminishing the ability to extract accurate physical information. Moreover, the ability to extract a coherent signal amongst the noise remains an issue that requires constant improvement. The aim of this study is to ...

The Exotime Project: Signals In The O − C Diagrams Of The Rapidly Pulsating Subdwarfs Dw Lyn, V1636 Ori, Qq Vir, And V541 Hya, F. Mackebrandt, Terry D. Oswalt, Terry Oswalt, R. Silvotti, S. -L. Kim, D. Kilkenny, E. M. Green, R. Lutz, T. Nagel, J. L. Provencal, S. Benatti, L. Lanteri, A. Bonanno, A. Frasca, R. Janulis, M. Paparó, L. Molnár, R. Claudi, R. H. Østensen Apr 2020

#### The Exotime Project: Signals In The O − C Diagrams Of The Rapidly Pulsating Subdwarfs Dw Lyn, V1636 Ori, Qq Vir, And V541 Hya, F. Mackebrandt, Terry D. Oswalt, Terry Oswalt, R. Silvotti, S. -L. Kim, D. Kilkenny, E. M. Green, R. Lutz, T. Nagel, J. L. Provencal, S. Benatti, L. Lanteri, A. Bonanno, A. Frasca, R. Janulis, M. Paparó, L. Molnár, R. Claudi, R. H. Østensen

##### Publications

Aims. We aim to investigate variations in the arrival time of coherent stellar pulsations due to the light-travel time effect to test for the presence of sub-stellar companions. Those companions are the key to one possible formation scenario of apparently single sub-dwarf B stars. Methods. We made use of an extensive set of ground-based observations of the four large amplitude p-mode pulsators DW Lyn, V1636 Ori, QQ Vir, and V541 Hya. Observations of the TESS space telescope are available on two of the targets. The timing method compares the phase of sinusoidal fits to the full multi-epoch light curves with ...

Extended Gamma Analysis Of Snr G330.2 + 1.0, Abagael Barba Apr 2020

#### Extended Gamma Analysis Of Snr G330.2 + 1.0, Abagael Barba

##### Showcase of Osprey Advancements in Research and Scholarship (SOARS)

Analyzing gamma rays is an important aspect of modern astronomy and astrophysics, for they are the most powerful bands of energy on the electromagnetic spectrum. Comprehending gamma rays allows for deeper understanding of countless phenomena within our universe, such as cosmic rays. Cosmic rays are high energy particles thought to be formed via extremely violent explosions within our universe. These accelerated particles mirror conditions present in a supernova. A supernova is what occurs when a star at least 8 times as massive as our sun reaches the end of its lifespan and bursts. These explosions are the most powerful events ...

Death Line For Radio Pulsars In Braneworlds, Djavlanbek Rayimbaev, Satimbay Palvanov, Maksud Umaraliyev, Malika Khudoyberdiyeva Apr 2020

#### Death Line For Radio Pulsars In Braneworlds, Djavlanbek Rayimbaev, Satimbay Palvanov, Maksud Umaraliyev, Malika Khudoyberdiyeva

##### Bulletin of National University of Uzbekistan: Mathematics and Natural Sciences

We investigate the effects of braneworlds on energetic processes in plasma. magnetosphere of neutron stars. Obtained that the presence of brane charge causes an increase in the size of the polar cap region. It has shown that the polar capsize of neutron stars with larger rotation period and compactness parameter is also larger. We have studied deathline of radio pulsar in braneworld. Obtained that the deathline shifted down and the pulsars which lying on the deathline become visible in radio band. Moreover, we have extended particle acceleration in polar cap of neutron stars in the presence of the brane charge ...

Lhs 1815b: The First Thick-Disk Planet Detected By Tess, T. Gan, A. Shporer, J. H. Livingston, K. A. Collins, S. Mao, A. A. Trani, D. Gandolfi, T. Hirano, R. Luque, K. G. Stassun, C. Ziegler, S. B. Howell, C. Hellier, J. M. Irwin, J. G. Winters, D. R. Anderson, C. Briceño, N. Law, A. W. Mann, X. Bonfils, N. Astudillo-Defru, Eric L.N. Jensen, G. Anglada-Escudé, G. R. Ricker, R. Vanderspek, D. W. Latham, S. Seager, J. N. Winn, J. M. Jenkins, G. Furesz, N. M. Guerrero, E. Quintana, J. D. Twicken, D. A. Caldwell, P. Tenenbaum, C. X. Huang, P. Rowden, B. Rojas-Ayala Apr 2020

#### Lhs 1815b: The First Thick-Disk Planet Detected By Tess, T. Gan, A. Shporer, J. H. Livingston, K. A. Collins, S. Mao, A. A. Trani, D. Gandolfi, T. Hirano, R. Luque, K. G. Stassun, C. Ziegler, S. B. Howell, C. Hellier, J. M. Irwin, J. G. Winters, D. R. Anderson, C. Briceño, N. Law, A. W. Mann, X. Bonfils, N. Astudillo-Defru, Eric L.N. Jensen, G. Anglada-Escudé, G. R. Ricker, R. Vanderspek, D. W. Latham, S. Seager, J. N. Winn, J. M. Jenkins, G. Furesz, N. M. Guerrero, E. Quintana, J. D. Twicken, D. A. Caldwell, P. Tenenbaum, C. X. Huang, P. Rowden, B. Rojas-Ayala

##### Physics & Astronomy Faculty Works

We report the first discovery of a thick-disk planet, LHS 1815b (TOI-704b, TIC 260004324), detected in the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) survey. LHS 1815b transits a bright (V = 12.19 mag, K = 7.99 mag) and quiet M dwarf located 29.87 ± 0.02 pc away with a mass of 0.502 ± 0.015 M and a radius of 0.501 ± 0.030 R . We validate the planet by combining space- and ground-based photometry, spectroscopy, and imaging. The planet has a radius of 1.088 ± 0.064 R with a 3σ mass upper limit of 8.7 M . We ...

In-Class Activities For Openstax Astronomy, Rosa Williams, Kimberly Shaw Apr 2020

#### In-Class Activities For Openstax Astronomy, Rosa Williams, Kimberly Shaw

##### Physics and Astronomy Ancillary Materials

This set of in-class activities in Microsoft Word format are intended to supplement OpenStax Astronomy. Topics include:

• Atmospheric Gas
• Celestial Sphere
• Dwarf Planets
• Earth Size
• Earth Impact
• Greenhouse Gases and Climate Change
• Jovian Planet
• Jovian Moon and Ring
• Mars Atmosphere and Climate
• Solar System Formation and Scale
• Sunspots
• Terrestrial Planet and Lunar Features
• Venus Atmosphere and Climate

Apr 2020

#### Towards A Real-Time Fully-Coherent All-Sky Search For Gravitational Waves From Compact Binary Coalescences Using Particle Swarm Optimization, M. E. Normandin, Soumya Mohanty

##### Physics and Astronomy Faculty Publications and Presentations

While a fully-coherent all-sky search is known to be optimal for detecting gravitational wave signals from compact binary coalescences, its high computational cost has limited current searches to less sensitive coincidence-based schemes. Following up on previous work that has demonstrated the effectiveness of particle swarm optimization (PSO) in reducing the computational cost of this search, we present an implementation that achieves near real-time computational speed. This is achieved by combining the search efficiency of PSO with a significantly revised and optimized numerical implementation of the underlying mathematical formalism along with additional multithreaded parallelization layers in a distributed computing framework. For ...

Star Formation In Low-Redshift Cluster Dwarf Galaxies, Cody M. Rude, Madina R. Sultanova, Gihan L. Ipita Kaduwa Gamage, Wayne A. Barkhouse, Sandanuwan P. Kalawila Vithanage Apr 2020

#### Star Formation In Low-Redshift Cluster Dwarf Galaxies, Cody M. Rude, Madina R. Sultanova, Gihan L. Ipita Kaduwa Gamage, Wayne A. Barkhouse, Sandanuwan P. Kalawila Vithanage

##### Physics Faculty Publications

Evolution of galaxies in dense environments can be affected by close encounters with neighbouring galaxies and interactions with the intracluster medium. Dwarf galaxies (dGs) are important as their low mass makes them more susceptible to these effects than giant systems. Combined luminosity functions (LFs) in the r and u band of 15 galaxy clusters were constructed using archival data from the Canada–France–Hawaii Telescope. LFs were measured as a function of clustercentric radius from stacked cluster data. Marginal evidence was found for an increase in the faint-end slope of the u-band LF relative to the r-band with ...

Tess Spots A Hot Jupiter With An Inner Transiting Neptune, C. X. Huang, S. N. Quinn, A. Vanderburg, J. Becker, J. E. Rodriguez, F. J. Pozuelos, D. Gandolfi, G. Zhou, A. W. Mann, K. A. Collins, I. Crossfield, K. Barkaoui, K. I. Collins, M. Fridlund, M. Gillon, E. J. Gonzales, M. N. Günther, T. J. Henry, S. B. Howell, H.-S. James, W.-C. Jao, E. Jehin, Eric L.N. Jensen, S. R. Kane, J. J. Lissauer, E. Matthews, R. A. Matson, L. A. Paredes, J. E. Schlieder, K. G. Stassun, A. Shporer, L. Sha, T.-G. Tan, I. Georgieva, S. Mathur, E. Palle, C. M. Persson, V. Van Eylen, G. R. Ricker, R. K. Vanderspek, D. W. Latham, J. N. Winn, S. Seager, J. M. Jenkins, C. J. Burke, R. F. Goeke, S. Rinehart, M. E. Rose, E. B. Ting, G. Torres, I. Wong Mar 2020

#### Tess Spots A Hot Jupiter With An Inner Transiting Neptune, C. X. Huang, S. N. Quinn, A. Vanderburg, J. Becker, J. E. Rodriguez, F. J. Pozuelos, D. Gandolfi, G. Zhou, A. W. Mann, K. A. Collins, I. Crossfield, K. Barkaoui, K. I. Collins, M. Fridlund, M. Gillon, E. J. Gonzales, M. N. Günther, T. J. Henry, S. B. Howell, H.-S. James, W.-C. Jao, E. Jehin, Eric L.N. Jensen, S. R. Kane, J. J. Lissauer, E. Matthews, R. A. Matson, L. A. Paredes, J. E. Schlieder, K. G. Stassun, A. Shporer, L. Sha, T.-G. Tan, I. Georgieva, S. Mathur, E. Palle, C. M. Persson, V. Van Eylen, G. R. Ricker, R. K. Vanderspek, D. W. Latham, J. N. Winn, S. Seager, J. M. Jenkins, C. J. Burke, R. F. Goeke, S. Rinehart, M. E. Rose, E. B. Ting, G. Torres, I. Wong

##### Physics & Astronomy Faculty Works

Hot Jupiters are rarely accompanied by other planets within a factor of a few in orbital distance. Previously, only two such systems have been found. Here, we report the discovery of a third system using data from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). The host star, TOI-1130, is an eleventh magnitude K-dwarf in Gaia G-band. It has two transiting planets: a Neptune-sized planet (3.65 ± 0.10 ${R}_{\oplus }$) with a 4.1 days period, and a hot Jupiter (${1.50}_{-0.22}^{+0.27}$ ${R}_{{\rm{J}}}$) with an 8.4 days period. Precise radial-velocity observations ...

Toi-132 B: A Short-Period Planet In The Neptune Desert Transiting A V = 11.3 G-Type Star, M. R. Díaz, J. S. Jenkins, D. Gandolfi, E. D. Lopez, M. G. Soto, P. Cortés-Zuleta, Z. M. Berdiñas, K. G. Stassun, K. A. Collins, J. I. Vines, C. Ziegler, M. Fridlund, Eric L.N. Jensen, F. Murgas, A. Santerne, P. A. Wilson, M. Esposito, A. P. Hatzes, M. C. Johnson, K. W. F. Lam, J. H. Livingston, V. Van Eylen, N. Narita, C. Briceño, K. I. Collins, S. Csizmadia, M. Fausnaugh, T. Gan, R. A. García, I. Georgieva, A. Glidden, L. González-Cuesta, J. M. Jenkins, D. W. Latham, N. M. Law, A. W. Mann, S. Mathur, I. Mireles, R. Morris, E. Pallé, C. M. Persson, G. Ricker, S. Rinehart, M. E. Rose, S. Seager, J. C. Smith, T.-G. Tan, A. Tokovinin, A. Vanderburg, R. Vanderspek, J. N. Winn, D. A. Yahalomi Mar 2020

#### Toi-132 B: A Short-Period Planet In The Neptune Desert Transiting A V = 11.3 G-Type Star, M. R. Díaz, J. S. Jenkins, D. Gandolfi, E. D. Lopez, M. G. Soto, P. Cortés-Zuleta, Z. M. Berdiñas, K. G. Stassun, K. A. Collins, J. I. Vines, C. Ziegler, M. Fridlund, Eric L.N. Jensen, F. Murgas, A. Santerne, P. A. Wilson, M. Esposito, A. P. Hatzes, M. C. Johnson, K. W. F. Lam, J. H. Livingston, V. Van Eylen, N. Narita, C. Briceño, K. I. Collins, S. Csizmadia, M. Fausnaugh, T. Gan, R. A. García, I. Georgieva, A. Glidden, L. González-Cuesta, J. M. Jenkins, D. W. Latham, N. M. Law, A. W. Mann, S. Mathur, I. Mireles, R. Morris, E. Pallé, C. M. Persson, G. Ricker, S. Rinehart, M. E. Rose, S. Seager, J. C. Smith, T.-G. Tan, A. Tokovinin, A. Vanderburg, R. Vanderspek, J. N. Winn, D. A. Yahalomi

##### Physics & Astronomy Faculty Works

The Neptune desert is a feature seen in the radius-period plane, whereby a notable dearth of short period, Neptune-like planets is found. Here, we report the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) discovery of a new short-period planet in the Neptune desert, orbiting the G-type dwarf TYC 8003-1117-1 (TOI-132). TESS photometry shows transit-like dips at the level of ∼1400 ppm occurring every ∼2.11 d. High-precision radial velocity follow-up with High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher confirmed the planetary nature of the transit signal and provided a semi-amplitude radial velocity variation of 11.38 +0.84−0.85 m s−1 ...

Title: Fully Interactive And Refined Resolution Simulations Of The Martian Dust Cycle By The Marswrf Model, Claus Gebhardt, Abdelgadir Abuelgasim, Ricardo M. Fonseca, Javier Martín-Torres, Maria-Paz Zorzano Mar 2020

#### Title: Fully Interactive And Refined Resolution Simulations Of The Martian Dust Cycle By The Marswrf Model, Claus Gebhardt, Abdelgadir Abuelgasim, Ricardo M. Fonseca, Javier Martín-Torres, Maria-Paz Zorzano

##### National Space Science & Technology Center Datasets

The Mars climate model MarsWRF was run with fully interactive dust parametrization, assuming an infinite surface dust reservoir. Changing the horizontal resolution from 5°×5° to 2°×2° produced different dust cycle variability and dust source regions. The higher spatial resolution allowed for a better representation of the surface topography and associated surface dust lifting by wind stress, that is more consistent with observations. Global Dust Storm Events typically occurred if dust storm activity at northern Hellas Planitia connected with that at southern Chryse Planitia.

Lack Of Debye And Meissner Screening In Strongly Magnetized Quark Matter At Intermediate Densities, Bo Feng, Efrain J. Ferrer, Israel Portillo Mar 2020

#### Lack Of Debye And Meissner Screening In Strongly Magnetized Quark Matter At Intermediate Densities, Bo Feng, Efrain J. Ferrer, Israel Portillo

##### Physics and Astronomy Faculty Publications and Presentations

We study the static responses of cold quark matter in the intermediate baryonic density region (characterized by a chemical potential μ) in the presence of a strong-magnetic field. We consider in particular, the so-called magnetic dual Chiral Density Wave (MDCDW) phase, which is materialized by an inhomogeneous condensate formed by a particle-hole pair. It is shown, that the MDCDW phase is more stable in the weak-coupling regime than the one considered in the magnetic catalysis of chiral symmetry braking phenomenon and even than the chiral symmetric phase that was expected to be realized at sufficiently high baryonic chemical potential. The ...