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Modeling Gravitational-Wave Sources For Pulsar Timing Arrays, Joseph Simon
Modeling Gravitational-Wave Sources For Pulsar Timing Arrays, Joseph Simon
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The recent direct detections of gravitational waves (GWs) from merging black holes by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) marks the beginning of the era of GW astronomy and promises to transform fundamental physics. In the coming years, there is hope for detections across the mass scale of binary black holes.
Pulsar Timing Arrays (PTAs) are galactic-scale low-frequency (nHz - $\mu$Hz) GW observatories, which aim to directly detect GWs from binary supermassive black holes (SMBHs) ($\gtrsim 10^{7} \msun$). The frequency and black hole mass range that PTAs are sensitive to is orders of magnitude different from those LIGO is observing, …
Galactic Outflows And Their Correlations With Galaxy Properties At 0.8 < Z < 1.6, Lindsey Whiting
Galactic Outflows And Their Correlations With Galaxy Properties At 0.8 < Z < 1.6, Lindsey Whiting
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Out
ows have been shown to be ubiquitous in galaxies between z = 1 and z=2,
and many models and observations have attempted to correlate the absorption line
properties of these out
ows with morphological characteristics of their host galaxies.
In this study, we examined the spectra of 71 galaxies with redshifts 1< z<2, paying
particular attention to the FeII and MgII absorption lines. We plotted the equivalent
width, velocity, and maximum velocity of the absorption features against various
physical properties of the galaxies, obtained from catalogues created by Skelton et
al., (2014) and van der Wel et al., (2012). We conrmed …