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Generating Light Curves From Simulated Active Galactic Nuclei Data, William Yuan Aug 2022

Generating Light Curves From Simulated Active Galactic Nuclei Data, William Yuan

Undergraduate Student Research Internships Conference

Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) are growing supermassive black holes found at the centers of massive galaxies. My research involves gathering data by simulating the light emitted by AGN, and then plotting the simulated light in the form of light curves.


Where Are The Habitable Planets In Our Local Group Of Galaxies?, William C. Windsor Aug 2022

Where Are The Habitable Planets In Our Local Group Of Galaxies?, William C. Windsor

Undergraduate Student Research Internships Conference

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Analytic Models Of Brown Dwarfs And The Substellar Mass Limit, Sree Ram Valluri, Shantanu Basu, Sayantan Auddy Jun 2016

Analytic Models Of Brown Dwarfs And The Substellar Mass Limit, Sree Ram Valluri, Shantanu Basu, Sayantan Auddy

Physics and Astronomy Publications

We present the analytic theory of brown dwarf evolution and the lower mass limit of the hydrogen burning main-sequence stars and introduce some modifications to the existing models. We give an exact expression for the pressure of an ideal nonrelativistic Fermi gas at a finite temperature, therefore allowing for nonzero values of the degeneracy parameter. We review the derivation of surface luminosity using an entropy matching condition and the first-order phase transition between the molecular hydrogen in the outer envelope and the partially ionized hydrogen in the inner region.We also discuss the results of modern simulations of the plasma phase …


Gravitational Wave Background In The Quasi-Steady State Cosmology, Sree Ram Valluri, Sayantan Auddy, J V. Narlikar, S V. Dhurandhar, R G. Vishwakarma Apr 2015

Gravitational Wave Background In The Quasi-Steady State Cosmology, Sree Ram Valluri, Sayantan Auddy, J V. Narlikar, S V. Dhurandhar, R G. Vishwakarma

Physics and Astronomy Publications

This paper calculates the expected gravitational wave background (GWB) in the quasi-steady state cosmology (QSSC). The principal sources of gravitational waves in the QSSC are the mini-creation events (MCE). With suitable assumptions the GWB can be computed both numerically and with analytical methods. It is argued that the GWB in QSSC differs from that predicted for the standard cosmology and a future technology of detectors will be able to decide between the two predictions. We also derive a formula for the flux density of a typical extragalactic source of gravitational waves.


D-Dimensional Bose Gases And The Lambert W Function, Sree Ram Valluri, J Tanguay, M Gil, D J. Jeffrey Dec 2010

D-Dimensional Bose Gases And The Lambert W Function, Sree Ram Valluri, J Tanguay, M Gil, D J. Jeffrey

Physics and Astronomy Publications

The applications of the Lambert W function (also known as the W function) to D-dimensional Bose gases are presented. We introduce two sets of families of logarithmic transcendental equations that occur frequently in thermodynamics and statistical mechanics and present their solution in terms of the W function. The low temperature T behavior of free ideal Bose gases is considered in three and four dimensions. It is shown that near condensation in four dimensions, the chemical potential μ and pressure P can be expressed in terms of T through the W function. The low T behavior of one- and two-dimensional ideal …