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Sonscreen Film Festival Awards/Student Awarded Prestigious Scholarship, Andrews University Apr 2018

Sonscreen Film Festival Awards/Student Awarded Prestigious Scholarship, Andrews University

World Changers Made Here

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A Search For Tensor, Vector, And Scalar Polarizations In The Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background, Tiffany Summerscales, Ligo Scientific Collaboration And The Virgo Collaboration Feb 2018

A Search For Tensor, Vector, And Scalar Polarizations In The Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background, Tiffany Summerscales, Ligo Scientific Collaboration And The Virgo Collaboration

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The detection of gravitational waves with Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo has enabled novel tests of general relativity, including direct study of the polarization of gravitational waves. While general relativity allows for only two tensor gravitational-wave polarizations, general metric theories can additionally predict two vector and two scalar polarizations. The polarization of gravitational waves is encoded in the spectral shape of the stochastic gravitational-wave background, formed by the superposition of cosmological and individually-unresolved astrophysical sources. Using data recorded by Advanced LIGO during its first observing run, we search for a stochastic background of generically-polarized gravitational waves. We find no evidence …


Transfer Entropy And Cumulant Based Cost As Measures Of Nonlinear Causal Relationships In Space Plasmas: Applications To D St., Jay R. Johnson, Simon Wing, Enrico Camporeale Jan 2018

Transfer Entropy And Cumulant Based Cost As Measures Of Nonlinear Causal Relationships In Space Plasmas: Applications To D St., Jay R. Johnson, Simon Wing, Enrico Camporeale

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It is well known that the magnetospheric response to the solar wind is nonlinear. Information theoretical tools such as mutual information, transfer entropy, and cumulant based analysis are able to characterize the nonlinearities in the system. Using cumulant based cost, we show that nonlinear significance of D st peaks at 3–12 hours lags that can be attributed to VBs which also exhibit similar behavior. However, the nonlinear significance that peaks at lags 25, 50, and 90 hours can be attributed to internal dynamics, which may be related to the relaxation of the ring current. These peaks are absent in the …