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Tess Discovery Of An Ultra-Short-Period Planet Around The Nearby M Dwarf Lhs 3844, R. Vanderspek, C. X. Huang, A. Vanderburg, G. R. Ricker, D. W. Latham, S. Seager, J. N. Winn, J. M. Jenkins, J. Burt, J. Dittmann, E. Newton, S. N. Quinn, A. Shporer, D. Charbonneau, J. Irwin, K. Ment, J. G. Winters, K. A. Collins, P. Evans, T. Gan, R. Hart, Eric L.N. Jensen, J. Kielkopf, S. Mao, W. Waalkes, F. Bouchy, M. Marmier, L. D. Nielsen, G. Ottoni, F. Pepe, D. Ségransan, S. Udry, T. Henry, L. A. Paredes, H.-S. James, R. H. Hinojosa, M. L. Silverstein, E. Palle, Z. Berta-Thompson, I. Crossfield, M. D. Davies, D. Dragomir, M. Fausnaugh, A. Glidden, J. Pepper, E. H. Morgan, M. Rose, J. D. Twicken, J. N. S. Villaseñor, L. Yu, G. Bakos, J. Bean, L. A. Buchhave, J. Christensen-Dalsgaard, J. L. Christiansen, D. R. Ciardi, M. Clampin, N. De Lee, D. Deming, J. Doty, J. G. Jernigan, L. Kaltenegger, J. J. Lissauer, P. R. Mccullough, N. Narita, M. Paegert, A. Pal, S. Rinehart, D. Sasselov, B. Sato, A. Sozzetti, K. G. Stassun, G. Torres Feb 2019

Tess Discovery Of An Ultra-Short-Period Planet Around The Nearby M Dwarf Lhs 3844, R. Vanderspek, C. X. Huang, A. Vanderburg, G. R. Ricker, D. W. Latham, S. Seager, J. N. Winn, J. M. Jenkins, J. Burt, J. Dittmann, E. Newton, S. N. Quinn, A. Shporer, D. Charbonneau, J. Irwin, K. Ment, J. G. Winters, K. A. Collins, P. Evans, T. Gan, R. Hart, Eric L.N. Jensen, J. Kielkopf, S. Mao, W. Waalkes, F. Bouchy, M. Marmier, L. D. Nielsen, G. Ottoni, F. Pepe, D. Ségransan, S. Udry, T. Henry, L. A. Paredes, H.-S. James, R. H. Hinojosa, M. L. Silverstein, E. Palle, Z. Berta-Thompson, I. Crossfield, M. D. Davies, D. Dragomir, M. Fausnaugh, A. Glidden, J. Pepper, E. H. Morgan, M. Rose, J. D. Twicken, J. N. S. Villaseñor, L. Yu, G. Bakos, J. Bean, L. A. Buchhave, J. Christensen-Dalsgaard, J. L. Christiansen, D. R. Ciardi, M. Clampin, N. De Lee, D. Deming, J. Doty, J. G. Jernigan, L. Kaltenegger, J. J. Lissauer, P. R. Mccullough, N. Narita, M. Paegert, A. Pal, S. Rinehart, D. Sasselov, B. Sato, A. Sozzetti, K. G. Stassun, G. Torres

Physics & Astronomy Faculty Works

Data from the newly commissioned Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite has revealed a "hot Earth" around LHS 3844, an M dwarf located 15 pc away. The planet has a radius of 1.303 ± 0.022 R⊕ and orbits the star every 11 hr. Although the existence of an atmosphere around such a strongly irradiated planet is questionable, the star is bright enough (I = 11.9, K = 9.1) for this possibility to be investigated with transit and occultation spectroscopy. The star's brightness and the planet's short period will also facilitate the measurement of the planet's mass through Doppler spectroscopy.


Multileptonic Signals Of Co-Annihilating Left-Right Supersymmetric Dark Matter, Arindam Chatterjee, Mariana Frank, Benjamin Fuks, Katri Huitu, Subhadeep Mondal, Santosh Kumar Rai, Harri Waltari Feb 2019

Multileptonic Signals Of Co-Annihilating Left-Right Supersymmetric Dark Matter, Arindam Chatterjee, Mariana Frank, Benjamin Fuks, Katri Huitu, Subhadeep Mondal, Santosh Kumar Rai, Harri Waltari

Journal Articles

We perform a comprehensive dark matter analysis of left-right supersymmetric scenarios that includes constraints from dark matter direct and indirect detection experiments and that presents distinctive features from those available in minimal supersymmetry. We concentrate on dark matter candidates which, while satisfying all constraints, are different from those of the minimal supersymmetric standard model. We consider in our analysis all possible co-annihilation channels relevant for setups in which several states are light and nearly degenerate, and devise a set of representative benchmark points, requiring co-annihilations, which satisfy all restrictions. We then study their consequent LHC signals, which exhibit promising new …


The Dependence Of Intrinsic Alignment Of Galaxies On Wavelength Using Kids And Gama, Christos Georgiou, Harry Johnston, Henk Hoekstra, Massimo Viola, Konrad Kuijken, Benjamin Joachimi, Nora Elisa Chisari, Daniel J. Farrow, Hendrik Hildebrandt, Benne W. Holwerda, Arun Kannawadi Feb 2019

The Dependence Of Intrinsic Alignment Of Galaxies On Wavelength Using Kids And Gama, Christos Georgiou, Harry Johnston, Henk Hoekstra, Massimo Viola, Konrad Kuijken, Benjamin Joachimi, Nora Elisa Chisari, Daniel J. Farrow, Hendrik Hildebrandt, Benne W. Holwerda, Arun Kannawadi

Faculty and Staff Scholarship

The outer regions of galaxies are more susceptible to the tidal interactions that lead to intrinsic alignments of galaxies. The resulting alignment signal may therefore depend on the passband if the colours of galaxies vary spatially. To quantify this, we measured the shapes of galaxies with spectroscopic redshifts from the GAMA survey using deep gri imaging data from the KiloDegree Survey. The performance of the moment-based shape measurement algorithm DEIMOS was assessed using dedicated image simulations, which showed that the ellipticities could be determined with an accuracy better than 1% in all bands. Additional tests for potential systematic errors did …


Applications Of Information Theory In Solar And Space Physics, Jay R. Johnson, Simon Wing Feb 2019

Applications Of Information Theory In Solar And Space Physics, Jay R. Johnson, Simon Wing

Faculty Publications

Characterizing and modeling processes at the sun and space plasma in our solar system are difficult because the underlying physics is often complex, nonlinear, and not well understood. The drivers of a system are often nonlinearly correlated with one another, which makes it a challenge to understand the relative effects caused by each driver. However, entropy-based information theory can be a valuable tool that can be used to determine the information flow among various parameters, causalities, untangle the drivers, and provide observational constraints that can help guide the development of the theories and physics-based models. We review two examples of …


A Concept Of Biopharmaceutical Nanosatellite, Jakub Mielczarek, Adam Zadrozny Feb 2019

A Concept Of Biopharmaceutical Nanosatellite, Jakub Mielczarek, Adam Zadrozny

Physics & Astronomy Faculty Publications

The article is a short overview of a proposal of a CubeSat type nanosatellite designed to conduct biopharmaceutical tests on the low earth orbit. Motivations behind the emerging demand for such solution nowadays and in the close future are emphasized. The possible objectives and challenges to be addressed in the planned biopharmaceutical CubeSat missions are discussed. In particular, it is hard to imagine progress of the space tourism and colonization of Mars without a wide-ranging development of pharmaceutics dedicated to be used in space. Finally, an exemplary layout of a 3U type CubeSat is presented. We stress that, thanks to …


Cosmology, Craig W. Steele Jan 2019

Cosmology, Craig W. Steele

Journal of Humanistic Mathematics

No abstract provided.


Astronomy For Educators, Daniel E. Barth Jan 2019

Astronomy For Educators, Daniel E. Barth

Open Educational Resources

Astronomy for Educators provides new and accomplished K-12 instructors with concepts and projects for low-cost, high-impact STEM classroom instruction that is built around the National Academies National Research Council's K-12 Framework for Science Education.


Late Delivery Of Nitrogen To The Earth, Cheng Chen, Jeremy L. Smallwood, Rebecca G. Martin, Mario Livio Jan 2019

Late Delivery Of Nitrogen To The Earth, Cheng Chen, Jeremy L. Smallwood, Rebecca G. Martin, Mario Livio

Physics & Astronomy Faculty Research

Atmospheric nitrogen may be a necessary ingredient for the habitability of a planet as its presence helps to prevent water loss from a planet. The present-day nitrogen isotopic ratio, N-15/N-14, in the Earth's atmosphere is a combination of the primitive Earth's ratio and the ratio that might have been delivered in comets and asteroids. Asteroids have a nitrogen isotopic ratio that is close to the Earth's. This indicates either a similar formation environment to the Earth or that the main source of nitrogen was delivery by asteroids. However, according to geological records, the Earth's atmosphere could have been enriched in …


A Fermi Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor Search For Electromagnetic Signals Coincident With Gravitational-Wave Candidates In Advanced Ligo's First Observing Run, E. Burns, Teviet Creighton, Mario C. Diaz, Soma Mukherjee, Volker Quetschke, Malik Rakhmanov, Karla E. Ramirez, Robert Stone, Darkhan Tuyenbayev, Wenhui Wang Jan 2019

A Fermi Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor Search For Electromagnetic Signals Coincident With Gravitational-Wave Candidates In Advanced Ligo's First Observing Run, E. Burns, Teviet Creighton, Mario C. Diaz, Soma Mukherjee, Volker Quetschke, Malik Rakhmanov, Karla E. Ramirez, Robert Stone, Darkhan Tuyenbayev, Wenhui Wang

Physics & Astronomy Faculty Publications

We present a search for prompt gamma-ray counterparts to compact binary coalescence gravitational wave (GW) candidates from Advanced LIGO's first observing run (O1). As demonstrated by the multimessenger observations of GW170817/GRB 170817A, electromagnetic and GW observations provide complementary information about the astrophysical source, and in the case of weaker candidates, may strengthen the case for an astrophysical origin. Here we investigate low-significance GW candidates from the O1 compact binary coalescence searches using the Fermi Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor (GBM), leveraging its all sky and broad energy coverage. Candidates are ranked and compared to background to measure the significance. Those with false …


A Complete Analytic Gravitational Wave Model For Undergraduates, Dillon Buskirk, Maria Babiuc-Hamilton Jan 2019

A Complete Analytic Gravitational Wave Model For Undergraduates, Dillon Buskirk, Maria Babiuc-Hamilton

Physics Faculty Research

Gravitational waves are produced by orbiting massive binary objects, such as black holes and neutron stars, and propagate as ripples in the very fabric of space-time. As the waves carry off orbital energy, the two bodies spiral into each other and eventually merge. They are described by Einstein's equations of general relativity. For the early phase of the orbit, called the inspiral, Einstein equations can be linearised and solved through analytical approximations, while for the late phase, near the merger, we need to solve the fully nonlinear Einstein's equations on supercomputers. In order to recover the gravitational wave for the …


Dynamical Instability And Its Implications For Planetary System Architecture, Dong-Hong Wu, Rachel C. Zang, Ji-Lin Zhou, Jason H. Steffen Jan 2019

Dynamical Instability And Its Implications For Planetary System Architecture, Dong-Hong Wu, Rachel C. Zang, Ji-Lin Zhou, Jason H. Steffen

Physics & Astronomy Faculty Research

We examine the effects that dynamical instability has on shaping the orbital properties of exoplanetary systems. Using N-body simulations of non-EMS (Equal Mutual Separation), multiplanet systems we find that the lower limit of the instability time-scale t is determined by the minimal mutual separation Kmin in units of the mutual Hill radius. Planetary systems showing instability generally include planet pairs with period ratio... (See abstract in article).


Kinematic Links And The Coevolution Of Mhd Winds, Jets, And Inner Disks From A High-Resolution Optical [Oi] Survey, Andrea Banzatti, Ilaria Pascucci, Suzan Edwards, Min Fang, Uma Gorti, Mario Flock Jan 2019

Kinematic Links And The Coevolution Of Mhd Winds, Jets, And Inner Disks From A High-Resolution Optical [Oi] Survey, Andrea Banzatti, Ilaria Pascucci, Suzan Edwards, Min Fang, Uma Gorti, Mario Flock

Astronomy: Faculty Publications

We present a survey of optical [O I] emission at 6300 Å toward 65 T Tauri stars at the spectral resolution of ∼7 km s−1 . Past work identified a highly blueshifted velocity component (HVC) tracing microjets and a less blueshifted low-velocity component (LVC) attributed to winds. We focus here on the LVC kinematics to investigate links between winds, jets, accretion, and disk dispersal. We track the behavior of four types of LVC components: a broad and a narrow component (“BC” and “NC,” respectively) in LVCs that are decomposed into two Gaussians which typically have an HVC, and single-Gaussian LVC …


Search For Multimessenger Sources Of Gravitational Waves And High-Energy Neutrinos With Advanced Ligo During Its First Observing Run Antares And Icecube, A. Albert, Teviet Creighton, Mario C. Diaz, Soma Mukherjee, Volker Quetschke, Malik Rakhmanov, Karla E. Ramirez, Satzhan Sitmukhambetov, Robert Stone, Darkhan Tuyenbayev, Wenhui Wang, Adam Zadrozny Jan 2019

Search For Multimessenger Sources Of Gravitational Waves And High-Energy Neutrinos With Advanced Ligo During Its First Observing Run Antares And Icecube, A. Albert, Teviet Creighton, Mario C. Diaz, Soma Mukherjee, Volker Quetschke, Malik Rakhmanov, Karla E. Ramirez, Satzhan Sitmukhambetov, Robert Stone, Darkhan Tuyenbayev, Wenhui Wang, Adam Zadrozny

Physics & Astronomy Faculty Publications

Astrophysical sources of gravitational waves, such as binary neutron star and black hole mergers or core-collapse supernovae, can drive relativistic outflows, giving rise to non-thermal high-energy emission. High-energy neutrinos are signatures of such outflows. The detection of gravitational waves and high-energy neutrinos from common sources could help establish the connection between the dynamics of the progenitor and the properties of the outflow. We searched for associated emission of gravitational waves and high-energy neutrinos from astrophysical transients with minimal assumptions using data from Advanced LIGO from its first observing run O1, and data from the Antares and IceCube neutrino observatories from …


Electron Density Topological And Adsorbate Orbital Analyses Of Water And Carbon Monoxide Co-Adsorption On Platinum, Nicholas Dimakis, Isaiah Salas, Luis Gonzalez, Neili Loupe, Eugene S. Smotkin Jan 2019

Electron Density Topological And Adsorbate Orbital Analyses Of Water And Carbon Monoxide Co-Adsorption On Platinum, Nicholas Dimakis, Isaiah Salas, Luis Gonzalez, Neili Loupe, Eugene S. Smotkin

Physics & Astronomy Faculty Publications

The electron density topology of carbon monoxide (CO) on dry and hydrated platinum is evaluated under the quantum theory of atoms in molecules (QTAIM) and by adsorbate orbital approaches. The impact of water co-adsorbate on the electronic, structural, and vibrational properties of CO on Pt are modelled by periodic density functional theory (DFT). At low CO coverage, increased hydration weakens C-O bonds and strengthens C-Pt bonds, as verified by changes in bond lengths and stretching frequencies. These results are consistent with QTAIM, the 5σ donation-2π∗ backdonation model, and our extended Ï€-attraction σ-repulsion model (extended Ï€-σ model). This work links changes …


Wallaby Early Science – Ii. The Ngc 7232 Galaxy Group, K. Lee-Waddell, Bärbel S. Koribalski, Tobias Westmeier, A. Elagali, B-Q For, D. Kleiner, Juan P. Madrid, A. Popping, T. N. Reynolds, J. Rhee Jan 2019

Wallaby Early Science – Ii. The Ngc 7232 Galaxy Group, K. Lee-Waddell, Bärbel S. Koribalski, Tobias Westmeier, A. Elagali, B-Q For, D. Kleiner, Juan P. Madrid, A. Popping, T. N. Reynolds, J. Rhee

Physics & Astronomy Faculty Publications

We report on neutral hydrogen (H I) observations of the NGC 7232 group with the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP). These observations were conducted as part of the Wide-field ASKAP L-Band Legacy All-sky Blind surveY (WALLABY) Early Science program with an array of 12 ASKAP antennas equipped with Phased Array Feeds, which were used to form 36 beams to map a field of view of 30 deg2. Analysing a subregion of the central beams, we detect 17 H I sources. Eleven of these detections are identified as galaxies and have stellar counterparts, of which five are newly resolved H …


Results From The Cuore Experiment †, Alessio Caminata, Douglas Adams, Chris Alduino, Krystal Alfonso, Frank Avignone Iii, Oscar Azzolini, Giacomo Bari, Fabio Bellini, Giovanni Benato, Andrea Bersani, Matteo Biassoni, Antonio Branca, Chiara Brofferio, Carlo Bucci, Alice Campani, Lucia Canonica, Xi-Guang Cao, Silvia Capelli, Luigi Cappelli, Laura Cardani, Paolo Carniti, Et. Al. Jan 2019

Results From The Cuore Experiment †, Alessio Caminata, Douglas Adams, Chris Alduino, Krystal Alfonso, Frank Avignone Iii, Oscar Azzolini, Giacomo Bari, Fabio Bellini, Giovanni Benato, Andrea Bersani, Matteo Biassoni, Antonio Branca, Chiara Brofferio, Carlo Bucci, Alice Campani, Lucia Canonica, Xi-Guang Cao, Silvia Capelli, Luigi Cappelli, Laura Cardani, Paolo Carniti, Et. Al.

Faculty Publications

The Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events (CUORE) is the first bolometric experiment searching for neutrinoless double beta decay that has been able to reach the 1-ton scale. The detector consists of an array of 988 TeO2 crystals arranged in a cylindrical compact structure of 19 towers, each of them made of 52 crystals. The construction of the experiment was completed in August 2016 and the data taking started in spring 2017 after a period of commissioning and tests. In this work we present the neutrinoless double beta decay results of CUORE from examining a total TeO2 exposure …


Results From The Cuore Experiment, Alessio Caminata, Douglass Adams, Chris Aldunio, Krystal Alfonso, Frank Avignone Iii, Oscar Azzolini, Giacomo Bari, Fabio Bellini, Giovanni Benato, Andrea Bersani, Matteo Biassoni, Antonio Branca, Chiara Brofferio, Carlo Bucci, Alice Campani, Lucia Canonica, Xi-Guang Cao, Silvia Capelli, Luigi Cappelli, Laura Cardani, Paolo Carniti, Nicola Casali, Davide Chiesa, Nicholas Chott, Massimiliano Clemenza, Simone Copello, Carlo Cosmelli, Oliviero Cremonesi, Richard Creswick, Jeremy Cushman, Antonio D’Addabbo, Damiano D'Aguanno, Ioan Dafinei, Christopher Davis, Stefano Dell’Oro, Milena Deninno, Sergio Di Domizio, Valentina Dompè, Alexey Drobizhev, De-Qing Fang, Guido Fantini, Marco Faverzani, Elena Ferri, Fernando Ferroni, Ettore Fiorini, Massimo Alberto Franceschi, Stuart Freedman, Brian Fujikawa, Andrea Giachero, Luca Gironi, Andrea Giuliani, Paolo Gorla, Claudio Gotti, Thomas Gutierrez, Ke Han, Karsten Heeger, Roger Huang, Huan Zhong Huang, Joe Johnston, Giorgio Keppel, Yury Kolomensky, Alexander Leder, Carlo Ligi, Yu-Gang Ma, Laura Marini, Maria Martinez, Reina Maruyama, Yuan Mei, Niccolo Moggi, Silvio Morganti, Tommaso Napolitano, Massimiliano Nastasi, Claudia Nones, Eric Norman, Valentina Novati, Angelo Nucciotti, Irene Nutini, Thomas O’Donnell, Jonathan Ouellet, Carmine Pagliarone, Marco Pallavicini, Luca Pattavina, Maura Pavan, Gianluigi Pessina, Valerio Pettinacci, Cristian Pira, Stefano Pirro, Stefano Pozzi, Ezio Previtali, Andrei Puiu, Carl Rosenfeld, Claudia Rusconi, Michinari Sakai, Samuele Sangiorgio, Benjamin Schmidt, Nick Scielzo, Vivek Singh, Monica Sisti, Danielle Speller, Luca Taffarello, Francesco Terranova, Claudia Tomei, Marco Vignati, Sachinthya Wagaarachchi, Barbara Wang, Bradford Welliver, Jeffrey Wilson, Kevin Wilson, Lindley Winslow, Tom Wise, Luigi Zanotti, Sergio Zimmermann, Stefano Zucchelli Jan 2019

Results From The Cuore Experiment, Alessio Caminata, Douglass Adams, Chris Aldunio, Krystal Alfonso, Frank Avignone Iii, Oscar Azzolini, Giacomo Bari, Fabio Bellini, Giovanni Benato, Andrea Bersani, Matteo Biassoni, Antonio Branca, Chiara Brofferio, Carlo Bucci, Alice Campani, Lucia Canonica, Xi-Guang Cao, Silvia Capelli, Luigi Cappelli, Laura Cardani, Paolo Carniti, Nicola Casali, Davide Chiesa, Nicholas Chott, Massimiliano Clemenza, Simone Copello, Carlo Cosmelli, Oliviero Cremonesi, Richard Creswick, Jeremy Cushman, Antonio D’Addabbo, Damiano D'Aguanno, Ioan Dafinei, Christopher Davis, Stefano Dell’Oro, Milena Deninno, Sergio Di Domizio, Valentina Dompè, Alexey Drobizhev, De-Qing Fang, Guido Fantini, Marco Faverzani, Elena Ferri, Fernando Ferroni, Ettore Fiorini, Massimo Alberto Franceschi, Stuart Freedman, Brian Fujikawa, Andrea Giachero, Luca Gironi, Andrea Giuliani, Paolo Gorla, Claudio Gotti, Thomas Gutierrez, Ke Han, Karsten Heeger, Roger Huang, Huan Zhong Huang, Joe Johnston, Giorgio Keppel, Yury Kolomensky, Alexander Leder, Carlo Ligi, Yu-Gang Ma, Laura Marini, Maria Martinez, Reina Maruyama, Yuan Mei, Niccolo Moggi, Silvio Morganti, Tommaso Napolitano, Massimiliano Nastasi, Claudia Nones, Eric Norman, Valentina Novati, Angelo Nucciotti, Irene Nutini, Thomas O’Donnell, Jonathan Ouellet, Carmine Pagliarone, Marco Pallavicini, Luca Pattavina, Maura Pavan, Gianluigi Pessina, Valerio Pettinacci, Cristian Pira, Stefano Pirro, Stefano Pozzi, Ezio Previtali, Andrei Puiu, Carl Rosenfeld, Claudia Rusconi, Michinari Sakai, Samuele Sangiorgio, Benjamin Schmidt, Nick Scielzo, Vivek Singh, Monica Sisti, Danielle Speller, Luca Taffarello, Francesco Terranova, Claudia Tomei, Marco Vignati, Sachinthya Wagaarachchi, Barbara Wang, Bradford Welliver, Jeffrey Wilson, Kevin Wilson, Lindley Winslow, Tom Wise, Luigi Zanotti, Sergio Zimmermann, Stefano Zucchelli

Faculty Publications

The Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events (CUORE) is the first bolometric experiment searching for neutrinoless double beta decay that has been able to reach the 1-ton scale. The detector consists of an array of 988 TeO2 crystals arranged in a cylindrical compact structure of 19 towers, each of them made of 52 crystals. The construction of the experiment was completed in August 2016 and the data taking started in spring 2017 after a period of commissioning and tests. In this work we present the neutrinoless double beta decay results of CUORE from examining a total TeO2 exposure of 86.3kgyr …


Louisiana Tech University Department Of Physics Astronomical Observatory Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University Jan 2019

Louisiana Tech University Department Of Physics Astronomical Observatory Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

Manuscript Finding Aids

Correspondence relating to establishing an astronomical observatory at Louisiana Tech University, 1963-1970, and undated constitution of the Louisiana Tech Astronomical Society.


Identified Flying Objects: A Multidisciplinary Scientific Approach To The Ufo Phenomenon, Dr. Michael P. Masters Jan 2019

Identified Flying Objects: A Multidisciplinary Scientific Approach To The Ufo Phenomenon, Dr. Michael P. Masters

Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences Books

Identified Flying Objects cautiously examines the premise that ‘UFOs’ & ‘Aliens’ are simply our distant human descendants, returning from the future to study their own hominin evolutionary past. This text challenges readers to consider new possibilities while cultivating conversations about our ever-evolving understanding of time & time travel.


Analytic Modeling Of Eccentric Binary Black Holes : From Inspiral To Merger, Dillon Paige Buskirk Jan 2019

Analytic Modeling Of Eccentric Binary Black Holes : From Inspiral To Merger, Dillon Paige Buskirk

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

The orbital evolution of black hole binaries is described by two main phases: the inspiral and the merger. Using the post-Newtonian (PN) theory for the inspiral phase of the binary, we build up a Mathematica script to obtain strain waveforms for the inspiral. We expand our previous inspiral formulation to include eccentric orbits, which greatly complicates the calculations. Since this model breaks down as the two bodies approach merger, a separate model for the merger and ring-down is required. This part of the evolution is highly non-linear and numerical relativity (NR) is required to simulate this problem. However, this is …


Gwtc-1: A Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog Of Compact Binary Mergers Observed By Ligo And Virgo During The First And Second Observing Runs, B. P. Abbott Jan 2019

Gwtc-1: A Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog Of Compact Binary Mergers Observed By Ligo And Virgo During The First And Second Observing Runs, B. P. Abbott

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

We present the results from three gravitational-wave searches for coalescing compact binaries with component masses above 1 M⊙ during the first and second observing runs of the advanced gravitationalwave detector network. During the first observing run (O1), from September 12, 2015 to January 19, 2016, gravitational waves from three binary black hole mergers were detected. The second observing run (O2), which ran from November 30, 2016 to August 25, 2017, saw the first detection of gravitational waves from a binary neutron star inspiral, in addition to the observation of gravitational waves from a total of seven binary black hole mergers, …


Ua66/11/1 Ogden College Of Science & Engineering Physics & Astronomy Publications, Wku Archives Jan 2019

Ua66/11/1 Ogden College Of Science & Engineering Physics & Astronomy Publications, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Publications by and about the Department of Physics and Astronomy.


Ua1c2/36 Hardin Planetarium Photos, Wku Archives Jan 2019

Ua1c2/36 Hardin Planetarium Photos, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Images of Hardin Planetarium


The Dark Sky Character Of Archaeological Landscapes: Cultural Meaning And Conservation Strategies, Frank Prendergast Jan 2019

The Dark Sky Character Of Archaeological Landscapes: Cultural Meaning And Conservation Strategies, Frank Prendergast

Book/Book Chapter

This paper presents the first ever study of light pollution at selected Irish prehistoric archaeological landscapes. The concepts of cosmology and landscape are first briefly described and followed by a summary of early human settlement of the island. Building on this, the extant corpus of early prehistoric megalithic burial tombs is illustrated to show their contrasting distribution patterns and typology. Analysis of tomb locations using nearest-neighbour statistical methods reveals evidence of intentional clustering. Further geo-statistical analysis identifies the geographical locations and the density ranking of these nucleated clusters - a feature especially evident in the passage tomb tradition on this …


Principal Component Analysis Of The Magnetic Transition In The Three-Dimensional Fermi-Hubbard Model, Ehsan Khatami Jan 2019

Principal Component Analysis Of The Magnetic Transition In The Three-Dimensional Fermi-Hubbard Model, Ehsan Khatami

Faculty Publications

Machine learning techniques have been widely used in the study of strongly correlated systems in recent years. Here, we review some applications to classical and quantum many-body systems and present results from an unsupervised machine learning technique, the principal component analysis, employed to identify the finite-temperature phase transition of the three-dimensional Fermi-Hubbard model to the antiferromagnetically ordered state. We find that this linear method can capture the phase transition as well as other more complicated and nonlinear counterparts.


Gemini, Michael Dalton Jan 2019

Gemini, Michael Dalton

Natural Sciences Student Research Presentations

This poster for the Natural Sciences Poster Session at Parkland College features the constellation Gemini, including a calculation of the change in rise time to determine the length of a year, determining the life span of the major stars in the constellation, identifying Messier objects within the region as well as the mythology behind the name of the constellation.


Spacetime Groups, Ian M. Anderson, Charles G. Torre Jan 2019

Spacetime Groups, Ian M. Anderson, Charles G. Torre

Publications

A spacetime group is a connected 4-dimensional Lie group G endowed with a left invariant Lorentz metric h and such that the connected component of the isometry group of h is G itself. The Newman-Penrose formalism is used to give an algebraic classification of spacetime groups, that is, we determine a complete list of inequivalent spacetime Lie algebras, which are pairs (g,η), with g being a 4-dimensional Lie algebra and η being a Lorentzian inner product on g. A full analysis of the equivalence problem for spacetime Lie algebras is given which leads to a completely algorithmic solution to the …


Ua66/11/3 Ogden College Of Science & Engineering Physics & Astronomy Student Organizations, Wku Archives Jan 2019

Ua66/11/3 Ogden College Of Science & Engineering Physics & Astronomy Student Organizations, Wku Archives

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Records created by and about student organizations associated with the Physics and Astronomy.


Ua66/12 Ogden College Of Science & Engineering Hardin Planetarium, Wku Archives Jan 2019

Ua66/12 Ogden College Of Science & Engineering Hardin Planetarium, Wku Archives

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Records created by and about the Hardin Planetarium.


Ua66/11/2 Ogden College Of Science & Engineering Physics & Astronomy Administration, Wku Archives Jan 2019

Ua66/11/2 Ogden College Of Science & Engineering Physics & Astronomy Administration, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Records created by and about the administration of Physics and Astronomy.