Browsing by Author "Andreas Berlind"
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Siverd, Robert Joseph (2019-07-25)Department: AstrophysicsThe Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope (KELT) is an ongoing, wide-field, all-sky, time-domain photometric survey built to discover new transiting extrasolar planets of high scientific value orbiting bright host stars. ...
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Kidd, Daniel Wayne (2018-04-09)Department: PhysicsTime-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) is a widely used, formally exact approach for describing quantum many-body electron dynamics. This approach makes possible the theoretical investigation of laser-driven ...
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Richardson, Matthew Douglas (2017-03-28)Department: PhysicsUltra high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) are accelerated by the most energetic processes in the universe. Upon entering Earth’s atmosphere they produce particle showers known as extensive air showers (EASs). Observatories ...
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Watson, Douglas F. (2012-03-25)Department: PhysicsThe last decade has transformed the field of cosmology into a precision science. We now know to great accuracy that the matter content of the Universe consists of approximately 85% in the form of the mysterious dark matter ...
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Dunn, Glenna Caitlin (2019-07-19)Department: AstronomyObservations of our own galaxy and others near and far demonstrate that massive black holes live at the centers of most galaxies. The origin of these black holes is the subject of much debate. We study the birth of these ...
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Teets, William Kenneth (2012-04-04)Department: PhysicsWe have observed two erupting, pre-main sequence stars, V1647 Ori and EX Lupi, with the Chandra X-ray Observatory during their 2008 optical eruptions. Our intensive X-ray monitoring of these objects affords the opportunity ...
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Mack, Claude Ernest III (2014-12-30)Department: PhysicsIn the era of large-scale surveys for exoplanets, it is important to be aware of the pernicious false positives that can contaminate survey samples. In this dissertation, it is shown that all radial velocity surveys for ...
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Goncharov, Vladimir Anatoliy (2014-04-08)Department: PhysicsFramework for ab initio calculation of nonlinear optical susceptibilities on the level of Real Time Time Dependent Density Functional Theory was developed and implemented in high performance numerical codes. Methodology ...
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Delannoy Sotomayor, Andres Guillermo (2016-03-28)Department: PhysicsA first search for pair production of dark matter candidates through vector boson fusion, in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV, is performed with the CMS detector. The vector boson fusion topology enhances missing ...
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Florez Bustos, Carlos Andres (2011-08-30)Department: PhysicsHigh-mass states such as heavy gauge bosons (Z'), Kaluza-Klein resonances, and gravitons, all of which decay into di-lepton states, are predicted by several physics models. In this thesis a general search for high mass ...
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Monsue, Teresa Antoinette (2018-11-27)Department: PhysicsActive regions on the Sun are abundant with a variety of waves that are both acoustically helioseismic and magnetohydrodynamic in nature. The occurrence of a solar flare can disrupt these waves, by excitation of these waves ...
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Salas, Jorge Alberto (2017-08-24)Department: PhysicsThe Stochastic Variational Method using Explicitly Correlated Gaussians was employed for calculating the energies of systems consisting of few bosons, with gravitational, coulombic, soft-core Gaussian interactions and ...
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Piscionere, Jennifer Anne (2015-07-22)Department: PhysicsThis work aims to quantify the changing clustering of satellite galaxies in their host dark matter halo. I use three samples of Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) galaxies; the first sample is of galaxies in the local universe, ...
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Lang, Meagan Marie (2015-07-14)Department: PhysicsGalaxy interactions play a critical role in the growth and evolution of galaxies. While galaxy mergers are known to transform galaxies morphologically and kinematically in a myriad of ways, not all interactions lead to a ...
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Aarnio, Alicia N (2010-04-16)Department: PhysicsT Tauri stars, being pre-main sequence and solar mass, tell us what our Sun was like when it was very young. T Tauri stars and their protoplanetary disks are ideal astrophysical laboratories for studying the solar system ...
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Campbell, Lauren Elizabeth (2015-03-26)Department: PhysicsThis thesis uses two complementary techniques to mine the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) data to search for stars that are unbound to the Milky Way. A significant fraction of a galaxy's light may come from a population ...