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Author:

Panaitescu, Alin-Daniel

Title:

Gamma-Ray Bursts and Afterglows from Relativistic Fireballs

Graduate Program:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords:

relativistic hydrodynamics
non-thermal emission
synchrotron
inverse Compton

File:

Download etd.pdf

Committee Members:

Steinn Sigurdsson, Committee Member
Pablo Laguna, Committee Member
Peter Istvan Meszaros, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
George Pavlov, Committee Member
Samuel Finn, Committee Member

Author:

Mandell, Avram M.

Title:

THE EFFECTS OF CIRCUMSTELLAR GAS ON TERRESTRIAL PLANET FORMATION: THEORY AND OBSERVATION

Graduate Program:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords:

planet formation
habitable planets
astrobiology
circumstellar disks

File:

Download Mandell_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Steinn Sigurdsson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael J Mumma, Committee Member
Eric D Feigelson, Committee Member
John Andrew Nousek, Committee Member
Richard Alan Wade, Committee Member
Christopher Howard House, Committee Member

Author:

Cucchiara, Antonino

Title:

Gamma-Ray Burst Afterglows as probes of their host galaxies and the Cosmos

Graduate Program:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords:

Gamma-ray Bursts
Afterglow
MgII
GRB
absorbers
redshift

File:

Download Cucchiara_thesis_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Derek Brindley Fox, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Derek Brindley Fox, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael Eracleous, Committee Member
Jane Camilla Charlton, Committee Member
Peter Istvan Meszaros, Committee Member
Irina Mocioiu, Committee Member

Author:

Narayanan, Anand

Title:

The Origins and Evolution of Weak Low Ionization Quasar Absorption Line Systems

Graduate Program:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords:

quasar absorption lines
galaxies
intergalactic medium
spectroscopy
absorption lines
circumgalactic gas
high velocity clouds

File:

Download Thesis_AN.pdf

Committee Members:

Jane Camilla Charlton, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Eric D Feigelson, Committee Member
Derek Brindley Fox, Committee Member
Gordon Paul Garmire, Committee Member
Milton Walter Cole, Committee Member

Author:

Lehmer, Bret D

Title:

Characterizing the X-ray Properties and Evolution of Distant Galaxies Using Deep Extragalactic Surveys

Graduate Program:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords:

normal galaxies
astronomy
X-rays
Chandra

File:

Download blehmer-thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

W Nielsen Brandt, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Donald P Schneider, Committee Member
Michael Eracleous, Committee Member
Caryl Ann Gronwall, Committee Member
Douglas Cowen, Committee Member

Author:

Smith, Britton Devon

Title:

The Transition from Population III to Population II Star Formation in the Early Universe

Graduate Program:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords:

numerical simulation
cosmology
star formation

File:

Download Britton_Smith_PhD_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Steinn Sigurdsson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Niel Brandt, Committee Member
Jane Camilla Charlton, Committee Member
Deirdre Shoemaker, Committee Member
Richard Alan Wade, Committee Member

Author:

Miller, Brendan Peter

Title:

X-ray insights into jets and outflows in radio-loud quasars

Graduate Program:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords:

broad absorption line
quasar jets
quasars
x-ray astronomy

File:

Download bpm168.pdf

Committee Members:

Niel Brandt, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
William N Brandt, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael Eracleous, Committee Member
Donald P Schneider, Committee Member
Richard Wallace Robinett, Committee Member
Gordon Paul Garmire, Committee Member

Author:

Luo, Bin

Title:

X-ray and Multiwavelength Studies of Active Galactic Nuclei in the Chandra Deep Fields

Graduate Program:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords:

galaxies: photometry
galaxies: distances
galaxies: active
cosmology: observations
surveys
X-rays: galaxies

File:

Download thesis_BinLuo.pdf

Committee Members:

Niel Brandt, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
W Nielsen Brandt, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jane Camilla Charlton, Committee Member
George Pavlov, Committee Member
Donald P Schneider, Committee Member
Tyce De Young, Committee Member

Author:

Saez, Cristian

Title:

THE X-RAY EVOLUTION OF INFLOWS AND OUTFLOWS IN ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI

Graduate Program:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords:

active galactic nuclei
X-ray astronomy
AGN
astronomy
extragalactic astronomy

File:

Download saez_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael Eracleous/George Chartas, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
George Chartas, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael Eracleous, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Stephane Coutu, Committee Member
Steinn Sigurdsson, Committee Member
Derek Brindley Fox, Committee Member

Author:

Morris, David C.

Title:

X-ray Flares in Gamma-Ray Bursts

Graduate Program:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords:

X-rays
flares
GRBs

File:

Download mythesis_double.pdf

Committee Members:

David Nelson Burrows, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Derek Brindley Fox, Committee Member
Robert Graham Melton, Committee Member
Peter Istvan Meszaros, Committee Member
John Andrew Nousek, Committee Member

Author:

Andersen, David Roger

Title:

THE PHOTOMETRIC AND KINEMATIC STRUCTURE AND ASYMMETRY OF DISK GALAXIES

Graduate Program:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords:

galaxy kinematics
galaxy structure

File:

Download thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Steinn Sigurdsson, Committee Member
James J Beatty, Committee Member
Matthew A Bershady, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robin Bruce Ciardullo, Committee Member
Lawrence William Ramsey, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Flohic, Helene Marie

Title:

INTERPRETING DOUBLE-PEAKED EMISSION LINE PROFILE VARIABILITY IN AGNS USING MODELS FOR ACCRETION DISK STRUCTURES

Graduate Program:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords:

AGNs
accretion disk

File:

Download try.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael Eracleous, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Stephane Coutu, Committee Member
Mercedes Richards, Committee Member
Steinn Sigurdsson, Committee Member
Richard Alan Wade, Committee Member
Donald P Schneider, Committee Member

Author:

Debes, IV, John Henry

Title:

Digging for Substellar Objects in the Stellar Graveyard

Graduate Program:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords:

white dwarfs
extrasolar planets
brown dwarfs
high contrast imaging

File:

Download JHDebesthesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Steinn Sigurdsson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael Eracleous, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Kasting, Committee Member
Alexander Wolszczan, Committee Member
Lawrence William Ramsey, Committee Member

Author:

Racusin, Judith Lea

Title:

The Collimation Signatures of Gamma-Ray Bursts: Jet Properties and Energetic Inferred from X-ray Afterglow Observations

Graduate Program:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords:

Astrophysics
X-rays
Gamma-ray bursts
Afterglows

File:

Download racusin_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

David Nelson Burrows, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Nelson Burrows, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Peter Istvan Meszaros, Committee Member
John Andrew Nousek, Committee Member
Derek Brindley Fox, Committee Member
Paul Sommers, Committee Member

Author:

Wang, Junfeng

Title:

An X-ray Study of Massive Star Forming Regions with Chandra

Graduate Program:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords:

star formation
X-rays
star cluster
initial mass function

File:

Download Junfeng_Wang_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Eric D Feigelson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Leisa K Townsley, Committee Member
Kevin Luhman, Committee Member
Hiroshi Ohmoto, Committee Member
Donald P Schneider, Committee Member
Richard Alan Wade, Committee Member

Author:

Shen, Jiajian

Title:

BLACK HOLE-BULGE RELATIONSHIPS IN BROAD-LINE ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI

Graduate Program:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords:

Host Galaxy
Active Galactic Nuclei
Black Hole
Spectral and Imaging decomposition

File:

Download thesis_JiajianShen.pdf

Committee Members:

Donald P Schneider, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Daniel Vanden Berk, Committee Member
Pablo Laguna, Committee Member
Derek Brindley Fox, Committee Member
Douglas Cowen, Committee Member

Author:

Wu, Jian

Title:

A study of UV, optical and X-ray properties of quasars

Graduate Program:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords:

quasar
ultraviolet UV
X-ray
AGN
catalog

File:

Download mythesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Donald P Schneider, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Donald P Schneider, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jane Camilla Charlton, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
William N Brandt, Committee Member
Daniel E Vanden Berk, Committee Member
Yuexing Cindy Li, Committee Member
Paul Sommers, Committee Member

Author:

Herrmann, Kimberly A.

Title:

Probing Galactic Disks with Planetary Nebulae

Graduate Program:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords:

extragalactic planetary nebulae
galactic dynamics
disk mass

File:

Download KAHthesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Robin Bruce Ciardullo, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jane Camilla Charlton, Committee Member
Steinn Sigurdsson, Committee Member
Richard Alan Wade, Committee Member
Stephen Wade Schaeffer, Committee Member

Author:

Moody, Kenneth

Title:

Three Body Dynamics in Dense Gravitational Systems

Graduate Program:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords:

computer simulations
dynamics
compact objects
extrasolar planets

File:

Download mythesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Steinn Sigurdsson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Steinn Sigurdsson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Donald P Schneider, Committee Member
Eric D Feigelson, Committee Member
Mercedes Richards, Committee Member
James Kasting, Committee Member

Author:

Lewis, Karen Theresa

Title:

Unveiling the Accretion Disks that Fuel Active Galactic Nuclei

Graduate Program:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords:

active galactic nuclei
accretion disks

File:

Download mythesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael Eracleous, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Donald P Schneider, Committee Member
Steinn Sigurdsson, Committee Member
W Niel Brandt, Committee Member
L Samual Finn, Committee Member

Author:

Gou, Lijun

Title:

Detectability and Modelling of High-redshift GRBs

Graduate Program:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords:

Gamma-ray bursts; High-redshift; Cosmology

File:

Download thesis_grb.pdf

Committee Members:

Peter Istvan Meszaros, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Derek Brindley Fox, Committee Member
Gordan Garmire, Committee Member
David Nelson Burrows, Committee Member
Richard Wallace Robinett, Committee Member

Author:

Stark, Michele A.

Title:

The Origins of Hot Subdwarf Stars as Illuminated by Composite-Spectrum Binaries

Graduate Program:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords:

horizontal branch star
binary population synthesis
hot subdwarf
sdB

File:

Download mythesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Richard Alan Wade, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robin Bruce Ciardullo, Committee Member
Lawrence William Ramsey, Committee Member
Mercedes T Richards, Committee Member
Richard Wallace Robinett, Committee Member

Author:

Sipior, Michael Shawn

Title:

Population synthesis and its connection to astronomical observables

Graduate Program:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords:

gravitational radiation
X-ray binaries
population synthesis

File:

Download thesis10.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael Eracleous, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Steinn Sigurdsson, Committee Member
Gordon Paul Garmire, Committee Member
W Niel Brandt, Committee Member
Lee S Finn, Committee Member

Author:

Sinha, Manodeep

Title:

Hot Halo Gas in Numerical Simulations of Galaxy Mergers

Graduate Program:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords:

numerical simulations
galaxy evolution
galaxy formation
x-ray emission

File:

Download Manodeep-Thesis-Final-Nov24.pdf

Committee Members:

Robin Bruce Ciardullo, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robin Bruce Ciardullo, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Pablo Laguna, Committee Member
George Chartas, Committee Member
Caryl Ann Gronwall, Committee Member
Richard Wallace Robinett, Committee Member

Author:

Micic, Miroslav

Title:

GRAVITATIONAL WAVE RADIATION FROM THE GROWTH OF SUPERMASSIVE BLACK HOLES

Graduate Program:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords:

SMBH
gravitational waves
galaxy formation
merger rates
ULX

File:

Download micic_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Steinn Sigurdsson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kelly Holley Bockelmann, Committee Member
Donald P Schneider, Committee Member
Robin Bruce Ciardullo, Committee Member
Jane Camilla Charlton, Committee Member
Ben Owen, Committee Member

Author:

Kargaltsev, Oleg Y

Title:

X-ray and optical emission from Neutron Stars and Pulsar Wind Nebulae

Graduate Program:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords:

neutron stars
pulsars
X-rays
pulsar winds

File:

Download o_kargaltsev_thesis_corr.pdf

Committee Members:

George Pavlov, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
William N Brandt, Committee Member
John Andrew Nousek, Committee Member
Renee Denise Diehl, Committee Member
Gordon Paul Garmire, Committee Member

Author:

Brown, Peter Johnson

Title:

THE ULTRAVIOLET PROPERTIES OF SUPERNOVAE

Graduate Program:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords:

supernovae
ultraviolet
distance scale
Swift

File:

Download pjbrown_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Peter W A Roming, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Peter W A Roming, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David Nelson Burrows, Committee Member
Robin Bruce Ciardullo, Committee Member
Lee S Finn, Committee Member
Eric D Feigelson, Committee Member
Ruth Daly, Committee Member

Author:

Ganguly, Rajib

Title:

Origins and Properties of QSO-intrinsic Narrow Absorption Lines and their Host QSOs

Graduate Program:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords:

partial coverage
quasars
multivariate techniques
QSOs
absorption lines

File:

Download master.pdf

Committee Members:

Christopher W Churchill, Committee Member
Lawrence William Ramsey, Committee Member
W Nielsen Brandt, Committee Member
Jane Camilla Charlton, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Stephane Coutu, Committee Member
Michael Eracleous, Committee Member

Author:

Gallagher, Sarah Connoran

Title:

The View through the Wind: X-ray Observations of Broad Absorption Line Quasi-Stellar Objects

Graduate Program:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords:

X-ray astronomy
active galaxies
absorption lines
quasars

File:

Download thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael Eracleous, Committee Member
Lee S Finn, Committee Member
Jane Camilla Charlton, Committee Member
Steinn Sigurdsson, Committee Member
W Nielsen Brandt, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Gordon Paul Garmire, Committee Member

Author:

Redman, Stephen Lewis

Title:

Precise Radial Velocities in the Near Infrared

Graduate Program:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords:

instrumentation
spectrograph
infrared array
exoplanets
near infrared
uranium

File:

Download mythesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Larry Ramsey, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Lawrence William Ramsey, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Kasting, Committee Member
Kevin Luhman, Committee Member
Mercedes Richards, Committee Member
Steinn Sigurdsson, Committee Member
Alexander Wolszczan, Committee Member
Jason Wright, Committee Member

Author:

Movit, Steven

Title:

A SEARCH FOR TEV NEUTRINO EMISSION WITH ICECUBE COINCIDENT WITH SWIFT BAT FLARES FROM BLAZARS

Graduate Program:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords:

neutrino astrophysics
wavelets
Swift
IceCube

File:

Download movit-final.pdf

Committee Members:

Douglas Cowen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Douglas Cowen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Stephane Coutu, Committee Member
Tyce De Young, Committee Member
Eric D Feigelson, Committee Member
Michael Eracleous, Committee Member

Author:

Bogdanovic, Tamara

Title:

Close Encounters of Black Holes, Stars, and Gas in Galactic Nuclei: A Study of the Observational Signatures

Graduate Program:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords:

tidal disruption of a star by a massive black hole
massive black hole binaries
observational signatures

File:

Download bogdanovic_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael Eracleous, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Steinn Sigurdsson, Committee Member
Mercedes Richards, Committee Member
Peter Istvan Meszaros, Committee Member
Lee S Finn, Committee Member

Author:

Dai, Xinyu

Title:

An X-Ray Study of Gravitational Lenses

Graduate Program:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords:

gravitational lenses
active galactic nuclei
cosmology
dark matter

File:

Download thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Gordon Paul Garmire, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
George Chartas, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael Eracleous, Committee Member
Robin Bruce Ciardullo, Committee Member
Lee S Finn, Committee Member

Author:

Gettel, Sara Jeanne

Title:

A Search for Planets around Red Stars

Graduate Program:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords:

elanet detection
evolved stars
radial velocity
telluric line
calibration

File:

Download gettel_thesis_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Alexander Wolszczan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Lawrence William Ramsey, Committee Member
John David Mathews, Committee Member
Mercedes Richards, Committee Member
Kevin Luhman, Committee Member
Jason Wright, Committee Member

Author:

Young, Jason Edward

Title:

Star Formation Across Galactic Environments

Graduate Program:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords:

star formation galaxies active galactic nuclei

File:

Download thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Caryl Ann Gronwall, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael Eracleous, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robin Bruce Ciardullo, Committee Member
Leisa K Townsley, Committee Member
Christopher Howard House, Committee Member

Author:

Wu, Jianfeng

Title:

X-ray and Multiwavelength Studies of Active Galactic Nuclei from Large Area Sky Surveys

Graduate Program:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords:

X-rays
Galaxies
Quasars
Emission Lines
Absorption Lines
Jets

File:

Download thesis_jfwu.pdf

Committee Members:

W Nielsen Brandt, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Donald P Schneider, Committee Member
Derek Brindley Fox, Committee Member
Yuexing Cindy Li, Committee Member
Irina Mocioiu, Committee Member

Author:

Mullan, Brendan Lawrence

Title:

Under Pressure: Star Clusters in the Tidal Debris of Interacting Galaxies

Graduate Program:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords:

Astronomy
tidal tails
radio astronomy
star clusters
galaxy interactions
star formation
ISM
turbulence
photometry

File:

Download BMullan_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Jane Camilla Charlton, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jane Camilla Charlton, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Yuexing Cindy Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Caryl Ann Gronwall, Committee Member
Eric D Feigelson, Committee Member
Douglas Cowen, Committee Member

Author:

Clausen, Drew Reid

Title:

Strong Encounters with Black Holes In Globular Clusters.

Graduate Program:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords:

black holes
globular clusters
neutron stars
tidal disruption events

File:

Download DRC_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael Eracleous, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Steinn Sigurdsson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Richard Alan Wade, Committee Member
Lee S Finn, Committee Member
Yuexing Cindy Li, Committee Member

Author:

Route, Matthew Philip

Title:

Radio Observations of the Brown Dwarf- Exoplanet Boundary

Graduate Program:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords:

Brown Dwarfs
Exoplanets
Radio Emission
Planetary Magnetic Fields
Stellar Magnetic Fields
Stellar Activity

File:

Download mroute-dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Alexander Wolszczan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Alexander Wolszczan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Lyle Norman Long, Committee Member
Steinn Sigurdsson, Special Member
Kevin Luhman, Committee Member
John David Mathews, Committee Member
Richard Alan Wade, Committee Member

Author:

Bongiorno, Stephen Dominick

Title:

Characterization and Applications of Hybrid CMOS Detectors in X-ray Astronomy

Graduate Program:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords:

X-ray
Instrument
High-Energy Astrophysics
CMOS
Active Pixel Sensor
Hybrid CMOS Device

File:

Download Bongiorno-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Abraham David Falcone, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Nelson Burrows, Committee Member
Stephane Coutu, Committee Member
Lawrence William Ramsey, Committee Member
Michael Eracleous, Committee Member

Author:

Todorov, Kamen Orlinov

Title:

Hot Jupiter Atmospheres with the Spitzer Space Telescope

Graduate Program:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords:

extrasolar planets
secondary eclipse
photometry
spectroscopy

File:

Download final.pdf

Committee Members:

Kevin Luhman, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
L Drake Deming, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jason Wright, Committee Member
James Kasting, Committee Member
Aleksander Wolszczan, Committee Member
Suvrath Mahadevan, Committee Member

Author:

Filiz Ak, Nurten

Title:

Broad Absorption Line Variability on Multi-year Timescales in a Large Quasar Sample

Graduate Program:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords:

Galaxies
Active Galactic Nuclei
Quasars
Variability
Absorption Lines
BAL Varibility

File:

Download nfilizak_final.pdf

Committee Members:

William Nielsen Brandt, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Donald P Schneider, Committee Member
Michael Eracleous, Committee Member
Mercedes Richards, Committee Member
Benjamin Owen, Committee Member

Author:

Swenson, Craig Arnel

Title:

X-ray, Ultraviolet, and Optical Flares in Gamma-ray Burst Light Curves

Graduate Program:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords:

astronomy
astrophysics
GRB
gamma-ray burst
Swift
bayesian

File:

Download swenson_dissertation_2.pdf

Committee Members:

Pete Roming, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Andrew Nousek, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Eric D Feigelson, Committee Member
Derek Brindley Fox, Committee Member
Stephane Coutu, Special Member

Author:

Pritchard, Tyler Anthony

Title:

Ultraviolet Observations Of Core-collapse Supernovae

Graduate Program:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords:

Supernovae
Swift
Ultraviolet
Extragalactic

File:

Download Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Peter W A Roming, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Andrew Nousek, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robin Bruce Ciardullo, Committee Member
Caryl Ann Gronwall, Committee Member
Lee S Finn, Special Member

Author:

Kuhn, Michael Ascher

Title:

The Spatial Structure of Young Stellar Clusters

Graduate Program:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords:

Astronomy
Star Formation
Star Clusters
X-ray Astronomy
Infrared Astronomy

File:

Download kuhn_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Eric D Feigelson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Konstantin V Getman, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
G Jogesh Babu, Committee Member
Leisa K Townsley, Committee Member
Kevin Luhman, Committee Member
Richard Alan Wade, Committee Member

Author:

Nelson, Benjamin E

Title:

Statistical and Dynamical Remastering of Classic Exoplanet Systems

Graduate Program:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords:

exoplanets
planetary dynamics
radial velocity
Bayesian statistics
astrophysics

File:

Download benelson_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Eric Ford, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric Ford, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jason Wright, Committee Member
Steinn Sigurdsson, Committee Member
Ronald Lynn Gilliland, Committee Member
G Jogesh Babu, Committee Member

Author:

Griffith, Christopher Vance

Title:

Characterization and Development of an Event-Driven Hybrid CMOS X-ray Detector

Graduate Program:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords:

Hybrid CMOS
event-driven
HCD
CCD
X-ray detector

File:

Download Griffith-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Abraham David Falcone, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Nelson Burrows, Committee Member
John Andrew Nousek, Committee Member
Mike Eracleous, Committee Member
Stephane Coutu, Committee Member

Author:

Shabram, Megan Iris

Title:

Implications for Planet Formation from Population Inference of Kepler-planet-candidates and Eclipsing Binaries

Graduate Program:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords:

exoplanets
planet formation

File:

Download mshabram_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Eric Ford, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Steinn Sigurdsson, Committee Member
Ronald Lynn Gilliland, Committee Member
Kevin Luhman, Committee Member
Christopher Howard House, Committee Member

Author:

Arumugasamy, Prakash

Title:

Rotation Powered Pulsars in the X-rays

Graduate Program:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords:

Pulsars
Neutron Star
X-rays
High-energy Astrophysics

File:

Download 1-PrakashA_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

George Pavlov, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael Eracleous, Committee Member
Derek Brindley Fox, Committee Member
Lee S Finn, Committee Member
Steinn Sigurdsson, Committee Member

Author:

Terrien, Ryan Carl

Title:

New spectroscopic tools and techniques for characterizing M dwarfs and discovering their planets in the near-infrared

Graduate Program:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords:

astronomy
m dwarfs
near-infrared spectroscopy
stellar abundances
radial velocity
exoplanets

File:

Download Terrien-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Suvrath Mahadevan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Kasting, Committee Member
Lawrence William Ramsey, Committee Member
Abraham David Falcone, Committee Member
Jason Thomas Wright, Committee Member

Author:

Zhu, Qirong

Title:

FORMATION OF DISK GALAXIES IN ΛCDM USING PARTICLE-BASED HYDRODYNAMICS

Graduate Program:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords:

galaxy formation
disk galaxy
SPH
particle-based hydrodynamics

File:

Download Zhu_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Yuexing Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Yuexing Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Peter Mészáros, Committee Member
Steinn Sigurðsson, Committee Member
Sarah Shandera, Outside Member
William N. Brandt, Committee Member

Author:

Morehead, Robert C.

Title:

Understanding Exoplanet Populations with Simulation-based Methods

Graduate Program:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords:

exoplanets
approximate Bayesian computation
exoplanet validation
exoplanet populations

File:

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Committee Members:

Eric B Ford, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric B Ford, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jason Thomas Wright, Committee Member
Steinn Sigurdsson, Committee Member
G. Jogesh Babu, Outside Member

Author:

Halverson, Samuel Peter

Title:

Photonic systems for high precision radial velocity measurements

Graduate Program:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords:

exoplanets
spectroscopy
photonics
optical fibers
radial velocity
near-infrared
astronomy

File:

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Committee Members:

Suvrath Mahadevan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Suvrath Mahadevan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Lawrence William Ramsey, Committee Member
Jason Thomas Wright, Committee Member
Kurt Gibble, Outside Member

Author:

Wang, Xuesong

Title:

On Detecting New Worlds: The Art of Doppler Spectroscopy Using Iodine Cells

Graduate Program:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords:

Doppler Spectroscopy
Extra-Solar Planet
Exoplanet
Radial Velocity
Iodine Cell
Iodine Calibration

File:

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Committee Members:

Jason Thomas Wright, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jason Thomas Wright, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Suvrath Mahadevan, Committee Member
Lawrence William Ramsey, Committee Member
James Kasting, Outside Member
Eric B Ford, Committee Member

Author:

Curtis, Jason L

Title:

RUPRECHT 147 AND THE QUEST TO DATE MIDDLE-AGED STARS

Graduate Program:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords:

star clusters
Ruprecht 147

File:

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Committee Members:

Jason T. Wright, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jason T. Wright, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robin Ciardullo, Committee Member
Richard Wade, Committee Member
G. Jogesh Babu, Outside Member
Rebekah Dawson, Committee Member
Ronald Gilliland, Special Member

Author:

Worth, Rachel J

Title:

Dynamics of Life: Large-Scale Simulations of the Behavior of Small Bodies in Systems of Multiple Large Bodies

Graduate Program:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords:

astrophysics
astronomy
astrodynamics
n-body simulations
Alpha Centauri
lithopanspermia
astrobiology
planet formation

File:

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Committee Members:

Steinn Sigurdsson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Steinn Sigurdsson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jason Thomas Wright, Committee Member
Eric B Ford, Committee Member
Christopher Howard House, Outside Member

Author:

Cartier, Kimberly Michelle

Title:

Photometric Exoplanet Characterization and Multimedia Astronomy Communication

Graduate Program:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords:

Exoplanets
Photometric Techniques
Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
Kepler
Astronomy Communication
Science Writing
Atmospheres
Transit Follow-up
Exoplanet Characterization

File:

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Committee Members:

Jason Thomas Wright, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jason Thomas Wright, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Steinn Sigurdsson, Committee Member
Kevin Luhman, Committee Member
Jennifer Macalady, Outside Member
Katherine Haines Freeman, Outside Member
Ronald Gilliland, Special Member

Author:

Esplin, Taran LeRoy

Title:

Observations of Brown Dwarfs at Low Temperatures and Low Masses

Graduate Program:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords:

open clusters and associations: general
astrometry
brown dwarfs
infrared: stars
planets and satellites: atmospheres
solar neighborhood
stars: low-mass
planetary systems
protoplanetary disks
stars: formation
stars: luminosity function
stars: pre-main sequence

File:

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Committee Members:

Kevin Luhman, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kevin Luhman, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Lawrence William Ramsey, Committee Member
Eric D Feigelson, Committee Member
Sarah Elizabeth Shandera, Outside Member
Jason Thomas Wright, Committee Member

Author:

Roy, Arpita

Title:

Connecting the Pale Blue Dots: Detection & Characterization of Exoplanets with Extreme Precision Spectroscopy

Graduate Program:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords:

exoplanets
spectroscopy
instrumentation
radial velocity

File:

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Committee Members:

Suvrath Mahadevan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Suvrath Mahadevan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jason Thomas Wright, Committee Member
Lawrence William Ramsey, Committee Member
Jennifer Macalady, Outside Member
Steinn Sigurdsson, Committee Member

Author:

Batalha, Natasha Elaine

Title:

A Synergistic Approach to Interpreting Planetary Atmospheres

Graduate Program:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords:

Exoplanets
astrobiology
planetary science
James Webb space telescope
spectroscopy
atmospheric science
transiting exoplanets
information content theory
atmospheric retrieval
mars
early mars
energy balance model
photochemical model
climate model
carbonate silicate cycle
atmospheres

File:

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Committee Members:

James Kasting, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Steinn Sigurdsson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jason Thomas Wright, Committee Member
Eric B Ford, Committee Member
Chris Eliot Forest, Outside Member

Author:

Richert, Alexander John Wolf

Title:

The Evolution of Circumstellar Disks

Graduate Program:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords:

planet formation
circumstellar disks
astrophysics
hydrodynamics

File:

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Committee Members:

Eric D Feigelson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric D Feigelson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kevin Luhman, Committee Member
Steinn Sigurdsson, Committee Member
Reka Z Albert, Outside Member
Eric B Ford, Committee Member
Marc Kuchner, Committee Member

Author:

Bridge, Joanna S

Title:

Using Emission Lines to Characterize Galaxy Properties: From the Nearby to the Distant Universe

Graduate Program:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords:

astronomy
astrophysics
galaxies
emission lines
star formation

File:

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Committee Members:

Caryl Ann Gronwall, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Caryl Ann Gronwall, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robin Bruce Ciardullo, Committee Member
Michael Eracleous, Committee Member
Christopher Howard House, Outside Member
Donald P Schneider, Committee Member

Author:

Hagen, Lea May

Title:

Swift/UVOT Observations of Star Formation and Dust Attenuation in both Local and High Redshift Galaxies

Graduate Program:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords:

star formation
dust
Swift
ultraviolet
UVOT
galaxies
astronomy
Small Magellanic Cloud
M33
M31

File:

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Committee Members:

Caryl Ann Gronwall, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Caryl Ann Gronwall, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael Hiram Siegel, Committee Member
Robin Bruce Ciardullo, Committee Member
Sarah Elizabeth Shandera, Outside Member
John Andrew Nousek, Committee Member

Author:

Hagen, Alex Richard

Title:

A Study in Lyman-alpha

Graduate Program:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords:

Astronomy
Astrophysics

File:

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Committee Members:

Robin Bruce Ciardullo, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robin Bruce Ciardullo, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Caryl Ann Gronwall, Committee Member
Sarah Elizabeth Shandera, Committee Member
Donald P Schneider, Outside Member

Author:

Maji, Moupiya

Title:

Illuminating The Star Clusters And Dwarf Galaxies by Multi-scale Baryonic Simulations

Graduate Program:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords:

galaxies
star clusters
computational astrophysics
globular clusters
dwarf galaxies
milky way

File:

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Committee Members:

Yuexing Cindy Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Yuexing Cindy Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robin Bruce Ciardullo, Committee Member
Jane Camilla Charlton, Committee Member
Sarah Elizabeth Shandera, Outside Member
Donghui Jeong, Committee Member

Author:

Culliton, Christopher

Title:

Probing Quasar Winds Using Intrinsic Narrow Absorption Lines

Graduate Program:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords:

Quasars
Absorption lines
Active Galactic Nuclei
Accretion Disks

File:

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Committee Members:

Michael Eracleous, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jane Camilla Charlton, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jason Thomas Wright, Committee Member
Derek Brindley Fox, Committee Member
Sarah Elizabeth Shandera, Outside Member

Author:

Caceres, Gabriel

Title:

Autoregressive Planet Search: Methodology & Application to The Kepler Mission

Graduate Program:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords:

Astronomy
Exoplanets
Astrostatistics

File:

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Committee Members:

Eric D Feigelson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric D Feigelson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Eric B Ford, Committee Member
Jason Thomas Wright, Committee Member
Jogesh Babu Gutti, Outside Member
Robin Bruce Ciardullo, Committee Member

Author:

Yang, Guang

Title:

What drives the growth of black holes?

Graduate Program:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords:

X-ray
active galactic nucleus
black hole-galaxy coevolution
photometric redshift
AGN variability
extragalactic transient

File:

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Committee Members:

William Nielsen Brandt, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
William Nielsen Brandt, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael Eracleous, Committee Member
Donald P Schneider, Committee Member
Kohta Murase, Outside Member
Robin Bruce Ciardullo, Committee Member

Author:

Norris, Jackson

Title:

Multi-Phase Modeling of Intervening Quasar Absorption Line Systems at z < 1

Graduate Program:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords:

Astronomy
Quasar Absorption Lines
Circumgalactic Medium
Galaxies
Spectroscopy

File:

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Committee Members:

Jane Camilla Charlton, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jason Thomas Wright, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Caryl Ann Gronwall, Committee Member
Suvrath Mahadevan, Committee Member
Christopher Howard House, Outside Member

Author:

Molina, Mallory Elyse

Title:

Resolving Black Hole and Star-Formation Activity in Nearby Galaxies

Graduate Program:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords:

astronomy
galaxies
AGN
Star formation
dust
attenuation
LINERs

File:

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Committee Members:

Michael Eracleous, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael Eracleous, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jason Thomas Wright, Committee Member
Caryl Ann Gronwall, Committee Member
Stephane Coutu, Outside Member
Robin Bruce Ciardullo, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Grasshorn Gebhardt, Henry

Title:

In Pursuit of Optimal Clustering Analysis with Emission Line Surveys

Graduate Program:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords:

Astronomy
Astrophysics
Cosmology
Large-Scale Structure
Power Spectrum
Emission-Line Galaxies

File:

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Committee Members:

Donghui Jeong, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Donghui Jeong, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robin Bruce Ciardullo, Committee Member
Caryl Ann Gronwall, Committee Member
Sarah Elizabeth Shandera, Outside Member
Jane Camilla Charlton, Committee Member
Randall Lee Mcentaffer, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Stefansson, Gudmundur

Title:

Extreme Precision Photometry and Radial Velocimetry from the Ground

Graduate Program:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords:

astrophysics
astronomy
exoplanets
extrasolar planets
instrumentation
observations
spectroscopy
planets

File:

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Committee Members:

Suvrath Mahadevan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Suvrath Mahadevan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jason Thomas Wright, Committee Member
Randall Lee Mcentaffer, Committee Member
Christopher Howard House, Outside Member
Steinn Sigurdsson, Committee Member
Frederick R Hearty, Committee Member
Donald P Schneider, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Bray, Evan

Title:

Characterizing X-ray Hybrid CMOS Detectors for Future X-ray Space Telescopes

Graduate Program:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords:

X-rays
Astrophysics
Hybrid CMOS Detectors
Subpixel Resolution
Radiation Damage

File:

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Committee Members:

David Nelson Burrows, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Abraham David Falcone, Committee Member
Randall Lee Mcentaffer, Committee Member
Michael Eracleous, Committee Member
Stephane Coutu, Outside Member
Donald P Schneider, Program Head/Chair
David Nelson Burrows, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Hsu, Danley

Title:

Characterizing Kepler Occurrence Rates Using Approximate Bayesian Computation

Graduate Program:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords:

planets
exoplanets: statistics
population analysis
planet detection: transits

File:

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Committee Members:

Eric B Ford, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric B Ford, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jason Thomas Wright, Committee Member
Suvrath Mahadevan, Committee Member
G. Jogesh Babu, Outside Member
Donghui Jeong, Committee Member
Randall Lee Mcentaffer, Program Head/Chair

Author:

McCoy, Jake

Title:

Applied Nanofabrication for X-ray Grating Spectroscopy

Graduate Program:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords:

astrophysics
astronomy
spectroscopy
x-ray
diffraction gratings
nanofabrication

File:

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Committee Members:

Randall Lee McEntaffer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Randall Lee McEmtaffer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Abraham David Falcone, Committee Member
Fabien Grise, Committee Member
Susan E Trolier-McKinstry, Outside Member
Suvrath Mahadevan, Committee Member
Randall Lee McEntaffer, Program Head/Chair

Author:

MacDonald, Mariah

Title:

Constraining the formation and evolution of super-Earths via dynamics

Graduate Program:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords:

astronomy
astrophysics
astrobiology
exoplanets
planet formation
resonant chains
planetary dynamics

File:

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Committee Members:

Rebekah Dawson-Rigas, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Rebekah Dawson-Rigas, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Eric B Ford, Committee Member
Jason Wright, Committee Member
Bradford James Foley, Outside Member
Suvrath Mahadevan, Committee Member
Randall Lee Mc Entaffer, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Hull, Samuel

Title:

Detector Technologies for Future High-Throughput and Fine-Resolution X-ray Telescopes

Graduate Program:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords:

X-rays
astrophysics
instrumentation
X-ray detectors
active pixel sensor
hybrid CMOS detectors
DePFET

File:

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Committee Members:

Abraham David Falcone, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Abraham David Falcone, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dave Burrows, Committee Member
Michael Eracleous, Committee Member
Miguel Alejandro Mostafa, Outside Member
Randall Lee Mc Entaffer, Committee Member
Donald P Schneider, Program Head/Chair