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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