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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:

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:

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:

Download Worth-Dissertation.pdf

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:

Richert, Alexander John Wolf

Title:

The Evolution of Circumstellar Disks

Graduate Program:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords:

planet formation
circumstellar disks
astrophysics
hydrodynamics

File:

Download Main.pdf

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:

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:

Download Dissertation.pdf

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