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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:

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:

Luhn, Jacob

Title:

The Astrophysical Origins of Stellar Radial Velocity Variability and its Impact on Planet Detection

Graduate Program:

Astronomy and Astrophysics (PHD)

Keywords:

exoplanets
radial velocity
stellar variability
jitter
planet detection
stellar astrophysics

File:

Download JacobLuhn-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Rebekah Dawson, Major Field Member
Michael Eracleous, Major Field Member
Jason Wright, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Eric Ford, Major Field Member
James Kasting, Outside Unit & Field Member
Randall Lee Mc Entaffer, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Hayworth, Benjamin

Title:

Atmosphere and Climate Evolution on Earth and Earth-like Planets

Graduate Program:

Geosciences (PHD)

Keywords:

planetary habitability
habitability
early mars
mars
martian climate
limit cycling
carbon cycle
abiogenesis
origin of life
hadean
exoplanets
weathering
space weather

File:

Download Dissertation_wVita.pdf

Committee Members:

Bradford Foley, Major Field Member
William Brune, Outside Unit & Field Member
Christopher House, Major Field Member
Guillaume Gronoff, Special Member
James Kasting, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Mark Patzkowsky, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Kanodia, Shubham

Title:

Developing new tools and techniques to probe the M dwarf planet population

Graduate Program:

Astronomy and Astrophysics (PHD)

Keywords:

exoplanets
astronomical instrumentation
m dwarfs
astrostatistics

File:

Download PSU_Thesis_Shubham_Kanodia_modified.pdf

Committee Members:

Suvrath Mahadevan, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Randy McEntaffer, Major Field Member
Jason Wright, Major Field Member
Eric Ford, Major Field Member
James Kasting, Outside Unit & Field Member
Frederick Hearty, Major Field Member
Rebekah Ilene Dawson, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Jackson, Jonathan

Title:

Observational and Dynamical Constraints on High-eccentricity Migration of Hot and Warm Jupiters

Graduate Program:

Astronomy and Astrophysics (PHD)

Keywords:

exoplanets
planet formation
hot Jupiters

File:

Download JonathanJacksonDissertationFinal.pdf

Committee Members:

Rebekah Dawson, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jason Wright, Major Field Member
James Kasting, Outside Unit & Field Member
Caryl Gronwall, Major Field Member
Rebekah Dawson, Program Head/Chair
Eric Ford, Major & Minor Field Member