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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:

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:

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:

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:

Download Halverson-Dissertation.pdf

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:

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:

Download Roy-Dissertation.pdf

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:

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:

Gupta, Arvind

Title:

Harnessing the Potential of Radial Velocity Exoplanet Surveys

Graduate Program:

Astronomy and Astrophysics (PHD)

Keywords:

exoplanets
radial velocity
spectrograph
fisher information
oscillations
stellar variability
survey

File:

Download Arvind_Gupta_PhD_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Randy McEntaffer, Major Field Member
Jason Wright, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Eric Ford, Major Field Member
Randy McEntaffer, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Bradford Foley, Outside Unit & Field Member
Ian Czekala, Major Field Member