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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:

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:

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:

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