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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:

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:

Vaishnav, Birjoo

Title:

Gravitational waves from Intermediate Mass Binary Black Holes: First steps toward using Numerical Relativity waveforms for LIGO data analysis

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

black holes
gravitational waves
numerical relativity
LIGO
data analysis
gravitational wave astronomy

File:

Download vaishnavthesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Deirdre Shoemaker, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Benjamin Owen, Committee Member
Pablo Laguna, Committee Member
Richard Alan Wade, 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