Recent Semester Projects
The Decaying Orbit of WASP-12b Samuel Yee (2023) with Joshua Winn
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020ApJ...888L...5Y/abstract
Wavelength Dependent PSFs and their Impact on Weak Lensing
Scott Carlsten (2022), with Michael Strauss https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018MNRAS.479.1491C/abstract
Using Surface Brightness Fluctuations to Measure the Distance to Dwarfs in the Local Volume
Scott Carlsten (2022) with Jenny Greene
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019ApJ...879...13C/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019ApJ...878L..16C/abstract
Characterizing stellar spectra from the Planet Finder Spectrograph for current and future RV follow-up and exoplanet detection
Erin Flowers (2022) with Johanna Teske, Carnegie Observatories
HSC-XD: A new X-ray search for AGN in dwarf galaxies out to z~1
Goni Halevi (2022) with Jenny Greene and Andy Goulding
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019ApJ...885L...3H/abstract
Global models of burning front propagation in Type I X-ray bursts
Goni Halevi (2022) with Anatoly Spitkovsky
Tidal Features at 0.05 < z < 0.45 in the Hyper Suprime-Cam Subaru Strategic Program: Properties and Formation Channels
Erin Kado Fong (2022) with Jenny Greene https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018ApJ...866..103K/abstract
Characterizing the Cobra fiber positioning and calibration lamp system for the Subaru Prime Focus Spectrograph
Erin Kado Fong (2022) with Jim Gunn & Robert Lupton
Diffuse Ionized Gas in Simulations of Multiphase, Star-Forming Galactic Disks
Erin Kado Fong (2022) with Eve Ostriker
Dynamical friction in a Fuzzy Dark Matter universe
Lachlan Lancaster (2022) with David Spergel https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020JCAP...01..001L/abstract
Structure formation in turbulence as instability of effective quantum plasma
Vassilis Tsiolis (2022) with Ilya Y. Dodin https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.05066
Electron heating in collisionless non-relativistic shocks
Vassilis Tsiolis (2022) with Anatoly Spitkovsky
Linear theory of tidally excited spiral density waves Wenrui Xu (2022) with Jeremy Goodman
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article-abstract/480/4/4327/5068704?redirectedFrom=PDF
Bondi-Hoyle-Lyttleton accretion in supergiant X-ray binaries, Wenrui Xu (2022) with James Stone
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article-abstract/488/4/5162/5538856?redirectedFrom=PDF
A search for circumbinary planets around short period Kepler binaries
Luke Bouma (2021), with Joshua Winn
Biases in Planet Occurrence Caused by Unresolved Binaries in Transit Surveys
Luke Bouma (2021), with Joshua Winn https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018AJ....155..244B/abstract
Empirical Tidal Dissipation in Exoplanet Hosts From Tidal Spin-up
Luke Bouma, (2021) with Joshua Winn https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018AJ....155..165P/abstract
Effects of synchrotron cooling and pair production on collisionless relativistic reconnection
Hayk Hakobyan (2021), with Anatoly Spitkovsky and Sasha Philippov https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.10772
Massive Neutrinos Leave Fingerprints on Cosmic Voids
Christina Kreisch (2021) with David Spergel https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/488/3/4413/5533333
Electron Energy Distributions in H II Regions and Planetary Nebulae: κ-distributions Do Not Apply
Christina Kreisch (2021) with Bruce Draine https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/aac891/pdf
Constraining the Initial Mass Function (ongoing) Christina Kreisch (2021) with Jenny Greene, Meng Gu, and Drew Newman
Hydrodynamic Torques in Circumbinary Accretion Disks Mackenzie Moody (2021) with Jim Stone and Ji-Ming Shi https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019ApJ...875...66M/abstract
Galactic Disk Winds Driven by Cosmic Ray Pressure
Alwin Mao (2020) with Eve Ostriker https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018ApJ...854...89M/abstract
Internal shocks in microquasar jets with continuous Lorentz factor modulation
Patryk Pjanka (2020) with James Stone https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018MNRAS.477.2376P/abstract
Circumnuclear Structures in Megamaser Host Galaxies
Patryk Pjanka (2020) with Jenny Greene https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2017ApJ...844..165P/abstract
Linear Vlasov theory of a magnetized thermally stratified atmosphere
Rui Xu (2020) with Matthew Kunz
Detecting the Supernova Breakout Burst in Terrestrial Neutrino Detectors
Joshua Wallace (2019), with Adam Burrows
published as: Wallace, J., Burrows, A., & Dolence, J. C., 2016, ApJ, 817, 182
The Impact of Collisional Fragmentation on Planet Formation in Compact Systems
Joshua Wallace (2019) with Scott Tremaine
X-ray Detected Active Galactic Nuclei in Dwarf Galaxies at 0<z<1
Kris Pardo (2019) with Jenny Greene
published as: Pardo, K., Goulding, A. D., Greene, J. E., et al., 2016, arXiv:1603.01622
Exploring FeH absorption features in high-metallicity, red-clump stars
Melinda Soares-Furtado (2019), with Jenny Greene and Jim Gunn
Incorporating a more realistic treatment of sodium and potassium into a synthetic spectral code for cool stars
Melinda Soares-Furtado (2019), with Adam Burrows
Seeding morphological asymmetries in remnants of core-collapse supernovae
Cole Holcomb (2018), with Adam Burrows
Acceleration of cosmic rays in turbulent astrophysical shocks
Cole Holcomb (2018), with Anatoly Spitkovsky
Cosmic-ray streaming instabilities in MHD
Cole Holcomb (2018), with Jim Stone
A Search for Binary Black Holes in SDSS QSOs (II)
Lile Wang (2018), with Wendy Ju (2016) and Jenny Greene
The Stacked Thermal SZ Signal of Locally Brightest Galaxies in Planck Full Mission Data: Evidence for Galaxy Feedback?
Johnny Greco (2018), with David Spergel
published as: Greco, J. P., Hill, J. C., Spergel, D. N., & Battaglia, N., 2015, ApJ, 808, 151
The Direct Detectability of Giant Exoplanets in the Optical
Johnny Greco (2018), with Adam Burrows
published as: Greco, J. P., & Burrows, A., 2015, ApJ, 808, 172
The measurement, treatment, and impact of spectral covariance and Bayesian priors in integral-field spectroscopy of exoplanets
Johnny Greco (2018), with Tim Brandt (via IAS)
The Outer Parts of Massive Elliptical Galaxies
Semyeong Oh (2018), with Jenny Greene
Searching for Inflated Hot Jupiters with HATNet
Johnny Greco (2018), with Gaspar Bakos
Can helium envelopes change the outcome of direct white dwarf collisions?
Cole Holcomb (2018), with Doron Kushnir (via IAS)
published as: Holcomb, C., & Kushnir, D., 2015, arXiv:1510.07649
Spreading layers of accreting objects
Alexander (Sasha) Philippov (2017), with Roman Rafikov and James Stone
published as: Philippov, A. A., Rafikov, R. R., & Stone, J. M., 2016, ApJ, 817, 62
Time evolution of pulsar obliquity angle
Alexander (Sasha) Philippov (2017), with Alexander Tchekhovskoy (via PCTS)
published as: Philippov, A. A., Tchekhovskoy, A., & Li, J. G., 2014, MNRAS, 441, 1879
Particle acceleration in collisions of strong Alfven waves
Alexander (Sasha) Philippov (2017), with Anatoly Spitkovsky
Particle-in-cell simulations of axisymmetric pulsars
Alexander (Sasha) Philippov (2017), with Anatoly Spitkovsky
published as: Philippov, A. A., & Spitkovsky, A., 2014, ApJ, 785, L33
Optically thick winds from massive stars
Alexander (Sasha) Philippov (2017), with Jeremy Goodman
Joint likelihood function of cluster counts and n-point correlation functions: Improving their power through including halo sample variance
Emmanuel Schaan (2017), with David Spergel
published as: Schaan, E., Takada, M., & Spergel, D. N., 2014, PRD, 90, 123523
On the reach of perturbative descriptions for dark matter displacement fields;
On the reach of perturbative methods for dark matter density fields
Emmanuel Schaan (2017), with Matias Zaldarriaga (via IAS)
published as: Baldauf, T., Schaan, E., & Zaldarriaga, M., 2016, arXiv:1505.07098;arXiv: 1505.02255
Hunting for nebulosity in the HatNet database
Munan Gong (2017), with Gaspar Bakos
Prestellar Core Formation, Evolution, and Accretion from Gravitational Fragmentation in Turbulent Converging Flows
Munan Gong (2017), with Eve Ostriker
published as: Gong, M., & Ostriker, E. C., 2015, ApJ, 806, 31
A Search for Binary Black Holes in SDSS QSOs
Wendy Ju (2016), with Jenny Greene
published as: Ju, W., Greene, J. E., et al., 2013, ApJ, 777, 44
Investigating the effects of the equation of state on self-gravitating accretion disks
Chris White (2016), with Roman Rafikov
Stability of metal-rich very massive stars
Chris White (2016), with Jeremy Goodman
published as: Goodman, J., & White, C. J., 2016, MNRAS, 456, 525
Slow-speed Supernovae from the Palomar Transient Factory: Two Channels
Chris White (2016), with Mansi Kasliwal (via Carnegie)
published as: White, C. J., Kasliwal, M. M., & Nugent, P. E., et al., 2015, ApJ, 799, 52
The M_BH - V_c Relation
Ai-Lei Sun (2016), with Jenny Greene
published as: Sun, A.-L., Greene, J. E., et al., 2013, ApJ, 778, 47
Stellar Halos of Massive Elliptical Galaxies
Sudhir Raskutti (2016), with Jenny Greene
published as: Raskutti, S., Greene, J. E., & Murphy, J. D., 2014, ApJ, 786, 23