Physics and Astronomy Faculty Publications and Presentations
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Submissions from 2014
Implementation of an F-statistic all-sky search for continuous gravitational waves in Virgo VSR1 data, J. Aasi, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, T. Abbott, M. R. Abernathy, Mario C. Diaz, Malik Rakhmanov, Joseph D. Romano, Soma Mukherjee, Volker Quetschke, Teviet Creighton, and Robert Stone
Search for gravitational wave ringdowns from perturbed intermediate mass black holes in LIGO-Virgo data from 2005–2010, J. Aasi, B. P. Abbott, Matthew Benacquista, H. Daveloza, Mario C. Diaz, Soma Mukherjee, Volker Quetschke, Malik Rakhmanov, Robert Stone, and Cristina V. Torres
First all-sky search for continuous gravitational waves from unknown sources in binary systems, J. Aasi, B. P. Abbott, Teviet Creighton, Mario C. Diaz, Soma Mukherjee, Volker Quetschke, and Malik Rakhmanov
Improved Upper Limits on the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background from 2009–2010 LIGO and Virgo Data, J. Aasi, B. P. Abbott, H. Daveloza, Mario C. Diaz, S. R. Morriss, Soma Mukherjee, M. E. Normandin, O. Puncken, Volker Quetschke, Malik Rakhmanov, Karla E. Ramirez, Joseph D. Romano, and Robert Stone
Methods and results of a search for gravitational waves associated with gamma-ray bursts using the GEO 600, LIGO, and Virgo detectors, J. Aasi, B. P. Abbott, H. Daveloza, Mario C. Diaz, Soma Mukherjee, Volker Quetschke, Malik Rakhmanov, K. E. Ramirez, Robert Stone, and Cristina V. Torres
Search for gravitational radiation from intermediate mass black hole binaries in data from the second LIGO-Virgo joint science run, J. Aasi, B. P. Abbott, H. Daveloza, S. R. Morriss, Soma Mukherjee, M. E. Normandin, O. Puncken, Volker Quetschke, Malik Rakhmanov, K. E. Ramirez, Robert Stone, Cristina V. Torres, and G. Valdes
Search for Gravitational Waves Associated with γ-ray Bursts Detected by the Interplanetary Network, J. Aasi, B. P. Abbott, Mario C. Diaz, S. R. Morriss, Soma Mukherjee, M. E. Normandin, Volker Quetschke, O. Puncken, Malik Rakhmanov, Karla E. Ramirez, and Robert Stone
Gravitational waves from individual supermassive black hole binaries in circular orbits: Limits from the north american nanohertz observatory for gravitational waves, Z. Arzoumanian, A. Brazier, S. Burke-Spolaor, S. J. Chamberlin, S. Chatterjee, J. M. Cordes, P. B. Demorest, X. Deng, Fredrick A. Jenet, and Jing Luo
Low-cost carbon-silicon nanocomposite anodes for lithium ion batteries, Nacer Badi, Abhinay Reddy Erra, Francisco C. Robles-Hernandez, Anderson O. Okonkwo, Mkhitar Hobosyan, and Karen S. Martirosyan
Suppression of optical damage at 532 nm in Holmium doped congruent lithium niobate, Eftihia Barnes, Nathan H. O'Connell, Nicolas R. Balli, Madhab Pokhrel, Anush Movsesyan, Edvard Kokanyan, and Dhiraj K. Sardar
A program for optical observations of advanced LIGO early triggers in the southern hemisphere, Matthew Benacquista, Chris Belczynski, Martin Beroiz, Maria Branchesi, Carlos Colazo, Mario C. Diaz, Mancheno Dominguez, Diego Garcia Lambas, Shengnan Liang, Lucas Macri, and Tania Peñuela
Constraints on Cosmic Strings from the LIGO-Virgo Gravitational-Wave Detectors, Daniel Bessis, Teviet Creighton, H. Daveloza, Mario C. Diaz, Soma Mukherjee, Volker Quetschke, Malik Rakhmanov, Robert Stone, Lappoon R. Tang, and Cristina V. Torres
Experimental observation of lasing shutdown via asymmetric gain, M. Chitsazi, S. Factor, J. Schindler, and Hamidreza Ramezani
Experimental observation of lasing shutdown via asymmetric gain, M. Chitsazi, S. Factor, J. Schindler, Hamidreza Ramezani, F. M. Ellis, and T. Kottos
Minisuperspace canonical quantization of the Reissner-Nordström black hole via conditional symmetries, T. Christodoulakis, Nicholas Dimakis, Petros A. Terzis, Babak Vakili, E. Melas, and Th. Grammenos
Optimization of NANOGrav's Time Allocation for Maximum Sensitivity to Single Sources, Brian Christy, Ryan Anella, Andrea N. Lommen, Lee Samuel Finn, Richard S. Camuccio, and Emma Handzo
First searches for optical counterparts to gravitational-wave candidate events, M. Constancio, J. Aasi, J. Abadie, B. P. Abbott, Teviet Creighton, Mario C. Diaz, Soma Mukherjee, Volker Quetschke, Malik Rakhmanov, and Joseph D. Romano
Theoretical and experimental infrared spectra of hydrated and dehydrated sulfonated poly(ether ether ketone), Jonathan Doan, Erin Kingston, Ian Kendrick, Kierstyn Anderson, Nicholas Dimakis, Philippe Knauth, Maria Luisa Di Vona, and Eugene S. Smotkina
A 24 HR global campaign to assess precision timing of the millisecond pulsar J1713+0747, T. Dolch, M. T. Lam, J. Cordes, S. Chatterjee, C. Bassa, B. Bhattacharyya, D. J. Champion, I. Cognard, K. Crowter, and Fredrick A. Jenet
Mapping gravitational-wave backgrounds using methods from CMB analysis: Application to pulsar timing arrays, Jonathan Gair, Joseph D. Romano, Stephen Taylor, and Chiara M. F. Mingarelli
Free-energy calculations for semi-flexible macromolecules: Applications to DNA knotting and looping, Stefan M. Giovan, Robert G. Scharein, Andreas Hanke, and Stephen D. Levene
Parallel phase modulation scheme for interferometric gravitational-wave detectors, M. T. Hartman, V. Quetschke, D. B. Tanner, D. H. Reitze, and G. Mueller
MRI characterization of cobalt dichloride-N-acetyl cysteine (C4) contrast agent marker for prostate brachytherapy, Tze Yee Lim, R. Jason Stafford, Rajat J. Kudchadker, Madhuri Sankaranarayanapillai, Geoffrey Ibbott, Arvind Rao, Karen S. Martirosyan, and Steven J. Frank
Concept of a reflective power limiter based on nonlinear localized modes, Elena Makri, Hamidreza Ramezani, Tsampikos Kottos, and Ilya Vitebsky
Electrochemical features of combustion-synthesized lithium cobaltate as cathode material for lithium ion battery, Y. Y. Mamyrbayeva, Mkhitar Hobosyan, S. E. Kumekov, and Karen S. Martirosyan
Gravity Effect on Electrical Field Generation and Charge Carriers Transfer During Combustion Synthesis of Sulfides, A. A. Markov, I. A. Filimonov, and Karen S. Martirosyan
Self-Heating Model of Spherical Aluminum Nanoparticle Oxidation, Karen S. Martirosyan, Zamart Ramazanova, and Maxim Zyskin
Fluid dynamic modeling of nano-thermite reactions, Karen S. Martirosyan, Maxim Zyskin, Charles M. Jenkins, and Yasuyuki Horie
Optical isolation via PT-symmetric nonlinear Fano resonances, F. Nazari, N. Bender, Hamidreza Ramezani, M. K. Moravvej-Farshi, D. N. Christodoulides, and T. Kottos
Bright microwave pulses from PSR B0531+21 observed with a prototype transient survey receiver, J. A. O'Dea, F. A. Jenet, Tsan Huei Cheng, Chau M. Buu, Martin Beroiz, Sami W. Asmar, and J. W. Armstrong
Fermi-normal, optical, and wave-synchronous coordinates for spacetime with a plane gravitational wave, Malik Rakhmanov
Unidirectional Lasing Emerging from Frozen Light in Nonreciprocal Cavities, Hamidreza Ramezani, S. Kalish, I. Vitebskiy, and T. Kottos
Unidirectional spectral singularities, Hamidreza Ramezani, Hao Kun Li, Yuan Wang, and Xiang Zhang
Fabrication of Yttrium Ferrite Nanoparticles by Solution Combustion Synthesis, A. A. Saukhimov, Mkhitar A. Hobosyan, Gamage C. Dannangoda, N. N. Zhumabekova, and S. E. Kumekov
Gravitational wave hotspots: Ranking potential locations of single-source gravitational wave emission, Joseph Simon, Abigail Polin, Andrea Lommen, Ben Stappers, Lee Samuel Finn, F. A. Jenet, and B. Christy
Fast radio burst discovered in the Arecibo pulsar ALFA survey, L. G. Spitler, J. M. Cordes, J. W.T. Hessels, D. R. Lorimer, M. A. McLaughlin, S. Chatterjee, F. Crawford, J. S. Deneva, and Fredrick Jenet
The green bank northern celestial cap pulsar survey. I. survey description data analysis and initial results, Kevin Stovall, R. S. Lynch, Louis Percy Dartez, Anthony J. Ford, A. Garcia, J. Hinojosa, Fredrick A. Jenet, Sean Leake, Jose Guadalupe Martinez, and Alberto Mata
Arecibo pulsar survey using ALFA. III. precursor survey and population synthesis, J. K. Swiggum, D. R. Lorimer, M. A. McLaughlin, S. D. Bates, D. J. Champion, S. M. Ransom, A. Brazier, J. W.T. Hessels, D. J. Nice, and Fredrick A. Jenet
Biosensors and Nanobiosensors: Design and Applications, Ahmed Touhami
A coherent method for the detection and parameter estimation of continuous gravitational wave signals using a pulsar timing array, Yan Wang, Soumya D. Mohanty, and F. A. Jenet
Treatment of calibration uncertainty in multi-baseline cross-correlation searches for gravitational waves, J. T. Whelan, E. L. Robinson, Joseph D. Romano, and E. H. Thrane
The Space Public Outreach Team (SPOT): Adapting a successful outreach programme to a new region, Kathryn Williamson, Irene Grimberg, Joey Key, and Sue Ann Heatherly
Illustrations and supporting texts for sound standing waves of air columns in pipes in introductory physics textbooks, Liang Zeng, Chris Smith, G. Herold Poelzer, Jennifer Rodriguez, Edgar Corpuz, and George Yanev
Searching for pulsars using image pattern recognition, W. W. Zhu, Kevin Stovall, Stephanie Cohen, Louis Percy Dartez, Grady Lunsford, Jose Guadalupe Martinez, Alberto Mata, and Fredrick A. Jenet
PT-symmetric acoustics, Xuefeng Zhu, Hamidreza Ramezani, Chengzhi Shi, Jie Zhu, and Xiang Zhang
Submissions from 2013
Einstein@Home all-sky search for periodic gravitational waves in LIGO S5 data, J. Aasi, J. Abadie, B. P. Abbott, Matthew Benacquista, Teviet Creighton, Mario C. Diaz, Soma Mukherjee, Malik Rakhmanov, Volker Quetschke, and Joseph D. Romano
Parameter estimation for compact binary coalescence signals with the first generation gravitational-wave detector network, J. Aasi, J. Abadie, Matthew Benacquista, Teviet Creighton, Mario C. Diaz, Soma Mukherjee, Volker Quetschke, Malik Rakhmanov, Robert Stone, and Cristina V. Torres
Search for gravitational waves from binary black hole inspiral merger and ringdown in LIGO-Virgo data from 2009-2010, J. Aasi, J. Abadie, Matthew Benacquista, Teviet Creighton, Mario C. Diaz, Soma Mukherjee, Volker Quetschke, Malik Rakhmanov, Robert Stone, and Cristina V. Torres
Directed search for continuous gravitational waves from the Galactic center, J. Aasi, Daniel Bessis, Teviet Creighton, Mario C. Diaz, Soma Mukherjee, Volker Quetschke, Malik Rakhmanov, Joseph D. Romano, Robert Stone, Lappoon R. Tang, and Cristina V. Torres
Search for long-lived gravitational-wave transients coincident with long gamma-ray bursts, J. Aasi, Daniel Bessis, Teviet Creighton, Mario C. Diaz, Soma Mukherjee, Malik Rakhmanov, Volker Quetschke, Joseph D. Romano, Robert Stone, Lappoon R. Tang, and Cristina V. Torres
The Einstein@Home search for radio pulsars and PSR J2007+2722 discovery, B. Allen, B. Knispel, J. M. Cordes, J. S. Deneva, J. W.T. Hessels, D. Anderson, C. Aulbert, O. Bock, Fredrick A. Jenet, and Kevin Stovall
Observation of asymmetric transport in structures with active nonlinearities, N. Bender, S. Factor, J. D. Bodyfelt, Hamidreza Ramezani, D. N. Christodoulides, F. M. Ellis, and T. Kottos
Limits on the stochastic gravitational wave background from the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves, P. B. Demorest, R. D. Ferdman, M. E. Gonzalez, D. Nice, S. Ransom, I. H. Stairs, Z. Arzoumanian, A. Brazier, S. Burke-Spolaor, and Fredrick Jenet
Goals strategies and first discoveries of ao327 the arecibo all-sky 327 MHz drift pulsar survey, J. S. Deneva, K. Stovall, M. A. McLaughlin, S. D. Bates, P. C.C. Freire, J. G. Martinez, F. Jenet, and M. Bagchi
Carbon monoxide adsorption on platinum-osmium and platinum-ruthenium-osmium mixed nanoparticles, Nicholas Dimakis, Nestor E. Navarro, and Eugene S. Smotkin
A Biodistribution and Toxicity Study of Cobalt Dichloride–NAcetyl Cysteine (C4) as an Implantable MRI Marker for Prostate Cancer Treatment, Steven J. Frank, Mary J. Johansen, Karen S. Martirosyan, Mihai Gagea, and Carolyn S. Van Pelt
Non-Equilibrium Casimir Force between Vibrating Plates, Andreas Hanke
Study of dynamic features of highly energetic reactions by DSC and High-Speed Temperature Scanner (HSTS), Mkhitar Hobosyan, Kh. G. Kirakosyan, S. L. Kharatyan, and Karen S. Martirosyan
PEACE: Pulsar evaluation algorithm for candidate extraction-a software package for post-analysis processing of pulsar survey candidates, K. J. Lee, Kevin Stovall, Fredrick Jenet, Jose Guadalupe Martinez, Louis Percy Dartez, Alberto Mata, Grady Lunsford, Stephanie Cohen, C. M. Biwer, and M. Rohr
The thermodynamics of DNA loop formation, from J to Z, Stephen D. Levene, Stefan M. Giovan, Andreas Hanke, and Massa J. Shoura
Charge and Discharge Behaviour of Li-Ion Batteries at Various Temperatures Containing LiCoO2 Nanostructured Cathode Produced by CCSO, Y. Y. Mamyrbayeva, R. E. Beissenov, Mkhitar A. Hobosyan, S. E. Kumekov, and Karen S. Martirosyan
Carbon combustion synthesis of oxides: Effect of Mach, Peclet, and Reynolds numbers on gas dynamics, Andrei A. Markov, Igor A. Filimonov, and Karen S. Martirosyan
Generation of charge carriers during combustion synthesis of sulfides, Andrei A. Markov, Igor A. Filimonov, A. V. Poletaev, S. G. Vadchenko, and Karen S. Martirosyan
An Integrated Multidisciplinary Nanoscience Concentration Certificate Program for STEM Education, Karen S. Martirosyan, Mikhail M. Bouniaev, Malik Rakhmanov, Ahmed Touhami, Nazmul Islam, Davood Askari, Tarek Trad, Dmitri Litvinov, and Sergey E. Lyshevski
Reactive self-heating model of aluminum spherical nanoparticles, Karen S. Martirosyan and Maxim Zyskin
Detection of pulsar beams deflected by the black hole in SGR A*: Effects of black hole spin, Sourabh Nampalliwar, Richard H. Price, Teviet Creighton, and Fredrick A. Jenet
Timing and interstellar scattering of 35 distant pulsars discovered in the palfa survey, D. J. Nice, E. Altiere, S. Bogdanov, J. M. Cordes, D. Farrington, J. W.T. Hessels, V. M. Kaspi, A. G. Lyne, Fredrick A. Jenet, and Kevin Stovall
The stochastic background: scaling laws and time to detection for pulsar timing arrays, X. Siemens, Justin A. Ellis, Fredrick A. Jenet, and Joseph D. Romano
Searching for millisecond pulsars: surveys, techniques and prospects, Kevin Stovall, Duncan R. Lorimer, and R. S. Lynch
Sensitivity curves for searches for gravitational-wave backgrounds, E. H. Thrane and Joseph D. Romano
Submissions from 2012
The characterization of Virgo data and its impact on gravitational-wave searches, J. Aasi, J. Abadie, Matthew Benacquista, G. Cagnoli, Teviet Creighton, Mario C. Diaz, Soma Mukherjee, Volker Quetschke, Malik Rakhmanov, Joseph D. Romano, and Cristina V. Torres
Search for gravitational waves associated with gamma-ray bursts during Ligo science run 6 and Virgo science runs 2 and 3, J. Abadie, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott, Matthew Benacquista, Teviet Creighton, Mario C. Diaz, Soumya D. Mohanty, Volker Quetschke, and Joseph D. Romano
First low-latency LIGO+Virgo search for binary inspirals and their electromagnetic counterparts, J. Abadie, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott, Matthew Benacquista, Mario C. Diaz, Soumya Mohanty, Soma Mukherjee, Volker Quetschke, Malik Rakhmanov, and Joseph D. Romano
Upper limits on a stochastic gravitational-wave background using LIGO and Virgo interferometers at 600-1000 Hz, J. Abadie, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, Matthew Benacquista, Teviet Creighton, Mario C. Diaz, Soumya D. Mohanty, Volker Quetschke, and Joseph D. Romano
All-sky search for gravitational-wave bursts in the second joint LIGO-Virgo run, J. Abadie, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, Matthew Benacquista, Teviet Creighton, Mario C. Diaz, Soumya Mohanty, Volker Quetschke, Malik Rakhmanov, and Joseph D. Romano
Implications for the origin of GRB 051103 from LIGO observations, J. Abadie, B. P. Abbott, T. D. Abbott, Matthew Benacquista, Teviet Creighton, Soumya Mohanty, Soma Mukherjee, Volker Quetschke, Malik Rakhmanov, and Joseph D. Romano
Search for gravitational waves from intermediate mass binary black holes, J. Abadie, B. P. Abbott, Matthew Benacquista, Teviet Creighton, Mario C. Diaz, Soumya Mohanty, Soma Mukherjee, Volker Quetschke, Malik Rakhmanov, and Joseph D. Romano
Search for gravitational waves from low mass compact binary coalescence in LIGO’s sixth science run and Virgo’s science runs 2 and 3, J. Abadie, B. P. Abbott, Matthew Benacquista, Teviet Creighton, Mario C. Diaz, Soumya Mohanty, Soma Mukherjee, Volker Quetschke, Malik Rakhmanov, Joseph D. Romano, and Robert Stone
All-sky search for periodic gravitational waves in the full S5 LIGO data, J. Abadie, B. P. Abbott, Matthew Benacquista, Teviet Creighton, Mario C. Diaz, Soumya Mohanty, Soma Mukherjee, Malik Rakhmanov, Volker Quetschke, and Joseph D. Romano
Implementation and testing of the first prompt search for gravitational wave transients with electromagnetic counterparts, J. Abadie, Matthew Benacquista, Teviet Creighton, Mario C. Diaz, Soumya Mohanty, Soma Mukherjee, Volker Quetschke, Malik Rakhmanov, and Joseph D. Romano
An Introduction to the Evolution of Single and Binary Stars, Matthew Benacquista
Polyvinylchloride-single-walled carbon nanotube composites: Thermal and spectroscopic properties, Mircea Chipara, Jessica Cruz, Edgar R. Vega, Jorge Alarcon, Thomas Mion, Dorina M. Chipara, Elamin Ibrahim, Steven C. Tidrow, and David Hui
Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy and wide-angle X-ray scattering: Investigations on polypropylene-vapor-grown carbon nanofiber composites, Mircea Chipara, John Hamilton, Alin Cristian Chipara, Tom George, Dorina M. Chipara, Elamin Ibrahim, Karen Lozano, and David J. Sellmyer
Detecting gravitational wave memory with pulsar timing, J. M. Cordes and F. A. Jenet
The critical coupling likelihood method: a new approach for seamless integration of environmental and operating conditions of gravitational wave detectors into gravitational wave searches, Cesar A. Costa and Cristina V. Torres
Four highly dispersed millisecond pulsars discovered in the arecibo palfa galactic plane survey, F. Crawford, Kevin Stovall, A. G. Lyne, B. W. Stappers, D. J. Nice, I. Stairs, P. Lazarus, J. W.T. Hessels, P. Freire, and Fredrick Jenet
Controlling calibration errors in gravitational-wave detectors by precise location of calibration forces, Hernan P. Daveloza, M Afrin Badhan, Mario C. Diaz, K. Kawabe, P. N. Konverski, M. Landry, and R. L. Savage
Two millisecond pulsars discovered by the palfa survey and a shapiro delay measurement, J. S. Deneva, P. C.C. Freire, J. M. Cordes, A. G. Lyne, S. M. Ransom, I. Cognard, F. Camilo, D. J. Nice, Fredrick A. Jenet, and Kevin Stovall
Thermal effects in the Input Optics of the Enhanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory interferometers, K. L. Dooley, M. A. Arain, D. Fieldbaum, and Volker Quetschke
Practical methods for continuous gravitational wave detection using pulsar timing data, J. A. Ellis, F. A. Jenet, and M. A. McLaughlin
Swift follow-up observations of candidate gravitational-wave transient events, P. A. Evans, J. K. Fridriksson, N. Gehrels, J. Homan, Matthew Benacquista, Teviet Creighton, Mario C. Diaz, Soma Mukherjee, Malik Rakhmanov, and Joseph D. Romano
Natural radioactivity and its gamma dose rate in Mission (Texas) soils, Mohammad A. Hannan, Nam Nguyen, and Manuel Rivas
Nanoenergetic composite based on I2O5/Al for biological agent defeat, Mkhitar Hobosyan, Alexander V. Kazanksy, and Karen S. Martirosyan
Raman spectroscopy of isotactic polypropylene-halloysite nanocomposites, Elamin E. Ibrahim, Dorina M. Chipara, Ram Thapa, Karen Lozano, and Mircea Chipara
Discovery of the optical/ultraviolet/gamma-ray counterpart to the eclipsing millisecond pulsar J1816+4510, D. L. Kaplan, Kevin Stovall, S. M. Ransom, M. S. R. Robers, R. Kotulla, Anne M. Archibald, C. M. Biwer, Anthony J. Ford, and Fredrick Jenet
2.1μm Emission Spectral Properties of Tm and Ho Doped Transparent YAG Ceramic, G. A. Kumar and Madhab Pokhrel
Synthesis and Upconversion Spectroscopy of Yb Er Doped M2O2S (M = La, Gd, Y) Phosphors, G. A. Kumar, Madhab Pokhrel, Dhiraj K. Sardar, and Alejandrina Martinez
On the Age and Metallicity Estimation of Disc Galaxies Using Optical and Near- Infrared Photometry, Hyun-Chul Lee
Thermosensitive Magnetic Nanoparticles for Self-Controlled Hyperthermia Cancer Treatment, Karen S. Martirosyan
