Physics and Astronomy Faculty Publications and Presentations

Physics and Astronomy Faculty Publications and Presentations

 

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Submissions from 2014

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Experimental observation of lasing shutdown via asymmetric gain, M. Chitsazi, S. Factor, J. Schindler, and Hamidreza Ramezani

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Experimental observation of lasing shutdown via asymmetric gain, M. Chitsazi, S. Factor, J. Schindler, Hamidreza Ramezani, F. M. Ellis, and T. Kottos

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Parallel phase modulation scheme for interferometric gravitational-wave detectors, M. T. Hartman, V. Quetschke, D. B. Tanner, D. H. Reitze, and G. Mueller

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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

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Concept of a reflective power limiter based on nonlinear localized modes, Elena Makri, Hamidreza Ramezani, Tsampikos Kottos, and Ilya Vitebsky

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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

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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

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Self-Heating Model of Spherical Aluminum Nanoparticle Oxidation, Karen S. Martirosyan, Zamart Ramazanova, and Maxim Zyskin

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Fluid dynamic modeling of nano-thermite reactions, Karen S. Martirosyan, Maxim Zyskin, Charles M. Jenkins, and Yasuyuki Horie

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Detection and estimation of unmodeled narrowband nonstationary signals: application of particle swarm optimization in gravitational wave data analysis, Soumya Mohanty

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Optical isolation via PT-symmetric nonlinear Fano resonances, F. Nazari, N. Bender, Hamidreza Ramezani, M. K. Moravvej-Farshi, D. N. Christodoulides, and T. Kottos

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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

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Fermi-normal, optical, and wave-synchronous coordinates for spacetime with a plane gravitational wave, Malik Rakhmanov

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Unidirectional Lasing Emerging from Frozen Light in Nonreciprocal Cavities, Hamidreza Ramezani, S. Kalish, I. Vitebskiy, and T. Kottos

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Unidirectional spectral singularities, Hamidreza Ramezani, Hao Kun Li, Yuan Wang, and Xiang Zhang

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Biosensors and Nanobiosensors: Design and Applications, Ahmed Touhami

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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PT-symmetric acoustics, Xuefeng Zhu, Hamidreza Ramezani, Chengzhi Shi, Jie Zhu, and Xiang Zhang

Submissions from 2013

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Carbon monoxide adsorption on platinum-osmium and platinum-ruthenium-osmium mixed nanoparticles, Nicholas Dimakis, Nestor E. Navarro, and Eugene S. Smotkin

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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

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Non-Equilibrium Casimir Force between Vibrating Plates, Andreas Hanke

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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

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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

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The thermodynamics of DNA loop formation, from J to Z, Stephen D. Levene, Stefan M. Giovan, Andreas Hanke, and Massa J. Shoura

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Reactive self-heating model of aluminum spherical nanoparticles, Karen S. Martirosyan and Maxim Zyskin

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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

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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

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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

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Searching for millisecond pulsars: surveys, techniques and prospects, Kevin Stovall, Duncan R. Lorimer, and R. S. Lynch

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Sensitivity curves for searches for gravitational-wave backgrounds, E. H. Thrane and Joseph D. Romano

Submissions from 2012

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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An Introduction to the Evolution of Single and Binary Stars, Matthew Benacquista

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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

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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

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Detecting gravitational wave memory with pulsar timing, J. M. Cordes and F. A. Jenet

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Practical methods for continuous gravitational wave detection using pulsar timing data, J. A. Ellis, F. A. Jenet, and M. A. McLaughlin

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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

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Natural radioactivity and its gamma dose rate in Mission (Texas) soils, Mohammad A. Hannan, Nam Nguyen, and Manuel Rivas

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Nanoenergetic composite based on I2O5/Al for biological agent defeat, Mkhitar Hobosyan, Alexander V. Kazanksy, and Karen S. Martirosyan

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Raman spectroscopy of isotactic polypropylene-halloysite nanocomposites, Elamin E. Ibrahim, Dorina M. Chipara, Ram Thapa, Karen Lozano, and Mircea Chipara

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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

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2.1μm Emission Spectral Properties of Tm and Ho Doped Transparent YAG Ceramic, G. A. Kumar and Madhab Pokhrel

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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

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On the Age and Metallicity Estimation of Disc Galaxies Using Optical and Near- Infrared Photometry, Hyun-Chul Lee

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Thermosensitive Magnetic Nanoparticles for Self-Controlled Hyperthermia Cancer Treatment, Karen S. Martirosyan

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Screen-printing of ferrite magnetic nanoparticles produced by carbon combustion synthesis of oxides, Karen S. Martirosyan, Gamage Dannangoda, Eduard Galstyan, and Dmitri Litvinov

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Modeling and simulation of pressure waves generated by nano-thermite reactions, Karen S. Martirosyan, Maxim Zyskin, Charles M. Jenkins, and Yasuyuki Horie

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Particle Swarm Optimization and regression analysis – I, Soumya D. Mohanty

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Particle Swarm Optimization and regression analysis – II, Soumya D. Mohanty

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New approach to time domain classification of broadband noise in gravitational wave data, Soma Mukherjee, P. Rizwan, and R. Biswas

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The creation and propagation of radiation: Fields inside and outside of sources, Stanislaw Olbert, John Belcher, and Richard H. Price