Physics and Astronomy Faculty Publications and Presentations
Explore our Open Access Publications to discover research freely available to the public.
You can also view All Research Publications by the department, including both open access and subscription-based work over the past 36 months.
Submissions from 2012
Comparative studies of the spectroscopic properties of nd3+: YAG nanocrystals transparent ceramic and single crystal, M. Pokhrel, N. Ray, G. A. Kumar, and D. K. Sardar
In an expanding universe, what doesn’t expand?, Richard H. Price and Joseph D. Romano
PT-symmetric talbot effects, Hamidreza Ramezani, D. N. Christodoulides, V. Kovanis, I. Vitebskiy, and Tsampikos Kottos
Exceptional-point dynamics in photonic honeycomb lattices with PT symmetry, Hamidreza Ramezani, Tsampikos Kottos, Vassilios Kovanis, and Demetrios N. Christodoulides
Bypassing the bandwidth theorem with PT symmetry, Hamidreza Ramezani, J. Schindler, F. M. Ellis, Uwe Günther, and Tsampikos Kottos
Tuning of alternative splicing - switch from proto-oncogene to tumor suppressor, Aleksandra Shchelkunova, Boris Ermolinsky, Meghan Boyle, Ivan Mendez, Michael Lehker, Karen S. Martirosyan, and Alexander V. Kazansky
Hysteresis and relaxation in granular permanent magnets, Ralph Skomski, B. Balamurugan, Tom A. George, Mircea Chipara, Xiao-Hui Wei, Jeff E. Shield, and D. J. Sellmyer
Observability of pulsar beam bending by the Sgr A* black hole, K. Stovall, Teviet Creighton, Richard H. Price, and Fredrick A. Jenet
Tackling gravity wave confusion noise with template optimizers, A. S. Stroeer and Matthew Benacquista
On the Synthesis and Physical Properties of Iron Doped SnO2 Nanoparticles, X. Wei, R. Georgescu, N. Ali, I. Morjan, T. A. George, F. Dumitrache, R. Birjega, and Mircea Chipara
Submissions from 2011
Search for gravitational wave bursts from six magnetars, J. Abadie, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, M. Abernathy, Matthew Benacquista, Teviet Creighton, Mario C. Diaz, Soumya D. Mohanty, Soma Mukherjee, Volker Quetschke, and Malik Rakhmanov
Search for gravitational waves associated with the August 2006 timing glitch of the Vela pulsar, J. Abadie, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, R. Adhikari, Matthew Benacquista, Teviet Creighton, Mario C. Diaz, Soumya Mohanty, Soma Mukherjee, Volker Quetschke, Malik Rakhmanov, and Joseph D. Romano
A gravitational wave observatory operating beyond the quantum shot-noise limit: Squeezed light in application, J. Abadie, B. P. Abbott, T. D. Abbott, Matthew Benacquista, Teviet Creighton, Mario C. Diaz, Soumya Mohanty, Soma Mukherjee, Volker Quetschke, and Joseph D. Romano
Beating the spin-down limit on gravitational wave emission from the Vela pulsar, J. Abadie, B. P. Abbott, Matthew Benacquista, Teviet Creighton, Mario C. Diaz, Soumya D. Mohanty, Soma Mukherjee, Volker Quetschke, Malik Rakhmanov, and Joseph D. Romano
Search for gravitational waves from binary black hole inspiral merger and ringdown, J. Abadie, B. P. Abbott, Matthew Benacquista, Teviet Creighton, Mario C. Diaz, Soumya Mohanty, Soma Mukherjee, Volker Quetschke, Malik Rakhmanov, and Joseph D. Romano
Directional Limits on Persistent Gravitational Waves Using LIGO S5 Science Data, J. Abadie, B. P. Abbott, Matthew Benacquista, Teviet Creighton, R. Grosso, J. Li, Soma Mukherjee, Soumya Mohanty, Malik Rakhmanov, Volker Quetschke, Robert Stone, Joseph D. Romano, and B. Vaishnav
Tidal perturbations to the gravitational inspiral of J0651+2844, Matthew J. Benacquista and Kelly Holley-Bockelmann
Raman Spectroscopy of Carbonaceous Materials: A Concise Review, Dorina M. Chipara, Alin Cristian Chipara, and Mircea Chipara
Ferromagnetic resonance on Ni nanowire arrays, Mircea Chipara, Ralph Skomski, Roger D. Kirby, and David J. Sellmyer
Investigating students' mental models and knowledge construction of microscopic friction. I. Implications for curriculum design and development, Edgar D. Corpuz and N. Sanjay Rebello
Compact binaries in star clusters - II. Escapers and detection rates, J. M.B. Downing, M. J. Benacquista, M. Giersz, and R. Spurzem
Evaluating Partition Functions for Multiscale Models of DNA, Andreas Hanke, Stefan M. Giovan, and Stephen D. Levene
Concentrations of trace and major elements in Mission–Progresso (Texas) soils, Mohammad A. Hannan and Jesus Tanguma
Pulsar timing sensitivity to very-low-frequency gravitational waves, Fredrick A. Jenet, J. W. Armstrong, and Massimo Tinto
Arecibo PALFA survey and Einstein@Home: Binary pulsar discovery by volunteer computing, B. Knispel, P. Lazarus, B. Allen, D. Anderson, C. Aulbert, N. D.R. Bhat, O. Bock, S. Bogdanov, A. Brazier, and Fredrick A. Jenet
Sparse spectral-tau method for the three-dimensional helically reduced wave equation on two-center domains, Stephen R. Lau and Richard H. Price
The Properties Of The Stellar Nuclei With The Host Galaxy Morphology In The ACSVCS, Hyun-Chul Lee
Unidirectional Invisibility Induced by PT-Symmetric Periodic Structures, Zin Lin and Hamidreza Ramezani
Magnetization precession and domain-wall structure in cobalt-ruthenium-cobalt trilayers, Zhen Li, Ralph Skomski, Sy-Hwang Liou, Steven Michalski, Mircea Chipara, and Roger D. Kirby
Magnetization precession and domainwall structure in cobalt-ruthenium-cobalt trilayers, Zhen Li, Ralph Skomski, Sy-Hwang Liou, Steven Michalski, Mircea Chipara, and Roger D. Kirby
Thermal Reaction Wave Simulation Using Micro and Macro Scale Interaction Model, Andrei A. Markov, Igor A. Filimonov, and Karen S. Martirosyan
Teaching introductory undergraduate physics using commercial video games, Soumya Mohanty and Sergio Cantu
Near-Field Radiative Heat Transfer between Macroscopic Planar Surfaces, R. S. Ottens, Volker Quetschke, Stacy Wise, A. A. Alemi, R. Lundock, G. Mueller, D. H. Reitze, D. B. Tanner, and B. F. Whiting
Infrared and upconversion spectroscopic studies of high Er3+content transparent YAG ceramic, M. Pokhrel, G. A. Kumar, P. Samuel, K. I. Ueda, T. Yanagitani, H. Yagi, and D. K. Sardar
Systematics of black hole binary inspiral kicks and the slowness approximation, Richard H. Price, Gaurav Khanna, and Scott A. Hughes
Ab initio description of nonlinear dynamics of coupled microdisk resonators with application to self-trapping dynamics, Hamidreza Ramezani, Tsampikos Kottos, V. Shuvayev, and L. Deych
The behavior of nanothermite reaction based on Bi2O3/Al, L. Wang, D. Luss, and Karen S. Martirosyan
Constraining the coalescence rate of supermassive black-hole binaries using pulsar timing, Z. L. Wen, F. A. Jenet, D. Yardley, G. B. Hobbs, and R. N. Manchester
An empirical UBV RI JHK color-temperature calibration for stars, Guy Worthey and Hyun Chul Lee
On detection of the stochastic gravitational-wave background using the Parkes pulsar timing array, D. R.B. Yardley, W. A. Coles, G. B. Hobbs, J. P.W. Verbiest, R. N. Manchester, W. van Straten, Fredrick A. Jenet, M. Bailes, and N. D.R. Bhat
Submissions from 2010
First search for gravitational waves from the youngest known neutron star, J. Abadie, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, Matthew Benacquista, Teviet Creighton, Mario C. Diaz, Soumya D. Mohanty, Soma Mukherjee, Volker Quetschke, Malik Rakhmanov, and Joseph D. Romano
Search for gravitational-wave inspiral signals associated with short gamma-ray bursts during LIGO'S fifth and Virgo's first science run, J. Abadie, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, Matthew Benacquista, Teviet Creighton, Mario C. Diaz, Soumya Mohanty, Soma Mukherjee, Malik Rakhmanov, and Joseph D. Romano
Search for gravitational waves from compact binary coalescence in LIGO and Virgo data from S5 and VSR1, J. Abadie, B. P. Abbott, Matthew Benacquista, Teviet Creighton, Mario C. Diaz, Soumya Mohanty, Soma Mukherjee, Volker Quetschke, Malik Rakhmanov, and Joseph D. Romano
All-sky search for gravitational-wave bursts in the first joint LIGO-GEO-Virgo run, J. Abadie, B. P. Abbott, Matthew Benacquista, Teviet Creighton, Mario C. Diaz, Soumya Mohanty, Soma Mukherjee, Malik Rakhmanov, Joseph D. Romano, and Robert Stone
Search for gravitational-wave bursts associated with gamma-ray bursts using data from LIGO science run 5 and Virgo science run 1, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, F. Acernese, Matthew Benacquista, Teviet Creighton, Mario C. Diaz, Soumya Mohanty, Soma Mukherjee, Malik Rakhmanov, and Joseph D. Romano
Searches for gravitational waves from known pulsars with science run 5 ligo data, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, F. Acernese, Teviet Creighton, Matthew Benacquista, Mario C. Diaz, Soumya D. Mohanty, Soma Mukherjee, Malik Rakhmanov, and Joseph D. Romano
Triplets of supermassive black holes: Astrophysics gravitational waves and detection, Pau Amaro-Seoane, Alberto Sesana, Loren Hoffman, Matthew Benacquista, Christoph Eichhorn, Junichiro Makino, and Rainer Spurzem
Double compact objects as low-frequency gravitational wave sources, Krzysztof Belczynski, Matthew Benacquista, and Tomasz Bulik
Compact binaries in star clusters - I. Black hole binaries inside globular clusters, J. M.B. Downing, M. J. Benacquista, M. Giersz, and R. Spurzem
Equation of state of a dense and magnetized fermion system, Efrain J. Ferrer, Vivian de la Incera, Jason P. Keith, Israel Portillo, and Paul L. Springsteen
Apo B100 similarities to viral proteins suggest basis for LDL-DNA binding and transfection capacity, Juan Guevara, Nagindra Prashad, Boris Ermolinsky, John W. Gaubatz, Dongcheul Kang, Andrea E. Schwarzbach, David S. Loose, and Natalia Valentinova Guevara
Apparent faster-than-light pulse propagation in interstellar space: A new probe of the interstellar medium, F. A. Jenet, D. Fleckenstein, A. Ford, A. Garcia, R. Miller, J. Rivera, and K. Stovall
Effects of α-element enhancement and the thermally pulsing-asymptotic giant branch on surface brightness fluctuation magnitudes and broadband colors, Hyun Chul Lee, Guy Worthey, and John P. Blakeslee
Detecting massive gravitons using pulsar timing arrays, Kejia Lee, F. A. Jenet, Richard H. Price, Norbert Wex, and Michael Kramer
Ultra-compact Dwarfs in the Core of the Coma Cluster, Juan P. Madrid, Alister W. Graham, William E. Harris, Paul Goudfrooij, Duncan A. Forbes, David Carter, John P. Blakeslee, Lee R. Spitler, and Henry C. Ferguson
On the anomalous balmer line strengths in globular clusters, Violet Poole, Guy Worthey, Hyun Chul Lee, and Jedidiah Serven
Unidirectional nonlinear PT-symmetric optical structures, Hamidreza Ramezani and Tsampikos Kottos
The lisa gravitational wave foreground: A study of double white dwarfs, Ashley J. Ruiter, Krzysztof Belczynski, Matthew Benacquista, Shane L. Larson, and Gabriel Williams
Particle swarm optimization and gravitational wave data analysis: Performance on a binary inspiral testbed, Yan Wang and Soumya Mohanty
The sensitivity of the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array to individual sources of gravitational waves, D. R.B. Yardley, G. B. Hobbs, Fredrick A. Jenet, J. P.W. Verbiest, Z. L. Wen, R. N. Manchester, W. A. Coles, W. van Straten, and M. Bailes
Submissions from 2009
Einstein@Home search for periodic gravitational waves in LIGO S4 data, B. Abbott, R. Abbott, R. Adhikari, Teviet Creighton, Mario C. Diaz, Soumya Mohanty, Soma Mukherjee, and Joseph D. Romano
Observation of a kilogram-scale oscillator near its quantum ground state, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, R. Adhikari, P. Ajith, B. Allen, G. Allen, Mario C. Diaz, Soumya Mohanty, Soma Mukherjee, and Joseph D. Romano
Stacked search for gravitational waves from the 2006 SGR 1900+14 storm, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, R. Adhikari, Teviet Creighton, Matthew Benacquista, Mario C. Diaz, Soumya Mohanty, Soma Mukherjee, Malik Rakhmanov, and Joseph D. Romano
Einstein@Home search for periodic gravitational waves in early S5 LIGO data, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, R. Adhikari, Teviet Creighton, Matthew Benacquista, Mario C. Diaz, Soma Mukherjee, Soumya D. Mohanty, Malik Rakhmanov, and Joseph D. Romano
First LIGO search for gravitational wave bursts from cosmic (super)strings, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, Matthew Benacquista, Teviet Creighton, Mario C. Diaz, R. Grosso, K. Hayama, H. Lei, Soumya Mohanty, Soma Mukherjee, Malik Rakhmanov, Joseph D. Romano, and Robert Stone
Search for gravitational waves from low mass binary coalescences in the first year of LIGO’s S5 data, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, Matthew Benacquista, Teviet Creighton, Mario C. Diaz, R. Grosso, K. Hayama, H. Lei, Soumya Mohanty, Soma Mukherjee, Malik Rakhmanov, Joseph D. Romano, and Robert Stone
All-Sky LIGO Search for Periodic Gravitational Waves in the Early Fifth-Science-Run Data, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, Matthew Benacquista, Teviet Creighton, Mario C. Diaz, R. Grosso, K. Hayama, Soumya Mohanty, Soma Mukherjee, Malik Rakhmanov, and Joseph D. Romano
Search for gravitational wave ringdowns from perturbed black holes in LIGO S4 data, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, Matthew Benacquista, Teviet Creighton, Mario C. Diaz, R. Grosso, K. Hayama, Soumya Mohanty, Soma Mukherjee, Malik Rakhmanov, Joseph D. Romano, Robert Stone, and Lappoon R. Tang
Search for gravitational-wave bursts in the first year of the fifth LIGO science run, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, Matthew Benacquista, Teviet Creighton, Mario C. Diaz, Hansheng Lei, Soumya Mohanty, Soma Mukherjee, Malik Rakhmanov, and Joseph D. Romano
Search for gravitational waves from low mass compact binary coalescence in 186 days of LIGO’s fifth science run, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, Matthew Benacquista, Teviet Creighton, K. Hayama, H. Lei, Soumya Mohanty, Soma Mukherjee, Malik Rakhmanov, Joseph D. Romano, Robert Stone, and Lappoon R. Tang
Spectroscopic investigations on polypropylene-carbon nanofiber composites. I. Raman and electron spin resonance spectroscopy, Mircea Chipara, John R. Villarreal, Dorina M. Chipara, Karen Lozano, Alin Cristian Chipara, and David J. Sellmyer
Pulsar timing and spacetime curvature, Teviet Creighton, Fredrick A. Jenet, and Richard H. Price
Arecibo pulsar survey using ALPHA: Probing radio pulsar intermittency and transients, J. S. Deneva, J. M. Cordes, M. A. McLaughlin, D. J. Nice, D. R. Lorimer, F. Crawford, N. D.R. Bhat, F. Camilo, Fredrick A. Jenet, and J. van Leeuwen
XAFS Debye-Waller factors for deformed hemes and metal substituted hemes, Nicholas Dimakis, T. Mion, C. Ramirez, and G. Bunker
Subcellular Min oscillations as a single-cell reporter of the action of polycations protamine and gentamicin on Escherichia coli, Benjamin P.B. Downing, Andrew D. Rutenberg, Ahmed Touhami, and Manfred Jericho
Detecting a stochastic gravitational-wave background: The overlap reduction function, Lee Samuel Finn, Shane L. Larson, and Joseph D. Romano
TEMPO2: A new pulsar timing package - III. Gravitational wave simulation, G. Hobbs, F. Jenet, K. J. Lee, J. P.W. Verbiest, D. Yardley, R. Manchester, A. Lommen, W. Coles, R. Edwards, and C. Shettigara
Comparison of alpha-element-enhanced simple stellar population models with milky way globular clusters, Hyun Chul Lee, Guy Worthey, and Aaron Dotter
Stellar population models and individual element abundances. II. Stellar spectra and integrated light models, Hyun Chul Lee, Guy Worthey, Aaron Dotter, Brian Chaboyer, Darko Jevremović, E. Baron, Michael M. Briley, Jason W. Ferguson, Paula Coelho, and Scott C. Trager
A search for periodic gravitational waves from three recycled pulsars using the AURIGA detector, A. Mion, M. J. Benacquista, M. Kramer, P. P.C. Freire, and A. Possenti
The contribution of halo white dwarf binaries to the laser interferometer space antenna signal, Ashley J. Ruiter, Krzysztof Belczynski, Matthew Benacquista, and Kelly Holley-Bockelmann
Timing stability of millisecond pulsars and prospects for gravitational-wave detection, J. P.W. Verbiest, M. Bailes, W. A. Coles, G. B. Hobbs, W. Van Straten, D. J. Champion, Fredrick A. Jenet, R. N. Manchester, N. D.R. Bhat, and J. M. Sarkissian
Strong field effects on pulsar arrival times: General orientations, Yan Wang, Teviet Creighton, Richard H. Price, and Fredrick A. Jenet
Strong field effects on pulsar arrival times: Circular orbits and equatorial beams, Yan Wang, Fredrick Jenet, Teviet Creighton, and Richard H. Price
Submissions from 2008
Implications for the origin of GRB 070201 from LIGO observations, B. Abbott, R. Abbott, R. Adhikari, J. Agresti, P. Ajith, Mario C. Diaz, Roberto Grosso, Soumya Mohanty, Soma Mukherjee, and Cristina V. Torres
Beating the spin-down limit on gravitational wave emission from the crab pulsar, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, R. Adhikari, Mario C. Diaz, Roberto Grosso, Kazuhiro Hayama, Soumya Mohanty, Soma Mukherjee, Joseph D. Romano, and Robert Stone
Search for Gravitational-Wave Bursts from Soft Gamma Repeaters, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, Mario C. Diaz, R. Grosso, K. Hayama, Soma Mukherjee, Soumya Mohanty, Joseph D. Romano, and Robert Stone
Search for gravitational waves associated with 39 gamma-ray bursts using data from the second, third, and fourth LIGO runs, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, Mario C. Diaz, R. Grosso, Wm. R. Johnston, Soumya Mohanty, Soma Mukherjee, and Cristina V. Torres
All-sky search for periodic gravitational waves in LIGO S4 data, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, Mario C. Diaz, R. Grosso, Soumya Mohanty, Soma Mukherjee, and Cristina V. Torres
Search for gravitational waves from binary inspirals in S3 and S4 LIGO data, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, Mario C. Diaz, R. Grosso, Soumya Mohanty, Soma Mukherjee, and Cristina V. Torres
Search of S3 LIGO data for gravitational wave signals from spinning black hole and neutron star binary inspirals, B. P. Abbott, R. Grosso, Mario C. Diaz, Soumya Mohanty, Soma Mukherjee, and Cristina V. Torres
Self-healing of high elasticity block copolymers, Dorina M. Chipara, Mircea Chipara, Emma Shansky, and Jeffrey M. Zaleski
Uv-Vis investigations on ion beam irradiated polycarbonate, Mircea Chipara and Dorina M. Chipara
Denaturation Transition of Stretched DNA, Andreas Hanke, Martha G. Ochoa, and Ralf Metzler
PSR J1856+0245: Arecibo discovery of a young energetic pulsar coincident with the TeV g-RAY source HESS J1857+026, J. W.T. Hessels, D. J. Nice, B. M. Gaensler, V. M. Kaspi, D. R. Lorimer, D. J. Champion, A. G. Lyne, M. Kramer, J. M. Cordes, P. C.C. Freire, and Fredrick A. Jenet
Pulsar timing as a probe of non-einsteinlan polarizations of gravitational waves, K. J. Lee, F. A. Jenet, and Richard H. Price
A Teaching Intervention to Increase Achievement of Hispanic Nonscience Majors Taking Physical Science Courses, G. Herold Poelzer and Liang Zeng
Kinetics and thermodynamics of salt-dependent T7 gene 2.5 protein binding to single- and double-stranded DNA., Leila Shokri, Boriana Marintcheva, Mootaz Eldib, Andreas Hanke, Ioulia Rouzina, and Mark C. Williams
Arecibo H i absorption measurements of pulsars and the electron density at intermediate longitudes in the first galactic quadrant, J. M. Weisberg, S. Stanimirović, K. Xilouris, A. Hedden, A. De La Fuente, S. B. Anderson, and F. A. Jenet
Submissions from 2007
Searching for a stochastic background of gravitational waves with the laser interferometer gravitational-wave observatory, B. Abbott, R. Abbott, R. Adhikari, J. Agresti, Mario C. Diaz, Roberto Grosso, Soumya Mohanty, Soma Mukherjee, and Cristina V. Torres
