
Physics and Astronomy Faculty Publications and Presentations
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Submissions from 2008
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
Searches for periodic gravitational waves from unknown isolated sources and Scorpius X-1: Results from the second LIGO science run, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, Mario C. Diaz, R. Grosso, Wm. R. Johnston, Soumya Mohanty, Soma Mukherjee, and Cristina V. Torres
Searches for periodic gravitational waves from unknown isolated sources and Scorpius X-1: Results from the second LIGO science run, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, Mario C. Diaz, R. Grosso, Wm. R. Johnston, Soumya Mohanty, Soma Mukherjee, and Cristina V. Torres
First Cross-Correlation Analysis of Interferometric and Resonant-Bar Gravitational-Wave Data for Stochastic Backgrounds, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, Mario C. Diaz, R. Grosso, Soumya Mohanty, Soma Mukherjee, and Cristina V. Torres
Search for gravitational wave radiation associated with the pulsating tail of the SGR 1806−20 hyperflare of 27 December 2004 using LIGO, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, Mario C. Diaz, R. Grosso, Soumya Mohanty, Soma Mukherjee, and Cristina V. Torres
Upper limit map of a background of gravitational waves, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, Mario C. Diaz, R. Grosso, Soumya Mohanty, Soma Mukherjee, and Cristina V. Torres
Upper limits on gravitational wave emission from 78 radio pulsars, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, Mario C. Diaz, Soumya Mohanty, Soma Mukherjee, and Cristina V. Torres
Large Merger Recoils and Spin Flips from Generic Black Hole Binaries, Manuela Campanelli, Carlos O. Lousto, Y. Zlochower, and David Merritt
Spin flips and precession in black-hole-binary mergers, Manuela Campanelli, Carlos O. Lousto, Z. Zlochower, Badri Krishnan, and David Merritt
ESR investigations on polyethylene-single wall carbon nanotube composites, Mircea Chipara, Karen Lozano, Richard Wilkins, Enrique V. Barrera, M. X. Pulikkathara, Laura Penia-Para, and Dorina M. Chipara
Zinc cysteine active sites of metalloproteins: A density functional theory and x-ray absorption fine structure study, Nicholas Dimakis, Mohammed Junaid Farooqi, Emily Sofia Garza, and Grant Bunker
Stellar population models and individual element abundances. I. Sensitivity of stellar evolution models, Aaron Dotter, Brian Chaboyer, Jason W. Ferguson, Hyun Chul Lee, Guy Worthey, Darko Jevremović, and E. Baron
Fundamental Emission via Wave Advection from a Collapsing Wave Packet in Electromagnetic Strong Plasma Turbulence, Fredrick A. Jenet, A. Melatos, and P. A. Robinson
On the age and metallicity estimation of spiral galaxies using optical and near-infrared photometry, Hyun Chul Lee, Guy Worthey, Scott C. Trager, and S. M. Faber
Electromagnetic Strong Plasma Turbulence, A. Melatos, F. A. Jenet, and P. A. Robinson
Single DNA conformations and biological function, Ralf Metzler, Tobias Ambjoernsson, Andreas Hanke, Yongli Zhang, and Stephen Levene
Dispersion measure variations and their effect on precision pulsar timing, X. P. You, G. Hobbs, W. A. Coles, R. N. Manchester, R. Edwards, M. Bailes, J. Sarkissian, J. P.W. Verbiest, and Fredrick Jenet
Submissions from 2006
Search for gravitational waves from binary black hole inspirals in LIGO data, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, W. G. Anderson, Mario C. Diaz, Wm. R. Johnston, Soumya Mohanty, Soma Mukherjee, and Cristina V. Torres
Joint LIGO and TAMA300 Search for Gravitational Waves from Inspiralling Neutron Star Binaries, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, W. G. Anderson, Mario C. Diaz, Wm. R. Johnston, Soma Mukherjee, and Cristina V. Torres
Ferromagnetic Resonance Investigations on Ga0.965Mn0.035As Film, S. Balascuta, X. Liu, D. V. Baxter, J. Carini, T. Wojtowicz, Y. Sasaki, J. Furdyna, and Mircea Chipara
Relativistic binaries in globular clusters, Matthew J. Benacquista
Consequences of disk scale height on lisa confusion noise from close white dwarf binaries, M. Benacquista and K. Holley-Bockelmann
Relativistic three-body effects in black hole coalescence, Manuela Campanelli, Miranda Dettwyler, Mark Hannam, and Carlos O. Lousto
The Lazarus project. II. Spacelike extraction with the quasi-Kinnersley tetrad, Manuela Campanelli, Bernard Kelly, and Carlos O. Lousto
Spinning-black-hole binaries: The orbital hang-up, Manuela Campanelli, Carlos O. Lousto, and Y. Zlochower
Accurate Evolutions of Orbiting Black-Hole Binaries without Excision, M. Campanelli, C. O. Lousto, P. Marronetti, and Z. Zlochower
The p14 fusion-associated small transmembrane (FAST) protein effects membrane fusion from a subset of membrane microdomains, Jennifer A. Corcoran, Jayme Salsman, Roberto De Antueno, Ahmed Touhami, Manfred H. Jericho, Eileen K. Clancy, and Roy Duncan
Measurement of orbital decay in the double neutron star binary PSR B2127+11C, B. A. Jacoby, P. B. Cameron, F. A. Jenet, S. B. Anderson, R. N. Murty, and S. R. Kulkarni
Upper bounds on the low-frequency stochastic gravitational wave background from pulsar timing observations: Current limits and future prospects, Fredrick Jenet, G. B. Hobbs, W. Van Straten, R. N. Manchester, M. Bailes, J. P.W. Verbiest, R. T. Edwards, A. W. Hotan, J. M. Sarkissian, and S. M. Ord
Tomographic approach to resolving the distribution of LISA Galactic binaries, Soumya Mohanty and Rajesh K. Nayak
Electrical pulse formation during high temperature reaction between Ni and Al, Mona Setoodeh, Karen S. Martirosyan, and Dan Luss
Submissions from 2005
Upper limits on gravitational wave bursts in LIGO’s second science run, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, W. G. Anderson, Mario C. Diaz, Wm. R. Johnston, Soumya Mohanty, Soma Mukherjee, and Cristina V. Torres
Upper limits from the LIGO and TAMA detectors on the rate of gravitational-wave bursts, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, W. G. Anderson, Mario C. Diaz, Wm. R. Johnston, Soumya Mohanty, and Cristina V. Torres
First all-sky upper limits from LIGO on the strength of periodic gravitational waves using the Hough transform, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, W. G. Anderson, Mario C. Diaz, Wm. R. Johnston, Soma Mukherjee, Soumya Mohanty, and Cristina V. Torres
Limits on Gravitational-Wave Emission from Selected Pulsars Using LIGO Data, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, Mario C. Diaz, Wm. R. Johnston, Soumya Mohanty, Soma Mukherjee, and Cristina V. Torres
Search for gravitational waves associated with the gamma ray burst GRB030329 using the LIGO detectors, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, Mario C. Diaz, Wm. R. Johnston, Soumya Mohanty, Soma Mukherjee, and Cristina V. Torres
Search for gravitational waves from galactic and extra-galactic binary neutron stars, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, Mario C. Diaz, Wm. R. Johnston, Soma Mukherjee, Soumya Mohanty, and Cristina V. Torres
Search for gravitational waves from primordial black hole binary coalescences in the galactic halo, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, Mario C. Diaz, Wm. R. Johnston, Soma Mukherjee, Soumya Mohanty, and Cristina V. Torres
Upper Limits on a Stochastic Background of Gravitational Waves, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, Mario C. Diaz, Soma Mukherjee, Soumya Mohanty, and Cristina V. Torres
Magnetic investigations of titanium-doped gamma iron oxides dispersed in polymers, Mircea Chipara, Ioan Morjan, Rodica Alexandrescu, Jeffrey M. Zaleski, Nicholas Remmes, and D. V. Baxter
Electron spin resonance on carbon nanotubes–polymer composites, Mircea Chipara, Jeffrey M. Zaleski, David Hui, Chunsheng Du, and Ning Pan
Pulsar timing and the detection of black hole binary systems in globular clusters, Fredrick A. Jenet, Teviet Creighton, and Andrea Lommen
Detecting the stochastic gravitational wave background using pulsar timing, Fredrick A. Jenet, George B. Hobbs, K. J. Lee, and Richard N. Manchester
α-Enhanced Integrated Lick/IDS Spectral Indices and Milky Way and M31 Globular Clusters and Early-Type Galaxies, Hyun Chul Lee and Guy Worthey
Electric-Field Generated by the Combustion of Titanium in Nitrogen, Karen S. Martirosyan, Mona Setoodeh, and Dan Luss
Numerical integration of the Teukolsky equation in the time domain, Enrique Pazos-Avalos and Carlos O. Lousto
Response of test masses to gravitational waves in the local Lorentz gauge, Malik Rakhmanov
Phase Effects in the Diffraction of Light: Beyond the Grating Equation, Stacy Wise, V. Quetschke, A. J. Deshpande, G. Mueller, D. H. Reitze, D. B. Tanner, B. F. Whiting, and Y. Chen
Submissions from 2004
Analysis of first LIGO science data for stochastic gravitational waves, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, Mario C. Diaz, Wm. R. Johnston, and Joseph D. Romano
First Upper Limits from LIGO on Gravitational Wave Bursts, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, Mario C. Diaz, Wm. R. Johnston, Joseph D. Romano, and Cristina V. Torres
Setting upper limits on the strength of periodic gravitational waves from PSR J1939+2134 using the first science data from the GEO 600 and LIGO detectors, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, Mario C. Diaz, Wm. R. Johnston, Joseph D. Romano, and Cristina V. Torres
Analysis of LIGO data for gravitational waves from binary neutron stars, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, Wm. R. Johnston, Joseph D. Romano, and V. Schmidt
Coalescence remnant of spinning binary black holes, J Baker, M. Campanelli, C. O. Lousto, and R. Takahashi
Probing Molecular Free Energy Landscapes by Periodic Loading, Oliver Braun, Andreas Hanke, and Udo Seifert
New methods for EXAFS analysis in structural genomics, Grant Bunker, Nicholas Dimakis, and Gocha Kelashvili
Globular cluster and galaxy formation: M31 the Milky Way and implications for globular cluster systems of spiral galaxies, David Burstein, Yong Li, Kenneth C. Freeman, John E. Norris, Michael S. Bessell, Joss Bland-Hawthorn, Brad K. Gibson, Mlchael A. Beasley, Hyun Chul Lee, and Beatriz Barbuy
XAFS Debye-Waller factors for Zn metalloproteins, Nicholas Dimakis and Grant Bunker
Mechanical Properties of Carbon Nanotubes Composites, David Hui, Mircea Chipara, Jagannathan Sankar, and K. T. Lau
The intrinsic intensity modulation of PSR B1937+21 at 1410 MHz, Fredrick A. Jenet and Janusz Gil
Constraining the properties of supermassive black hole systems using pulsar timing: Application to 3C 66B, Fredrick A. Jenet, Andrea Lommen, Shane L. Larson, and Linqing Wen
Is the initial mass function of low surface brightness galaxies dominated by low-mass stars?, Hyun Chul Lee, Brad K. Gibson, Chris Flynn, Daisuke Kawata, and Michael A. Beasley
Generation of the Transient Electrical and Spontaneous Magnetic Fields by Solid State Combustion, Karen S. Martirosyan, J. R. Claycomb, J. H. Miller Jr., and D. Luss
Submissions from 2003
Gravitational radiation from pulsating white dwarfs, M. Benacquista, D. M. Sedrakian, M. V. Hairapetyan, K. M. Shahabasyan, and A. A. Sadoyan
Normal and lateral Casimir forces between deformed plates, Thorsten Emig, Andreas Hanke, Ramin Golestanian, and Mehran Kardar
Mode-Cleaning and Injection Optics of the Gravitational-Wave Detector GEO600, S. Goßler, M. M. Casey, A. Grant, H. Grote, and Volker Quetschke
Comment on ‘‘Why is the DNA Denaturation Transition First Order?’’, Andreas Hanke and Ralf Metzler
Using the intensity modulation index to test pulsar radio emission models, Fredrick A. Jenet and Janusz Gil
Spontaneous magnetization generated by spin, pulsating, and planar combustion synthesis, Karen S. Martirosyan, J. R. Claycomb, G. Gogoshin, R. A. Yarbrough, J. H. Miller Jr., and D. Luss
Submissions from 2002
Group-fitted ab initio single- and multiple-scattering EXAFS Debye-Waller factors, Nicholas Dimakis and Grant Bunker
Correlation functions near modulated and rough surfaces, Andreas Hanke and Mehran Kardar
Horizontal-branch morphology and the photometric evolution of old stellar populations, Hyun Chul Lee, Young Wook Lee, and Brad K. Gibson
Equilibrium shapes of flat knots, Ralf Metzler, Andreas Hanke, Paul G. Dommersnes, Yacov Kantor, and Mehran Kardar
Tightness of slip-linked polymer chains, Ralf Metzler, Andreas Hanke, Paul G. Dommersnes, Yacov Kantor, and Mehran Kardar
Submissions from 2001
APEX version 2.0: latest version of the cross-platform analysis program for EXAFS, Nicholas Dimakis and Grant Bunker
Chemical transferability of single- and multiple-scattering EXAFS Debye-Waller factors, Nicholas Dimakis and Grant Bunker
Verification of a Distortion in the Microstructure of GaN Detected by EXAFS Using Ab Initio Density Functional Theory Calculations, Nicholas Dimakis, Grant Bunker, M. Katsikini, and E. C. Paloura
Probing the Strong Boundary Shape Dependence of the Casimir Force, Thorsten Emig, Andreas Hanke, Ramin Golestanian, and Mehran Kardar
Data conditioning for gravitational wave detectors: A Kalman filter for regressing suspension violin modes, L. S. Finn and S. Mukherjee
Modified Critical Correlations Close to Modulated and Rough Surfaces, Andreas Hanke and Mehran Kardar
Single-pulse characteristics of the millisecond radio pulsar PSR B1937 + 21 AT 430 MHz, F. A. Jenet, S. B. Anderson, and T. A. Prince
The first detection of coherent emission from radio pulsars, F. A. Jenet, S. B. Anderson, and T. A. Prince
Polymer depletion interaction between two parallel repulsive walls, F. Schlesener, Andreas Hanke, R. Kimpel, and S. Dietrich
Submissions from 2000
P-selectin or intercellular adhesion molecule (ICAM)-1 deficiency substantially protects against atherosclerosis in apolipoprotein E-deficient mice, Robert G. Collins, Rizwan Velji, Natalia V. Guevara, M. John Hicks, Lawrence Chan, and Arthur L. Beaudet
Critical Adsorption on Defects in Ising Magnets and Binary Alloys, Andreas Hanke
Detection of variable frequency signals using a fast chirp transform, F. A. Jenet and T. A. Prince
The Hβ index as an age indicator of old stellar systems: The effects of horizontal-branch stars, Hyun Chul Lee, Suk Jin Yoon, and Young Wook Lee
Robust test for detecting nonstationarity in data from gravitational wave detectors, Soumya Mohanty
Submissions from 1999
Observational Limit on Gravitational Waves from Binary Neutron Stars in the Galaxy, B. Allen, J. K. Blackburn, J. D. Creighton, and Teviet Creighton
Gravitational radiation from globular clusters, M. Benacquista
Rapid single- and multiple-scattering EXAFS Debye-Waller factor calculations on active sites of metalloproteins, Nicholas Dimakis, M-Ali Al-Akhras, and Grant Bunker
APEX: cross-platform analysis program for EXAFS, Nicholas Dimakis and Grant Bunker
Detecting an Association between Gamma Ray and Gravitational Wave Bursts, Lee Samuel Finn, Soumya Mohanty, and Joseph D. Romano
Critical adsorption on curved objects, Andreas Hanke and S. Dietrich
Polymer depletion effects near mesoscopic particles, Andreas Hanke, E. Eisenriegler, and S. Dietrich
Critical adsorption near edges, Andreas Hanke, M. Krech, F. Schlesener, and S. Dietrich
Submissions from 1998
Searching for periodic sources with LIGO, Patrick R. Brady, Teviet Creighton, Curt Cutler, and Bernard F. Schutz