Recent Publications

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Reverberation Mapping Project: Accretion and Broad Emission Line Physics from a Hypervariable Quasar

November 1, 2019 | The Astrophysical Journal
Author(s): Jason Dexter, Shuo Xin, Yue Shen, et. al
UMD Author(s): Suvi Gezari

Formation of Extremely Elongated Bodies by Tides: Application to the Interstellar Object 1I/`Oumuamua

November 1, 2019 | Asteroid Science in the Age of Hayabusa2 and OSIRIS-REx
Author(s): Zhang, Y., Michel, P., Richardson, D. C.
UMD Author(s): Derek Charles Richardson

comb: Spectral line data reduction and analysis package

November 1, 2019 | Astrophysics Source Code Library
Author(s): Wilson, Robert W., Pound, Marc W., Stark, Antony A., et. al
UMD Author(s): Marc W. Pound

Investigating the complex velocity structures within dense molecular cloud cores with GBT-Argus

November 1, 2019 | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Author(s): Chen, Che-Yu, Storm, Shaye, Li, Zhi-Yun, et. al
UMD Author(s): Lee G. Mundy, Andrew I. Harris

Dynamics of 2D electrostatic dust levitation at asteroids

November 1, 2019 | Icarus
Author(s): Christine M. Hartzell

BAT AGN Spectroscopic Survey - XIII. The nature of the most luminous obscured AGN in the low-redshift universe

November 1, 2019 | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Author(s): Bär, Rudolf E., Trakhtenbrot, Benny, Oh, Kyuseok, et. al
UMD Author(s): Richard Mushotzky

A very-high-energy component deep in the γ-ray burst afterglow

November 1, 2019 | Nature
Author(s): Abdalla, H., Adam, R., Aharonian, F., et. al
UMD Author(s): Zorawar Wadiasingh

First Detection of Plasmoids from Breakout Reconnection on the Sun

October 29, 2019 | The Astrophysical Journal
Author(s): Pankaj Kumar, Judith T. Karpen, Spiro K. Antiochos, et. al
UMD Author(s): Spiro Kosta Antiochos

Resolving the Crab pulsar wind nebula at teraelectronvolt energies

October 28, 2019 | Nature Astron.
Author(s): Abdalla, H., Aharonian, F., Ait Benkhali, F., et. al
UMD Author(s): Zorawar Wadiasingh

Simulating star clusters across cosmic time – I. Initial mass function, star formation rates, and efficiencies

October 21, 2019 | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Author(s): Chong-Chong He, Massimo Ricotti, Sam Geen
UMD Author(s): Massimo Ricotti

Escape of Flare-accelerated Particles in Solar Eruptive Events

October 20, 2019 | The Astrophysical Journal
Author(s): S. Masson, S. K. Antiochos, C. R. DeVore
UMD Author(s): Spiro Kosta Antiochos

X-Ray Fluorescence from Super-Eddington Accreting Black Holes

October 10, 2019 | The Astrophysical Journal Letters
Author(s): Lars Lund Thomsen, Jane Lixin Dai, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, et. al
UMD Author(s): Christopher S. Reynolds

The CGM–GRB Study. I. Uncovering the Circumgalactic Medium around GRB Hosts at Redshifts 2–6

October 10, 2019 | The Astrophysical Journal
Author(s): Pradip Gatkine, Sylvain Veilleux, Antonino Cucchiara
UMD Author(s): Sylvain Veilleux

Revisiting the Spectral and Timing Properties of NGC 4151

October 10, 2019 | The Astrophysical Journal
Author(s): A. Zoghbi, J. M. Miller, E. Cackett
UMD Author(s): Abderahmen Zoghbi

Supermassive Black Hole Binary Candidates from the Pan-STARRS1 Medium Deep Survey

October 10, 2019 | The Astrophysical Journal
Author(s): T. Liu, S. Gezari, M. Ayers, et. al
UMD Author(s): Suvi Gezari

Unconference BoF Session: I Want to Talk About...

October 1, 2019 | Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XXVII
Author(s): Allen, Alice
UMD Author(s): Alice Allen

Sediment geochemistry and mineralogy from a glacial terrain river system in southwest Iceland

October 1, 2019 | Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
Author(s): Michael T. Thorpe, Joel A. Hurowitz, Erwin Dehouck
UMD Author(s): Michael Terrance Thorpe

Modeling Effects of Stellar UV-Driven Photochemistry on the Transit Spectra of Moist Rocky Atmospheres Around M Dwarfs

October 1, 2019 | Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XXVII
Author(s): Afrin Badhan, Mahmuda, Wolf, Eric T., Kopparapu, Ravi K., et. al
UMD Author(s): Eliza Kempton

Alpha-X: An Alpha Shape-based Hierarchical Clustering Algorithm

October 1, 2019 | Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XXVII
Author(s): Karim, Ramsey L., Mundy, Lee G., Joncour, Isabelle
UMD Author(s): Lee G. Mundy

Pronounced morphological changes in a southern active zone on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

October 1, 2019 | Astronomy and Astrophysics
Author(s): Hasselmann, P. H., Barucci, M. A., Fornasier, S., et. al
UMD Author(s): Jessica M Sunshine

Multiscale Spatial Analysis of Young Stars Complex using the dbscan Clustering Algorithm

October 1, 2019 | Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XXVII
Author(s): Joncour, Isabelle, Moraux, E., Duchene, G., et. al
UMD Author(s): Lee G. Mundy

Io’s Atmosphere Silhouetted by Jupiter Lyα

October 1, 2019 | The Astronomical Journal
Author(s): K. D. Retherford, L. Roth, T. M. Becker, et. al
UMD Author(s): Lori M. Feaga

Optimised Workspaces Enhance Time-critical Astronomy

October 1, 2019 | Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series
Author(s): Meade, Bernard, Fluke, Christopher, Cooke, Jeffrey, et. al
UMD Author(s): Tyler Anthony Pritchard

Simulating star clusters across cosmic time - I. Initial mass function, star formation rates, and efficiencies

October 1, 2019 | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Author(s): He, Chong-Chong, Ricotti, Massimo, Geen, Sam
UMD Author(s): Massimo Ricotti

The afterglow and kilonova of the short GRB 160821B

October 1, 2019 | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Author(s): Troja, E., Castro-Tirado, A.~J., Becerra González, J., et. al
UMD Author(s): Sylvain Veilleux