Recent Publications

Lost Knowledge and Technologies: The Funding Problems in Astronomy

January 1, 2018 | HTCC Undergraduate Student Research Conference
UMD Author(s): Erika Bernadette Hoffman

Computational techniques for the analysis of small signals in high-statistics neutrino oscillation experiments

January 1, 2018 | arXiv
Author(s): Aartsen, M.G., Ackermann, M., Adams, J., et. al
UMD Author(s): Robert David Stein

Probing the Baryon Cycle of Galaxies with SPICA Mid- and Far-Infrared Observations

January 1, 2018 | Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia
Author(s): van der Tak, F.F.S., Madden, S.C., Roelfsema, P., et. al
UMD Author(s): Alberto Daniel Bolatto

Enabling interoperability in planetary sciences and heliophysics: The case for an information model

January 1, 2018 | Planetary and Space Science
Author(s): Hughes, J. Steven, Crichton, Daniel J., Raugh, Anne C., et. al
UMD Author(s): Anne Catherine Raugh

Suppression of Electron Thermal Conduction by Whistler Turbulence in a Sustained Thermal Gradient

January 1, 2018 | Physical Review Letters
Author(s): Roberg-Clark, G. T., Drake, J. F., Reynolds, C. S., et. al
UMD Author(s): Christopher S. Reynolds

Digitizing Villanova University's Eclipsing Binary Card Catalogue

January 1, 2018 | American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts #231
Author(s): Guzman, Giannina, Dalton, Briana, Conroy, Kyle, et. al
UMD Author(s): Giannina Guzman Caloca

Improved estimates of $M/R$ for LMXBs from their r-mode frequencies

January 1, 2018 | American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts #231
Author(s): Chirenti, Cecilia, Jasiulek, Michael
UMD Author(s): Cecilia Chirenti

Haze production in the atmospheres of super-earths and mini-neptunes: Insights from the lab

January 1, 2018 | arXiv
Author(s): Horst, S.M., He, C., Lewis, N.K., et. al
UMD Author(s): Eliza Kempton

PHIBSS: Unified Scaling Relations of Gas Depletion Time and Molecular Gas Fractions

January 1, 2018 | Astrophysical Journal
Author(s): Tacconi, L.J., Genzel, R., Saintonge, A., et. al
UMD Author(s): Alberto Daniel Bolatto

Energy spectrum of tearing mode turbulence in sheared background field

January 1, 2018 | arXiv
Author(s): Hu, D., Bhattacharjee, A., Huang, Y.-M.
UMD Author(s): Yi-Min Huang

Study of f-mode Oscillations in Numerical Relativity Simulations of Perturbed Neutron Stars and Highly Eccentric Binary Neutron Star Mergers

January 1, 2018 | APS April Meeting Abstracts
Author(s): Rosofsky, Shawn, Gold, Roman, Chirenti, Cecilia, et. al
UMD Author(s): Michael Coleman Miller, Cecilia Chirenti

The \ensuremathΓ$_X$-L/L$_Edd$ relation in BAT AGN Spectroscopic Survey (BASS)

January 1, 2018 | American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts #231
UMD Author(s): Sylvain Veilleux

A framework for prioritizing the Tess planetary candidates most amenable to atmospheric characterization

January 1, 2018 | arXiv
Author(s): Kempton, E.M.-R., Bean, J.L., Louie, D.R., et. al
UMD Author(s): Eliza Kempton

Multimessenger observations of a flaring blazar coincident with high-energy neutrino IceCube-170922A

January 1, 2018 | Science
Author(s): Aartsen, M.G., Ackermann, M., Adams, J., et. al
UMD Author(s): Robert David Stein

ARC: Adaptive Ray-tracing with CUDA, a New Ray Tracing Code for Parallel GPUs

January 1, 2018 | arXiv
Author(s): Hartley, Blake, Ricotti, Massimo
UMD Author(s): Massimo Ricotti

The Strata-1 experiment on small body regolith segregation

January 1, 2018 | Acta Astronautica
Author(s): Fries, M., Abell, P., Brisset, J., et. al

Illuminating gravitational waves: A concordant picture of photons from a neutron star merger

December 22, 2017 | Science
Author(s): M. M. Kasliwal, E. Nakar, L. P. Singer, et. al
UMD Author(s): Leo Pound Singer

Constraining Hot Jupiter Atmospheric Structure and Dynamics through Doppler-shifted Emission Spectra

December 20, 2017 | The Astrophysical Journal
Author(s): Zhang, J., Kempton, E.M.-R., Rauscher, E.
UMD Author(s): Eliza Kempton

A Multi-wavelength Analysis of Binary-AGN Candidate PSO J334.2028+01.4075

December 20, 2017 | The Astrophysical Journal
Author(s): Adi Foord, Kayhan Gültekin, Mark Reynolds, et. al
UMD Author(s): Suvi Gezari

X-Ray Brightening and UV Fading of Tidal Disruption Event ASASSN-15oi

December 20, 2017 | The Astrophysical Journal Letters
Author(s): S. Gezari, S. B. Cenko, I. Arcavi
UMD Author(s): Suvi Gezari

On the Rotation Period and Shape of the Hyperbolic Asteroid 1I/‘Oumuamua (2017 U1) from Its Lightcurve

December 20, 2017 | The Astrophysical Journal Letters
Author(s): Matthew M. Knight, Silvia Protopapa, Michael S. P. Kelley, et. al
UMD Author(s): Michael S. Kelley, Jessica M Sunshine, Matthew M Knight

1I/2017 U1 (‘Oumuamua) is Hot: Imaging, Spectroscopy, and Search of Meteor Activity

December 10, 2017 | The Astrophysical Journal Letters
Author(s): Quan-Zhi 泉志 Ye 叶, Qicheng Zhang, Michael S. P. Kelley, et. al
UMD Author(s): Quanzhi Ye

The Mechanism for the Energy Buildup Driving Solar Eruptive Events

December 10, 2017 | The Astrophysical Journal Letters
Author(s): K. J. Knizhnik, S. K. Antiochos, C. R. DeVore, et. al
UMD Author(s): Spiro Kosta Antiochos

A new bound on axion-like particles

December 1, 2017 | Journal of Cosmology and Astro-Particle Physics
Author(s): Marsh, M. C. David, Russell, Helen R., Fabian, Andrew C., et. al
UMD Author(s): Christopher S. Reynolds

Neutron star mass and radius measurements from atmospheric model fits to X-ray burst cooling tail spectra

December 1, 2017 | Astronomy and Astrophysics
Author(s): Nättilä, J., Miller, M. C., Steiner, A. W., et. al
UMD Author(s): Michael Coleman Miller