Physics & Astronomy Graduate Students (PAGS)

Grad Student Publications

Below are the first author papers of current graduate students in the department. Papers are listed in reverse chronological order and current graduate student authors are shown in bold. This list is generated automatically and updates weekly.

2010

Variable Point Sources in Sloan Digital Sky Survey Stripe 82. I. Project Description and Initial Catalog (0 hr <=alpha<= 4 hr)
Bhatti, Waqas A.; Richmond, Michael W.; Ford, Holland C.; Petro, Larry D.
The Astrophysical Journal Supplement, Volume 186, Issue 2, pp. 233-258.
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Contact and friction of nanoasperities: Effects of adsorbed monolayers
Cheng, Shengfeng; Luan, Binquan; Robbins, Mark O.
Physical Review E, vol. 81, Issue 1, id. 016102.
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What is the Numerically Converged Amplitude of Magnetohydrodynamics Turbulence in Stratified Shearing Boxes?
Shi, Jiming; Krolik, Julian H.; Hirose, Shigenobu
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 708, Issue 2, pp. 1716-1727.
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2009

Ks-Band Detection of Thermal Emission and Color Constraints to CoRoT-1b: A Low-Albedo Planet with Inefficient Atmospheric Energy Redistribution and a Temperature Inversion
Rogers, Justin C.; Apai, Dá niel; Ló pez-Morales, Mercedes; Sing, David K.; Burrows, Adam
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 707, Issue 2, pp. 1707-1716.
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Optical Cross-Correlation Filters: An Economical Approach for Identifying SNe Ia and Estimating Their Redshifts
Scolnic, Daniel M.; Riess, Adam G.; Huber, Mark E.; Rest, Armin; Stubbs, Christoper W.; Tonry, John L.
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 706, Issue 1, pp. 94-107.
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Fermionic Spin Excitations in Two- and Three-Dimensional Antiferromagnets
Hao, Zhihao; Tchernyshyov, Oleg
Physical Review Letters, vol. 103, Issue 18, id. 187203.
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The X-ray properties of Type II Quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
Jia, Jianjun; Ptak, Andrew; Lamassa, Stephanie; Heckman, Timothy
Chandra's First Decade of Discovery, Proceedings of the conference held 22-25 September, 2009 in Boston, MA. Edited by Scott Wolk, Antonella Fruscione, and Douglas Swartz, abstract #122.
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XMM-Newton Observations of a Complete Sample of Optically Selected Type 2 Seyfert Galaxies
Lamassa, Stephanie; Heckman, Timothy; Ptak, Andrew; Hornschemeier, Ann; Martins, Lucimara; Sonnentrucker, Paule; Tremonti, Christy
Chandra's First Decade of Discovery, Proceedings of the conference held 22-25 September, 2009 in Boston, MA. Edited by Scott Wolk, Antonella Fruscione, and Douglas Swartz, abstract #140.
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Coupled Magnetic and Ferroelectric Domains in Multiferroic Ni3V2O8
Cabrera, I.; Kenzelmann, M.; Lawes, G.; Chen, Y.; Chen, W. C.; Erwin, R.; Gentile, T. R.; Leã o, J. B.; Lynn, J. W.; Rogado, N.; Cava, R. J.; Broholm, C.
Physical Review Letters, vol. 103, Issue 8, id. 087201.
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Criterion for the critical number of fermions and chiral symmetry breaking in anisotropic QED3
Concha, A.; Stanev, V.; Tesanovic, Z.
Physical Review B, vol. 79, Issue 21, id. 214525.
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GRB 070714B---Discovery of the Highest Spectroscopically Confirmed Short Burst Redshift
Graham, J. F.; Fruchter, A. S.; Levan, A. J.; Melandri, A.; Kewley, L. J.; Levesque, E. M.; Nysewander, M.; Tanvir, N. R.; Dahlen, T.; Bersier, D.; Wiersema, K.; Bonfield, D. G.; Martinez-Sansigre, A.
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 698, Issue 2, pp. 1620-1629.
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Resonance peak in neutron scattering experiments on the cuprates revisited: The case of exciton versus pi -resonance and magnetic plasmon
Hao, Zhihao; Chubukov, A. V.
Physical Review B, vol. 79, Issue 22, id. 224513.
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Unusually High Metallicity Host Of The Dark LGRB 051022
Graham, J. F.; Fruchter, A. S.; Kewley, L. J.; Levesque, E. M.; Levan, A. J.; Tanvir, N. R.; Reichart, D. E.; Nysewander, M.
GAMMA-RAY BURST: Sixth Huntsville Symposium. AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 1133, pp. 269-272.
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The Environments of High-Redshift Quasi-Stellar Objects
Kim, Soyoung; Stiavelli, Massimo; Trenti, M.; Pavlovsky, C. M.; Djorgovski, S. G.; Scarlata, C.; Stern, D.; Mahabal, A.; Thompson, D.; Dickinson, M.; Panagia, N.; Meylan, G.
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 695, Issue 2, pp. 809-817.
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Nanoparticle Motion within Glassy Polymer Melts
Guo, Hongyu; Bourret, Gilles; Corbierre, Muriel K.; Rucareanu, Simona; Lennox, R. Bruce; Laaziri, Khalid; Piche, Luc; Sutton, Mark; Harden, James L.; Leheny, Robert L.
Physical Review Letters, vol. 102, Issue 7, id. 075702.
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The Lopsidedness of Present-Day Galaxies: Connections to the Formation of Stars, the Chemical Evolution of Galaxies, and the Growth of Black Holes
Reichard, Timothy A.; Heckman, Timothy M.; Rudnick, Gregory; Brinchmann, Jarle; Kauffmann, Guinevere; Wild, Vivienne
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 691, Issue 2, pp. 1005-1020.
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Detailed atmosphere calculations of accretion disks around intermediate mass black holes, and their application to observations of ultra-luminous X-ray sources
Hui, Yawei
Ph.D. dissertation - Johns Hopkins University.
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2008

Probing the Nature of the Vela X Cocoon
LaMassa, Stephanie M.; Slane, Patrick O.; de Jager, Okkie C.
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 689, Issue 2, pp. L121-L124.
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Spin fluctuation dynamics and multiband superconductivity in iron pnictides
Stanev, Valentin; Kang, Jian; Tesanovic, Zlatko
Physical Review B, vol. 78, Issue 18, id. 184509.
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Altering the Superconductor Transition Temperature by Domain-Wall Arrangements in Hybrid Ferromagnet-Superconductor Structures
Zhu, L. Y.; Chen, T. Y.; Chien, C. L.
Physical Review Letters, vol. 101, Issue 1, id. 017004.
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Spin polarization of amorphous CoFeB determined by point-contact Andreev reflection
Huang, S. X.; Chen, T. Y.; Chien, C. L.
Applied Physics Letters, Volume 92, Issue 24, id. 242509.
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Detailed Atmosphere Model Fits to Disk-dominated ULX Spectra
Hui, Yawei; Krolik, Julian H.
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 679, Issue 2, pp. 1405-1412.
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Radiation Pressure-supported Active Galactic Nucleus Tori with Hard X-Ray and Stellar Heating
Shi, Jiming; Krolik, Julian H.
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 679, Issue 2, pp. 1018-1028.
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GRB 070714B-Discovery of the Highest Spectroscopically Confirmed Short Burst Redshift
Graham, J. F.; Fruchter, A. S.; Levan, A. J.; Nysewander, M.; Tanvir, N. R.; Dahlen, T.; Bersier, D.; Pe'Er, A.
GAMMA-RAY BURSTS 2007: Proceedings of the Santa Fe Conference. AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 1000, pp. 289-292.
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A Morphological Approach to the Pulsed Emission from Soft Gamma Repeaters
Jia, J. J.; Huang, Y. F.; Cheng, K. S.
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 677, Issue 1, pp. 488-494.
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Effect of geometry on magnetic domain structure in Ni wires with perpendicular anisotropy: A magnetic force microscopy study
Lee, S. H.; Zhu, F. Q.; Chien, C. L.; Markovic, N.
Physical Review B, vol. 77, Issue 13, id. 132408.
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The Lopsidedness of Present-Day Galaxies: Results from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
Reichard, Timothy A.; Heckman, Timothy M.; Rudnick, Gregory; Brinchmann, Jarle; Kauffmann, Guinevere
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 677, Issue 1, pp. 186-200.
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2007

Progressive Star Formation in the Young SMC Cluster NGC 602
Carlson, Lynn Redding; Sabbi, E.; Sirianni, M.; Hora, J. L.; Nota, A.; Meixner, M.; Gallagher, J. S., III; Oey, M. S.; Pasquali, A.; Smith, L. J.; Tosi, M.; Walterbos, R.
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 665, Issue 2, pp. L109-L114.
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Slow, nondiffusive dynamics in concentrated nanoemulsions
Guo, H.; Wilking, J. N.; Liang, D.; Mason, T. G.; Harden, J. L.; Leheny, R. L.
Physical Review E, vol. 75, Issue 4, id. 041401.
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Wrinkling of a bilayer membrane
Concha, A.; McIver, J. W., III; Mellado, P.; Clarke, D.; Tchernyshyov, O.; Leheny, R. L.
Physical Review E, vol. 75, Issue 1, id. 016609.
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2006

Magnetic properties of one-dimensional quasiperiodic Co/Pt multilayers
Zhu, L. Y.; Cheng, X. M.; Chien, C. L.
Journal of Applied Physics, Volume 99, Issue 8, pp. 08C902-08C902-3.
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2005

Non-LTE Spectra of Accretion Disks around Intermediate-Mass Black Holes
Hui, Yawei; Krolik, Julian H.; Hubeny, Ivan
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 625, Issue 2, pp. 913-922.
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Last updated Sat Feb 6 03:23:39 2010