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Numerical Study of Coronal Mass Ejections, Shocks, and Turbulence: from Chromosphere to 1 AU.
(2014)
My dissertation focuses on one of the major source of destructive space weather: coronal mass ejections (CMEs). By helping develop and utilizing a new data-driven global MHD model: The Alfven Wave Solar Model (AWSoM) in ...
Search for Continuous Gravitational Waves from Globular Cluster NGC6544 Using Barycentric Resampling.
(2015)
Gravitational wave detectors should soon open an entirely new window on the universe. These waves, predicted by General Relativity, radiate from systems possessing accelerating gravitational quadrupoles, such as black ...
Chasing the Brightest Cosmic Explosions with ROTSE-III.
(2010)
Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) and supernovae (SNe) are two of the most spectacular types of cosmic explosions in the transient sky. Both phenomena are associated with the death of massive stars or disruption of compact objects. ...
Discrete Ordinates Methods for Transport Problems with Curved Spatial Grids.
(2015)
The method of characteristics (MOC) has been favored for many recent whole core transport codes; some current research codes are: the nTRACER code from Seoul National University, the MPACT code from the University of ...
Dynamics of Convergent Migration and Mean Motion Resonances in Planetary Systems.
(2014)
Recent observations of solar systems orbiting other stars show that exoplanets display an enormous range of physical properties and that planetary systems display a diverse set of architectures, which motivate further ...
Shedding Light on the Dark: Exploring the Relation Between Galaxy Cluster Mass and Temperature Through Weak Gravitational Lensing
(2018)
The evolution of the abundance of galaxy clusters is a powerful tool for quantifying the presence of dark energy in the universe. To use this tool, it is necessary to measure precise cluster masses. As masses are difficult ...
Evolution of Flux Transfer Events at the Magnetopause: MMS Observations and Global Hybrid-Vlasov Simulations
(2019)
Magnetic reconnection is the underlying physical process responsible for the release of energy stored in magnetic fields that powers plasma heating and acceleration. Flux transfer events (FTEs) are transient signatures of ...
Characterizing Heliospheric and Interstellar Interactions Using Pickup Ion Measurements
(2022)
The Heliosphere, orbiting the galactic center of the Milky Way, is a plasma bubble carved out of the Local Interstellar Medium (LISM) by the Sun's dynamic and magnetic influence. Its relative motion creates a steady inflow ...
Testing Statistical Isotropy With Large-Scale Structure.
(2012)
This thesis includes various observational tests of statistical isotropy using data from the Two Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS) and the associated 2MASS Redshift Survey (2MRS), the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory (BATSE ...
Cyberinfrastructure for Cosmology and Line-of-Sight Projection in Optical Galaxy Clusters.
(2013)
Upcoming wide-area sky surveys such as the Dark Energy Survey (DES) offer the power to test the source of cosmic acceleration by placing extremely precise constraints on existing cosmological model parameters.
These ...