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Author:

Hohman, Peter Michael

Title:

An Autoregressive Approach to Finding Transiting Planets

Area of Honors:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords:

Kepler
Exoplanet
Astronomy
Astrostatistics
Autoregression
Models

File:

Download Hohman_thesis_final.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Eric D Feigelson, Thesis Supervisor
William Nielsen Brandt, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Brown, Stephanie Meghan

Title:

TEMPERATURE SIMULATION AND CALCULATION FOR THE ANTIMATTER EXPERIMENT: GRAVITY, INTERFEROMETRY, AND SPECTROSCOPY

Area of Honors:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords:

antimatter
gravity
antihydrogen
cern

File:

Download ThesisFinal.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Miguel Alejandro Mostafa, Thesis Supervisor
Christopher Palma, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Toomey, Michael William

Title:

BLAZARS AS A SOURCE FOR ULTRA-HIGH-ENERGY COSMIC RAYS? A SEARCH FOR THE ELUSIVE HADRONIC SIGNATURE

Area of Honors:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords:

cosmic rays
blazars
VHE gamma-rays

File:

Download Toomey_Final_Thesis.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Kohta Murase, Thesis Supervisor
William Nielsen Brandt, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Hemler, Zachary S

Title:

Investigations of Short-Timescale C IV Broad Absorption Line Variability

Area of Honors:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords:

active galaxies
active galactic nuclei
quasar outflows
broad absorption line
Sloan Digital Sky Survey
BAL quasars

File:

Download hemler_zachary_CIVBAL.pdfDownload meanspec.pdfDownload ew.pdfDownload varspecs.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

William Nielsen Brandt, Thesis Supervisor
Steinn Sigurdsson, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Mc Carron, Adam

Title:

Composite Spectra of Lyman-alpha Emitting Galaxies from the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment

Area of Honors:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords:

astronomy
astrophysics
extragalactic
lyman-alpha
dark energy
LAE

File:

Download McCarron_Thesis_Final.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Robin Bruce Ciardullo, Thesis Supervisor
Jane Camilla Charlton, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Bowens, Rory

Title:

Longterm Stability of Planetary Systems formed from a Transitional Disk

Area of Honors:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords:

protoplanetary disks
exoplanets
simulations
transitional disks
resonance

File:

Download bowens_rory_thesis.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Rebekah Ilene Dawson-Rigas, Thesis Supervisor
Christopher Palma, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Hapich, Charles Jeffrey

Title:

Searching for young brown dwarfs in the IC348 cluster

Area of Honors:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords:

brown dwarf
low mass
Hubble Space Telescope
initial mass function

File:

Download Hapich_Charles_Searching_for_young_brown_dwarfs_in_the_IC348_cluster.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Kevin Luhman, Thesis Supervisor
Steinn Sigurdsson, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Emeigh, Timothy

Title:

Photomultiplier Tube Timing Resolution Recovery for WATCHMAN

Area of Honors:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords:

Photomultiplier Tube
PMT
Neutrino
Antineutrino
WATCHMAN
Analogue-to-Digital-Converter
Waveform Digitizer
AIT

File:

Download Emeigh_Timothy_PHOTOMULTIPLIER-TUBE-TIMING-RESOLUTION-RECOVERY-FOR-WATCHMAN.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Tyler Brooks Anderson, Thesis Supervisor
Steinn Sigurdsson, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Petersen, Pip D

Title:

Tunneling Time in Quantum Cosmology

Area of Honors:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords:

Quantum Cosmology
Canonical Tunneling Time
All-Orders Effective Potential
Simple Harmonic Universe

File:

Download Petersen_Samuel_Pip_Tunneling_Time_in_Quantum_Cosmology.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Martin Bojowald, Thesis Supervisor
Jane Camilla Charlton, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Mc Clincy, Phoebe Katherine

Title:

Searches for Sub-solar Mass Ultracompact Objects with Advanced LIGO

Area of Honors:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords:

LIGO
black holes
dark matter
primordial black holes
gravitational waves
multimessenger astronomy

File:

Download McClincyPhoebe_FinalThesis.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Chad Richard Hanna, Thesis Supervisor
Jane Camilla Charlton, Thesis Honors Advisor