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James Cornelison , “Constraints on Electromagnetic Parity Violation in the Cosmic Microwave Background using BICEP3” (October 25, 2023)   Advisor: John Kovac Michael Foley, “Shock-Turbulence Interactions in Star Formation.” (April 23, 204) Advisor: Alysssa Goodman Ana Maria Delgado,  “Analyzing cosmological-hydrodynamical simulations in light of future optical surveys.” (April 30, 2024) Advisor: Lars Hernquist Zachary Murray,  “Small Bodies and Large Surveys: What Modern Dynamics can teach us about the Solar System.” (May 1, 2024) Advisor: Matt Holman Magda Siwek,  “Signatures of Circumbinary Disk Dynamics in Massive Black Hole Binary Populations.” (May 1, 2024) Advisor: Doug Finkbeiner Andrew Saydjari (Physics), “Statistical Models of the Spatial, Kinematic, and Chemical Complexity of Dust.” Advisor: Doug Finkbeiner Emily Pass,  “Terrestrial Planets in the Mid-to-Late M-Dwarf Context: Insights on the Spindown of Fully Convective Stars and the Rarity of Jupiter Analogs." Advisor: Dave Charbonneau  

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Floor Broekgaarden , “ Gravitational-Wave Paleontology: A New Frontier to Probe Massive Binary Stars Across Cosmic History” ( April 24, 2023) Advisor: Edo Berger Daniel Palumbo , “ Interferometric Measurement of the Magnetization and Spin of Supermassive Black Holes ( April 24, 2023) Advisor:  Michael Johnson Tanveer Karim , “ Precision Cosmology with Emission-Line Galaxies ” ( April 26 , 2023) Advisor:  Daniel Eisenstein Lieke van Son , “ The First Pieces of the Gravitational-wave Pogenitor Population Puzzle” ( April 28 , 2023) Advisor:  Selma de Mink Charles Law , “ Zooming in on the Chemistry of Star and Planet Formation” ( April 28 , 2023) Advisor:  Karin Öberg Kristo Ment , “ Three Terrestrial Planets Transiting Mid-to-Late M Dwarfs and Constraints on the Occurrence of Such Worlds ” ( May 4 , 2023)  Advisor:  David Charbonneau Chima McGruder , “E xploring Correlations of High Altitude Aerosol Formation in Planetary Systems with Similar Parameters ” ( May 5 , 2023) Advisor:  Mercedes Lopez-Morales Juliana Garcia-Mejia , “ The Tierras Observatory: An Ultra-precise Time-series Photometer to Characterize Nearby Low-mass Stars and Their Terrestrial Exoplanets” ( May 9 , 2023) Advisor:  David Charbonneau

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Xiaohan Wu, "Probing Reionization with Currently Available Observables of Reionization" (April 27, 2022)  Advisor: Daniel Eisenstein Maurice Wilson , "Interdisciplinary Spectroscopy: The Detection and Characterization of Solar CMEs, Stellar CMEs, and Exoplanets" (April 28, 2022)  Advisor:   John Raymond, John Eastman Ian Weaver, "Atmospheric characterization of high-gravity hot Jupiters with ACCESS" (April 29, 2022)  Advisor: Mercedes Lopez-Morales Rohan Naidu, "Probing Reionization with Currently Available Observables of Reionization" (April 27, 2022)  Advisor: Charles Conroy Nina Maksimova, "AbacusSummit: Next Generation N-Body Cosmology" (May 9, 2022)    Advisor: Daniel Eisenstein Boryana Hadzhiyska, "Forward Modeling in the Era of Cosmological Surveys" (May 11, 2022)  Advisor:   Daniel Eisenstein, Lars Hernquist Brandon Curd, "Numerical Simulations of Super-Eddington Accretion Disks and Their Application to Tidal Disruption Events" (June 28, 2022)  Advisor: Ramesh Narayan Chantanelle Nava , "Tackling Stellar Active Regions in Radial Velocities: Strategies to Improve and Expand Small Exoplanet Mass Measurements" (June 29, 2022)    Advisor: Mercedes Lopez-Morales Daniel Violette , "Optimizing CdZnTe Detectors to Discover High Energy Transient Phenomena" (September 7, 2022) Advisor: Jonathan Grindlay

Munazza Alam , "Characterizing Distant Worlds: Atmospheric Reconnaissance of Giant Planets with Hubble" (April 6, 2021) Advisor:   Mercedes Lopez-Morales Sihan Yuan , " Towards better interpretation of small-scale structure of the Universe" (April 20, 2021)   Advisor: Daniel Eisenstein Seth Gossage , "Next Generation Stellar Models with Rotation" (April 23, 2021)     Advisor: Charles Conroy Amber Medina , “ The Magnetic Connection Between Flares, Rotation, and Age for the Volume-Complete Sample of Fully Convective M Dwarfs within 15 Parsecs" (April 29, 2021)  Advisor:  David Charbonneau Jamila Pegues , "Protoplanetary Disk Chemistry across the Stellar Spectrum" (April 30, 2021)   Advisor:  Karin Öberg Ellen Price , "Simulating Protoplanetary Disk Dynamics and Investigating their Exoplanet Outcomes" (May 3, 2021)   Advisor:  Karin Öberg Sebastian Gomez, "Exotic Transients and How to Find Them" ( May 4, 2021)   Advisor: Edo Berger Tarraneh Eftekhari , "Unveiling the Transient Radio and Millimeter Sky" (May 6, 2021)    Advisor: Edo Berger Ana-Roxana Pop , " Computational Modeling of the Baryon Content of Galaxies and Clusters in Cosmological Simulations" (May 7, 2021)  Advisor: Lars Hernquist Theron Carmichael , "Dwarfing expectations: The rapid expansion of the transiting brown dwarf population in the era of the TESS mission." (May 10, 2021) Advisor: David Latham Ioana Zelko , "Stardust and Cosmology" (June 23, 2021)  Advisor: Doug Finkbeiner John Lewis , "Structurally Sound: The Effect of Cloud Structure on 3 Pillars of Star Formation" (August 24, 2021) Advisor:  Charles Lada ------------

Victoria Ashley Villlar, "Time-Domain Studies in the New Eras of Multi-Messenger Astrophysics and Big Data"  (April 14, 2020)    Advisor: Edo Berger Zoe Todd , " From Astronomy to Chemistry: Origins of the Building Blocks of Life" (April 15, 2020) Advisor: Dimitar Sasselov Catherine Zucker , "Charting our Uncharted Milky Way" (April 2020)  Advisor: Doug Finkbeiner, Alyssa Goodman Joshua Speagle,  "Mapping the Milky Way in the Age of Gaia" (May 6, 2020)  Advisor: Charlie Conroy, Daniel Eisenstein, & Doug Finkbeiner Hannah Diamond-Lowe , "A First Reconnaissance of the Atmospheres of Terrestrial Exoplanets Using Ground-Based Optical Transits and Space-Based UV Spectra" (2020)   Advisor:  David Charbonneau

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Meng Gu, "Stellar Populations and Assembly Histories of Galaxies in Nearby Massive Clusters" (April 3, 2019)  Advisor: Jennifer Yee Xiawei Wang , "Non-thermal emission from collisionless astrophysical shocks and their observational implications" (April 17, 2019)  Advisor: Avi Loeb Peter Blanchard , "Exploring Exotic Transients: Stellar Explosions, Tidal Disruptions, and Compact Object Mergers in the Golden Age of Time-Domain Astronomy" (April 26, 2019)   Advisor: Edo Berger Lehman Garrison , " Abacus: N-body Cosmology for the Next Generation of Dark Energy Science" (May 3, 2019)    Advisor: Daniel Eisenstein Benjamin Cook , "Computational Approaches to Studying the Stellar Populations of Galaxies" (May 7, 2019)    Advisor: Charles Conroy

Kate Alexander , "Cosmic Extremes: Probing Energetic Transients with Radio Observations" (April 10, 2018)    Advisor: Edo Berger Fernando Beccera , " Formation of Supermassive Black Hole Seeds in the First Galaxies" (May 1, 2018)   Advisor: Lars Hernquist How-Huan Chen, "The Life and Death of Interstellar Turbulence: The Intriguing Case of Ophiuchus" (May 4, 2018)   Advisor: Alyssa Goodman Jieun Choi, " From Stars to Galaxies: Unveiling Their Properties, Connection and Evolution with Next Generation Stellar Models" (April 10, 2018)     Advisor: Charles Conroy Pierre Christian , "Novel Astrophysical Constraints on Black Holes" (May 2, 2018)   Advisor: Avi Loeb Kunting (Eddie) Chua , "Structure of Dark Matter Halos in Illustris: Effect of Baryons (September 25, 2018)  Advisor: Lars Hernquist Philip Cowperthwaite , "From Design to Detection: Joint Gravitational Wave and Electromagnetic Astronomy" (April 20, 2018)   Advisor: Edo Berger Marion  Dierickx , "Simulations of Local Group Galactic Interactions"  (July 10, 2017)     Advisor: Avi Loeb Christopher Faesi , "The Physical Nature of the GMC Population in NGC 300" (December 11, 2017)  Advisor: Charles Lada Xinyi Guo , "Particle Acceleration and Heating in Low Mach Number Collisionless Shocks" (December 13, 2017)  Advisor: Ramesh Narayan Luke Kelley , "Massive Black-Hole Binary Mergers: Dynamics, Environments & Expected Detections" (April 13, 2018)  Advisor: Lars Hernquist Ryan Loomis , "Millimeter/submillimeter Observations of Chemical and Physical Complexity in Protoplanetary Disks" (April 30, 2018)   Advisor:  Karin Öberg Stephen Portillo , " Counting Stars: Developing probabilistic cataloging for crowded fields" (April 17, 2018)  A dvisor: Doug Finkbeiner Anjali Tripathi , "The Resolved Spatial Distribution of Solids in Protoplanetary Disks" (April 2, 2018)  Advisor: Sean Andrews

Dawn Graninger , "Organic Chemistry during Low-Mass Star-Formation: The Role of Reaction Barriers and Ice Desorption" (April 24, 2017)   Advisor:  Karin Öberg Kirit Karkare , "Multifrequency Beam Systematics and Measurements of B-Mode Polarization with the BICEP/Keck Array Cosmic Microwave Background Experiments" (April 20, 2017)  Advisor: John Kovac Meredith MacGregor , "Millimeter Studies of Nearby Debris Disks" (March 31, 2017)  Advisor: David Wilner Philip Mocz , "Moving mesh magnetohydrodynamics: magnetic processes in star formation and cosmology" (April 21, 2017)  Advisor: Lars Hernquist Sukrit Ranjan , "The UV Environment for Prebiotic Chemistry: Connecting Origin-of-Life Scenarios to Planetary Environments" (April 7, 2017)    Advisor: Dimitar Sasselov Laura Schaefer , "The Atmosphere-Interior Connection: Rocky Planets as Linked Chemical Systems" (October 18, 2016)    Advisor: Dimitar Sasselov Joshua Suresh , "The Coevolution of Galaxies and their Environments" (March 17, 2017)   Advisor: Lars Hernquist Yuan-Sen Ting , "Unraveling the History of the Milky Way through Chemical Tagging" (December 10, 2016)  Advisor: Charles Conroy Andrew Vanderburg , "The Past, Present, and Future of Planetary Systems" (May 2, 2017) Advisor: David Latham Sarah Wellons , "Massive Compact Galaxies: A Case Study of the Diversity of Evolutionary Pathways in Cosmological Simulations" (April 7, 2017)   Advisor: Lars Hernquist

Aaron Bray, "Galactic Conformity via Small-Scale Clustering in Simulations and Surveys" (April 25, 2016)  Advisor: Daniel Eisenstein Ian Czekala , "The Fundamental Properties of Young Stars" (May 3, 2016)  Advisor: Sean Andrews Jason Dittman , "Distances, Massess, Radii, and Metallicities of the Small Stars in the Solar Neighborhood" (April 15, 2016)    Advisor:  David Charbonneau Maria Drout , "Astronomical Transients as Probes of Stellar Evolution and Mass-Loss (a.k.a. What Peculiar Transients Can Teach Us About Stellar Evolution)" (April 26, 2016)   Advisor: Edo Berger Gregory Green , " Mapping Milky Way Dust in 3D with Stellar Photometry" (May 10, 2016)   A dvisor: Doug Finkbeiner Elisabeth Newton , "The Evolution of Rotation and Magnetism in Small Stars Near the Sun" (April 29, 2016)     Advisor:  David Charbonneau Ana-Maria Piso , "Origins of Gas Giant Compositions: The Role of Disk Location and Dynamics" (April 27, 2016)    Advisor:  Karin Öberg Vicente Rodriguez-Gomez , "Galaxy mergers and some consequences: the cosmological context" (May 5, 2016)   Advisor: Lars Hernquist Katherine Rosenfield , "Applications of High-Resolution Observations at Millimeter Wavelengths" (September 18, 2015)   Advisor: Sean Andrews Zachary Slepian , " Revitalizing the 3-Point Correlation Function Of Galaxies to Sharpen the BAO Standard Ruler" (April 15, 2016)    Advisor: Daniel Eisenstein Lauren Woolsey , "Magnetic Influences on the Solar Wind" (May 2, 2016) Advisor: Stephen Cranmer and Alyssa Goodman

                     Courtney Dressing , "The Prevalence and Compositions of Small Planets" (April 1, 2015)     Advisor:  David Charbonneau Tanmoy Laskar , "The Diversity and Versatility of Gamma-ray Bursts" (April 29, 2015)   Advisor: Edo Berger Gongjie Li , " Long-term Dynamics of High Mass Ratio Multiples" (April 1, 2015)  Advisor: Avi Loeb Maxwell Moe , "How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Eclipsing Binaries" (July 15, 2015)  Advisor: Rosanne DiStefano Ranghild Lunnan , "The Properties and Environments of Superluminous Supernovae" (April 27, 2015)    Advisor: Edo Berger Dylan Nelson , "How Galaxies Get Their Gas" (May 1, 2015)     Advisor: Lars Hernquist Sarah Rugheimer , "Hues of Habitability: Characterizing Pale Blue Dots Around Other Stars" (January 26, 2015)  Advisors: Dimitar Sasselov and Lisa Kaltenegger Li Zeng , "Uncovering the Interior Structure and Chemistry of Solid Exoplanets" (May 5, 2015)  Advisor: Dimitar Sasselov Yucong Zhu , "The Bright Side of Black Holes" (May 11, 2015)  Advisor: Ramesh Narayan

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"A Tale of 2-Spheres": How Conformal Symmetry, Chaos, and Some Elementary Algebra Led to Insights in Black Holes and Quantum Cosmology

3D Neutron Diffraction Studies on the Vortex Lattice

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A Position-Sensitive Liquid Xenon Time-Projection Chamber for Direct Detection of Dark Matter: The XENON10 Experiment

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Amorphous Germanium Nanostructures: Optical Characterization and Applications for Improved Photodetector Performance

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Analysis of Systematic Signals in the Epoch of Reionization Data from MWA

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• Faith Hawthorn, Detection and Characterisation of Transiting Exoplanets with TESS across Populations and Orbital Periods (PhD 2024, supervisor Bayliss)
• Eva-Maria Ahrer, Low Resolution Transmission Spectroscopy of Exoplanet Atmospheres using Ground-based and Space Telescopes (PhD 2023, supervisor Wheatley)
• Toby Rodel, Estimating the yield of long-period exoplanets from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (MSc 2023, supervisor Bayliss)
• Ares Osborn, Characterising Exoplanets with TESS and HARPS , (PhD 2023, supervisor Armstrong)
• Catriona McDonald, On the Evolution of Planetesimals in Post-Main-Sequence Planetary Systems (PhD 2023, supervisor Veras)
• Thomas Killestein, Multi-messenger astronomy in the era of gravitational wave detections (PhD 2023, supervisor Steeghs)
• Keith Inight, Observational Studies of Galactic Cataclysmic Variables (PhD 2023, supervisor Gänsicke)
• Amena Faruqi, Simulating the Transit of a Binary System by a Circumbinary Disc in the HD98800 System (MSc 2023, supervisor Kennedy/Nealon)
• Matthew Battley, Tracing Exoplanets through Time with TESS (PhD 2022, supervisor Pollacco)
• Caitlyn Cullen, A Search for Non-Transiting Planets with Optical Phase Curves from the TESS Mission (MSc 2022, supervisor Bayliss)
• Sahl Rowther, The Evolution of Gravitationally Unstable Protoplanetary Discs: From Instability to Stability (PhD 2022, supervisor Meru)
• Patrick Francis Cronin-Coltsmann, The Imaging and Discovery of M-Dwarf Debris Discs with ALMA (PhD 2022, supervisor Kennedy)
• Edward Bryant, Studying Transiting Exoplanets with NGTS and TESS (PhD 2022, supervisor Bayliss)
• Sean O'Brien, Investigating atmospheric scintillation using NGTS photometry of bright stars (MSc 2022, supervisor Bayliss)
• Ben Cooke, Simulation, detection and characterisation of monotransits from the TESS mission (PhD 2021, supervisor Pollacco)
• James Blake, Optical imaging of space debris in low and high altitude orbits (PhD 2021, supervisor Pollacco)
• Ry Cutter, Hunting for the Electro-Magnetic Counterpart To Gravitational Waves (PhD 2021, supervisory Steeghs)
• James Jackman Detection of Stellar Flares and a Transiting Brown Dwarf with the Next Generation Transit Survey (PhD 2020, supervisor Wheatley)
• Tim Cunningham, Convective overshoot in the atmosphere of white dwarf stars (PhD 2020, supervisor Tremblay)
• Elena Cukanovaite, 3D atmospheric models of helium-dominated atmosphere white dwarfs (PhD 2020, supervisor Tremblay)
• Ashley Chrimes, The Host Galaxies and Progenitors of Core-Collapse Gamma-Ray Bursts (PhD 2020, supervisor Stanway)
• Emma Foxell, Applications of Transit Surveys to Red Dwarfs (PhD 2020, supervisor West)
• Richard Ashley, Observations of compact binary systems (PhD 2020, supervisor Marsh)
• Ares Osborn, Investigating the Planet-Metallicity Correlation for Hot Jupiters (MSc 2020, supervisor Bayliss)
• George King, Observations of Exoplanetary Systems at X-ray Wavelengths (PhD 2019, supervisor Wheatley)
• Matthew Green, The Evolution of AM CVn Binary Systems (PhD 2019, supervisor Marsh)
• Louise Zhuqing Wang, Accreting Neutron Stars and Black Holes (PhD 2018, supervisor Steeghs)
• Christopher Manser, The Gaseous component to planetary debris discs at white dwarfs (PhD 2018, supervisor Gänsicke)
• Odette Toloza, White dwarfs: perfect laboratories for understanding non-radial pulsations and revealing secrets on the single degenerate pathway towards Supernova type Ia (PhD 2018, supervisor Gänsicke)
• John Dolan, A Search for Trojan Asteroids in Kepler Data (MSc 2018, supervisor Pollacco)
• Kristine Lam, Ground and Space-based Transit Surveys: Exoplanet Detection and Evaporating Atmospheres (PhD 2018, supervisor Pollacco)
• James Kirk, Optical Transmission Spectroscopy of Hot Jupiter Atmospheres (PhD 2018, supervisor Wheatley)
• Anna Pala, The Evolution of Cataclysmic Variables (PhD 2018, supervisor Gänsicke)
• Conor Talbot, Wide Binary Companions to Tycho-Gaia Stars (MSc 2018, supervisor Gänsicke)
• Mark Hollands, The properties of cool DZ white dwarfs (PhD 2017, supervisor Gänsicke)
• David Wilson, Observations of Remnant Planetary Systems at White Dwarfs (PhD 2017, supervisor Gänsicke)
• Stephanie Greis, Local Analogues to z ∼ 5 Lyman Break Galaxies (PhD 2017, supervisor Stanway)
• Hugh Osborn, Long-Period Exoplanets from Photometric Transit Surveys (PhD 2017, supervisor Pollacco)
• Charlotte Angus, On the Host Galaxies of Superluminous Supernovae (PhD 2017, supervisor Levan)
• Gregory Brown, A Study of Exotic Nuclear Extragalactic Transients (PhD 2017, supervisor Levan)
• Jessica Spake, Discovery of a Hot Jupiter around a G5V star with SuperWASP (MSc 2016, supervisor Pollacco)
• Tom Louden, The composition and dynamics of exoplanet atmospheres (PhD 2016, supervisor Wheatley)
• Nicola Pietro Gentile Fusillo, Stellar and planetary remnants in large area surveys (PhD 2015, supervisor Gänsicke)
• David Armstrong, On The Abundance Of Circumbinary Exoplanets (PhD 2015, supervisor Pollacco)
• Penélope Longa Peña, Orbital parameter estimation for compact binary stars (PhD 2015, supervisor Steeghs)
• Madelon Bours, Detailed studies of white dwarf binaries and their orbital periods (PhD 2015, supervisor Marsh)
• John Rostron, Observations of exoplanet atmospheres (PhD 2014, supervisor Wheatley)
• Sandra Greiss, Exploring the final stages of stars in our Milky Way using large sky surveys (PhD 2014, supervisor Gänsicke/Steeghs)
• Philip Carter, Estimating the space density of ultracompact binary stars (PhD 2014, supervisor Marsh/Steeghs)
• Rachel Tunnicliffe, Constraining the Progenitors of Short Gamma-Ray Bursts (PhD 2014, supervisor Levan)
• Simon Walker, Analysis and optimisation of ground based transiting exoplanet surveys (PhD 2013, supervisor Wheatley)
• Richard Palmer, Characterising the Stellar Population of the NGTS Prototype (MSc 2013, supervisor Gänsicke)
• Jonathan Girven, Stellar and Planetary Remnants in Digitial Sky Surveys Link opens in a new window (PhD 2012, supervisor Steeghs/Gänsicke)
• Simon Joyce, The X-ray emissions of Cataclysmic Variables during the eclipse of the White Dwarf , (MSc 2012, supervisor Wheatley)
• Joao Bento, Research and development of ground-based transiting extrasolar planet projects Link opens in a new window (PhD 2012, supervisor Wheatley)
• Steven Parsons, Eclipsing white dwarf binaries Link opens in a new window (PhD 2012, supervisor Marsh)
• Stylianos Pyrzas, Physical properties of eclipsing white dwarf binaries Link opens in a new window (PhD 2012, supervisor Gänsicke)
• Lieke van Spaandonk: Exploring new emission line diagnostics for accreting compact objects Link opens in a new window (PhD 2011, supervisor Steeghs)
• Sandra Greiss: Exploring the population of compact stellar X-ray sources in our Milky Way Link opens in a new window (MSc 2011, supervisor Steeghs/Gänsicke)
• Karl Svensson: On the nature of gamma-ray burst hosting galaxies Link opens in a new window (PhD 2011, supervisor Levan)
• George Marshall: Optical Transients in the WASP Survey Link opens in a new window (PhD 2011, supervisor Wheatley)
• Richard Hickman: Multi-Wavelength Observations of Cataclysmic Variable Stars Link opens in a new window (PhD 2011, supervisor Marsh)
• David Collins: X-ray Observations of Cataclysmic Variables Link opens in a new window (PhD 2010, supervisor Wheatley)
• Timothy Kinnear: Irradiated Gaseous Discs Around White Dwarfs Link opens in a new window (MSc 2009, supervisor Gänsicke)
• Steven Bloemen: High speed spectroscopy of intermediate polars Link opens in a new window (Erasmus/MSc in Leuven 2009, supervisor Marsh)
• Ilse Decoster: The Completeness of Cataclysmic Variables in the spectroscopic database of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Link opens in a new window (Erasmus/MSc in Leuven 2009, supervisor Gänsicke)
• Monihar Dillon: The orbital period distribution of cataclysmic variables from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Link opens in a new window (PhD 2009, supervisor Gänsicke)
• Alberto Rebassa-Mansergas: Post-Common-Envelope Binaries from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Link opens in a new window (PhD 2009, supervisor Gänsicke)
• Susana Barros: ULTRACAM observations of interacting binaries Link opens in a new window , (PhD 2008, supervisor Marsh)
• Amornrat Aungwerojwit: The properties of a spectroscopically selected sample of cataclysmic variables Link opens in a new window , (PhD 2007, supervisor Gänsicke)

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This collection contains theses and dissertations from the Department of Astronomy, collected from the Scholarship@Western Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository

Theses/Dissertations from 2023 2023

Nearby galaxies: modelling star formation histories and contamination by unresolved background galaxies , Hadi Papei

Theses/Dissertations from 2022 2022

The Spectro-Temporal Relationships of Repeating Fast Radio Bursts , Mohammed Afif Chamma

Probing the Inner Structure of Active Galactic Nuclei Through Reverberation Mapping , Viraja Chandrashekhar Khatu

The Dynamical Evolution of Classical Be Stars , Keegan Marr

Theses/Dissertations from 2021 2021

Formation of Supermassive Black Holes in the Early Universe , Arpan Das

Revisiting polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon emission in Photodissociation regions , Ameek K. Sidhu

Brown Dwarf Atmospheres at High Cadence and Spectral Resolution: A Speed Limit on Brown Dwarf Rotation and a Spectroscopic Atlas of a 1050 K Atmosphere , Megan E. Tannock

Theses/Dissertations from 2020 2020

Mid-Infrared Studies of Galactic sources: Probing the Relationship Between Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons and their Physical Environment , Collin Matthew Knight

Theses/Dissertations from 2019 2019

A Tropospheric Water Vapour Climatology and Trends Derived from Vibrational Raman Lidar Measurements over Switzerland , Shannon Hicks-Jalali

Raman-scatter Lidar measurements of Water Vapor determined using an integrated Microwave Radiometer-Lidar retrieval , Jeffrey VanKerkhove

Theses/Dissertations from 2018 2018

Multiwavelength, Machine Learning, and Parallax Studies of X-ray Binaries in Three Local Group Galaxies , Robin Arnason

Mapping Debris Disks at extreme contrast: near-IR Polarimetric Differential Imaging with the Gemini Planet Imager. , Juan Sebastian Bruzzone

High Resolution Spectroscopy of the Hyades Giants , Antonio Martinez

Theses/Dissertations from 2017 2017

Investigating Brown Dwarf Atmospheres: Gravity, Dust Content, Cloud Structure and Metallicity , Kendra Kellogg

Physical Properties Of Faint Meteors Through High-Resolution Observations , Dilini Subasinghe

Detection and Characterization of Extrasolar Planets through Planet-Disk Dynamical Interactions , Maryam Tabeshian

Theses/Dissertations from 2016 2016

Formation and Past Evolution of the Meteoroid Complex of Comet 96P/Machholz , Abedin Yusein Abedin

The geometry and density of B-emission star disks from statistical analysis and numerical simulations , Isabelle H. Cyr

The Circumstellar Environments of B-emission Stars by Optical Interferometry , Bethany Grzenia

The Inner Gaseous Disks Of Herbig Be Stars , Parshati Patel

What governs star formation in galaxies? A modern statistical approach , Sahar Rahmani

The Spectral Variability of Astronomical PAHs , Matthew Shannon

Insights from Unsupervised Clustering and Composite Spectral Analysis Into the Physical Properties Driving Emission and Absorption in Quasar UV/Optical Spectra , Aycha Tammour

X-ray Populations in The Local Group: Insights with Hubble & Chandra , Neven Vulic

Aging comets and their meteor showers , Quanzhi Ye

Theses/Dissertations from 2015 2015

Nitrogen Abundances in Early-Type Be Stars , Ahmed Ahmed

Stellar Spectroscopy: New Methods and Insights , Sanaz S. Golriz

Methods and Results Toward Measuring Magnetic Fields in Star-Forming Regions , Scott C. Jones

A new technique for interpreting depolarization measurements using the CRL atmospheric lidar in the Canadian High Arctic , Emily M. McCullough

Theses/Dissertations from 2014 2014

The X-ray View of Galaxies in Compact Groups and the Coma Cluster Infall Region , Tyler D. Desjardins

Observational Signatures from Self-Gravitating Protostellar Disks , Alexander L. DeSouza

Star Cluster Populations in Compact Groups of Galaxies , Konstantin Fedotov

Theses/Dissertations from 2013 2013

The atmospheric chemistry of magnetic Bp stars , Jeffrey D. Bailey

Core Formation in Partially Ionized Magnetic Molecular Clouds , Nicole D. Bailey

The Continuum Linear Polarization Signature of Classical Be Stars , Robbie J. Halonen

Molecular Gas in the Circumstellar Environment of Unusual Evolved Stars , Sarah E. Malek

Gravitational Darkening of Classical Be Stars , Meghan A. McGill

A Variability Study of the Typical Red Supergiant Antares A , Teznie J D Pugh

Theses/Dissertations from 2011 2011

Magnetic diffusion in star formation: From clouds to cores to stars to disks , Wolfgang B. Dapp

Bulk density of small meteoroids , Jean-Baptiste Kikwaya Eluo

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