Research:GraduateResearch

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Our students present their work at many international conferences throughout the year - these presentations, poster abstracts, and talks would be too numerous to list, so we are only listing first author publications in peer-reviewed journals.

Current Graduate Students

• Bellovary, J.M., Dalcanton, J.J., Babul, A., Quinn, T.R., Maas, R.W., Austin, C.G., Williams, L.L.R., Barnes, E.I."The Role of the Radial Orbit Instability in Dark Matter Halo Formation and Structure", submitted to ApJ
• Bochanski, J.J., Hawley, S.L., Reid, I.N., Covey, K.R., West, A.A., Tinney, C.G., Gizis, J.E. (2006), "Spectroscopic Survey of M Dwarfs within 100 Parsecs of the Sun", AJ 130, 1871.
• Bochanski, J.J., West, A.A., Hawley, S.L., Covey, K.R. (2007) "Low-Mass Dwarf Template Spectra from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey", 133, 531.
• Bochanski, J.J., Munn, J.A., Hawley, S.L., West, A.A., Covey, K.R., Schneider, D.P. (2007) "Exploring the Local Milky Way: M Dwarfs as Tracers of Galactic Populations" 134, 2418.
• Brooks, A.M., Governato, F., Booth, C.M., Willman, B., Gardner, J.P., Wadsley, J., Stinson, G., Quinn, T., 2006, Astrophysical Journal Letters, in press, astro-ph/0609620 The Origin of the Mass-Metallicity Relationship for Galaxies: Results from Cosmological N-Body Simulations
• Claire, M.W. and Catling, D.C., "The evolution of solar flux from 2 nm to 160 microns: Quantitative estimates for planetary studies", submitted to Icarus.
• Claire, M.W., Catling, D.C., and Zahnle, K.J. (2006) "Biogeochemical Modeling of the rise in atmospheric oxygen" Geobiology, 4, 239-269.
• Cowan, N.B., Agol, E., Charbonneau, D. (2007) "Hot nights on extrasolar planets: mid-infrared phase variations of hot Jupiters", MNRAS, 379, 641.
• Cowan, N.B. & Ivezić, Ž. (2008) "The Environment of Galaxies at Low Redshift", ApJ, 674, L13.
• Cowan, N.B. & Agol, E. (2008) "Inverting Phase Functions to Map Exoplanets", ApJ, 678, L129.
• Fraser, O.J., Hawley, S.L., Cook, K.H. (2006) "Investigating the late stages of stellar evolution with long period variables from MACHO and 2MASS", MmSAI, 77, 519.
• Hilton, E.J., Szkody, P., Mukadam, A., Mukai, K., Hellier, C., van Zyl, L. Homer, L. (2007) "XMM-Newton Observations of the Cataclysmic Variable GW Librae", AJ 134, 1503.
• Kaib, N., T. R. Quinn, "The Formation of the Oort Cloud in Open Cluster Environments" accepted to Icarus.
• Kundurthy, P., Meyer, M.R., Robberto, M., Beckwith, S.V.W., Herbst, T., (2006) "Mid-Infrared Observations of T Tauri Stars: Probing the Star-Disk Connection in Rotational Evolution", AJ, 132, 2469.
• MacLeod, C.L., Hogan, C.J."Precision of Hubble constant derived using black hole binary absolute distances and statistical redshift information", submitted to Phys. Rev. D.
• Roškar, R., Debattista, V. P., Stinson, G. S., Quinn, T. R., Kaufmann, T., Wadsley, J., "Beyond Inside-Out Growth: Formation and Evolution of Disk Outskirts", submitted to ApJL.
• Schmidt, S. J., Cruz, K. L., Bongiorno, B. J., Liebert, J., Reid, I. N., (2007) "Activity and Kinematics of Ultracool Dwarfs, Including an Amazing Flare Observation", AJ, 133, 2258.
• Sesar, B. et al. (2006) "Exploring the Variable Sky with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey", AJ, 134, 2236.
• Sesar, B. et al. (2007) "Variable Faint Optical Sources Discovered by Comparing the POSS and SDSS Catalogs", AJ, 131, 2801.
• Walkowicz, L.M., Hawley, S.L., West, A.A. (2005) "The Xi Factor: Determining the Strength of Activity in Low-Mass Dwarfs", PASP, 116, 1105.
• Walkowicz, L.M., Johns-Krull, C.M., Hawley, S.L., "Characterizing the Near-UV Environment of M Dwarfs", accepted in ApJ.

Recent Graduate Students

• Allred, J.C., Hawley, S.L., Abbett, W.P., Carlsson, M. 2005 "Radiative Hydrodynamic Models of the Optical and Ultraviolet Emission from Solar Flares" ApJ 630, 573-586.
• Barnes, R. & Quinn, T. 2004 "The (In)stability of Planetary Systems" ApJ 611, 494-516.
• Barnes, R. & Raymond, S.N. 2004 "Predicting Planets in Known Extrasolar Planetary Systems. I. Test Particle Simulations" ApJ 617, 569-574.
• Lufkin, G., Quinn, T., Wadsley, J., Stadel, J., Governato, F. 2004 "Simulations of gaseous disc-embedded planet interaction" MNRAS 347, 421L-24L.
• Raymond, S.N. & Barnes, R. 2005 "Predicting Planets in Known Extrasolar Planetary Systems. II. Testing for Saturn Mass Planets" ApJ 619, 549-557.
• Raymond, S.N., Quinn, T.R., & Lunine,J.I. 2005 "Terrestrial Planet Formation in Disks with Varying Surface Density Profiles" ApJ 632 670-690
• Raymond, S.N., Quinn, T.R., & Lunine,J.I. 2005 "The formation and habitability of terrestrial planets in the presence of close-in giant planets" Icar 177 256
• Raymond, S.N., Quinn, T.R., & Lunine,J.I. 2004 "Making other earths: dynamical simulations of terrestrial planet formation and water delivery" Icar 168 1
• Reed, D., Governato, F., Quinn, T., Gardner, J., Stadel, J., Lake, G. 2005 "Dark Matter Subhaloes in Numerical Simulations" MNRAS 359 1537
• Reed, D., Governato, F., Verde, L., Quinn, T., Stadel, J., Gardner, J., Merritt, D., Lake, G. 2005 "Evolution of Density Profiles of Dark Matter Haloes" MNRAS 357 82
• Reed, D., Gardner,J., Quinn, T., Stadel, J., Fardal, M., Lake, G., Governato, F. 2003 "Evolution of the Mass Function of Dark Matter Haloes" MNRAS 346 565
• Seth, Dalcanton & de Jong (2005), "A Study of Edge-On Galaxies with HST/ACS. I. Intial Results." AJ, 129, 1331.
• Seth, Dalcanton & de Jong (2005), "A Study of Edge-On Galaxies with HST/ACS. II. Vertical Distribution of the Resolved Stellar Population" AJ.
• Stinson, G.S., Seth, A.C., Wadsley, J., Governato, F., Valenzuela, O., Quinn, T.R., Katz N.S. (2006) "Star Formation and Feedback in Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamic Simulations--I. Isolated Galaxies", MNRAS, 373, 1074.
• Stinson, G.S., Dalcanton, J.J., Quinn, T.R., Kauffmann, T., Wadsley, J. (2007), "Breathing in Low-Mass Galaxies: A Study of Episodic Star Formation", MNRAS, 373, 1074.
• Steffen, J.H., Agol, E., (2005) "An analysis of the transit times of TrES-1b" MNRAS 364 L96-100.
• West, A. A., Bochanski, J. J., Hawley, S. L., Cruz, K. L., Covey, K. R., Silvestri, N. M., Reid, I. N., and Liebert, J. "Using the Galactic Dynamics of M7 Dwarfs to Infer the Evolution of Their Magnetic Activity", AJ, 132, 2507
• West, A. A., Walkowicz, L. M., and Hawley, S. L. "Updated Colors for Cool Stars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey", PASP, 117, 706
• West, A. A., Hawley, S. L., Walkowicz, L. M., Covey, K. R., Silvestri, N.M., Raymond, S. N., Harris, H. C., Munn, J. A., McGehee, P. M., Ivezic, Z., and Brinkmann, J. "Spectroscopic Properties of Cool Stars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: An Analysis of Magnetic Activity and a Search for Subdwarfs" AJ, 128, 426
• Yoachim, P., Dalcanton, J.J., "The Kinematics of Thick Disks in External Galaxies" ApJ 624, 701.
• Yoachim, P., Dalcanton, J.J., "Structural Parameters of Thin and Thick Disks in Edge-On Disk Galaxies" AJ 131 67-91

Recent Theses

• Agueros, M. 2006
• Allred, J.C. 2005 "Radiative Hydrodynamic Models of the Optical and Ultraviolet Emission from Solar Flares" Ph.D. Thesis, U. of Washington
• Barnes, R. 2004 "The Dynamics of the Initial Planetesimal Disk" Ph.D. Thesis, U. of Washington
• Covey, K. 2006
• Lufkin, G. 2005 "Simulations of Giant Planet Migration in Gaseous Circumstellar Disks" Ph.D. Thesis, U. of Washington
• Raymond, S.N. 2005 "" Ph.D. Thesis, U. of Washington
• Reed, D. 2004 "Cosmological Simulations of Dark Matter Halos" Ph.D. Thesis, U. of Washington
• Seth, A. 2006 "The Formation and Evolution of Late-type Galaxies" Ph.D. Thesis, U. of Washington
• Stinson, G. 2007 "Supernova Feedback in Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics Simulations of Galaxy Formation" Ph.D. Thesis, U. of Washington
• West, A. 2005
• Yoachim, P. 2007 "Thick Disks in External Galaxies" Ph.D. Thesis, U. of Washington