Physics Department faculty conduct research which contributes to the creation of new knowledge based in the most basic laws that govern the behavior of nature. Their research programs involve undergraduate students and international opportunities for collaborations with academics, industry, and governmental organizations.
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Submissions from 2018
Calibration and Limitations of the Mg II Line-based Black Hole Masses, Jong-Hak Woo, Huynh Anh N. Le, Marios Karouzos, et al.
Submissions from 2017
Development, implementation, and validation of a California coastal ocean modeling, data assimilation, and forecasting system, Yi Chao, John D. Farrara, Hongchun Zhang, et al.
H0LiCOW VII: Cosmic Evolution of the Correlation Between Black Hole Mass and Host Galaxy Luminosity, Xuheng Ding, Tommaso Treu, Sherry H. Suyu, et al.
Fading AGN candidates: AGN histories and outflow signatures, William C. Keel, Chris J. Lintott, W. Peter Maksym, et al.
Extending the calibration of C IV-based single-epoch black hole mass estimators for active galactic nuclei, Daeseong Park, Aaron J. Barth, Jong-Hak Woo, et al.
Space Telescope and Optical Reverberation Mapping Project. V. Optical Spectroscopic Campaign and Emission-line Analysis for NGC 5548, L. Pei, M. M. Fausnaugh, A. J. Barth, et al.
Local diurnal wind‐driven variability and upwelling in a small coastal embayment, Ryan K. Walter, Emma C. Reid, Kristen A. Davis, et al.
Discovery and Follow-up Observations of the Young Type Ia Supernova 2016coj, WeiKang Zheng, Alexei V. Filippenko, Jon Mauerhan, et al.
Submissions from 2016
Community outreach with Play-Doh® electronics, Thomas J. Bensky and William Bensky
Large-scale outflows in luminous QSOs revisited: The impact of beam smearing on AGN feedback efficiencies, Bernd Husemann, Julia Scharwächter, Vardha N. Bennert, et al.
Environmental and Economic Implications of Alternative Cruise Ship Pathways in Bermuda, Sarah E. Lester, Crow White, Kevin Mayall, et al.
The Close AGN Reference Survey (CARS): Mrk 1018 Returns to the Shadows After 30 Years as a Seyfert 1, R. E. McElroy, Bernd Husemann, S. M. Croom, et al.
Broad Hβ emission-line variability in a sample of 102 local active galaxies, Jordan Runco, Maren Cosens, Vardha Nicola Bennert, et al.
About AGN ionization echoes, thermal echoes, and ionization deficits in low redshift Lyman-alpha blobs, Mischa Schirmer, Sangeeta Malhotra, Nancy A. Levenson, et al.
Internal Bore Seasonality and Tidal Pumping of Subthermocline Waters at the Head of the Monterey Submarine Canyon, Ryan K. Walter and P. Joe Phelan
Observations of nonlinear internal waves at a persistent coastal upwelling front, Ryan K. Walter, Marek Stastna, C. Brock Woodson, et al.
Submissions from 2015
Searching for Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay of 130Te with CUORE, D.R. Artusa, F.T. Avignone III, O. Azzolini, et al.
The Lick AGN monitoring project 2011: Spectroscopic campaign and emission-line light curves, Aaron J. Barth, Vardha N. Bennert, Gabriela Canalizo, et al.
A local baseline of the black hole mass scaling relations for active galaxies. III. The MBH-σ relation, Vardha Nicola Bennert, Tommaso Treu, Matthew W. Auger, et al.
The MUSE view of QSO PG 1307+085: an elliptical galaxy on the MBH–σ* relation interacting with its group environment, Bernd Husemann, Vardha Nicola Bennert, Julia Scharwächter, et al.
Migmatite gneiss of the Jættedal complex, Liverpool Land, East Greenland: protracted high-T metamorphism in the overriding plate of the Caledonian orogen, S. M. Johnston, A. Kylander-Clark, and H. K. Brueckner
HST Imaging of fading AGN candidates. I. Host-galaxy properties and origin of the extended gas*, William Keel, W. Peter Maksym, Vardha Nicola Bennert, et al.
Yielding and microstructure in a 2D jammed material under shear deformation, Nathan C, Keim and Paulo E. Arratia
Role of disorder in finite-amplitude shear of a 2D jammed material, Nathan C. Keim and Paulo E. Arratia
Neutrinoless double-beta decay search with CUORE and CUORE-0 experiments, N. Moggi, D.R. Artusa, F. T. Avignone III, et al.