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 2023
Application of Deep Learning for Classification of Intertidal Eelgrass from Drone-Acquired Imagery, Krti Tallam, Nam Nguyen, Jonathan Ventura, et al.
What Does the Geometry of the HβBLR Depend On?, Lizvette Villafaña, Peter R. Williams, Tommaso Treu, et al.
The Close AGN Reference Survey (CARS): A Parsec-scale Multi-phase Outflow in the Super-Eddington NLS1 Mrk 1044, N. Winkel, B. Husemann, M. Singha, et al.
Submissions from 2022
One‑dimensional Arrays of Optical Dark Spot Traps from Nested Gaussian Laser Beams for Quantum Computing, Travis Frazer and Katharina Gillen
One-dimensional array of optical dark spot traps from nested Gaussian laser beams for quantum computing, Katharina Gillen-Christandl and Travis Daniel Frazer
The Close AGN Reference Survey (CARS): IFU Survey Data and the BH Mass Dependence of Long-term AGN Variability, B. Husemann, M. Singha, J. Scharwächter, et al.
The Lick AGN Monitoring Project 2016: Velocity-resolved Hβ Lags in Luminous Seyfert Galaxies, Vivian U, Aaron J. Barth, H. Alexander Vogler, et al.
The Lick AGN Monitoring Project 2016: Velocity-resolved Hβ Lags in Luminous Seyfert Galaxies, Vivian U, Aaron J. Barth, H. Alexander Vogler, et al.
The Lick AGN Monitoring Project 2016: Dynamical Modeling of Velocity-resolved Hβ Lags in Luminous Seyfert Galaxies, Lizvette Villafaña, Peter R. Williams, Tommaso Treu, et al.
Seasonal controls on nearshore dissolved oxygen variability and hypoxia in a coastal embayment, Ryan K. Walter, Stephen A. Huie, Jon Christian P. Abraham, et al.
Spatial and Temporal Characteristics of California Commercial Fisheries from 2005 to 2019 and Potential Overlap with Offshore Wind Energy Development, Yi-Hui Wang, Ryan K. Walter, Crow White, et al.
The Close AGN Reference Survey (CARS): Tracing the Circumnuclear Star Formation in the Super-Eddington NLS1 Mrk 1044, N. Winkel, T. A. Davis, I. Smirnova-Pinchukova, et al.
Submissions from 2021
A Local Baseline of the Black Hole Mass Scaling Relations for Active Galaxies. IV. Correlations Between MBH and Host Galaxy σ, Stellar Mass, and Luminosity, Vardha N. Bennert, Tommaso Treu, Xuheng Ding, et al.
Hα Reverberation Mapping of the Intermediate-mass Active Galactic Nucleus in NGC 4395, Hojin Cho, Jong-Hak Woo, Tommaso Treu, et al.
Potential Environmental Effects of Deepwater Floating Offshore Wind Energy Facilities, Hayley Farr, Benjamin Ruttenberg, Ryan K. Walter, et al.
Space Telescope and Optical Reverberation Mapping Project. IX. Velocity–Delay Maps for Broad Emission Lines in NGC 5548, Keith Horne, G. De Rosa, B. M. Peterson, et al.
Assessing Stream-Aquifer Connectivity in a Coastal California Watershed, Bwalya Malama, Devin Pritchard-Peterson, John J. Jasbinsek, et al.
Effects of Estuary-Wide Seagrass Loss on Fish Populations, Jennifer K. O'Leary, Maurice C. Goodman, Ryan K. Walter, et al.
Scenarios for Offshore Wind Power Production for Central California Call Areas, Yi-Hui Wang, Ryan K. Walter, Crow White, et al.
Submissions from 2020
Seasonal and Interannual Variability of Phytoplankton Abundance and Community Composition on the Central Coast of California, Alex Barth, Ryan K. Walter, Ian C. Robbins, et al.
LLAMA: The MBH–σ⋆ Relation of the Most Luminous Local AGNs, Turgay Caglar, Leonard Burtscher, Bernhard Brandl, et al.
The Mass Relations between Supermassive Black Holes and Their Host Galaxies at 1 < z < 2 with HST-WFC3, Xuheng Ding, John Silverman, Tommaso Treu, et al.
An [O III] Search for Extended Emission around AGN with HI Mapping: A Distant Cloud Ionized by Mkn 1, Erin Darnell Knese, William C. Keel, Greg Knese, et al.
A Significant Excess in Major Merger Rate for AGNs with the Highest Eddington Ratios at z < 0.2, Victor Marian, Knud Jahnke, Irham Andika, et al.
Hydrologic Response of a Montane Meadow from Conifer Removal and Upslope Forest Thinning, Christopher Surfleet, Noel Fie, and John Jasbinsek