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
Geologic Map and Structural Development of the Noerthernmost Sur-Nacimiento Fault Zone, Central California Coast, Scott M. Johnston, John S. Singleton, Alan D. Chapman, et al.
Stability of the Broad-line Region Geometry and Dynamics in Arp 151 Over Seven Years, A. Pancoast, A. J. Barth, K. Horne, et al.
Influence of internal bores on larval fish abundance and community composition, Patrick J. Phelan, John Steinbeck, and Ryan K. Walter
Revealing the Broad Line Region of NGC 1275: The Relationship to Jet Power, Brian Punsly, Paola Marziani, Vardha Nicola Bennert, et al.
Coastal upwelling seasonality and variability of temperature and chlorophyll in a small coastal embayment, Ryan K. Walter, Kevin Armenta, Brandon Shearer, et al.
Hydrodynamics in a shallow seasonally low-inflow estuary following eelgrass collapse, Ryan K. Walter, Edwin J. Rainville, and Jennifer K. O'Leary
Assessment of surface wind datasets for estimating offshore wind energy along the Central California Coast, Yi-Hui Wang, Ryan K. Walter, Crow White, et al.
The Lick AGN Monitoring Project 2011: Dynamical Modeling of the Broad-line Region, Peter R. Williams, Anna Pancoast, Tommaso Treu, et al.
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
Comparison of Gaussian and super Gaussian laser beams for addressing atomic qubits, Katharina Gillen-Christandl, Glen D. Gillen, M. J. Piotrowicz, et al.
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.