Faculty research from the Physics & Astronomy department.
Submissions from 2020
Fast Radio Bursts from Interacting Binary Neutron Star Systems, Bing Zhang
Synchrotron Radiation in γ-Ray Bursts Prompt Emission, Bing Zhang
The Physical Mechanisms of Fast Radio Bursts, Bing Zhang
Unexpected Emission Pattern Adds to the Enigma of Fast Radio Bursts, Bing Zhang
On the Energy and Redshift Distributions of Fast Radio Bursts, Rachel C. Zhang, Bing Zhang, Ye Li, and Duncan R. Lorimer
The Effects of Disc Self-Gravity and Radiative Cooling on the Formation of Gaps and Spirals by Young Planets, Shangjia Zhang and Zhaohuan Zhu
Second-Scale Coherence Measured at the Quantum Projection Noise Limit with Hundreds of Molecular Ions, Yan Zhou, Yuval Shagam, William B. Cairncross, Kia B. Ng, Tanya S. Roussy, Tanner Grogan, Kevin Boyce, Antonio Vigil, Madeline Pettine, Tanya Zelevinsky, Jun Ye, and Eric A. Cornell
Kilonova Emission from Black Hole–Neutron Star Mergers. I. Viewing-angle-dependent Lightcurves, Jin-Ping Zhu, Yuan-Pei Yang, Liang-Duan Liu, Yan Huang, Bing Zhang, Zhuo Li, Yun-Wei Yu, and He Gao
A Revisited Mechanism of the Graphite-to-Diamond Transition at High Temperature, Sheng-cai Zhu, Xiao-zhi Yan, Jin Liu, Artem R. Oganov, and Qiang Zhu
A Fast Radio Burst Discovered in FAST Drift Scan Survey, Weiwei Zhu, Di Li, Rui Luo, Chenchen Miao, Bing Zhang, Laura Spitler, Duncan Lorimer, Michael Kramer, David Champion, Youling Yue, Andrew Cameron, Marilyn Cruces, Ran Duan, Yi Feng, Jun Han, George Hobbs, Chenhui Niu, Jiarui Niu, Zhichen Pan, Lei Qian, Dai Shi, Ningyu Tang, Pei Wang, Hongfeng Wang, Mao Yuan, Lei Zhang, Xinxin Zhang, Shuyun Cao, Li Feng, Hengqian Gan, and Long Gao
Global 3D Radiation Magnetohydrodynamic Simulations for FU Ori's Accretion Disc and Observational Signatures of Magnetic Fields, Zhaohuan Zhu, Yan-Fei Jiang, and James M. Stone
Streaming Instability With Multiple Dust Species – I. Favourable Conditions for the Linear Growth, Zhaohuan Zhu and Chao-Chin Yang
Submissions from 2019
Bright Gamma-Ray Flares Observed in GRB 131108A, A. Ajello, M. Arimoto, K. Asano, M. Axelsson, L. Baldini, G. Barbiellini, D. Bastieri, R. Bellazzini, A. Berretta, E. Bissaldi, R. D. Blandford, R. Bonino, E. Bottacini, J. Bregeon, P. Bruel, R. Buehler, S. Buson, R. A. Cameron, R. Caputo, P. A. Caraveo, E. Cavazzuti, S. Chen, G. Chiaro INAF-Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica Milano, S. Ciprini, D. Costantin, S. Cutini, F. D'Ammando, P. de la Torre Luque, F. de Palma, N. Di Lalla, and L. Di Venere Università e del Politecnico di Bari
An Ideal Testbed for Planet-Disk Interaction: Two Giant Protoplanets in Resonance Shaping the PDS 70 Protoplanetary Disk, Jaehan Bae, Zhaohuan Zhu, Clément Baruteau, Myriam Benisty, Cornelis P. Dullemong, Stefano Facchini, Andrea Isella, Miriam Keppler, Laura M. Pérez, and Richard Teague
Uncovering Multiple Metal–Metal Bonding in a Tetranuclear Fluoride Rhenium Cluster or the Curious Case of {[Ni(H2O)6](NH4)4}[Re4F18]·4H2O, Samundeeswari Mariappan Balasekaran, Keith Lawler, Adelheid Hagenbach, Andrea Abram, Ulrich Abram, Alfred Sattelberger, and Frederic Poineau
Relationship Between Teaching Assistants' Perceptions of Student Learning Challenges and Their Use of External Representations when Teaching Acid-Base Titrations in Introductory Chemistry Laboratory Courses, Nicole Baldwin and MaryKay Orgill
Dust Traps in the Protoplanetary Disk MWC 758: Two Vortices Produced by Two Giant Planets?, Clement Baruteau, Marcelo Barraza, Sebastian Perez, Simon Casassus, Ruobing Dong, Wladimir Lyra, Sebastian Marino, Valentin Christiaens, Zhaohuan Zhu, Andres Carmona, Florian Debras, and Felipe Alarcon
Biochemistry Instructors' Use of Intentions for Student Learning to Evaluate and Select External Representations of Protein Translation, Thomas J. Bussey and MaryKay Orgill
The Radial Distribution of Dust Particles in the HL Tau Disk from ALMA and VLA Observations, Carlos Carrasco-Gonzalez, Anibal Sierra, Mario Flock, Zhaohuan Zhu, Thomas Henning, Claire Chandler, Roberto Galvan-Madrid, Enrique Macias, Guillem Anglada, Hendrik Linz, Mayra Osorio, Luis F. Rodriguez, Leonardo Testi, Jose M. Torrelles, Laura Perez, and Yao Liu
Orbital Dynamics of Circumbinary Planets, Cheng Chen, Alessia Franchini, Stephen H. Lubow, and Rebecca G. Martin
Late Delivery of Nitrogen to the Earth, Cheng Chen, Jeremy L. Smallwood, Rebecca G. Martin, and Mario Livio
Giant Planet Effects on Terrestrial Planet Formation and System Architecture, Anna C. Childs, Elisa Quintana, Thomas Barclay, and Jason H. Steffen
Photoionization Calculations of the Radiation Force Due to Spectral Lines in AGNs, Randall C. Dannen, Daniel Proga, Timothy R. Kallman, and Tim Waters
First-principles Study of High-Pressure Phase Stability and Superconductivity of Bi4I4, Shiyu Deng, Xianqi Song, Quan Li, Yu Xie, Changfeng Chen, and Yanming Ma
Micromechanism Study on Electronic and Magnetic Properties of Silicene Regulated by Oxygen, Li-Peng Ding, Peng Shao, Lin-Tai Yang, Wei Guo Sun, Fang-Hui Zhang, and Cheng Lu
First-Principles Studies of a Two-Dimensional Electron Gas at the Interface of Polar/Polar LaALO3/KNbO3 Superlattices, Le Fang, Chen Chen, Yali Yang, Tao Hu, Guodong Zhao, Qiang Zhu, and Wei Ren
Circumbinary Disk Inner Radius as a Diagnostic for Disk–Binary Misalignment, Alessia Franchini, Stephen H. Lubow, and Rebecca G. Martin
Type I Outbursts in Low-eccentricity Be/X-Ray Binaries, Alessia Franchini and Rebecca G. Martin
Misaligned Accretion Disc Formation via Kozai-Lidov Oscillations, Alessia Franchini, Rebecca G. Martin, and Stephen H. Lubow
Multiplanet Disc Interactions in Binary Systems, Alessia Franchini, Rebecca G. Martin, and Stephen H. Lubow
Circumplanetary Disk Dynamics in the Isothermal and Adiabatic Limits, Jeffrey Fung, Zhaohuan Zhu, and Eugene Chang
Propagation of a Short GRB Jet in the Ejecta: Jet Launching Delay Time, Jet Structure, and GW170817/GRB 170817A, Jin-Jun Geng, Bing Zhang, Anders Kölligan, Rolf Kuiper, and Yong-Feng Huang
A Global View of the Inner Accretion and Ejection Flow Around Super Massive Black Holes, Margherita Giustini and Daniel Proga
Unravelling the Structure and Strength of the Highest Boride of Tungsten WB4.2, Weiguang Gong, Chang Liu, Xianqi Song, Quan Li, Yanming Ma, and Changfeng Chen
On Neutralization of Charged Black Holes, Yi Gong, Zhoujian Cao, He Gao, and Bing Zhang
Nonideal MHD Simulation of HL Tau Disk: Formation of Rings, Xiao Hu, Zhaohuan Zhu, Satoshi Okuzumi, Xue-Ning Bai, Lile Wang, Kengo Tomida, and James M. Stone
Peering Into Planet Formation: from ALMA and JVLA to the ngVLA, Andrea Isella, Sean M. Andrews, Jane Huang, Luca Ricci, Cornelis P. Dullemond, Zhaohuan Zhu, Tilman Birnstiel, Shangjia Zhang, Shangfei Liu, and Hui Li
Spin–Orbit-Driven Band Inversion in Bilayer Graphene by the Van Der Waals Proximity Effect, J. O. Island, X. Cui, C. Lewandowski, J. Y. Khoo, E. M. Spanton, H. Zhou, D. Rhodes, J. C. Hone, T. Taniguchi, K. Watanabe, L. S. Levitov, M. P. Zaletel, and A. F. Young
A Hard Look at NGC 5347: Revealing a Nearby Compton-thick AGN, E. S. Kammoun, J. M. Miller, A. Zoghbi, K. Oh, M. Koss, R. F. Muchotzky, L. W. Brenneman, W. N. Brandt, Daniel Proga, A. M. Lohfink, J. S. Kaastra, D. Barret, E. Behar, and D. Stern
Elucidating Structure-Spectral Property Relationships of Negative Thermal Expansion Zr-2(WO4)(PO4)(2): A First-Principles Study with Experimental Validation, Eunja Kim, Philippe F. Weck, Margaret E. Gordon, Jeffery A. Greathouse, Stephen P. Meserole, and Charles R. Bryan
Space Telescope and Optical Reverberation Mapping Project. VIII. Time Variability of Emission and Absorption in NGC 5548 Based on Modeling the Ultraviolet Spectrum, Gerard A. Kriss, Gisella De Rosa, Justin Ely, Bradley M. Peterson, J. Kaastra, M. Mehdipour, Gary J. Ferland, Maryamossadat Dehghanian, S. Mathur, Rick Edelson, Kirk T. Korista, N. Arav, Aaron J. Barth, Misty C. Bentz, W. Niel Brandt, D. Michael Crenshaw, E. Dalla Bonta, K. D. Kenney, C. Done, Michael Eracleous, Michael M. Fausnaugh, E. Gardner, Michael R. Goad, Catherine J. Grier, Keith Horne, Christopher S. Kochanek, I. M. McHardy, Hagai Netzer, Anna Pancoast, L. Pei, Richard W. Pogge, and Daniel Proga
Irregular Dust Features around Intermediate-mass Young Stars with GPI: Signs of Youth or Misaligned Disks?, Anna S.E. Laws, Tim J. Harries, Benjamin R. Setterholm, John D. Monnier, Evan A. Rich, Alicia N. Aarnio, Fred C. Adams, Sean Andrews, Jaehan Bae, Nuria Calvet, Catherine Espaillat, Lee Hartmann, Sasha Hinkley, Andrea Isella, Stefan Kraus, David Wilner, and Zhaohuan Zhu
Gamma-Ray Bursts Induced by Turbulent Reconnection, A. Lazarian, Bing Zhang, and Siyao Xu
Discovery of the First Molecular Ion in the Universe, Stephen Lepp
"Double-tracking" Characteristics of the Spectral Evolution of GRB 131231A: Synchrotron Origin?, Liang Li, Jin-Jun Geng, Yan-Zhi Meng, Xue-Feng Wu, Yong-Feng Huang, Yu Wang, Rahim Moradi, Lucas Uhm, and Bing Zhang
Smooth Flow in Diamond: Atomistic Ductility and Electronic Conductivity, Chang Liu, Xianqi Song, Quan Li, Yanming Ma, and Changfeng Chen
Diagnosing 0.1–10 au Scale Morphology of the FU Ori Disk Using ALMA and VLTI/GRAVITY, Hauyu Baobab Liu, Antoine Merand, Joel D. Green, Sebastian Perez, Antonio S. Hales, Yao-Lun Yang, Michael M. Dunham, Yasuhiro Hasegawa, Thomas Henning, Roberto Galvin-Madrid, Agnes Kospal, Michihiro Takami, Eduardo I. Vorobyov, and Zhaohuan Zhu
Superconductivity in the van der Waals Layered Compound PS2, Yan-Ling Li, Elissaios Stavrou, Qiang Zhu, Samantha M. Clarke, Yunguo Li, and Hong-Mei Huang
The FRB 121102 Host Is Atypical among Nearby Fast Radio Bursts, Ye Li, Bing Zhang, Kentaro Nagamine, and Jingjing Shi
Cosmology-independent Estimate of the Fraction of Baryon Mass in the IGM from Fast Radio Burst Observations, Zhengxiang Li, He Gao, Jun-Jie Wei, Yuan-Pei Yang, Bing Zhang, and Zong-Hong Zhu
The Frequency of Kozai–Lidov Disc Oscillation Driven Giant Outbursts in Be/X-Ray Binaries, Rebecca G. Martin and Alessia Franchini
Polar Alignment of a Protoplanetary Disc Around an Eccentric Binary – III. Effect of Disc Mass, Rebecca G. Martin and Stephen H. Lubow
Generalized Warped Disk Equations, Rebecca G. Martin, Stephen H. Lubow, J. E. Pringle, Alessia Franchini, Zhaohuan Zhu, Stephen Lepp, Rebecca Nealon, C. J. Nixon, and David Vallet
On the Physical Nature of Accretion Disc Viscosity, Rebecca Martin, C. J. Nixon, J. E. Pringle, and Mario Livio
Non-Detection of Fast Radio Bursts from Six Gamma-Ray Burst Remnants with Possible Magnetar Engines, Yunpeng Men, Kshitij Aggarwal, Ye Li, Divya Palaniswamy, Sarah Burke-Spolaor, K. J. Lee, Rui Lou, Paul Demorest, Shriharsh Tendulkar, Devansh Agarwal, Olivia Young, and Bing Zhang
Long-Period Giant Companions to Three Compact, Multiplanet Systems, Sean M. Mills, Andrew W. Howard, Lauren M. Weiss, Jason H. Steffen, Howard Isaacson, Benjamin Fulton, Erik A. Petigura, Molly R. Kosiarek, Lea A. Hirsch, and John H. Boisvert
Multiple Spiral Arms in the Disk Around Intermediate-Mass Binary HD 34700A, John D. Monnier, Tim Harries, Jaehan Bae, Benjamin R. Setterholm, Anna Laws, Alicia Aarnio, Fred C. Adams, Sean Andrews, Nuria Calvet, Catherine Espaillat, Lee Hartmann, Stefan Kraus, Melissa McClure, Chris Miller, Rebecca Oppenheimer, David Wilner, and Zhaohuan Zhu
A Comprehensive Assessment of the Low-Temperature Thermal Properties and Thermodynamic Functions of CeO2, Tyler D. Morrison, Elizabeth Sooby Wood, Phillippe F. Weck, Eunja Kim, Sung Oh Woo, Andrew T. Nelson, and Donald G. Naugle
Structure Prediction Drives Materials Discovery, Artem R. Organov, Chris J. Pickard, Qiang Zhu, and Richard J. Needs
A Loud Quasi-periodic Oscillation After a Atar is Disrupted by a Massive Black Hole, Dheeraj R. Pasham, Ronald A. Remillard, P. Chris Fragile, Alessia Franchini, Nicholas C. Stone, Giuseppe Lodato, Jeroen Homan, Deepto Chakrabarty, Frederick K. Baganoff, James F. Steiner, Eric R. Coughlin, and Nishanth R. Pasham
Observation of Second Harmonic Generation in Doped Polymeric Carbon Monoxide, Michael G. Pravica, Mihailo D. Rabasovic, Aleksandar J. Krmpot, Petrika Cifligu, Blake Harris, Egor Evlyukhin, and Marko G. Nikolic
Observation of Second Harmonic Generation in Doped Polymeric Carbon Monoxide, Michael G. Pravica, Mihailo D. Rabasovic, Aleksandar J. Krmpot, Petrika Cifligu, Blake Harris, Egor Evlyukhin, and Marko G. Nikolic
Fluorine Chemistry at Extreme Conditions: Possible Synthesis of Hgf4, Michael G. Pravica, Sarah Schyck, Blake Harris, Petrika Cifligu, Eunja Kim, and Brant Billinghurst
Do Supermassive Black Hole Winds Impact Galaxy Evolution?, Daniel Proga, M. Cappi, F. Carrera, G. Chartas, K. Fukumura, M. Guainazzi, D. Kazanas, G. Kriss, T. Turner, Y. Ueda, S. Veilleux, M. Brusa, and M. Gaspari
A NuSTAR Observation of GRS 1915+105 in its Unusual Low State, Daniel Proga, J. M. Miller, M. T. Reynolds, A. Zoghbi, A. C. Fabian, J. S. Kaastra, T. Kallman, and J. Raymond
Electrides with Dinitrogen Ligands, Jingyu Qu, Shengcai Zhu, Weiwei Zhang, and Qiang Zhu
How Long Does a 15-Year Drought Last? On the Correlation of Rare Events, George Rhee, Jimmy Salazar, and Corwin Grigg
High Pressure Behavior of Mercury Difluoride (HgF2), Sarah Schyck, Egor Evlyukhin, Eunja Kim, and Micheal Pravica
Probing the Structures, Electronic and Bonding Properties of Multidecker Lanthanides: Neutral and Anionic Lnn(COT)m (Ln = Ce, Nd, Eu, Ho and Yb; n, m = 1, 2) Complexes, Peng Shao, Li Ping Ding, Dao-Bin Luo, and Cheng Lu
Alignment of a Circumbinary Disc Around an Eccentric Binary with Application to KH 15D, Jeremy L. Smallwood, Stephen H. Lubow, Alessia Franchini, and Rebecca G. Martin
Investigation of the Asteroid - Neutron Star Collision Model for the Repeating Fast Radio Burst, Jeremy L. Smallwood, Rebecca G. Martin, and Bing Zhang
Anomalous Conductivity in the Rutile Structure Driven by Local Disorder, Dean Smith, Daniel Sneed, Nathan Dasenbrock-Gammon, Elliot Snider, G. Alexander Smith, Christian Childs, Jeffrey S. Pigot, Nenad Velisavljevic, Changyong Park, Keith V. Lawler, Ranga P. Dias, and Ashkan Salamat
Probing Disorder in High-Pressure Cubic Tin (Iv) Oxide: A Combined X-Ray Diffraction and Absorption Study, Daniel Sneed, John S.C. Kearney, Jesse S. Smith, Changyong Park, and Ashkan Salamat
Viewing Angle Constraints on S190425z and S190426c and the Joint Gravitational-wave/Gamma-Ray Detection Fractions for Binary Neutron Star Mergers, Hao-Ran Song, Shun-Ke Ai, Min-Hao Wang, Nan Xing, He Gao, and Bing Zhang
Exotic Hydrogen Bonding in Compressed Ammonia Hydrides, Xianqi Song, Ketao Yin, Yanchao Wang, Andreas Hermann, Hanyu Liu, Jian Lv, Quan Li, Changfeng Chen, and Yanming Ma
The Discovery and Legacy of Kepler's Multitransiting Planetary System, Jason H. Steffen and Jack J. Lissauer
On the Gravitational Instabilities of Protoplanetary Disks, Ning Sui, Ping He, and Min Li
A Unified Binary Neutron Star Merger Magnetar Model for the Chandra X-Ray Transients CDF-S XT1 and XT2, Hui Sun, Ye Li, Bin-Bin Zhang, Bing Zhang, Franz E. Bauer, Yongquan Xue, and Weimin Yuan
CoB6 Monolayer: A Robust Two-dimensional Ferromagnet, Xiao Tang, Weiguo Sun, Yuantong Gu, Cheng Lu, Liangzhi Kou, and Changfeng Chen
A Comprehensive Chandra Study of the Disk Wind in the Black Hole Candidate 4U 1630-472, N. Trueba, J. M. Miller, J. Kaastra, A. Zoghbi, A. C. Fabian, T. Kallman, Daniel Proga, and J. Raymond
Three-Dimensional Crystalline Modification of Graphene in all-sp2 Hexagonal Lattices with or without Topological Nodal Lines, Jian-Tao Wang, Yuting Qian, Hongmong Weng, Enge Wang, and Changfeng Chen
Topological Nodal Line Semimetals in Graphene Network Structures, Jian-Tao Wang, Hongming Weng, and Chengfeng Chen
Computational Discovery and Characterization of New B2O Phases, Jianyun Wang, Quan Li, Chris J. Pickard, Changfeng Chen, and Yanming Ma
Ternary Inorganic Electrides with Mixed Bonding, Junjie Wang, Qiang Zhu, Zhenhai Wang, and Hideo Hosono
Seismic Performance of Axially Restrained Reinforced Concrete Frame Beams, Liping Wang, Ying Tian, Wenwen Luo, and Guichen Li
Kondo Signatures of a Quantum Magnetic Impurity in Topological Superconductors, Rui Wang, Wei-Yi Su, Jian-Xin Zhu, Chin-Sen Ting, Hai Li, Changfeng Chen, Baigeng Wang, and Xiaoqun Wang
Modeling the Light Curves of the Luminous Type Ic Supernova 2007D, Shan-Qin Wang, Zach Cano, Long Li, Liang-Duan Liu, Ling-Jun Wang, WeiKang Zheng, Zi-Gao Dai, En-Wei Liang, and Alexei V. Filippenko
Coherent Radio Emission from a Twisted Magnetosphere after a Magnetar-quake, Weiyang Wang, Bing Zhang, Xuelei Chen, and Renxin Xu
On the Time-Frequency Downward Drifting of Repeating Fast Radio Bursts, Weiyang Wang, Bing Zhang, Xuelei Chen, and Renxin Xu
Synchrotron Self-Compton Emission from External Shocks as the Origin of the Sub-TeV Emission in GRB 180720B and GRB 190114C, Xiang-Yu Wang, Ruo-Yu Liu, Hai-Ming Zhang, Shao-Qiang Xi, and Bing Zhang
Outflows from Inflows: The Nature of Bondi-Like Accretion, Tim Waters, Aycin Aykutalp, Daniel Proga, Jarrett Johnson, Hui Li, and Joseph Smidt
Cloud Coalescence: A Dynamical Instability Affecting Multiphase Environments, Tim Waters and Daniel Proga
Non-Isobaric Thermal Instability, Tim Waters and Daniel Proga
Structure–Thermodynamics Relationship of Schoepite from First-Principles, Philippe F. Weck, Carlos F. Jove-Colon, and Eunja Kim
Multimessenger Tests of Einstein's Weak Equivalence Principle and Lorentz Invariance with a High-Energy Neutrino from a Flaring Blazar, Jun-Jie Wei, Bin-Bin Zhang, Lang Shao, He Gao, Ye Li, Qian-Qing Yin, Xue-Feng Wu, Xiang-Yu Wang, Bing Zhang, and Zi-Gao Dai
GRID: A Student Project to Monitor the Transient Gamma-Ray Sky in the Multi-Messenger Astronomy Era, Jiaxing Wen, Xiangyun Long, Xutao Zheng, Yu An, Zhengyang Cai, Jirong Cang, Yuepeng Che, Changyu Chen, Liangjun Chen, Qianjun Chen, Ziyun Chen, Yingjie Chen, Litao Deng, Wei Deng, Wenqing Deng, Hangci Du, Lian Duan, Quan Gan, Tai Gao, Zhiying Gao, Wenbin Han, Yiying Han, Xinbo He, Xinhao He, Long Huo, Fan Hu, Junling Hu, Bo Huang, Dongyang Huang, Xuefeng Huang, and Shihai Jia
Profound Softening and Shear-Induced Melting of Diamond at Extreme Conditions: An ab-initio Molecular Dynamics Study, Libin Wen, Hao Wu, Hong Sun, and Changfeng Chen
Dynamical Instability and Its Implications for Planetary System Architecture, Dong-Hong Wu, Rachel C. Zang, Ji-Lin Zhou, and Jason H. Steffen
Limits on the Weak Equivalence Principle and Photon Mass with FRB 121102 Subpulses, Nan Xing, He Gao, Jun-Jie Wei, Zhengxiang Li, Weiyang Wang, Bing Zhang, Xue-Feng Wu, and Peter Meszaros