Faculty research from the Physics & Astronomy department.
Submissions from 2016
IGR J12580+0134: The first tidal disruption event with an off-beam relativistic jet, Weihua Lei, Q Yuan, Bing Zhang, and D Wang
Internal x-ray plateau in short GRBs: Signature of supramassive fast-rotating quark stars?, Ang Li, Bing Zhang, N B. Zhang, H Gao, B Qi, and Tong Liu
Extreme Mechanics of Probing the Ultimate Strength of Nanotwinned Diamond, B Li, H Sun, and Changfeng Chen
A Method to Constrain Mass and Spin of GRB Black Holes within the NDAF Model, Tong Liu, Li Xue, Xiao-Hong Zhao, Fu-Wen Zhang, and Bing Zhang
Detectable MeV neutrinos from black hole neutrino-dominated accretion flows, T Liu, B Zhang, Y Li, R Y. Ma, and L Xue
A comparative study of long and short GRBS. I. Overlapping properties, Ye Li, Bing Zhang, and Houjun Lü
Fluorine-Doped Antiperovskite Electrolyte for All-Solid-State Lithium-Ion Batteries, Y Li, W Zhou, S Xin, Shuai Li, Jinlong Zhu, L Xujie, Z Cui, Q Jia, J Zhou, Yusheng Zhao, and J B. Goodenough
Ab initio prediction of superdense tetragonal and monoclinic polymorphs of carbon, Z Li, J T. Wang, L F. Xu, and Changfeng Chen
The Evolution of Planet-Disk Systems that are Mildly Inclined to the Orbit of a Binary Companion, Stephen Lubow and Rebecca G. Martin
Antiperovskite Li3 OCl superionic conductor films for solid-state li-ion batteries, X Lü, John W Howard, A Chen, Jinlong Zhu, Shuai Li, G Wu, P Dowden, H Xu, Yusheng Zhao, and Q Jia
Enhanced Structural Stability and Photo Responsiveness of CH3NH3SnI3 Perovskite via Pressure-Induced Amorphization and Recrystallization, X Lü, Yonggang Wang, C C. Stoumpos, Q Hu, X Guo, H Chen, L Yang, J S. Smith, W Yang, Yusheng Zhao, H Xu, M G. Kanatzidis, and Q Jia
A Dynamical Analysis of the Kepler-80 System of Five Transiting Planets, M G. Macdonald, D Ragozzine, D C. Fabrycky, E B. Ford, M J. Holman, H T. Isaacson, J J. Lissauer, E D. Lopez, T Mazeh, L Rogers, J F. Rowe, Jason Steffen, and G Torres
On the formation of super-Earths with implications for the solar system, Rebecca G. Martin and Mario Livio
WHY ARE PULSAR PLANETS RARE?, Rebecca Martin, M Livio, and D Palaniswamy
Equation of State for Technetium from X-ray Diffraction and First-principle Calculations, Daniel S. Mast, Eunja Kim, Emily M. Siska, Frederic Poineau, Kenneth R. Czerwinski, Barbara Lavina, and Paul M. Forster
Soft X-ray Spectroscopy of a Complex Heterojunction in High-Efficiency Thin-Film Photovoltaics: Intermixing and Zn Speciation at the Zn(O,S)/Cu(In,Ga)Se2 Interface, Michelle Mezher, R Garris, L M. Mansfield, M Blum, D Hauschild, K Horsley, D A. Duncan, W Yang, Marcus Bär, L Weinhardt, K Ramanathan, and C Heske
Electronic structure of the Zn(O,S)/Cu(In,Ga)Se2 thin-film solar cell interface, Michelle Mezher, R Garris, L M. Mansfield, K Horsley, L Weinhardt, D A. Duncan, Monika Blum, S G. Rosenberg, M Bär, K Ramanathan, and Clemens Heske
The Accretion Disk Wind in the Black Hole GRS 1915+105, J M. Miller, J Raymond, A C. Fabian, E Gallo, J Kaastra, T Kallman, A L. King, Daniel Proga, C S. Reynolds, and A Zoghbi
Carbon nitride frameworks and dense crystalline polymorphs, C J. Pickard, Ashkan Salamat, M J. Bojdys, R J. Needs, and P F. McMillan
A novel synthesis of polymeric CO via useful hard x-ray photochemistry, Michael G. Pravica, Daniel Sneed, Quinlan Smith, Brant Billinghurst, Tim May, Melanie White, and Kamil Dziubek
Hexafluorobenzene under Extreme Conditions, Michael Pravica, D Sneed, Y Wang, Q Smith, and M White
High pressure studies of potassium perchlorate, Michael Pravica, Yonggang Wang, D Sneed, S Reiser, and Melanie White
Gamma-Ray Burst Reverse Shock Emission in Early Radio Afterglows, L Resmi and Bing Zhang
Characterization of Pentavalent and Hexavalent Americium Complexes in Nitric Acid Using X-ray Absorption Fine Structure Spectroscopy and First-principles Modeling, Catherine Riddle, Ken Czerwinski, Eunja Kim, Patricia Paviet, Philippe Weck, Frederic Poineau, and Steven Conradson
Electric Field Cancellation on Quartz by Rb Adsorbate-Induced Negative Electron Affinity, J A. Sedlacek, Eunja Kim, S T. Rittenhouse, P F. Weck, H R. Sadeghpour, and J P. Shaffer
Orientation correlation and local field in liquid nitrobenzene, David Shelton
Expanded Comment on: Optical Properties of Fluid Hydrogen at the Transition to a Conducting State, Isaac F. Silvera, Rachel Husband, Ashkan Salamat, and Mohamed Zaghoo
Sensitivity bias in the mass-radius distribution from transit timing variations and radial velocity measurements, Jason Steffen
A population of planetary systems characterized by short-period, earth-sized planets, Jason Steffen and J L. Coughlin
DYNAMICAL CONSIDERATIONS for LIFE in MULTI-HABITABLE PLANETARY SYSTEMS, Jason Steffen and G Li
A multivariate model of conceptual change, G Taasoobshirazi, B Heddy, M L. Bailey, and John Farley
Evidence of Bulk Acceleration of the GRB X-Ray Flare Emission Region, Z L. Uhm and Bing Zhang
Toward an understanding of GRB prompt emission mechanism. I. the origin of spectral lags, Z L. Uhm and Bing Zhang
Three-Dimensional Carbon Allotropes Comprising Phenyl Rings and Acetylenic Chains in sp+sp2 Hybrid Networks, J T. Wang, Changfeng Chen, H D. Li, H Mizuseki, and Y Kawazoe
Body-Centered Orthorhombic C16: A Novel Topological Node-Line Semimetal, J T. Wang, H Weng, S Nie, Z Fang, Y Kawazoe, and Changfeng Chen
Elastic, magnetic and electronic properties of iridium phosphide Ir2P, Pei Wang, Yonggang Wang, Liping Wang, X Zhang, X Yu, Jinlong Zhu, Shanmin Wang, J Qin, K Leinenweber, H Chen, D He, and Yusheng Zhao
Giant Pressure-Driven Lattice Collapse Coupled with Intermetallic Bonding and Spin-State Transition in Manganese Chalcogenides, Yonggang Wang, L Bai, T Wen, L Yang, H Gou, Y Xiao, P Chow, Michael Pravica, W Yang, and Y Zhao
Pressure-Driven Cooperative Spin-Crossover, Large-Volume Collapse, and Semiconductor-to-Metal Transition in Manganese(II) Honeycomb Lattices, Yonggang Wang, Z Zhou, T Wen, Y Zhou, N Li, F Han, Y Xiao, P Chow, J Sun, M Pravica, A L. Cornelius, W Yang, and Y Zhao
Reversible switching between pressure-induced amorphization and thermal-driven recrystallization in VO2 (B) nanosheets, Yonggang Wang, Jinlong Zhu, W Yang, T Wen, Michael Pravica, Z Liu, M Hou, Y Fei, L Kang, Z Lin, C Jin, and Yusheng Zhao
Robust high pressure stability and negative thermal expansion in sodium-rich antiperovskites Na3OBr and Na4OI2, Yongrong Wang, Ting Wen, Changyong Park, Curtis Kenny-Benson, Michael G. Pravica, Wenge Yang, and Yusheng Ziao
Reverberation Mapping of the Broad Line Region: Application to a Hydrodynamical Line-Driven Disk Wind Solution, Tim R Waters, A Kashi, Daniel Proga, M Eracleous, A J. Barth, and J Greene
On the efficient acceleration of clouds in active galactic nuclei, Tim R Waters and D Proga
Assessing Hubbard-corrected AM05+: U and PBEsol+ U density functionals for strongly correlated oxides CeO2 and Ce2O3, P F. Weck and Eunja Kim
Energetics of Sn2+ isomorphic substitution into hydroxylapatite: first-principles predictions, P F. Weck and Eunja Kim
Uncloaking the thermodynamics of the studtite to metastudtite shear-induced transformation, P F. Weck and Eunja Kim
Van der Waals forces and confinement in carbon nanopores: Interaction between CH4, COOH, NH3, OH, SH and single-walled carbon nanotubes, P F. Weck, Eunja Kim, and Y Wang
A Real-time Web-based Wildfire Simulation System, R Wu, Changfeng Chen, S Ahmad, J M. Volk, C Luca, F C. Harris, and S M. Dascalu Jr.
Testing Einstein's weak equivalence principle with gravitational waves, X F. Wu, H Gao, J J. Wei, P Mészáros, Bing Zhang, Z G. Dai, S N. Zhang, and Z H. Zhu
Constraints on the photon mass with fast radio bursts, X F. Wu, S B. Zhang, H Gao, J J. Wei, Y -C Zou, W H. Lei, Bing Zhang, Z G. Dai, and P Mészáros
Exoplanet orbital eccentricities derived from LAMOST-kepler analysis, J W. Xie, S Dong, Zhaohuan Zhu, D Huber, Z Zheng, P De Cat, J Fu, H G. Liu, A Luo, Y Wu, H Zhang, H Zhang, J L. Zhou, Z Cao, Y Hou, Y Wang, and Y Zhang
Interpretation of the Structure Function of Rotation Measure in the Interstellar Medium, S Xu and Bing Zhang
On the Origin of the Scatter Broadening of Fast Radio Burst Pulses and Astrophysical Implications, S Xu and Bing Zhang
Testing Einstein's weak equivalence principle with a 0.4-nanosecond giant pulse of the Crab pulsar, Y P. Yang and B Zhang
Extracting Host Galaxy Dispersion Measure and Constraining Cosmological Parameters using Fast Radio Burst Data, Y P. Yang and Bing Zhang
Synchrotron Heating by a Fast Radio Burst in a Self-absorbed Synchrotron Nebula and Its Observational Signature, Yuan-Pei Yang, Bing Zhang, and Zi-Gao Dai
Catching jetted tidal disruption events early in millimetre, Q Yuan, Q D. Wang, W H. Lei, H Gao, and Bing Zhang
Synchrotron Origin of the Typical GRB Band Function - A Case Study of GRB 130606B, B B. Zhang, Z L. Uhm, V Connaughton, M S. Briggs, and Bing Zhang
Mergers of Charged Black Holes: Gravitational-wave Events, Short Gamma-Ray Bursts, and Fast Radio Bursts, Bing Zhang
On the afterglow and progenitor of FRB 150418, Bing Zhang
GRB Observational Properties, Bing Zhang, H J. Lü, and E W. Liang
Central Engine Memory of Gamma-Ray Bursts and Soft Gamma-Ray Repeaters, B Zhang, Bing Zhang, and A J. Castro-Tirado
Equation of state and thermodynamic Grüneisen parameter of monoclinic 1,1-diamino-2,2-dinitroethylene, J Zhang, N Velisavljevic, Jinlong Zhu, and Liping Wang
Enhanced ionic conductivity with Li7O2Br3 phase in Li3OBr anti-perovskite solid electrolyte, Jinlong Zhu, Shuai Li, Yi Zhang, John W Howard, X Lü, Y Li, Yonggang Wang, Ravhi Kumar, Liping Wang, and Yusheng Zhao
Shock-Driven Accretion in Circumplanetary Disks: Observables and Satellite Formation, Zhaohuan Zhu, Wenhua Ju, and James M. Stone
DISK-Wind Connection during the Heartbeats of GRS 1915+105, A Zoghbi, J M. Miller, A L. King, M C. Miller, Daniel Proga, T Kallman, A C. Fabian, F A. Harrison, J Kaastra, J Raymond, C S. Reynolds, S E. Boggs, F E. Christensen, W Craig, C J. Hailey, D Stern, and W W. Zhang
Associations of rare nicotinic cholinergic receptor gene variants to nicotine and alcohol dependence, L Zuo, Y Tan, C S.R. Li, Z Wang, K Wang, X Zhang, X Lin, X Chen, C Zhong, X Wang, J Wang, L Lu, and X Luo
The Molecular Aharonov-Bohm Effect Redux, Bernard Zygelman
Submissions from 2015
Nebular Dead Zone Effects on the D/H ratio in Chondrites and Comets, Mohamad Ali-Dib, Rebecca G. Martin, J. M. Petit, O. Mousis, P. Vernazza, and J. I. Lunine
Pressure Induced Cation-Cation Bonding in V2O3, Ligang Bai, Quan Li, Serena A. Corr, Michael Pravica, Changfeng Cheng, Yusheng Zhao, Stanislav V. Sinogeikin, Yue Meng, Changyong Park, and Guoyin Shen
Pressure Induced Structural Transitions in CuSbS2 and CuSbSe2 Thermoelectric Compounds, Jason Baker, Ravhi S. Kumar, Daniel Sneed, Anthony Connolly, Yi Zhang, Nenad Velisavljevic, Jayalakshmi Paladugu, Michael G. Pravica, Changfeng Chen, Andrew Cornelius, and Yusheng Zhao
Relativistic MHD Simulations of Collision-induced Magnetic Dissipation in Poynting-Flux-Dominated Jets/Outflows, Wei Deng, Hui Li, Bing Zhang, and Shengtai Li
The Optical Rebrightening of GRB100814A: An Interplay of Forward and Reverse Shocks?, M. De Pasquale, N.P.M. Kuin, S. Oates, S. Schulze, Z. Cano, C. Guidorzi, A. Beardmore, P.A. Evans, Z.L. Uhm, Bing Zhang, M. Page, S. Kobayashi, A. Castro-Tirado, J. Gorosabel, T. Sakamoto, T. Fatkhullin, S.B. Pandey, M. Im, P. Chandra, D. Frail, H. Gao, D. Kopac, Y. Jeon, C. Akerlof, K.Y. Huang, S. Pak, W.-K. Park, A. Gomboc, A. Melandri, S. Zane, C.G. Mundell, C.J. Saxton, S.T. Holland, F. Virgili, Y. Urata, I. Steele, D. Bersier, N. Tanvir, V.V. Sokolov, and A.S. Moskvitin
The Kozai-Lidov Mechanism in Hydrodynamical Disks. II. Effects of Binary and Disk Parameters, Wen Fu, Stephen Lubow, and Rebecca G. Martin
The Kozai-Lidov Mechanism in Hydrodynamical Disks. III. Effects of Disk Mass and Self-gravity, Wen Fu, Stephen Lubow, and Rebecca G. Martin
GRB 080503 Late Afterglow Re-brightening: Signature of a Magnetar-powered Merger-nova, He Gao, Xuan Ding, Xue-Feng Wu, Zi-Gao Dai, and Bing Zhang
A Morphological Analysis of Gamma-Ray Burst Early-optical Afterglows, He Gao, Xiang-Gao Wang, Peter Mészáros, and Bing Zhang
Photosphere Emission from a Hybrid Relativistic Outflow with Arbitrary Dimensionless Entropy and Magnetization in GRBs, H. Gao and Bing Zhang
Toward a Better Understanding of the GRB Phenomenon: A New Model For GRB Prompt Emission and its Effects on the New LiNT– Epeak,irest,NT Relation, S. Guiriec, C. Kouveliotou, F. Daigne, Bing Zhang, R. Hascoet, R.S. Nemmen, D.J. Thompson, P.N. Bhat, N. Gehrels, M.M. Gonzalez, Y. Kaneko, J. McEnery, R. Mochkovitch, J.L. Racusin, F. Ryde, J.R. Sacahui, and A.M. Ünsal
Kepler-1647B: the Largest and Longest-Period Kepler Transiting Circumbinary Planet, Veselin B. Kostov, Jerome A. Orosz, William F. Welsh, Laurance R. Doyle, Daniel C. Fabrycky, Nader Haghighipour, Billy Quarles, Donald R. Short, William D. Cochran, Michael Endl, Eric B. Ford, Joao Gregorio, Tobias C. Hinse, Howard Isaacson, Jon M. Jenkins, Eric L.N Jensen, Ilya Kull, David W. Latham, Jack J. Lissauer, Geoffrey W. Marcy, Tsevi Mazeh, Tobias W.A Müller, Joshua Pepper, Samuel N. Quinn, Darin Ragozzine, Avi Shporer, Jason H. Steffen, Guillermo Torres, Gur Windmiller, William J. Borucki, and Stephen Kane
The physics of gamma-ray bursts and relativistic jets, P. Kumar and Bing Zhang
Effect of Pressure on Valence and Structural Properties of YbFe2Ge2 Heavy Fermion Compound-A Combined Inelastic X-ray Spectroscopy, X-ray Diffraction, and Theoretical Investigation, Ravhi S. Kumar, Axel Svane, Ganapathy Vaitheeswaran, Venkatakrishnan Kanchana, Daniel Antonio, Andrew L. Cornelius, Eric D. Bauer, Yuming Xiao, and Paul Chow
A Tight Liso–Ep,z–Γ0 Correlation of Gamma-Ray Bursts, E.-W. Liang, T.-T. Lin, J. Lü, R.-J. Lu, J. Zhang, and Bing Zhang
A Correlated Study of Optical and X-Ray Afterglows of GRBs, L. Li, Xue-Feng Wu, Yong-Feng Huang, Xiang-Gao Wang, Qing-Wen Tang, Yun-Feng Liang, Bin-Bin Zhang, Yu Wang, Jin-Jun Geng, En-Wei Liang, Bing Zhang, and Felix Ryde
Oscillation-Driven Magnetospheric Activity in Pulsars, M.-X. Lin, R.-X. Xu, and Bing Zhang
X-Ray Fluorescence Computed Tomography for Molecular Imaging, Xia Li and Yu Kuang
Can Life Survive Gamma-Ray Bursts in the High-redshift Universe?, Ye Li and Bing Zhang
Tidal Torques on Misaligned Disks in Binary Systems, Stephen Lubow, Rebecca G. Martin, and Chris Nixon
The Millisecond Magnetar Central Engine in Short GRBs, Hou-Jun Lü, Bing Zhang, Wei-Hua Lei, Ye Li, and Paul D. Lasky
The Solar System as an Exoplanetary System, Rebecca G. Martin and Mario Livio
High Pressure Transport and Structural Studies on Nb3Ga Superconductor, Vahe Mkrtcheyan, Ravhi Kumar, Jason Baker, Anthony Connolly, Daniel Antonio, Andrew Cornelius, and Yusheng Zhao
Metallicity Measurements of Gamma-Ray Burst and Supernova Explosion Sites: Lessons From H II Regions in M31, Yuu Niino, Kentaro Nagamine, and Bing Zhang
A novel method to create molecular mixtures at high pressures, Michael G. Pravica, Quinlan Smith, Daniel Sneed, Yonggang Wang, and Melanie White
Extragalactic High-energy Transients: Event Rate Densities and Luminosity Functions, Hui Sun, Bing Zhang, and Zhuo Li
Physics Metacognition Inventory Part II: Confirmatory factor analysis and Rasch analysis, Gita Taasoobshirazi, M. Bailey, and John W. Farley
On the Curvature Effect of a Relativistic Spherical Shell, Z.L. Uhm and Bing Zhang
The Hardest Superconducting Metal Nitride, Shanmin Wang, Daniel Antonio, Xiaohui Yu, Jianzhong Zhang, Andrew L. Cornelius, Duanwei He, and Yusheng Zhao
A New Molybdenum Nitride Catalyst with Rhombohedral MoS2 Structure for Hydrogenation Applications, Shanmin Wang, Yusheng Zhao, Hui Ge, Shouli Sun, Jianzhong Zhang, Fangming Liu, Xiaodong Wen, Xiaohui Yu, Liping Wang, Yi Zhang, Hongwu Xu, Joerg C. Neuefeind, Zhangfeng Qin, Changfeng Chen, Changqin Jin, Yongwang Li, and Duanwei He
How Bad or Good Are the External Forward Shock Afterglow Models of Gamma-Ray Bursts?, X.-G. Wang, Bing Zhang, E.-W. Liang, H. Gao, L. Li, C.-M. Deng, S.-M. Qin, Q.-W. Tang, D.A. Kann, F. Ryde, and P. Kumar
Kepler 453 b: the 10th Kepler Transiting Circumbinary Planet, William Welsh, Jerome Orosz, Donald Short, William D. Cochran, Michael Endl, Erik Brugamyer, Nader Haghighipour, Lars A. Buchhave, Laurance R. Doyle, Daniel C. Fabrycky, Tobias C. Hinse, Stephen R. Kane, Veselin Kostov, Tsevi Mazeh, Sean M. Mills, Tobias W.A Müller, Billy Quarles, Samuel N. Quinn, Darin Ragozzine, Avi Shporer, Jason H. Steffen, Lev Tal-Or, Guillermo Torres, Gur Windmiller, and William J. Borucki
On the Polarization Properties of Magnetar Giant Flare Pulsating Tails, Y.P. Yang and Bing Zhang