Browsing by Subject "Astronomy"
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(2018-08-06)It is both exciting and important to look for life beyond our planet. To find signs of life on distant planets, there is a need to search across the vast space that surrounds us and find planets outside our solar system, ...
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(2016-07-28)In this thesis, I seek to advance our understanding of galaxy formation and evolution in the early universe. Using the largest single project ever conducted by the Hubble Space Telescope (the Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared ...
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(2010-07-14)We study the nature and clustering of infrared (IR) galaxies at z~1.5-3 in a 9 deg2 region from the Spitzer Deep, Wide-Field Survey (SDWFS) and the MIPS (Multiband Imaging Photometer for SIRTF) AGN (Active Galactic Nuclei) ...
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(2012-10-24)As astronomers and astrophysicists seek to view ever-increasingly distant celestial objects, the desired angular resolution of telescopes is constantly being increased. Classical optics, however, has shown a proportional ...
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(2022-04-12)Proposal evaluation of pre-Phase A mission concepts is largely based on the input from subject matter experts who determine the scientific merit of a mission concept based on a number of criteria including: the relevance ...
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(2016-07-28)We present an ultraviolet (UV) spectroscopic atlas containing 91 spectra of 22 unique Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia). The spectra were observed using the Ultraviolet/Optical Telescope (UVOT) onboard the Swift space telescope. ...
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(2021-05-24)We present deep $g$- and $r$-band Magellan/Megacam photometry of two dwarf galaxy candidates discovered in the Dark Energy Survey (DES), Grus I and Indus II. For the case of Grus I, we resolved the main sequence turn-off ...