The Department of Physics & Astronomy gives students a chance to study the fundamental laws of nature and their application to the exploration of the universe in a friendly, engaging environment. The department offers two degree programs, a Bachelor of Science in Space Physics (BSSP), which prepares students for careers in science and aerospace or for graduate programs in physics, astronomy and astrophysics, and a Bachelor of Science in Astronomy (BSA).
Submissions from 2023
Gravito-optics and intensity correlations for binary inspiral signal detections, Preston Jones, Alexander Barret, Justin Carpenter, Andri Gretarsson, Ellie Gretarsson, Brennan Hughey, Darrel Smith, Michele Zanolin, and Doug Singelton
Submissions from 2019
Recent Developments in Spacetime-Symmetry Tests in Gravity, Q. G. Bailey
A 3+1 Decomposition of the Minimal Standard-Model Extension Gravitational Sector, Nils A. Nilsson, Kellie O'Neal-Ault, and Quentin G. Bailey
Testing the Gravitational Weak Equivalence Principle in the Standard-Model Extension with Binary Pulsars, Lijing Shao and Quentin G. Bailey
Submissions from 2018
GW170817: Implications for the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background from Compact Binary Coalescences, B. P. Abbott, K. AultONeal, S. Gaudio, K. Gill, E. M. Gretarsson, B. Hughey, M. Muratore, J. W. W. Pratt, S. G. Schwalbe, K. Staats, M. J. Szczepańczyk, M. Zanolin, and et al.
First Search for Nontensorial Gravitational Waves From Known Pulsars, B. P. Abbott, K. AultONeal, S. Gaudio, K. Gill, B. Hughey, J. W. W. Pratt, E. Schmidt, S. G. Schwalbe, M. J. Szczepańczyk, M. Zanolin, and et al.
Effects of Data Quality Vetoes on a Search for Compact Binary Coalescences in Advanced LIGO's First Observing Run, B. P. Abbott, K. Gill, B. Hughey, J. Pratt, M. J. Szczepańczyk, M. Zanolin, and et al.
All-Sky Search for Long-Duration Gravitational Wave Transients in the First Advanced LIGO Observing Run, B. P. Abbott, K. Gill, B. Hughey, J. W. W. Pratt, E. Rhoades, E. Schmidt, S. G. Schwalbe, M. J. Szczepańczyk, M. Zanolin, and et al.
Relating Noncommutative SO(2,3)* Gravity to the Lorentz-Violating Standard-Model Extension, Quentin G. Bailey and Charles D. Lane
Gravity's Light in the Shadow of the Moon, Andri Gretarsson, Preston Jones, and Douglas Singleton
Scalar Field Vacuum Expectation Value Induced by Gravitational Wave Background, Preston Jones, Patrick McDougall, Michael Ragsdale, and Douglas Singleton
Interaction Between Gravitational Radiation and Electromagnetic Radiation, Preston Jones and Douglas Singleton
Testing Velocity-Dependent CPT-Violating Gravitational Forces with Radio Pulsars, Lijing Shao and Quentin G. Bailey
Submissions from 2017
Search for High-Energy Neutrinos From Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817 With ANTARES, IceCube, and the Pierre Auger Observatory, M. G. Aartsen, K. AultONeal, S. Gaudio, K. Gill, E. M. Gretarsson, B. Hughey, M. Muratore, J. W. W. Pratt, S. G. Schwalbe, K. Staats, M. J. Szczepańczyk, M. Zanolin, and et al.
A Gravitational-Wave Standard Siren Measurement of the Hubble Constant, B. P. Abbott, K. AultONeal, S. Gaudio, K. Gill, E. M. Gretarrson, B. Hughey, M. Muratore, J. W. W. Pratt, S. G. Schwalde, K. Staats, M. J. Szczepańczyk, M. Zanolin, and et al.
Estimating the Contribution of Dynamical Ejecta in the Kilonova Associated With GW170817, B. P. Abbott, K. AultONeal, S. Gaudio, K. Gill, E. M. Gretarsson, B. Hughey, M. Muratore, J. W. W. Pratt, S. G. Schwalbe, K. Staats, M. J. Szczepańczyk, M. Zanolin, and et al.
First Narrow-Band Search for Continuous Gravitational Waves From Known Pulsars in Advanced Detector Data, B. P. Abbott, K. AultONeal, S. Gaudio, K. Gill, E. M. Gretarsson, B. Hughey, M. Muratore, J. W. W. Pratt, S. G. Schwalbe, K. Staats, M. J. Szczepańczyk, M. Zanolin, and et al.
Full Band All-Sky Search for Periodic Gravitational Waves in the O1 LIGO Data, B. P. Abbott, K. AultONeal, S. Gaudio, K. Gill, E. M. Gretarsson, B. Hughey, M. Muratore, J. W. W. Pratt, S. G. Schwalbe, K. Staats, M. J. Szczepańczyk, M. Zanolin, and et al.
Gravitational Waves and Gamma-Rays from a Binary Neutron Star Merger: GW170817 and GRB 170817A, B. P. Abbott, K. AultONeal, S. Gaudio, K. Gill, E. M. Gretarsson, B. Hughey, M. Muratore, J. W. W. Pratt, S. G. Schwalbe, K. Staats, M. J. Szczepańczyk, M. Zanolin, and et al.
GW170608: Observation of a 19 Solar-Mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence, B. P. Abbott, K. AultONeal, S. Gaudio, K. Gill, E. M. Gretarsson, B. Hughey, M. Muratore, J. W. W. Pratt, S. G. Schwalbe, K. Staats, M. J. Szczepańczyk, M. Zanolin, and et al.
GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral, B. P. Abbott, K. AultONeal, S. Gaudio, K. Gill, E. M. Gretarsson, B. Hughey, M. Muratore, J. W. W. Pratt, S. G. Schwalbe, K. Staats, M. J. Szczepańczyk, M. Zanolin, and et al.
On the Progenitor of Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817, B. P. Abbott, K. AultONeal, S. Gaudio, K. Gill, E. M. Gretarsson, B. Hughey, M. Muratore, J. W. W. Pratt, S. G. Schwalbe, K. Staats, M. J. Szczepańczyk, M. Zanolin, and et al.
Search for Post-Merger Gravitational Waves From the Remnant of the Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817, B. P. Abbott, K. AultONeal, S. Gaudio, K. Gill, E. M. Gretarsson, B. Hughey, M. Muratore, J. W. W. Pratt, S. G. Schwalbe, K. Staats, M. J. Szczepańczyk, M. Zanolin, and et al.
GW170814: A Three-Detector Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Coalescence, B. P. Abbott, K. AultONeal, S. Gaudio, K. Gill, E. M. Gretarsson, B. Hughey, M. Muratore, J. W. W. Pratt, S. G. Schwalbe, K. Staats, M. J. Szczepańczyk, Michele Zanolin, and et al.
Multi-Messenger Observations of a Binary Neutron Star Merger, B. P. Abbott, K. AultONeal, S. Gaudio, K. Gill, E. M. Gretarsson, B. Hughey, M. Muratore, J. W. W. Pratt, S. G. Schwalbe, K. Staats, M. J. Szczepańczyk, Michele Zanolin, and et al.
GW170104: Observation of a 50-Solar-Mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence at Redshift 0.2, B. P. Abbott, K. AultONeal, S. Gaudio, K. Gill, B. Hughey, J. W. W. Pratt, E. Schmidt, G. Schwalbe, M. J. Szczepańczyk, M. Zanolin, and et al.
First Low-Frequency Einstein@Home All-Sky Search for Continuous Gravitational Waves in Advanced LIGO Data, B. P. Abbott, K. AultONeal, S. Gaudio, K. Gill, B. Hughey, J. W. W. Pratt, E. Schmidt, S. G. Schwalbe, M. J. Szczepańczyk, M. Zanolin, and et al.
Upper Limits on Gravitational Waves from Scorpius X-1 from a Model-Based Cross-Correlation Search in Advanced LIGO Data, B. P. Abbott, K. AultONeal, S. Gaudio, K. Gill, B. Hughey, J. W. W. Pratt, E. Schmidt, S. G. Schwalbe, M. J. Szczepańczyk, M. Zanolin, and et al.
The Basic Physics of the Binary Black Hole Merger GW150914, B. P. Abbott, K. Gill, B. Hughey, J. Pratt, M. J. Szczepańczyk, M. Zanolin, and et al.
Search for Gravitational Waves Associated with Gamma-Ray Bursts During the First Advanced LIGO Observing Run and Implications for the Origin of GRB 150906B, B. P. Abbott, K. Gill, B. Hughey, J. W. W. Pratt, E. Rhoades, E. Schmidt, S. G. Schwalbe, M. J. Szczepańczyk, M. Zanolin, and et al.
Velocity-Dependent Inverse Cubic Force and Solar System Gravity Tests, Quentin G. Bailey and Daniel Havert
Low Frequency Electromagnetic Radiation From Gravitational Waves Generated by Neutron Stars, Preston Jones, Andri Gretarsson, and Douglas Singleton
Particle Production in a Gravitational Wave Background, Preston Jones, Patrick McDougall, and Douglas Singleton
Lorentz-Symmetry Test at Planck-Scale Suppression with Nucleons in a Spin-Polarized 133 Cs Cold Atom Clock, H. Pihan-Le Bars, C. Guerlin, R.-D. Lasseri, J.-P. Ebran, Q. G. Bailey, S. Bize, E. Khan, and P. Wolf
Localization of Interacting Fields in Five-Dimensional Braneworld Models, Dewi Wulandari, Triyanta, Jusak S. Kosasih, Douglas Singleton, and Preston Jones
Submissions from 2016
Search for Transient Gravitational Waves in Coincidence With Short-Duration Radio Transients During 2007-2013, B. P. Abbott, K. Gill, B. Hughey, D. Stiles, M. Szczepańczyk, M. Zanolin, and et al.
Characterization of Transient Noise in Advanced LIGO Relevant to Gravitational Wave Signal GW150914, B. P. Abbott, K. Gill, B. Hughey, M. J. Szczepańczyk, M. Zanolin, and et al.
Directly Comparing GW150914 With Numerical Solutions of Einstein's Equations for Binary Black Hole Coalescence, B. P. Abbott, K. Gill, B. Hughey, M. J. Szczepańczyk, M. Zanolin, and et al.
GW151226: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a 22-Solar-Mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence, B. P. Abbott, K. Gill, B. Hughey, M. J. Szczepańczyk, M. Zanolin, and et al.
Improved Analysis of GW150914 Using a Fully Spin-Precessing Waveform Model, B. P. Abbott, K. Gill, B. Hughey, M. J. Szczepańczyk, M. Zanolin, and et al.
Supplement: The Rate of Binary Black Hole Mergers Inferred From Advanced LIGO Observations Surrounding GW150914, B. P. Abbott, K. Gill, B. Hughey, M. J. Szczepańczyk, M. Zanolin, and et al.
The Rate of Binary Black Hole Mergers Inferred From Advanced LIGO Observations Surrounding GW150914, B. P. Abbott, K. Gill, B. Hughey, M. J. Szczepańczyk, M. Zanolin, and et al.
Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger, B. P. Abbott; K. Gill; B. Hughey; M, J. Szczepańczyk; M. Zanolin; and et al.
Results of the Deepest All-Sky Survey for Continuous Gravitational Waves on LIGO S6 Data Running on the Einstein@Home Volunteer Distributed Computing Project, B. P. Abbott, K. Gill, B. Hughey, M. J. Szczepańczyk, Michele Zanolin, and et al.
Observing Gravitational-Wave Transient GW150914 with Minimal Assumptions, B. P. Abbott, K. Gill, B. Hughey, M. Szczepańczyk, M. Zanolin, and et al.
Gravity Sector of the SME, Q. G. Bailey
Anisotropic Cubic Curvature Couplings, Quentin G. Bailey
Prospects for SME Tests with Experiments at SYRTE and LKB, C. Guerlin, H. Pihan-Le Bars, Q. G. Bailey, and P. Wolf
Tests of Lorentz Symmetry in the Gravitational Sector, Aurélien Hees, Quentin G. Bailey, Adrien Bourgoin, Hélène Pihan-Le Bars, Christine Guerlin, and Christophe Le Poncin-Lafitte
Constraints on SME Coefficients from Lunar Laser Ranging, Very Long Baseline Interferometry, and Asteroid Orbital Dynamics, C. Le Poncin-Lafitte, A. Bourgoin, A. Hees, S. Bouquillon, S. Lambert, Q. G. Bailey, and et al.
Improved Tests of Lorentz Invariance in the Matter Sector Using Atomic Clocks, H. Pihan-Le Bars, C. Guerlin, Q. G. Bailey, S. Bize, and P. Wolf
Combined Search for Lorentz Violation in Short-Range Gravity, Cheng-Gang Shao, Yu-Jie Tan, Wen-Hai Tan, Shan-Qing Yang, Jun Luo, Michael Edmund Tobar, Quentin G. Bailey, and et al.
Submissions from 2015
Quantum Tests of the Einstein Equivalence Principle with the STE-QUEST Space Mission, Brett Altschul, Quentin G. Bailey, Luc Blanchet, Kai Bongs, Philippe Bouyer, Luigi Cacciapuoti, and et al.
What Do We Know About Lorentz Symmetry?, Q. G. Bailey
Short-Range Gravity and Lorentz Violation, Quentin G. Bailey, V. Alan Kostelecký, and Rui Xu
Testing Lorentz Symmetry with Planetary Orbital Dynamics, A. Hees, Q. G. Bailey, C. Le Poncin-Lafitte, A. Bourgoin, A. Rivoldini, B. Lamine, F. Meynadier, C. Guerlin, and P. Wolf
Gravitons to Photons--Attenuation of Gravitational Waves, Preston Jones and Douglas Singleton
Submissions from 2014
Local Lorentz-Symmetry Breaking and Gravity, Q. G. Bailey
Constraints on Violations of Lorentz Symmetry from Gravity Probe B, James M. Overduin, Ryan D. Everett, and Quentin G. Bailey
Submissions from 2013
Limits on Violations of Lorentz Symmetry from Gravity Probe B, Quentin G. Bailey, Ryan D. Everett, and James M. Overduin
Field Localization and the Nambu-Jona-Lasinio Mass Generation Mechanism in an Alternative 5-Dimensional Brane Model, Preston Jones, Gerardo Muñoz, Douglas Singleton, and Triyanta
Field Localization and Mass Generation in an Alternative 5-Dimensional Brane Model, Preston Jones, Doug Singleton, Gerardo Muñoz, and Triyanta
Submissions from 2011
Light-Bending Tests of Lorentz Invariance, Quentin G. Bailey and Rhondale Tso
Application of Asymptotic Expansions for Maximum Likelihood Estimators' Errors to Gravitational Waves From Inspiraling Binary Systems: The Network Case, Salvatore Vitale and Michele Zanolin
Submissions from 2010
Lorentz Violation with an Antisymmetric Tensor, Brett Altschul, Quentin G. Bailey, and V. Alan Kostelecký
New Tests of General Relativity, Quentin Bailey
Gravity Couplings in the Standard-Model Extension, Quentin G. Bailey
Lorentz-Violating Gravitoelectromagnetism, Quentin G. Bailey
Lorentz Violation and Gravity, Quentin G. Bailey
The Equivalence Principle, Uniformly Accelerated Reference Frames, and the Uniform Gravitational Field, Gerardo Muñoz and Preston Jones
Application of Asymptotic Expansions for Maximum Likelihood Estimators Errors to Gravitational Waves From Binary Mergers: The Single Interferometer Case, M. Zanolin, S. Vitale, and N. Makris
Submissions from 2009
Catching Relativity Violations with Atoms, Quentin G. Bailey
Time-Delay and Doppler Tests of the Lorentz Symmetry of Gravity, Quentin G. Bailey
Submissions from 2008
Gravitational Wave Burst Source Direction Estimation Using Time and Amplitude Information, J. Markowitz, M. Zanolin, L. Cadonati, and E. Katsavounidis
Submissions from 2007
Testing Lorentz Symmetry with Gravity, Quentin G. Bailey
A Dyad Theory of Hydrodynamics and Electrodynamics, Preston Jones
Electromagnetic Radiation From Temporal Variations in Space-Time and Progenitors of Gamma Ray Burst and Millisecond Pulsars, Preston Jones
The General Relativistic Infinite Plane, Preston Jones, Gerardo Muñoz, Michael Ragsdale, and Douglas Singleton
Submissions from 2006
Signals for Lorentz Violation in Post-Newtonian Gravity, Quentin G. Bailey and V. Alan Kostelecký
The Clock Paradox in a Static Homogeneous Gravitational Field, Preston Jones and Lucas F. Wanex
Submissions from 2005
The Dyad Theory of Classical and Quantum Physics, Preston Jones
Submissions from 2004
Lorentz-Violating Electromagnetostatics, Quentin G. Bailey
Lorentz-Violating Electrostatics and Magnetostatics, Quentin G. Bailey and V. Alan Kostelecký
Coordinate Conditions for a Uniformly Accelerated or Static Plane Symmetric Metric, Preston Jones and Lucas Wanex
Asymptotic Accuracy of Geoacoustic Inversions, Michele Zanolin, Ian Ingram, Aaron Thode, and Nicholas C. Makris
