Browsing by Subject "astronomy"
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(2006-04-14)Department: ReligionCelestial divination may be understood as the interpretation of celestial phenomena as signs portending the occurrence of future events. In ancient Mesopotamia, schools of professional diviners and scholars existed as ...
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(2020-04-03)Department: AstrophysicsThe light curve has taken on a new importance in the field of astrophysics in the 21st century. Next generation telescopes such as the Vera C. Rubin Observatory and the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) will ...
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(2013-04-09)Department: Computer ScienceThis thesis describes two projects that are being used to manage astronomy data, both of which were created using the Web2py web framework and the Python programming language. First, the KELT Candidate Selection pages ...
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(2015-03-26)Department: PhysicsWe study the structure and evolution of dark matter halos from z = 300 to z = 6 for two cosmological N-body simulation initialization techniques. While the second-order Lagrangian perturbation theory (2LPT) and the ...
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(2013-12-10)Department: PhysicsThe very-long-term (weeks to years) timing properties of high mass X-ray bina- ries (HMXBs) featuring black holes, particularly the so-called ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs), could be linked to the coupled precession ...
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(2010-08-05)Department: PhysicsThis thesis presents the analysis of two double-lined, detached, eclipsing binary systems associated with the young Orion Nebula Cluster, 2MASS J05352184–0546085 and Parenago 1802. We present a multi-band, multi-epoch ...
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(2012-03-31)Department: PhysicsI identified and used a large catalog of ultra-wide binaries to investigate observationally two related questions in low-mass star astrophysics: (1) What is the frequency and distribution of ultra-wide binary systems, and ...