High quality CCD cameras and powerful PCs are enabling advanced amateur astronomers to make high quality photometric and astrometric observations of a wide...
Probabilistic Climate Change Projections of Nearshore Wave Climate
The characterization of local wave climate in a particular location is of paramount importance for the estimation of coastal flooding. Downscaling is the method...
I describe the modeling of stellar ensembles in terms of probability distributions. This modeling is primary characterized by the number of stars included in...
Probing Milky Way Structure with Near-Infrared Diffuse Interstellar Bands
Astronomers have studied the set of interstellar absorption features known as the diffuse interstellar bands (DIBs) for nearly a century, characterizing them...
Probing nuclear activity versus star formation at z 0.8 using near-infrared multiobject spectroscopy
We present near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopic observations of 28 X-ray and mid-infrared sources at a median redshift of z˜0.8 in the Extended Groth Strip (EGS)...
We have explored radial color and stellar surface mass density profiles for a sample of 85 late-type galaxies with available deep (down to˜27.0mag/arcsec2) SDSS...
Probing Planet Formation with APOGEE: A Dichotomy in Planet Orbital-Periods and Stellar Metallicities
The Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) is a near-infrared (1.5-1.7 microns), high resolution (R~22,500), high S/N (>100)...