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WilloWISPs: A New Dark Growth Channel for Black Holes Suggests a Full-Spectrum Hierarchical MACHO Mass Function for Dark Matter
Zachary R. Smith, Neil F. Comins
Evidence of neutron stars with deconfined quark-matter cores suggest a new pathway for the evolution of black holes. New theories about the cores of neutron stars support the idea…
Visualization of Open and Closed String Worldsheets. Part I: Software Development
Graham W. Van Goffrier, Neil F. Comins
In bosonic string theory, the solutions to the string equations of motion may be expressed as two-dimensional manifolds in a relativistic spacetime. We develop MATLAB software for…
The Elements of Item Response Theory and its Framework in Analyzing Introductory Astronomy College Student Misconceptions. I. Galaxies
Andrej Favia, Neil F. Comins, Geoffrey L. Thorpe
This is the first in a series of papers that analyze college student beliefs in realms where common astronomy misconceptions are prevalent. Data was collected through administratio…
A Mechanism for the Present-Day Creation of a New Class of Black Holes
Andrew P. Hayes, Neil F. Comins
In this first paper of a series on the formation and abundance of substellar mass dwarf black holes (DBHs), we present a heuristic for deducing the stability of non-rotating matter…
Sloshing in High Speed Galaxy Interactions
Thomas Zeltwanger, Neil F. Comins, Richard V. E. Lovelace
Observations of lopsided spiral galaxies motivated us to explore whether the rapid passage of a companion galaxy could cause them. We examine whether the center of mass of the visi…
One-Armed Spiral Waves in Galaxy Simulations with Counter-Rotating Stars
Neil F. Comins, Richard V. E. Lovelace, Thomas Zeltwanger +1
Motivated by observations of disk galaxies with counter-rotating stars, we have run two-dimensional, collisionless N-body simulations of disk galaxies with significant counter-rota…