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The combined effects of vertical and horizontal shear instabilities
Pascale Garaud, Saniya Khan, Justin M. Brown
Shear instabilities can be the source of significant amounts of turbulent mixing in stellar radiative zones. Past attempts at modeling their effects (either theoretically or using…
Diet Soda and Liquid Nitrogen
Bart H. McGuyer, Justin M. Brown, Hoan B. Dang
Letter to the Editor about how the diet soda and Mentos reaction can be produced by the direct immersion of a plastic soda bottle in liquid nitrogen.
Guided matter wave inertial sensing in a miniature physics package
Karl Nelson, Chad Fertig, Paul Hamilton +4
We describe an ultra-compact ( cm physics package) inertial sensor based on atomic matter waves that are guided within an optical lattice during almost the entire inte…
Core-Collapse Supernovae from 9 to 120 Solar Masses Based on Neutrino-powered Explosions
Tuguldur Sukhbold, T. Ertl, S. E. Woosley +2
Nucleosynthesis, light curves, explosion energies, and remnant masses are calculated for a grid of supernovae resulting from massive stars with solar metallicity and masses from 9.…
Excitation of gravity waves by fingering convection, and the formation of compositional staircases in stellar interiors
P. Garaud, M. Medrano, J. Brown +2
Fingering convection (or thermohaline convection) is a weak yet important kind of mixing that occurs in stably-stratified stellar radiation zones in the presence of an inverse mean…
Atom interferometry in an optical cavity
Paul Hamilton, Matt Jaffe, Justin M. Brown +3
We propose and demonstrate a new scheme for atom interferometry, using light pulses inside an optical cavity as matter wave beamsplitters. The cavity provides power enhancement, sp…
Hubble Space Telescope and Ground-Based Observations of V455 Andromedae Post-Outburst
Paula Szkody, Anjum S. Mukadam, Boris T. Gaensicke +8
Hubble Space Telescope spectra obtained in 2010 and 2011, three and four years after the large amplitude dwarf nova outburst of V455 And, were combined with optical photometry and…
Nucleosynthetic Constraints on the Mass of the Heaviest Supernovae
Justin M. Brown, S. E. Woosley
Assuming a Salpeter initial mass function and taking the solar abundances as a representative sample, we explore the sensitivity of nucleosynthesis in massive stars to the truncati…
Chemical Transport and Spontaneous Layer Formation in Fingering Convection in Astrophysics
Justin M. Brown, Pascale Garaud, Stephan Stellmach
A region of a star that is stable to convection according to the Ledoux criterion may nevertheless undergo additional mixing if the mean molecular weight increases with radius. Thi…
The Binary Fraction of Low Mass White Dwarfs
Justin M. Brown, Mukremin Kilic, Warren R. Brown +1
We describe spectroscopic observations of 21 low-mass (<0.45 M_sun) white dwarfs (WDs) from the Palomar-Green Survey obtained over four years. We use both radial velocities and inf…